Through the eyes of Sight & Sound, the film world makes sense. The British film mag put together a great list of hits from the past decade, bypassing bigger blockbusters that American mags tend to highlight.
*Adaptation, Battle in Heaven, The Beat that My Heart Skipped, The Bourne Ultimatum, Colossal Youth, The Death of Mr Lazarescu, In Praise of Love, The Five Obstructions, The Gleaners and I, Hidden, Inland Empire, In the Mood for Love, Memories of Murder, The Holy Girl, A One and a Two…, Platform, Russian Ark, The Son, Spirited Away, Talk to Her, 10, There Will Be Blood, 35 Shots of Rum, Touching the Void, Tropical Malady, United Red Army, Uzak, Waiting for Happiness, Werckmeister Harmonies, Workingman’s Death.*
Compare to Paste's Top 50 (listed below, 1-50):
*City of God, Amélie, Almost Famous, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Beau Travail, Lost in Translation, The Son, No Country for Old Men, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Dark Knight, There Will Be Blood, Mulholland Drive, Up, Juno, Half Nelson, Memento, Syndromes and a Century, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Elephant, In the Loop, Dogville, Traffic, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Pan's Labyrinth, Ghost Dog, Hidden, A History of Violence, Man on Wire, Once, Gosford Park, Ratatouille, Kill Bill, Little Miss Sunshine, Junebug, Millions, Billy Elliot, Donnie Darko, Spirited Away, The Departed, L'Enfant, The Last King of Scotland, In America , Hotel Rwanda, Whale Rider, Iraq in Fragments, Grizzly Man, Flight of the Red Balloon, High Fidelity, The Squid and the Whale.*