I’ve made lists before, sure, but deciding to make a Top 10 list for a year FULL of great films and then trying to put together a Best of the Decade nearly killed me. The top 10 was a teensy bit easier – but if I hadn’t limited my decade list to 25, it would have been over 150 films long. But, I digress.

Here’s what I liked:

Top 10 movies of 2009
1.  Inglourious Basterds
2.  The Hurt Locker
3.  District 9
4.  UP
5.  Cold Souls
6.  Away We Go
7.  A Serious Man
8.  Public Enemies
9.  Up in the Air
10. Coraline

(Runner-ups: Precious, Where the Wild Things Are, (500) Days of Summer)

Top 25 Films of the Decade
(in Alphabetical order)
1.   8 Women
2.   Almost Famous
3.   Amelie
4.   Brick
5.   Brokeback Mountain
6.   Casino Royale
7.   City of God
8.   Dancer in the Dark
9.   Donnie Darko
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
11. Frida
12. Infernal Affairs
13. Let the Right One In
14. Lost in Translation
15. Monsoon Wedding
16. Munich
17. No Country for Old Men
18. Pan’s Labyrinth
19. Shaun of the Dead
20. Stranger than Fiction
21. Swimming Pool
22. The Fall
23. Waitress
24. WALL-E
25.  Y Tu Mamba Tambien

Discussions about how wrong (or right!) I am are welcome. 🙂