Best List of the Decade is Northwestern Film Professor Jeff Sconce's Best Movies of the Decade

from my favorite blog this year, Ludic Despair.

Best Movies of the Decade (in no particular order, except for Idiocracy, which should be precisely at #4))

1. Grizzly Man (2005): A crazy guy loves bears so much that he lets one of them eat him. Amazing.

2. Freddie Got Fingered (2001): Maybe the single greatest Oedipal narrative ever committed to film. The hatred between Tom Green and Rip Torn builds slowly and convincingly, eventually blurring all diegetic and pro-filmic distinctions. Plus it's like watching the C.E.O. of 20th Century Fox setting $10 million dollars on fire.

3. Mulholland Drive (2001): Why isn’t every movie like this?

4. Speed Racer (2008): Everything The Matrix wanted to say about our future, but much more subtle and diabolical in its execution. The Wachowskis claimed The Matrix was inspired, in part, by Baudrillard--but this is the far better example of a hyperreal cinema. A true masterwork of uncompromising superficiality.

5. 2 Girls, 1 Cup (????): The entertainment of the future will be about finding and/or simulating highly charged episodes of stunning actuality. This is a good start.

6. Idiocracy (2006): Should have made $100 million, but I guess that would have undermined its own purpose. Would thrive as a TV series.