What, in your opinion, is the best movie of the past decade or so?

I nominate A beatiful Mind.

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• I'd say a big no to that. Despite that movie, pretty much the whole culture is still a slave to Adam Smith.

• I loved LOL R1.

• Magic Mike

• Jesus, I'm so old I was going to say "American Beauty," or "Out of Africa." But they are older than ten years. Wow . . . I really don't know. I can't come up with anything good enough.

• "Mulholland Drive" (2001) "Kill Bill Pt. 1" (2003)

• Brokeback Mountain

• Crash.

• Broken Sky

• Your rules are sloppy. What is "a decade or so"? Your example is 12 years old. I'm going to take advantage of the vague timeline restrictions and go with: The Talented Mr. Ripley

• V for Vendetta

• Memento

• Match Point V for Vendetta

• Congrats R8 for being even more ridiculous than the OP. Crash will always sting as the worse BP winner since Shakespeare in Love, with a Beautiful Mind being the runner up IMO.

• LOL? A Beautiful Mind is a wonderful film...WTF?

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• Zodiac.

• I'd say it's a tie between Mulholland Drive and LOTR trilogy, District 9 and Billy Elliot. I know, it's a big tie.

• I really liked the deconstruction theme of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Inception, and Memento, the movie that affected me the most was "Requiem for a Dream" even though it was such a downer and depressed the hell out of me, I thought it was brilliantly made and Ellen Burstyn's performance was magnificent.

• Since we are being flexable, I'd say, The Matrix.

• Motorcycle Diaries.

• Milk

• Burn After Reading

• The Reader

• R19 - agree with all of those.

• I have to agree with Milk, only because of Sean Penn. Incredible performance.

• If we're talking Hollywood movies, it's "Mulholland Drive". No contest.

• Donnie Darko

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• The Departed

• Titanic

• Loved this years Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Life of Pi. Two of the best movies I've seen in years. I would also say Up is in there as well. Inception was pretty genius.

• The German film "Three". One man tops another man and it's the first time I've seen it portrayed correctly outside of a porn movie.

• The Lives of Others. Ghost World. I saw Finding Nemo recently in 3D and it gets better with age. Of course Up is a great movie also...

• Black Swan

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• I would say Lost in Translation. It's a very meditative film. Foreign I'd say Volver and Amelie.

• Keep the Lights On Weekend Black Swan Looper The Deep Blue Sea The Artist Hugo Nostalgia for the Light Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Undertow The Secret in Their Eyes Summer Hours The Orphanage The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Pan's Labyrinth The Science of Sleep The Man of My Life The Lives of Others Children of Men Marie Antoinette Black Book Time to Leave Nobody Knows Mysterious Skin Head-On Before Sunset Proteus Elephant I'm Not Scared

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• Munich and Into The Wild have stuck with me.

• I love a good comedy, so for me it's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Still watch it sometimes and I still burst into laughter. So whip smart, so hilariously wicked and off beat funny.

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• Titanic r30? First, that was in 1997. Second, it was a sappy film for the mass.

• Y Tu Mama Tambien.

• School of Rock

• No contest: "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (2001) (2001 may have been the last great year of cinema including indies on their last gasp: "Mulholland Drive", "Amalie", "Ghost World", "Royal Tennenbaums", "In the Bedroom", "Monster's Ball", "L.I.E.", "Y Tu...", and, yes, "A Beautiful Mind" which both fooled me (that second act twist) and moved me.

• No Country for Old Men

• Talk to Her

• El Laberinto Del Fauno Das Leben Der Anderen The Matrix

• Enter The Void The Prestige Children of Men The Ten

• There Will Be Blood Savage Grace

• Honey Boo Boo Gets a Boil Lanced. Very dramatic and well acted. Sooo much better than the usual fare out of Hollywood.

• Sunshine of the Spottless Mimd was my fave of the past decade. Personal choice. No reason why.

• There Will Be Blood. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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• I would happily sit next to r42 at the lunch table. I'll nominate "The Invention of Lying" (2009)

• The White Ribbon Agora

• Black Swan

• Throwing my hat in for Mulholland Drive. Still think about it.

• No country for old men. The social network. Brokeback mountain.

• Bright Star I Am Love Jane Eyre Femme Fatale The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Summer Hours Monsieur Lazhar

• Requiem For A Dream The White Ribbon Burnt Money

• Burnt Money was good. Luster

• [quote] 2001 may have been the last great year of cinema How pretentious

• Brokeback Mountain Black Swan The Social Network

• Bad Education Eternal Sunshine Enter the Void Black Swan Synechdiche, New York

• What a dopey thread.

• Zodiac!!!!!!

• Sorry R63 but Zodiac was such a bore

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• I kind of liked it.

• THE DEPARTED.

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• I think "Precious" was an important film and I'm glad it was made. Top five.

• Best of Youth - an Italian movie, apparently released in theaters but more of a mini-series. Along the same though - I Am Love, another Italian film, with Tilda Swinton.

• Momento (too old?) Life is Beautiful (too old?) Looper was great Children of Men Once

• Damn I forgot There Will Be Blood and The Hurt Locker

• The Notebook

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• Talk To Her Mulholland Drive Melancholia Amour Match Point Brokeback Mountain American Beauty Best movie starring Meryl Streep: Adaptation

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