And Then I Woke Up: The Ten Best Films Of The Noughties

Join us in our decade-based film retrospective, as we delve backwards all the way from 2009 to 1910. Most decade-based best movie lists grant you a whooping 50-100 entries, which makes perfect sense given all the years you have to take into consideration. But what if you were defining a decade in just ten films? Showcasing the very best of its cinematic offerings? Which movies would you recommend to somebody who might only watch ten movies from a given decade? First off, it's the Noughties.

T.J. Barnard

Published: Nov 14, 2012 11:18 am

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6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (Dir. Peter Jackson)

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New Zealander Peter Jackson pulled off the impossible when he successfully transformed English novelist J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings into cinema’s best film trilogy.

Crafting each movie with an emphasis on action (and less on campy characters like Tom Bombadil), Jackson re-captured the magic of the epic fantasy movie – and none better than the first entry in the series, The Fellowship of the Ring, in which nine unlikely companions set out on a dangerous quest to destroy a potentially dooming artifact. This is the tightest and most re-watchable entry in the series, helped by its character relationships and relentless stream of eye-popping set pieces.

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