Best Mystery movies of 2010s that are award winners or nominees

Get Out(2017)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 90

It's time for a young African-American to meet with his white girlfriend's parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare.



Blade Runner 2049(2017)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 89

A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.



Arrival(2016)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 89

When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors.



A Quiet Place(2018)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 89

In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.



Gone Girl(2014)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 87

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.



Ad Astra(2019)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 88

Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.



Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy(2011)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.



Palm Springs(2020)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Stuck in a time loop, two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.



Prisoners(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.



The Hateful Eight(2015)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.



Hail, Caesar!(2016)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.



The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2011)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.



Prometheus(2012)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.



Salt(2010)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.



Incendies(2010)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history, and fulfill their mother's last wishes.



We Need to Talk About Kevin(2011)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.



Tully(2018)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A mother of three hires a night nanny to help with her newborn.



Motherless Brooklyn(2019)

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Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.



Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close(2011)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.



Where'd You Go, Bernadette(2019)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A loving mom becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Her leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.




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