Topic: Films Of The Decade

Films of the Decade is a series running in Film Salon, our new collaborative blog.

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Dude, where's my LOTR?

Andrew O'Hehir
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"In the Mood for Love": Outside the knowable

Patrick Z. McGavin
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"Rejected": Art vs. capitalism, in 9 minutes

Eric Kohn
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"Casino Royale": Bond brings back the thrills

Jack Patrick Rodgers
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"The Ballad of Jack and Rose"

N.P. Thompson
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"The Five Obstructions": Von Trier's reality TV

Peter Debruge
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"Gladiator": Rusty and Ridley, we salute you!

Rosemary Picado
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"Chop Shop": Wrenching beauty, stolen cars

Will Di Novi
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"Spirited Away": Ghostly voyage to adolescence

Dan Kois
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"Up the Yangtze": Theater of real life

Robert Kenner
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"Elf": Snark-free holiday joy!

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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"The Weather Underground": '70s gone wild

Lawrence Levi
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"The Wrestler": Ah, the chokeholds of yesteryear

Bob Calhoun
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"Idiocracy": Fiction or documentary?

Erik Nelson
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"Still Life": Mao's damned dam

Howard Feinstein
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"Star Spangled to Death": Decoding America

Azazel Jacobs
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"Southland Tales": American apocalypse

Thomas Rogers
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"Memento": Bewitched and bewildered

Mike D'Angelo
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"Forty Shades of Blue": Anna Karenina in Memphis

Lisa Rosman
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"Infernal Affairs" trilogy: Hong Kong's greatest

Martha P. Nochimson
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"Meet the Robinsons": Disney magic

Scott Mendelson
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Rivette's "Story of Marie and Julien"

Glenn Kenny
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"Jackass: The Movie": Man-boys and their butts

Joe Swanberg
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"Gosford Park": An airy country-house masterpiece

Molly Haskell

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