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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Hollywood Reporter's 10 best of the decade

The Hollywood Reporter is ranking (and I know everyone loves rankings) all kinds of show business top 10s for the decade just about to end. Here is its list of the Top 10 movies of the decade:
1. Letters from Iwo Jima
2. United 93
3. No Country for Old Men
4. The Fog of War
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (My choice as the best film of 2008)
6. Far From Heaven
7. Divine Intervention (a movie unfamiliar to me)
8. Cache
9. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10. The White Ribbon

Top 10 TV Shows of the Decade:
(Shows that premiered in or after 1999, "judged on their artistic merit and overall contribution to the medium, not on their ratings or profit margins.")
1. The Sopranos
2. The West Wing
3. Curb Your Enthusiasm
4. The Shield
5. Damages
6. Mad Men
7. 30 Rock
8. 24
9. Lost
10. Modern Family

The Top 10 Biggest Sleeper Movie Hits of the Decade:
(Based on budget compared to box-office receipts)
1. Paranormal Activity
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
4. Saw
5. Juno
6. Jackass the Movie
7. March of the Penguins
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Top 10 Movie Flops of the Decade:
(Based on "lofty expectations dashed and high profiles brought low.")
1. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2. Battlefield Lost
3. Land of the Lost
4. Gigli
5. Town & Country
6. Catwoman
7. The Invasion
8. Rollerball
9. Grindhouse
10. The Spirit

If you want to know the reasoning behind all these choices or to see other Reporter rankings for the decade, you'll have to go here.

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