one of my favorite trends that accompanies the end of every year is the best of the year lists in various publications. this year is especially fertile for lists because we are treated to best of the year, AND best of the decade. after reading rolling stone's uninspired top 10 films of the '00s an d the onion av-club's solid top 20 films of the decade, i decided to craft my own list.
1) memento
2) city of god
3) royal tenenbaums
4) the departed
5) mystic river
6) the dark knight
7) slumdog millionaire
8) gran torino
9) amores perros
10) the 40 yr-old virgin
11) half nelson
12) best in show
13 oh brother, where art thou?
14) lord of the rings trilogy
15) sideways
16) the 25th hour
17) inglorious basterds
18) the man who wasn't there
19) american psycho
20) sin city
21) pan's labrynth
22) knocked up
23) donnie darko
24) bad santa
25) catch me if you can
26) the rules of attraction
27) harold and kumar go to whitecastle
28) mulholland drive
29) confessions of a dangerous mind
30) the proposition
31) a history of violence
32) sean of the dead
33) no country for old men
34) gangs of new york
35) ghost world
36) role models
37) amelie
38) old boy
39) borat
40) high fidelity
