Favourite Ten Films of Each Year of the Decade

  • 2000

  • Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
  • Some Voices (Simon Cellan Jones)
  • In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
  • Meet The Parents (Jay Roach)
  • Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
  • Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
  • Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
  • Me, Myself, and Irene (Farrelly Brothers)
  • Dancer In The Dark (Lars Von Trier)
  • The Taste of Others (Agnès Jaoui)
  • 2001

  • El Hijo de la Novia (Juan José Campanella)
  • Behind the Sun (Walter Salles)
  • Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
  • Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
  • The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
  • Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
  • Das Experiment (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
  • The White Sound (Hans Weingartner)
  • My Sassy Girl (Kwak Jae-yong)
  • Zoolander (Ben Stiller)
  • 2002

  • City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund)
  • 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
  • Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
  • The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada)
  • Lilya 4-Ever (Thomas Moodysson)
  • Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
  • Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
  • Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
  • Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
  • About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
  • 2003

  • Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
  • Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich)
  • O Homem Que Copiava (Jorge Furtado)
  • Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (Prachya Pinkaew)
  • Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
  • Save The Green Planet (Jang Jun-hwan)
  • Kontroll (Nimród Antal)
  • Big Fish (Tim Burton)
  • Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker)
  • O Homem do Ano (José Henrique Fonseca)
  • 2004

  • Head-On (Fatih Akin)
  • The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
  • Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (Rawson Marshall Thurber)
  • The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
  • The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Muelle)
  • Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
  • Sideways (Alexander Payne)
  • House Of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
  • Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
  • The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
  • 2005

  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box & Nick Park)
  • The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
  • The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
  • Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (Marc Rothemund)
  • The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
  • The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (Steve Bendelack)
  • 13 Tzameti (Géla Babluani)
  • King Kong (Peter Jackson)
  • The King (James Marsh)
  • 2006

  • London to Brighton (Paul Andrew Williams)
  • Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid)
  • Borat (Larry Charles)
  • Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
  • Monster House (Gil Kenan)
  • This Is England (Shane Meadows)
  • The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay)
  • The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
  • Atomised/Elementary Particles (Oskar Roehler)
  • 2007

  • 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
  • The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky)
  • Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
  • Eagle vs Shark (Taika Waititi)
  • Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan)
  • Superbad (Greg Mottola)
  • Inside/ À l'intérieur (Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury)
  • Son Of Rambow (Garth Jennings)
  • 2008

  • WALL·E (Andrew Stanton)
  • Mesrine: Killer Instinct (Jean-François Richet)
  • Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
  • Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One (Jean-François Richet)
  • In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
  • Step Brothers (Adam McKay)
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
  • Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
  • Shifty (Eran Creevy)
  • Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
  • 2009

  • A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
  • District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
  • Mary And Max (Adam Elliot)
  • Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
  • Bruno (Larry Charles)
  • Up In The Air (Jason Reitman)
  • The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
  • I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)
  • Ajami (Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani)
  • The Princess And The Frog (Ron Clements & John Musker)
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In Order of Love