To finish out my year as MC’s movie review/previewer, I have decided to leave you on a more personal note. Rather than diving into a typical review, it seemed only fitting that I leave you with something a little more substantial and long-lasting.

As a compulsive list-maker, I have plenty film-related lists I could leave you with.  I could recommend to you the top films of any year, whatever genre, theme or running time you’re looking for. Want the best comedies of 2005? I could deliver. The best horror films (or more likely film) of 1997? Not a problem.

However, to keep you from having to mull over which film to watch in the near future, and to leave you with a sampling of my taste in films in anticipation of next year’s reviews (I know you will all muse over these lists this summer), I have decided to present to you, for the first time in one place, my top ten lists for every year so far this decade in hopes that you may find top ten lists even one-tenth as interesting as I do.

And more importantly, I have provided myself with yet another opportunity to retool my lists. And at this time of year, ah, what sweet therapy.

 ● 2007

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2.  There Will Be Blood

3.  Juno

4.  Once

5.  After the Wedding

6.  Atonement

7.  Paprika

8.  Gone Baby Gone

9.  Lust, Caution

10.  Away From Her

 ● 2006

1.  Pan’s Labyrinth

2.  Letters From Iwo Jima

3.  Babel

4.  The Lives of Others

5.  Borat

6.  The Fountain

7.  Apocalypto

8.  The Last King of Scotland

9.  Children of Men

10.  Half Nelson

 ● 2005

1.  Brokeback Mountain

2.  The New World

3.  Pride & Prejudice

4.  King Kong

5.  3-Iron

6.  Crash

7.  Me and You and Everyone We Know

8.  Kingdom of Heaven

9.  Munich

10.  The Squid and the Whale

 ● 2004

1.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2.  Hotel Rwanda

3.  Closer

4.  House of Flying Daggers

5.  Million Dollar Baby

6.  The Passion of the Christ

7.  The Motorcycle Diaries

8.  Moolaade

9.  Dogville

10.  Garden State

 ● 2003

1.  Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

2.  Lost in Translation

3.  Love, Actually

4.  City of God

5.  Millennium Actress

6.  Mystic River

7.  Finding Nemo

8.  The Last Samurai

9.  Bad Santa

10.  In America

 ● 2002

1.  Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2.  Spirited Away

3.  The Hours

4.  Gangs of New York 

5.  Talk to Her

6.  24 Hour Party People

7.  Adaptation

8.  The Pianist

9.  Bloody Sunday

10.  Punch-Drunk Love

 ● 2001

1.  Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

2.  Moulin Rouge!

3.  The Royal Tenenbaums

4.  A Beautiful Mind

5.  Snatch

6.  In the Mood for Love

7.  Gosford Park

8.  Donnie Darko

9.  Shrek

10.  Amelie

 ● 2000

1. Gladiator

2.  Battle Royale

3.  The Patriot

4.  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

5.  Before Night Falls

6.  Almost Famous

7.  Requiem for a Dream

8.  You Can Count on Me

9.  Billy Elliot

10.  Best in Show

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