There are too many. I must press through.
I would say:
#1 Spirited Away. My favourite Ghibli film, though I havenât seen many.
#2 Life of Pi. It was nice to see something original and a bit arty for a change.
#3 Finding Nemo. Perhaps the best Western family animation ever.
#4 Ice Age Family animation
#5 Apocalypto Just a Meso-American guy running away from Aztecs
#6 Rango Family animation
#7 Jurassic World. It wasnât a very good sequel, but it was nice to finally see good-looking dinos again.
#8 Avatar. The CGI was good, but the morally-posturing narrative was tiring and about half the film was just a fight scene.
#9 Mamma Mia. This wasnât a good film, but it wasnât offensively bad. At least the songs were catchy.
#10 Casino Royale. Decent Bond film. Not very unique but it filled some time.
You can see how mediocre I find this centuryâs films >__>
Revised this list to include Apocalypto.
Honourable mentions to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and 127 Hours. They were probably good but I donât think I ever saw them.
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Ordered more or less from âclearly plot drivenâ to âno idea what that was aboutâ
Lord of the Rings trilogy - obligatory
The Hunt (Jagten) - harrowing film, but amazingly acted
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
Lost in Translation
5 Centimeters per Second (ç§é5ă»ăłăăĄăŒăă«) - my favourite animation film from Japan
The Red Turtle - this is a contender for best animation of the last decade
Birdman - amazing cinematography
Inside Llewyn Davis - a Coen brothers film, but quite different from their usual ones
Found Memories (HistĂłrias que SĂł Existem Quando Lembradas) - very calm movie about a young photographer who stays at a small commune of elderly people
Post Tenebras Lux - this one is only for the advanced, itâs very weird; I wouldnât be able to tell what itâs about
Itâs not per se my top ten, more a list that is as diverse as possible in what I really love. As Iâm writing this Iâm remembering other films that should be up there as well⊠Itâs so difficult to choose
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I thought the LotR films were made in the '90sâŠ
2001, 2002 and 2003 
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Well, they would be very high up on my list.
I do notice everything else apart from Lost in Translation is not something you would see at the local cinema, right? Which explains things a bit. I enjoy a lot of films from the '80s and '90s, though, that werenât at all arthouse â like the original Total Recall. And thatâs not the same for modern films.
It depends on the cinema. Das Leben der Anderen is pretty famous in Germany, as is 5 Centimeters per Second in Japan.
But youâre right, that most of them would only play in Arthouse theatres, at least in my country.
Birdman won acadamy awards I think. Just looked⊠Best Pic 2014
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For best cinematography? It has to be
It won 4 oscars! Best motion picture, directing, original screenplay and cinematography
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I guess I would have to modify my original point to âIn my opinion, popular English-language live-action cinema has grown worse since 2005.â
And at that point I might as well not say anything at all, so just go about your days 
I can agree with that viewpoint
I blame it on SFX being too easy nowadays: it makes the directors lazy.
I think the trouble is that we have basically three things flooding the market:
- Superhero smash-ups
- Biographies
- Sequels / reboots / remakes
These three categories rarely make classic films.
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I gave up I could never do a top ten⊠still you could get a lot just cruising some undermentioned acadamy award noms, critics/directors top ten lists, etc. Youâre right itâs so frustrating when everything is a reboot or spin-off. But if you look for it, it will find you.
Crouching Tiger, Training Day, Gangs of New York, Signs, Children of Men, Eternal Sunshine, Tekkonkinkreet, There Will Be Blood, âO Brother, Where Art Thou?â, Panâs Labyrinth, The Life Aquatic, Man on Wire(biographical), Lost in Translation, Black Swan, Django Unchained, No Country For Old Men, Coco, Get Out, Joker, Parasite⊠I could go on man⊠some undermentioned films: In The Mood for Love(subtitles), Hereditary, VVitch, The Lighthouse, BlakKklansman, District 9 up there in the game, among other movies people have parodied. These are all after the year 2000, though. There are sooo many good movies!
Most if not all of these are award winners.
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I didnât like Django Unchained, it was a pretty generic action film imo.
Joker seems too edgy for me.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not quite my genre, but itâs a good concept and probably a pretty decent film.
Parasite Iâm planning to go and see soon.
The rest of them Iâve barely heard of.
Oh, Requiem for a Dream had some nice sequences, like the scene where they steal the TV. The film overall tries a little too hard to be dark, though.
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You may like The Fountain⊠or even The Wrestler, two other films by him. Also Black Swan⊠also recently saw his movie Mother⊠Lol, which was a total trip.
Or a film called Pi, coincidentally is about a raptor obsessed with number thoery who eats his mentor (whom he periodically had played Go with). The raptor subsequently goes mad.
Not really spoilersâŠ
I wonder if the decline in the quality of cinema (capesh**, reboots, remakes, sequels, SJW casting etc.);
and the worsening of television (daytime tv, more SJW casting, vapid talkshows, panel comedy);
and the death of popular music (rap, cookie-cutter dance music, boy-ballads) are all connectedâŠ
perhaps mainstream entertainment is being catered to, and producing, people whose brains are less and less active, less and less individual; a million clones retweeting and hashtagging in unison. Or maybe Iâm just a pompous git
It must be those weird small creatures that you see on the streets sometimes, what were they called again, kids?
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A kid is a young goat, Sir
old-timey pedantry increases
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I must mean something different then, these walked on two legs
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