Thanks for that link -- hadn't seen that before.yovargas wrote:Metacritic's "Best of the Decade" is pretty interesting IMO, if you'd be interested in the less populist opinions:
http://features.metacritic.com/features ... he-decade/
Some great stuff on there, IMO, including, of course, LOTR in the top 10.
But notice how that list is largely in agreement with the Salon article that inspired this thread. That piece was mostly responding to a group of critics and filmmakers' choices for the single best film of the decade, where LOTR didn't appear. And now here, of the 37 critics whose individual lists were tabulated, only 2 picked the LOTR trilogy as their very favorite work of the past ten years.
On another note: any proper list of great films should be dominated by foreign-language fare. The overwhelming majority of movies are not made in English, after all. But there are only two foreign-language films in this top ten: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days and Spirited Away.