Best of the Decade: 2000-2009

Features:

The Lord of the Rings

Hero

Spirited Away

Brokeback Mountain

Pan's Labyrinth

Zodiac

The White Ribbon

Band of Brothers

Ratatouille

The Royal Tenenbaums

Before Night Falls

Documentaries:

The Power of Nightmares

Capturing the Friedmans

Taxi to the Dark Side

When the Levees Broke

The Fog of War

Tarnation

Runners Up:

A.I.

Adaptation

All Or Nothing

Catch Me If You Can

Children of Men

Coraline

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Departed

Dirty Pretty Things

Elephant

Hedwig And The Angry Inch

Memento

Milk

Minority Report

Precious

United 93

Walk the Line

I realize I cheated a little by adding an eleventh to my ten best, and a TV miniseries at that: the remarkable Band of Brothers, now being reshown on HBO as a prelude to its companion piece, The Pacific (we can only hope it's as good).