Top Ten Lists: The Aughts

Years with an * are still considered a work in progress as there are several films I still need to see before being satisfied with the list. - Ben

2010 Top Ten
  1. Meek's Cutoff (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
  2. Blue Valentine (dir. Derek Cianfrance)
  3. Cold Weather (dir. Aaron Katz)
  4. Winter's Bone (dir. Debra Granik)
  5. Black Swan (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
  6. Small Town Murder Songs (dir. Ed Glass-Donnelly)
  7. Certified Copy (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. Black Death (dir. Christopher Smith)
  9. True Grit (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
  10. The Oath (dir. Laura Poitras)
2009 Top Ten*
  1. Ink (dir. Jamin Winans)
  2. Antichrist (dir. Lars von Trier)
  3. A Single Man (dir. Tom Ford)
  4. Moon (dir. Duncan Jones)
  5. An Education (dir. Lone Sherfig)
  6. Alamar (dir. Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio)
  7. The Exploding Girl (dir. Bradley Rust Gray)
  8. Everyone Else (dir. Maren Ade)
  9. Fish Tank (dir. Andrea Arnold)
  10. The Philosopher Kings (dir. Patrick Shen)
2008 Top Ten*
  1. Wendy and Lucy (dir. Kelly Reichhardt)
  2. Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman)
  3. Prodigal Sons (dir. Kimberly Reed)
  4. The Reader (dir. Stephen Daldry)
  5. Let the Right One In (dir. Tomas Afredson)
  6. Appaloosa (dir. Ed Harris)
  7. Examined Life (dir. Astra Taylor)
  8. Frozen River (dir. Courtney Hunt)
  9. The Edge of Love (dir. John Maybury)
  10. Good Dick (dir. Marianna Palka)
2007 Top Ten*
  1. There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
  2. Zodiac (dir. David Fincher)
  3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (dir. Julian Schnabel)
  4. Atonement (dir. Joe Wright)
  5. Encounters at the End of the World (dir. Werner Herzog)
  6. Quiet City (dir. Aaron Katz)
  7. Eastern Promises (dir. David Cronenberg)
  8. The Go-Getter (dir. Martin Hynes)
  9. The Tracey Fragments (dir. Bruce McDonald)
  10. Crashing (dir. Gary Walkow)
2006 Top Ten
  1. The Fountain (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
  2. Candy (dir. Neil Armfield)
  3. Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuaron)
  4. Half-Nelson (dir. Ryan Fleck)
  5. A Scanner Darkly (dir. Richard Linklater)
  6. The Fall (dir. Tarsem Singh)
  7. The Presige (dir. Christopher Nolan)
  8. Little Children (dir. Todd Field)
  9. Old Joy (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
  10. Flannel Pajamas (dir. Jeff Lipsky)
2005 Top Ten
  1. The New World (dir. Terrence Malick)
  2. Paradise Now (dir. Hany Abu-Assad)
  3. La Moustache (dir. Emmanuel Carrere)
  4. Brokeback Mountain (dir. Ang Lee)
  5. A History of Violence (dir. David Cronenberg)
  6. Hard Candy (dir. David Slade)
  7. Syriana (dir. Stephen Gaghan)
  8. Match Point (dir. Woody Allen)
  9. Me, You and Everyone We Know (dir. Miranda July)
  10. Battle in Heaven (dir. Carlos Reygadas)
2004 Top Ten
  1. Before Sunset (dir. Richard Linklater)
  2. We Don't Live Here Anymore (dir. John Curran)
  3. I Heart Huckabees (dir. David O. Russell)
  4. Primer (dir. Shane Carruth)
  5. Garden State (dir. Zach Braff)
  6. The Door In the Floor (dir. Tod Williams)
  7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry)
  8. In the Realms of the Unreal (dir. Jessica Yu)
  9. 2046 (dir. Kar Wai Wong)
  10. Maria Full of Grace (dir. Joshua Marston)
2003 Top Ten*
  1. Lost in Translation (dir. Sofia Coppola)
  2. The Best of Youth (dir. Marco Tullio Giordana)
  3. Northfork (dir. Michael Polish)
  4. Dogville (dir. Lars von Trier)
  5. Thirteen (dir. Catherine Hardwicke)
  6. Mystic River (dir. Clint Eastwood)
  7. Elephant (dir. Gus Van Sant)
  8. This Girl's Life (dir. Ash)
  9. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcinidir) 
  10. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (dir. Ki-duk Kim) 
2002 Top Ten*

2001 Top Ten*

2000 Top Ten*

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