Another weigh-in on the best films of the decade.
20 Honorable mentions, listed alphabetically:
Adaptation (Spike Jonze); Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe); Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu); Before Sunset (Richard Linklater); Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron); The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Piui); Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog); A History of Violence (David Cronenberg); The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow); Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino); Little Children (Todd Field); Once (John Carney); Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro); Ratatouille (Brad Bird); Safe Conduct (Bertrand Tavernier); A Serious Man (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen); The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach); 25th Hour (Spike Lee); United 93 (Paul Greengrass); Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
25. Kings & Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
24. Junebug (Phil Morrison)
23. City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
22. The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
21. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
20. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
19. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
18. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
17. The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand)
16. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
15. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
14. No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
13. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
12. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
11. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
10. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
8. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
6. Zodiac (David Fincher)
5. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
4. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
