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Posted by John S in Aught Lang Syne, Film, Rankings. Tagged: A Serious Man, Anton Chigurh, Aught Lang Syne, Bill Murray, Brick, Christopher Nolan, City of God, Cormac McCarthy, Fernando Meirelles, great fight scenes, Harvey Dent, Heath Ledger, High Fidelity, Jack Black, Japan, Javier Bardem, Jewish humor, John Cusack, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin, Kill Bill, Korean cinema, Lost in Translation, Lucy Liu, movies, Natalie Portman, No Country for Old Men, Oldboy, Quentin Tarantino, Rian Johnson, Scarlett Johansson, Sofia Coppola, Suntory whiskey, the Aughts, the Coen brothers, The Dark Knight, the Joker, the Wachowski brothers, The Wire, tommy lee jones, Uma Thurman, V for Vendetta. 9 Comments
Despite my general negativity about movies of the Aughts, there were still plenty of great films released this decade (although I think a Top Ten list of 90s movies would probably omit films that could be #1 on this list). I’ve already provided a list of the ten funniest films of the decade, and there were other great comedies that didn’t make the list. Today, though, we turn our attention to the dramatic category. As Josh has already declared, though, genre concerns can be distracting, so I will not be bound my technical genre classifications. Consider this a list of films I like for “dramatic” reasons:
