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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1. There Will Be Blood (2007) (Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

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Daniel Day-Lewis’s Daniel Plainview has already earned a deserved reputation as one of cinema’s great antagonists, but it’s important not to forget that this character would not have been possible without the world he inhabits – and what a world. Paul Thomas Anderson took the idea for There Will Be Blood from Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!, but that proved as a mere jumping-off point for a story that appears to have been made for the cinema.

There Will Be Blood is full of bold ideas, a spooky, unnerving atmosphere, and honest characters who refuse to play caricatures. It is a real movie, a movie for audiences who love the craft of cinema, and the possibilities that it offers to its most talented filmmakers: uncompromising, difficult, daring, epic, There Will Be Blood is absolutely the best motion picture to emerge from the noughties.

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