Films of the decade

Film critic Peter Rainer chose the best movies of the decade for the Christian Science Monitor. I've only seen two of the 10... time to get renting! How many have you seen, and which were your favorites?

Before Sunset
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy. "peerlessly romantic ... language itself here, as it pours out of these two in great gusts and digressions, is a sensual thrill."

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
"Set in small-town Romania in 1987 ... a college girl (the great Anamaria Marinca) covertly arranges for her friend’s abortion. The consequences of this illegality, in a society where all human activity appears to be monitored by the state, are sorrowing."

No Country For Old Men
"Best picture of 2007.) It’s about the human response to death and dying as embodied in three men – a thief-hunter (Josh Brolin), a lawman (Tommy Lee Jones), and a terminator (Javier Bardem) – and it has an allegorical power that at times is close to biblical."

The Pianist
"Roman Polanski drew deeply on his boyhood experiences as a Jewish child being hunted down in World War II Poland in this poetically stark adaptation of the wartime memoir of Polish pianist and Holocaust survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman, played with unerring grace by Adrien Brody."

Sideways
"About an oenophile (Paul Giamatti) whose crankiness is the thinnest of veneers covering his sadness."

Spirited Away
"A 10-year-old girl, moving to the suburbs with her parents, discovers a tunnel leading to a world that might have astounded even Lewis Carroll."

Time Out
"Laurent Cantet’s 2001 movie about a husband and father, suddenly unemployed, who pretends he has a lucrative new job, seems doubly prescient these days."

Waltz With Bashir
Filmmaker Ari Folman was a 19-year-old Israeli soldier in the 1982 war in Lebanon, from which he fashioned this one-of-a-kind animated memoir.

Y Tu Mamá También
Exhilaratingly comic and sexy, it registers, finally, a note of rapturous melancholy.

The Wind Will Carry Us
"So rich and lyrical that the imagery seems suspended in time forever."