The Best Movies of the Past Decade: A Recap

Some of you expressed some interest in seeing a recap of my “best of” list so I’ve enclosed it below. I decided to add an additional twenty that merited serious consideration.

1. Kill Bill (2003-2004)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
3. No Country For Old Men (2007)
4. Almost Famous (2000)
5. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007)
7. High Fidelity (2000)
8. The Departed (2006)
9. There Will Be Blood (2007)
10. Sideways (2004)
11. The Savages (2007)
12. Wedding Crashers (2005)
13. The Lives of Others (2006)
14. Mystic River (2003)
15. The Aviator (2004)
16. The Dark Knight (2008)
17. Children of Men (2006)
18. The Pianist (2002)
19. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
20. Gladiator (2000)
21. In the Bedroom (2001)
22. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
23. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
24. Half Nelson (2006)
25. Crash (2004)
26. The 25th Hour (2002)
27. Munich (2005)
28. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
29. Once (2007)
30. Frozen River (2008)
31. Zodiac (2007)
32. Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
33. L’ Enfant (2005)
34. Collateral (2004)
35. You Can Count on Me (2000)
36. Apocalypto (2006)
37. Amores Perros (2000)
38. Volver (2006)
39. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
40. Minority Report (2002)
41.  Notes on a Scandal (2006)
42.  A History of Violence (2005)
43.  21 Grams (2003
44.  The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
45.  Garden State (2004)
46.  United 93 (2006)
47.  Memento (2000)
48.  Old School (2003)
49.  The Hangover (2009)
50.  Donnie Darko (2001)