What movie will come to your mind when it comes to the best movie of the decade? Perhaps this will be one of the Marvel films, the new Joker, a good tale about the Paddington teddy bear, or a picture full of sadness and glamor like The Great Gatsby. Or maybe something completely different, because everyone has their own tastes.
But we, ordinary people, are rarely asked about preferences. Whether it’s a matter of experts from various popular publications, such as Time. Most recently, this magazine made the top 10 best films of the decade, which shocked viewers and critics, and left the brightest mark in the cinema of the 21st century.
10. Somewhere (2010)
Cinema Search: 5.8 out of 10
IMDB: 6.30 out of 10
Genre: drama, comedy
Country: USA, UK, Italy, Japan
Producer: Sofia Coppola
Music: Phoenix
Duration: 99 minutes
A fading Hollywood star named Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) happily burns the rest of his career at the luxury hotel Chateau Marmont, watching striptease and having sex with everything that moves.
However, this idyllic purgatory is invaded by a child performed by 11-year-old El Fanning. This is Johnny's daughter, Cleo, who just wants to be in her father's life, even if he does not know what this life will be like.
9. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Cinema Search: 6.7 out of 10
IMDB: 7.40 out of 10
Genre: documentary, history
Country: Canada, USA, France, Germany, UK
Producer: Werner Herzog
Music: Ernst Reitsiger
Duration: 90 minutes
Access to the cave, discovered by caver Jean-Marie Chauvet, is allowed only to a select few, and also to members of the crew of the Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
And all because it was found in it ... no, not gold, silver or precious stones, but something much more valuable. The cave paintings left by our distant ancestors.
When showing this film in movie theaters, Herzog used 3D to take the viewer into the dark depths of this forgotten cave, and in his hands is much more than just a marketing ploy. We can better appreciate the texture of the walls, as well as how primitive artists created the layout of animals, which harmoniously combines with the natural undulations of the cave. You can even see the claw marks left by the cave bears and the strange waxy texture of stalactites.
8. Melancholy (2011)
Cinema Search: 7.0 out of 10
IMDB: 7.10 out of 10
Genre: fiction, drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Producer: Lars von Trier
Music: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration: 130 minutes
This is the second film in the unofficial “Depression Trilogy” by von Trier (the other two are “Antichrist” and “Nymphomaniac”).
The most mature film of the famous director tells about the events in the life of the sad and immersed in her own world Justine and her disciplined, balanced sister Claire, which precede the collision of the mysterious planet of Melancholy with the Earth.
In Melancholy, Von Trier decided to investigate how people react to impending doom. Will they become depressed or accept their death as inevitable?
7. Before midnight (2013)
Cinema Search: 7.5 out of 10
IMDB: 7.90 out of 10
Genre: drama, melodrama
Country: USA, Greece
Producer: Richard Linklater
Music: Graham Reynolds
Duration: 109 minutes
This film is one of the trilogy of watching a couple in love that has been going through life together for many years. The other two films are Before the Dawn and Before the Sunset.
Already from the opening scene of this film, a loud and clear message from Richard Linklater sounds: with age, our life gradually moves from new adventures to a daily routine.
And only one thing remains unchanged - chemistry between the characters, as the only possible way to show their lived love as volatile and lively as it was in the previous two parts of the trilogy. We can say that “Before Midnight” is that rare franchise that has really grown old with its characters.
6. Selma (2014)
Cinema Search: 6.7 out of 10
IMDB: 7.50 out of 10
Genre: historical drama, biography
Country: UK, USA, France
Producer: Ava DuVerney
Music: Jason moran
Duration: 128 minutes
This is the story of three protest marches organized by the famous human rights activist Martin Luther King. They began in Selma, Alabama, and are important episodes in the history of the African American Civil Rights Movement.
And while King is trying to draw the attention of the government to these protests, there are completely intolerant characters nearby - politicians, policemen and just indifferent people who do not understand why blacks need civil rights.
The topic of infringement of the rights of blacks is irrelevant for Russia, therefore, our viewers perceive Selma as a dramatic rather than historical movie.
5. Phoenix (2014)
Cinema Search: 6.6 out of 10
IMDB: 7.30 out of 10
Genre: drama, romance, history
Country: Germany, Poland
Producer: Christian Petzold
Music: Stefan Will
Duration: 98 minutes
Nelli, the disfigured Holocaust victim, like a phoenix bird reborn from the ashes of war, wanting to pretend that nothing happened. She wants to return to the life she lived before her nationality became a death sentence; she wants to return to her husband, who has already built his life without her.
When she finds her husband Johannes in post-war Berlin, he does not recognize her and believes that this is just another woman who looks like Nelly. Nevertheless, he enlisted the help of this "stranger" in order to claim the inheritance of Nelly.
Critics call Phoenix one of the best films about the war precisely because of the study of psychological destruction that continues for a long time after the last shot was fired.
4. John Wick (2014)
Cinema Search: 6.8 out of 10
IMDB: 7.40 out of 10
Genre: action thriller
Country: China, USA
Producer: Chad Stahelsky, David Litch
Music: Tyler Bates, Joel J. Richard
Duration: 101 minutes
Try to imagine this decade without Keanu Reeves in the movie. There is no "Tai Chi Master" - the directorial debut of Keanu. No Keanu in Toy Story 4. There are no memes with Keanu from the comedy "You Are My Doubt." And worst of all, there is not the first of three films about John Wick (the loss of parts 2 and 3 is probably not so scary).
“John Wick” is the story of a former extra-class killer whose dog was killed by a Russian gangster. Therefore, John kills all the Russian gangsters and all the other criminals who dare to stand in his way. He does this as efficiently, effectively and realistically as possible, and camera work deserves all praise.
According to Keanu himself, he performed 90% of the tricks in John Wick himself.
3. Moonlight (2016)
Cinema Search: 6.1 out of 10
IMDB: 7.40 out of 10
Genre: drama
Country: USA
Producer: Barry Jenkins
Music: Nicholas Britell
Duration: 110 minutes
Top 3 of the best films of the decade according to Time opens a picture-triptych of moments in a person’s life, which presents his difficulties and conflicts as everyday realities.
Three actors at once: Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Trevant Rhodes, play the main character - a black gay - as he moves from a thin and insecure teenager to a man who is physically strong, but emotionally fragile.
2. The Lost City of Z (2016)
Cinema Search: 6.3 out of 10
IMDB: 6.60 out of 10
Genre: historical drama, adventure
Country: USA
Producer: James gray
Music: Christopher Spelman
Duration: 141 minutes
James Gray's “Lost City Z” is a film adaptation of David Grann’s book about the ill-fated expeditions to the Amazon, by British explorer Percy Fawcett.
Fawcett, played by Charlie Hunnam, makes three trips to the rainforests of Bolivia and Brazil in search of the ruins of a lost civilization. The events of the film cover an interval of almost 20 years, painting before the viewer a beautiful picture of a purposeful search for something that may not exist at all.
The film seduces us with visual grandeur, showing bats during a night flight or a sacred ritual on a hillside illuminated by torches: we see what Fawcett sees, and like him, we reach out to the secrets of this mysterious world.
Just remember that this is not an adventure film, so if you are looking for something in the spirit of Indiana Jones, then “Lost City Z” will most likely disappoint you.
1. Roma (2018)
Cinema Search: 5.8 out of 10
IMDB: 6.30 out of 10
Genre: drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Producer: Alfonso Cuaron
Music: Elbert Moguel y Los Strwck, The Singers
Duration: 135 minutes
The camera, shooting in black and white, focuses on the female servant Cleo (Yalisa Aparicio), who takes care of children from a middle-class Mexican family.
Cleo is a responsible, kind and honest girl who is also pregnant and very afraid of losing her job.
“Roma” is a movie about the life of ordinary people, in which there is a place for joy and tears. There will be no frank "chernukha" in it, nor attempts to make a sugary tale of Cinderella from a movie. It was to create such a balance that the picture was shot in black and white.
