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There are now five movies in the history of cinema that have made more than $1 billion in worldwide grosses – and James Cameron has directed two of them.



After coming closer than it would have liked to getting edged out of the top spot last week, Avatar dropped only 10% from last week to earn $68.3 million and firmly held on to number one for the third week in a row, almost doubling that of Sherlock Holmes ($38.3 million). Add a comment

We finally made it.  The best of the best.  Before we get to the top ten best films of the decade, take a minute to review the rest of the list:

#50-41 | #40-31 | #30-21 | #20-11

These are the films that mean the most to me. They have kept me up at night causing me to ponder endlessly about them, its characters, its themes and its mood: What was it that made feel (enter whatever emotion)? They successfully have managed to penetrate my body, settling there ever since I first viewed them and will probably be established within me for the rest of my life. I also believe they helped shape the decade in film by bringing new dimensions to historic genres. This decade alone allowed us, encouraged us and eventually forced us to view romance, relationships, corruption, greed, dreams and hope in a fashion that movie goers never perceived prior to it. Ambiguity, dislocated narratives, identity crisis, relationship unorthodoxies and dystopian visions flourished magnificently instead of catastrophically because the times were craving a new perspective to lead them unabashedly into the new era. The heightened ambition that filmmakers discovered within themselves led them to believe that anything was possible. Finding a way to propagate this abundance of creativity and rebellion through cinematic realism could only be accomplished by a visual flair that had the capability of enlightening the soul, driving crazy the mind and piercing the heart with emotional gratification. All fifty of these films accomplish this in one way or another, but this selected ten are intellectually crafted and have become incomparable. By fostering a new sense of imagination, all of these films pay tribute to a primordial concept; showing man as he truly is and the world as it truly is. Add a comment

We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade. 
#50-41
#40-31
#30-21


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We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade. 
#50-41
#40-31



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We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade.  In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.



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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David DiMichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade.  Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.



The countdown starts after the jump. Add a comment

Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
Director: Jason Reitman
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Running Time: 109 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for language and some sexual content
Distributor: Paramount Picture
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Airports have come to look like malls. These places seem to be irreverently trying to get you to forget that you are always on the go. Everyone seems to be going about in the same way, eating the same buffet, drinking the same drinks and thinking the same thoughts. When someone flies 350,000 miles in one year all of this becomes futile. You eat what you have to eat. Drink what you have been taught to drink. Inquiry becomes useless because this type of world is decentralized, harboring a sparsity of individualism and catering to a state of repetition. This is a post-modern way of living because there is no center for these frequent fliers, these business moguls. No wholeness in which they can construct their lives around. Without a lack of a solid foundation life can be formidable. Add a comment