Favorite Films

[Update: added “Medicine for Melancholy” on 11/28]

I’m going to put together a Top Ten list for my favorite films of the decade (while acknowledging that I haven’t seen many movies from this year). Here are the movies I’ve rated 5 stars on Netflix. I will choose my Top Ten out of these 42 films.

  • Adaptation
  • After the Wedding
  • Almost Famous
  • Amen
  • Atonement
  • Bonhoeffer
  • Born Into Brothels
  • The Bourne Identity
  • The Bourne Supremacy
  • Che
  • Children of Men
  • A Christmas Tale
  • City of God
  • Control Room
  • The Corporation
  • Donnie Darko
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Half Nelson
  • Into the Wild
  • Junebug
  • Lars and the Real Girl
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  • Lost in Translation
  • Man on Wire
  • Master and Commander
  • Medicine for Melancholy
  • Meet the Parents
  • The Motorcycle Diaries
  • My Kid Could Paint That
  • O Brother Where Art Thou
  • Ocean’s Eleven
  • Once
  • Pan’s Labyrinth
  • Promises
  • Rachel Getting Married
  • Sigur Ros: Heima
  • Super Size Me
  • Syriana
  • Tell No One
  • The Village
  • What Would Jesus Buy?