Either last week or a couple weeks ago Kevin J. Olson at Hugo Stiglitz Makes a Movie counted down his fifty favourite movies of the decade which struck me as strange considering how almost half a year has passed since those decade nostalgia lists were all the rage. But alas, never settling for half measures, Kevin decide to write the best of all the decade lists I've read since January. Don't believe me? Check it out.
Whether it was excitement over the vast array of great films that Kevin focused on that I have since put more towards the back of my mind or just simple jealousy that his 50 picks completely overshadowed by mere 10 back from at the end of December will maybe never be known.
Regardless, with no intention of ever outdoing Kevin, I wanted to create a list of all the films that came out over the last decade that I either did or would have given five stars. They'll be in alphabetical order because, quite frankly, to rank them would be just a headache and no descriptions or justification will be given. You'll just need to accept that I loved them all for the right reasons (which essentially means my own reasons) and leave it at that. If you want a numbered list with explanations check out the posting of my ten favourite films of the decade, which was posted long before anyone really followed this blog.
Now that that's out of the way here is the list (if you really do want some justification or just want to disagree please feel free to do so in the comments and I will gladly comply):
- 500 Days of Summer
- 13 Conversations About One Thing
- 25th Hour
- 28 Days Later
- About a Boy
- Adaptation
- Akeelah and the Bee
- All the Real Girls
- Amelie
- American Gangster
- Astronaut Farmer
- Avatar
- Aviator
- Baadasssss!
- Babel
- Bad Education
- Bad Santa
- Batman Begins
- Bee Season
- Before Sunset
- Before the Devil Knows Your Dead
- Best of Youth
- Black Hawk Down
- Bourne Ultimatum
- Brokeback Mountain
- Broken Flowers
- Brothers (the Danish original)
- Bully
- Capote
- Catch and Release
- Charlotte's Web
- Closer
- Conversation(s) With Other Women
- The Cooler
- The Dark Knight
- Dear Frankie
- Diggers
- Dopamine
- Elephant
- Fever Pitch
- Friday Night Lights
- Fubar
- George Washington
- Great Debaters
- Hairspray
- Half Nelson
- Happy-go-Lucky
- High Fidelity
- In America
- In Bruges
- Inglouris Basterds
- Intermission
- Jersey Girl
- Juno
- Keane
- The Kid
- Kill Bill
- The King
- The Kite Runner
- Knowing
- Lord of War
- Lost in Translation
- Made
- Man on the Train
- Margot at the Wedding
- Match Point
- May
- Mean Creek
- Melinda and Melinda
- Million Dollar Baby
- Millions
- Monster
- Moonlight Mile
- Mulholland Dr.
- The New World
- No Country for Old Men
- Nobody Knows
- Northfork
- Nowhere in Africa
- Palindromes
- The Pianist
- The Polar Express
- Punch Drunk Love
- Rachel Getting Married
- Raising Victor Vargas
- Ratatouille
- Requiem for a Dream
- Russian Ark
- Saint Ralph
- Saraband
- Session 9
- The Shape of Things
- Shut Up and Sing
- Sin City
- The Son
- Squid and the Whale
- Stevie
- Stranger than Fiction
- Strangers with Candy
- Sweeney Todd
- Sweet Sixteen
- Synecdoche, New York
- Talk to Her
- The Terminal
- There Will be Blood
- Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
- Undertow
- United 93
- Up
- The Upside of Anger
- Waking Life
- Wall-e
- Watchmen
- Weather Man
- Winter Passing
- Wit
- The Woodsman
- The Wrestler
- You Can Count on Me
- Zodiac
So what does this prove other than that I watch a lot of movies? Nothing really other than you are maybe one step closer to understanding my tastes. Have I, by naming so many films, in some way, softened the impact of a list that requires you to pick 10 (or even 50) of your most favouratist films and stick to that? Maybe, but I loved all of these films for their own individual reasons, to be forced to pick one above the other would simply be cruelty.
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