I did a top ten for this decade so-far in
Top Films of the Decades, but looking at my list it's changed a bit in the last nine months, having re-watched many films and in the process of compiling
my top 100.
Here's everything I liked (
or higher) from the last 8+ years. I won't rank them, but I'll put my very favorites in
orange:
2008: Be Kind Rewind; Leatherheads;
2007: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; Atonement; The Bourne Ultimatum; Breach; Fay Grim; Hot Fuzz;
Into the Wild; Lust, Caution; Meet the Robinsons 3-D; Music and Lyrics; Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D; No Country for Old Men; Ocean's 13; Ratatouille; Redacted;
Sleuth; Southland Tales; Spider Man 3;
Sunshine; Transformers; Waitress;
Zodiac
2006: All the King's Men; Art School Confidential; Babel; The Black Dahlia; Cars; Casino Royale; Children of Men; Deja Vu; The Departed; The Devil Wears Prada;
Everything will be OK; The Good German; Inland Empire; Monster House; Paprika; Pirates of the Caribbean 2; A Prairie Home Companion;
The Prestige; Scoop;
2005: Batman Begins;
Brick; Constantine; Conversations with other women; The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; Don't Come Knocking; The Girl From Monday; Good Night, and Good Luck; Grizzly Man; A History of Violence; King Kong; Kingdom of Heaven;
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang; Mr. & Mrs. Smith; Munich;
The New World; The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes; Pride & Prejudice; The Proposition; Seven Swords; Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D; Sin City; Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith; Syriana; Who's Camus Anyway;
2004: 2046; The Assassination of Richard Nixon; The Aviator; The Bourne Supremacy; eros; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Hotel Rwanda; House of Flying Daggers; I Heart Huckabees;
The Incredibles; Kill Bill: Vol. 2; Kung Fu Hustle; The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Napoleon Dynamite; Ocean's Twelve; The Saddest Music in the World; Sideways; Silver City; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; Shaun of the Dead; Spartan; Spiderman 2; Starsky & Hutch; Steamboy; Van Helsing;
2003: 21 Grams; Beyond Re-Animator; Big Fish; Casa de los Babys; Code 46; Coffee and Cigarettes; Finding Nemo; The Fog of War; Freddy vs. Jason; Hulk; Intolerable Cruelty; Matchstick Men; The Matrix Reloaded; Mystic River; Once Upon a Time in Mexico; Owning Mahowny; Pirates of the Carribean; The Return of the King;
Shanghai Knights; Tokyo Godfathers; The Triplets of Belleville; The Tulse Luper Suitcases;
Young Adam; Zatoichi;
2002: About Schmidt; 28 Days Later; Adaptation; The Bourne Identity; Bubba Ho-tep; Catch Me If You Can; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets;
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary; Gangs of New York;
Heaven; The Quiet American; Spider; Star Wars: Episode 2; Sunshine State; Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance;
Talk to Her; The Two Towers;
Zhou Yu's Train;
2001: Amelie; Bandits; Beijing Bicycle; Black Hawk Down; Blue Spring; La Brassiere; The Deep End; The Devil's Backbone; Dogtown and Z-Boys; Fellowship of the Ring; Full Time Killer; Ghost World;
Gosford Park; Heist; Ichi the Killer; Invincible; Koro's Day Out; Lagaan; Lakeboat; Lantana; The Man Who Wasn't There; Millennium Actress;
Monsters, Inc.; Nekojiro-so;
No Such Thing; Novocaine;
The Pledge; Quitting; Sex and Lucia; Shaolin Soccer; Spirited Away; Storytelling; The Whale Hunt;
2000: Amores perros; Bamboozled; Battle Royale; Best in Show; Blood: The Last Vampire; The Boiler Room; Brother; Cast Away;
The Claim; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; Gladiator; In the Mood For Love; Little Otik; Love's Labour's Lost; Memento; Men of Honor;
O Brother, Where Art Thou?; The Princess and the Warrior; Sexy Beast; Shanghai Noon; Snatch; State and Main; Time and Tide; Vatel;
As you can see, I'm not that picky (or maybe I'm just in a good mood today). These are probably a little over 3/5ths of everything I've seen from those years.
So my unranked top 24 of 2000-2008 goes something like this now:
Into the Wild
Sleuth
Sunshine
Zodiac
Everything will be OK
The Prestige
Brick
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
The New World
2046
The Incredibles
Shanghai Knights
Young Adam
About Schmidt
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Heaven
Talk to Her
Zhou Yu's Train
Gosford Park
Monsters, Inc.
No Such Thing
The Pledge
The Claim
O Brother, Where Art Thou?