The Best of the Decade - #8
2007 was a very good year.
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The Best of the Decade - #9
Genre filmmaking with heart and soul.
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The Best of the Decade - Runners-Up
Fareed and Raj are back to list the best films of the past decade, starting off with a runners-up list composed of favorites from a wide variety of genres.
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Shutter Island (2010)
Let’s be honest: Martin Scorsese has been playing it safe for the past decade. “Gangs of New York,” “The Aviator” and “The Departed” are good-to-great films that exemplify Scorsese’s mastery of visual storytelling, but you can feel the man pandering to mainstream audience tastes in a way that wasn’t true of masterpieces like “Raging Bull” or “Taxi Driver,” which remain shocking viewing experiences even today. Perhaps his Oscar for “The Departed” has set him free - “Shutter Island” is the weirdest film Scorsese’s made since “Bringing Out the Dead” in 1999, and if it isn’t entirely successful, it’s exhilarating more often than not.
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The Best of 2009 - #1
Raj picks a model of cinematic efficiency while Fareed picks four films with a total running time of 532 minutes.
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The Best of 2009 - #2
Fareed and Raj agree on something.
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The White Ribbon (2009)
[Best of 2009 entries will continue tomorrow]
There’s a creeping dread that permeates Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon”. It’s a spectral terror that manifests itself powerfully through acts of violence but does not lay claim to any identifiable source. It’s one hell of a disturbing feeling, and it’s the kind of emotion that Haneke has become quite skillful at evoking throughout his career.
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The Best of 2009 - #3
The real world through a cracked lens.
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