1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. Minority Report
4. Traffic
5. City of God
6. Pan's Labyrinth
7. Ratatouille
8. Dancer in the Dark
9. Frost/Nixon
10. Tell No One

Sorry...
11. Maria Full of Grace
12. The Wrestler

I'm sure 5 years down the road I'll have some to add to the list - I haven't seen near enough to really make a comprehensive list, but that's what I love about all these lists... they remind me what I need to see!

I really did enjoy Persepolis, but the problem for me was that I watched it right after reading the original graphic novel. It was too much of an abridgment, I suppose, that it lost some of the charm of the printed page. I understand the cuts that were made, and they were probably all very sensible omissions for the sake of a decent run time. Still, it just felt like too much of a highlight reel. I wish they'd had the confidence to do a more complete adaptation of each of the two volumes, rather than a singular adaptation of the comprehensive story.

...and what I forgot to include in my list, like Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Rocky Balboa
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. In The Bedroom
5. Thirteen Days
6. Changeling
7. You Can Count On Me
8. Monster's Ball
9. United 93
10. Little Children

Could we please stop will all the "honorable" mentions & stuff, it makes your list worthless once you just start posting movies.

Mine . . .

The Lives of Others
In The Mood For Love
Before Sunset
Black Book
Stardust
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
Michael Clayton
Pan's Labyrinth
Let The Right One In

Impossible to say.

'Hero' would be high on my list. A damn near perfect movie.

1. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. Almost Famous (2000)
3. No Country for Old Men (2007)
4. Kill Bill Vol 1. (2003)
5. The Departed (2006)
6. There Will Be Blood (2007)
7. O' Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
8. Sideways (2004)
9. Cinderella Man (2005)
10. Gladiator (2000)

Honorable Mentions:
Snatch (2000)
The Prestige (2007)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)

1. Mullholland Dr
2. AI
3. The Pianist
4. Grizley Man

5. Y tu Mama Tambien
6. History of Violence
7. In the Mood For Love
8. Los Angeles Plays Itself
9. Donnie Darko
10.Anchorman

I really only consider my top 4 to be of any significance. The decade was pretty light on quality.

1) In Bruges
2) No Country For Old Men
3) Donnie Darko
4) The Departed
5) Brokeback Mountain
6) Cinderella Man
7) Inglorious Basterds
8) Pan's Labyrinth
9) Ghost World
10) About a Boy

Just missed:

Dirty Pretty Things
A.I.
Tell No One
25th Hour
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Amelie
The Pianist
Volver
Cache
Shaun of the Dead

I've been meaning to revisit A.I. I've only seen it once, during its theatrical run, but I didn't care for it. Perhaps I wasn't in the right state of mind to appreciate it at the time.

Twilight Samurai
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Oasis
No Country for Old Men
Bittersweet Life
Amelie
My Sassy Girl (original Korean version)
Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
Vital
Black Dynamite

Pokemon 4Ever
Pokemon: Jirachi Wish Maker
Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys
Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew

Godzilla: Tokyo SOS
Godzilla: Final Wars

Kung Fu Hustle
Tokyo Godfathers
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Punisher: War Zone

and those are my final choices!

1. There Will Be Blood
2. City of God
3. Children of Men
4. United 93
5. Almost Famous
6. Memento
7. The Dark Knight
8. In Bruges
9. 21 Grams
10. The 25th Hour

off the top of my head:

Children of Men
Gran Torino
Batman Begins
Lord of the Rings
Zodiac
Mulholland Drive
Dark Knight
The Prestige
Catch Me If You Can
Howl's Moving Castle

2000: Gangster No. 1
2001: Lord of the Ring: Fellowship of the Rings
2002: About a Boy
2003: Oldboy
2004: Downfall
2005: The Proposition
2006: Pan's Labyrinth
2007: Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2008: Frost/Nixon
2009: Inglorious Basterds
2010:

2009 ends this decade

1. Eloge de l’amour
2. The Darjeeling Limited
3. The World
4. A Talking Picture
5. Regular Lovers
6. Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 P.M.
7. Fengming: A Chinese Memoir
8. Knocked Up
9. Moolaadé
10. The Other Half

Boba Fett's decades go to 11

1. The Son
2. Spirited Away
3. Vera Drake
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
5. L'enfant
6. The Triplets of Belleville
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Lilya 4-ever
9. Happy-Go-Lucky
10. Dogville

And as annoying as it to include runner-ups, I just re-watched "O Brother, Where Art Thou" and "The Royal Tenenbaums" recently and remembered how much I adore both of them.

LOL

"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"

I've seen that movie on a few poster's lists now and I had never heard of it. I'm now curious.

For now I'll list by year:

00: Requiem for a Dream
01: Waking Life
02: Infernal Affairs
03: Mystic River
04: Team America: World Police
05: The New World
06: United 93
07: There Will Be Blood
08: Slumdog Millionaire
09: Inglourious Basterds

This will change every day if I continue to think about it. Some of these probably wouldn't make my top 10 if I added more than 1 from the same year, but that will take a little more time.

It might be the best thing Spielberg ever does. People tend to crap on the last act of the film, but thematically I find it incredibly important and the film would make little sense without it. But considering your views on a film like UP where you thought the Dogs were distracting (I don't agree and actually love the dynamic they introduce in the film, another great reflection on the themes, as well as providing the best laughs in the film), the three different story types AI pulls together probably won't work any better for you a second time around.

1. Inland Empire
2. Zodiac
3. All the Real Girls
4. Primer
5. In the Mood For Love
6. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
7. Kill Bill Vol 1/2
8. Shotgun Stories
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. High Fidelity

Honorables: Amelie, Mulholland Dr., Once, Wall-e, The Prestige, The King of Kong

Dark Knight
Sin City
Gladiator
Ratatouille
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Snatch
There Will Be Blood
Once
Children of Men
Spirited Away