Best Movies of the Decade (Top 25)

Here I have attempted to distill a list of my favourite 25 movies released this decade. They aren't necessarily the movies I think will be the most influential in the years to come, nor are they necessarily the most critically acclaimed. What they do represent is quite simply movies I would definitely want to watch again, movies that I found hugely enjoyable or thought provoking. Movies that somehow lingered with me, and will continue to linger still:

1. The Lord of the Ring trilogy
   
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. The Lives of Others
4. City of God
5. Dogville
6. Y Tu Mama Tambien
7. Kill Bill (Vol. 1 and 2)
8. There Will Be Blood
9. The Dark Knight
10. Wall-E
11. Before Sunset
12. Atonement
    
13. Milk
14. Brokeback Mountain
15. The Dreamers
16. Michael Clayton
17. Sin City
    
18. Sideways
    
19. Good Night and Good Luck
    
20. Avatar
21. Downfall
22. Memento
    
23. The Incredibles
24. Spirited Away
25. The Pianist
    

Near Misses: Star Trek, Amelie, Gosford Park, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Minority Report, The Constant Gardener, The Queen, Borat, Finding Nemo, Million Dollar Baby, Once, Closer, Lost in Translation, The Wrestler, Spring Summer Autumn Winter Spring, Revolutionary Road, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Casino Royale, No Country for Old Men, Man on Wire, Bowling for Colombine, Match Point,

Acclaimed Films I Haven't Seen: The Royal Tenenbaums, Four Months Three Years and Two Days, Hurt Locker, United 93, Mulholland Dr., Knocked Up, A History of Violence, Mystic River