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Directors of the Decade

No. 3: The Coen brothers: The fabulists

Forget the snarky film-brat stereotype -- the Coens have consistently struggled with life's big questions
Matt Zoller Seitz
Films of the Decade

"Spirited Away": Ghostly voyage to adolescence

Miyazaki's fable of a girl trapped in the spirit world is full of visual delights -- and painful insights
Dan Kois
Best of the Decade

An explosive 10 years of world cinema

From Spain to Korea, suburbia to Romania -- my personal favorites in a turbulent time
Andrew O'Hehir
Directors of the Decade

No. 4: The Dardenne brothers: The naturalists

The Belgian duo have almost no American profile -- but their visual and moral integrity speaks for itself
Matt Zoller Seitz
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The imaginarium of Terry Gilliam

The visionary filmmaker talks about the strange, sad, spooky resonance of directing Heath Ledger's last movie
Andrew O'Hehir
Best of 2009

The movies Oscar will ignore

I said: Bring me Filipina transgender hookers, opaque Jewish fables and class warfare! And here they are
Andrew O'Hehir
Films of the Decade

"Up the Yangtze": Theater of real life

The director of "Food, Inc." on Yung Chang's lovely doc about the transformation of China's legendary river
Robert Kenner

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Monday, Dec 28, 2009 21:01 EST

Stephanie Zacharek on the best movies of the decade

My 25 favorites of the '00s, including "Donnie Darko," "Lost in Translation" and ... "Pootie Tang"?
By Stephanie Zacharek
Sunday, Dec 27, 2009 20:20 EST

Stephanie Zacharek's best movies of 2009

George Clooney's real performance of the year wasn't "Up in the Air." Plus: Jane Campion, "Star Trek" and madness!
By Stephanie Zacharek
Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 20:45 EST

The best "Christmas Carol" ever

Forget Patrick Stewart, Alastair Sim and (please!) Jim Carrey. Nobody gets Dickens like George C. Scott Video
By Louis Bayard
Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 15:28 EST

Films of the decade: "Elf"

There may be better movies -- but this is the one you'll watch with your kids, one Christmas after another
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 12:45 EST

Films of the decade: "The Weather Underground"

This amazing doc about the radical terrorist group reminds us how fragile American society really is
By Lawrence Levi
Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 09:30 EST

Films of the decade: "The Wrestler"

Mickey Rourke's battered visage -- and amazing performance -- bring back my own less-than-golden wrestlin' career
By Bob Calhoun
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 21:30 EST

Directors of the decade: No. 5: Steven Spielberg

Love him or hate him, no American director has been so popular for so long and inspired so much debate
By Matt Zoller Seitz
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 20:35 EST

"Sherlock Holmes": Downey by Law

Guy Ritchie's version of the detective classic is hectic but harmless. Thank God for the film's two stars
By Stephanie Zacharek
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 20:23 EST

"It's Complicated": Another missive from romantic-comedy hell

Alec Baldwin -- in his undershorts, no less -- saves Nancy Meyers' latest midlife whingefest
By Stephanie Zacharek
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 20:22 EST

"The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus": Filmmaker gone wild

Terry Gilliam makes a cluttered, clever mess of Heath Ledger's final film
By Stephanie Zacharek
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 15:28 EST

Films of the decade: "Me and You and Everyone We Know"

A debut feature from a little-known conceptual artist became one of the decade's Amerindie surprises
By Jonathan Kiefer
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 12:42 EST

Films of the decade: "Idiocracy"

Let's be clear: Mike Judge's movie isn't that good. But its hilarious indictment is all too accurate
By Erik Nelson
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 10:01 EST

Films of the decade: "Still Life"

Amid the spectacular wreckage caused by China's Three Gorges Dam, Jia Zhangke finds a human scale
By Howard Feinstein
Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 20:08 EST

Directors of the decade: No. 6: Michael Moore

Whether you love him or want to punch him in the mouth, he is rallying the troops in the rhetorical civil war
By Matt Zoller Seitz
Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 15:12 EST

Films of the decade: "Star Spangled to Death"

This daring experimental film depicts a sold-out and stolen country. Oh yeah -- my dad made it
By Azazel Jacobs
Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 11:22 EST

Films of the decade: "Southland Tales"

Richard Kelly's much-maligned second feature reminds me of the dirty, daring, imperfect country that birthed it
By Thomas Rogers
Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 07:30 EST

Films of the decade: "Memento"

Christopher Nolan's second feature scrambled my brain and expounded a bleak philosophy. But I forget what
By Mike D'Angelo
Monday, Dec 21, 2009 15:30 EST

Films of the decade: "Forty Shades of Blue"

Ira Sachs' brilliant meditation on sex, resentment and American darkness was overlooked but unforgettable
Lisa Rosman
Monday, Dec 21, 2009 12:44 EST

Films of the decade: The "Infernal Affairs" trilogy

Seductive gangster fables of false freedom -- with noir roots and a Buddhist subtext
Martha P. Nochimson
Monday, Dec 21, 2009 11:01 EST

Brittany Murphy's sad, sudden end

She never became Hollywood's It girl, but she was as daffy and heartbreaking as her A-list contemporaries Video
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Monday, Dec 21, 2009 10:01 EST

Films of the decade: "Meet the Robinsons"

Heck, this isn't even the best animated movie of the decade, but I love it beyond reason
Scott Mendelson
Sunday, Dec 20, 2009 21:01 EST

DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't

Special ho-ho-ho-infused, not-quite-gift-guide edition: MST3K, Wenders, film noir, wine snobs and more
By Andrew O'Hehir
Sunday, Dec 20, 2009 21:01 EST

Directors of the decade: No. 7: Steven Soderbergh

He may be frustratingly opaque and comically prolific, but he isn't afraid to gamble -- or fail
By Matt Zoller Seitz
Friday, Dec 18, 2009 20:15 EST

Long live "The Young Victoria"

Emily Blunt shines as the tough-minded British queen in this lush, and even sexy, period romance
By Stephanie Zacharek
Friday, Dec 18, 2009 15:25 EST

Films of the decade: "The Story of Marie and Julien"

Irrational, gorgeous and possibly supernatural, this confirmed its director as an unclassifiable master
Glenn Kenny

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