25th Dour

Our list of the ten best films of the decade concludes with one of the best films from any decade, 25th Hour, director Spike Lee and writer David Benioff's virtuoso New York City lament on the plight of a man who walks his dog into oblivion under the twin shadows of regret and what could have been.

Dare Will Be Blood

Our list of the ten best films of the decade continues with a cinematic landmark, regardless of decade, There Will Be Blood, writer director Paul Thomas Anderson's daring masterwork about God, oil and milkshakes colliding head-on at the turn of an American century.

Calf Nelson

Our list of the ten best films of the decade continues with Half Nelson, a story about I don't know, I don't know.

Sin the Food for Love

Our list of the ten best films of the decade continues with director Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love, a film so breathtaking and poetic and perfect, it can do no wong, I mean, wrong.

No Country for Cold Men

Our list of the ten best films of the decade continues with No Country for Old Men, the Coen Brothers' pitch perfect adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's literary examination of cold blood American violence.

Crouching Tiger, Forbidden Dragon

Our list of the ten best films of the decade continues with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which, as its title would suggest, tells a story about two masculine ranch hands for hire who fall in forbidden love on a mountain, in the clouds.

Done Baby Done

Like finding a missing child, our list of the ten best films of the decade happily discovers a twelfth in Gone Baby Gone, a movie about finding missing children and keeping them as far away from Ed Harris as possible.

Garden Late

Our list of the ten best films of the decade continues with an eleventh, Garden State, an irresistibly cute coming to grips tale about quirky, pretentious, aloof middle aged twenty-year olds coping with the non-negotiable life demands of the Shins.

Bill Kill

Our list of the ten best films of the decade continues with Kill Bill, a movie whose title, along with Inglourious Basterds, implies a sordid true story of the American health care debate, instead of what they actually are: fabulously cinematic, popular culture-obsessed revenge epics that only Quentin Tarantino can deliver.

The Defarted

We continue our list of the ten best films of the decade with The Departed, a weirdo thrashing mainstream gangster thriller crammed with bullets exiting through heads like a wet, blood drenched gaseous bowel movement, that somehow grossed north of $100 million in box office and earned Martin Scorsese a long overdue Oscar for Best Picture and Director.

Yo Yo

We continue our list of the ten best films of the decade with Yi Yi, a heartfelt, lovingly authentic portrait about the up, down trials of one family as realized by those who do family best, the Asians.

The Lord of the Ings

Our list of the ten best films of the decade continues with The Lord of the Rings, a grand, monumental big screen spectacle that has amassed more public acclaim through words ending with the suffix -ing, words like amazing, spellbinding, mindblowing, bestevering, than any film before it.

Miami Nice

Our list of the ten best films of the decade begins with Miami Vice, the finest looking, well-dressed, fully-automatic, macho-male fantasy cum police procedural crime drama since the last time Michael Mann directed this kind of movie, which is every time.