What movie comes to mind when it comes to the best movie of the decade? Perhaps it will be one of the Marvel films, the new "Joker", a kind tale about Paddington the bear, or a picture full of sadness and glamor like "The Great Gatsby". Or maybe something completely different, because everyone has their own tastes.
But we ordinary people are rarely asked about preferences. It is a different matter for experts from various popular publications such as Time. Most recently, this magazine has compiled the top 10 best films of the decade, which shocked viewers and critics, and left the brightest mark on the cinema of the XXI century.
10. Somewhere (2010)
KinoSearch: 5.8 out of 10
IMDB: 6.30 out of 10
Genre: drama, comedy
Country: USA, UK, Italy, Japan
Producer: Sofia Coppola
Music: Phoenix
Duration: 99 minutes
A fading Hollywood star named Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is happily burning through the remnants of her career at the upmarket Chateau Marmont hotel, watching striptease and having sex with anything that moves.
However, this idyllic purgatory is invaded by a child played by 11-year-old Elle Fanning. This is Johnny's daughter, Cleo, who just wants to be in her father's life, even if he doesn't know what that life will be like.
9. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
KinoSearch: 6.7 out of 10
IMDB: 7.40 out of 10
Genre: documentary, history
Country: Canada, USA, France, Germany, UK
Producer: Werner Herzog
Music: Ernst Reiziger
Duration: 90 minutes
Access to the cave, discovered by speleologist Jean-Marie Chauvet, is allowed only to a select few, and also to members of the film crew of "Caves of Forgotten Dreams".
And all because they found in it ... no, not gold, silver or precious stones, but something much more valuable. Rock carvings left by our distant ancestors.
In the screenings of this film, Herzog used 3D to transport the viewer into the dark depths of this forgotten cave, and in his hands it is much more than just a marketing ploy. We can better appreciate the texture of the walls, as well as how primitive artists created a layout of animals that harmoniously blends with the natural undulations of the cave. You can even see the claw marks left by cave bears and the strange waxy texture of stalactites.
8. Melancholy (2011)
KinoSearch: 7.0 out of 10
IMDB: 7.10 out of 10
Genre: fantasy, drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Producer: Lars von Trier
Music: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration: 130 minutes
This is the second film in von Trier's unofficial Depression Trilogy (the other two are Antichrist and Nymphomaniac).
The most mature film of the famous director tells about the events in the life of the sad and immersed in his own world Justine and her disciplined, balanced sister Claire, which precede the collision of the mysterious planet Melancholy with the Earth.
In Melancholy, Von Trier decided to investigate how people react to impending doom. Will they become depressed or will they accept their death as inevitable?
7. Before midnight (2013)
KinoSearch: 7.5 out of 10
IMDB: 7.90 out of 10
Genre: drama, melodrama
Country: USA, Greece
Producer: Richard Linklater
Music: Graham Reynolds
Duration: 109 minutes
This film is one of a trilogy of observations of a couple in love who have been walking through life together for many years. The other two films are Before Dawn and Before Sunset.
Already from the opening scene of this film, a loud and clear message from Richard Linklater sounds: as we age, our life gradually moves from new adventures to daily routine.
And only one thing remains unchanged - the chemistry between the characters, as the only possible way to show their lived love as changeable and lively, as it was in the previous two parts of the trilogy. You could say Before Midnight is that rare franchise that has really grown old with its characters.
6. Selma (2014)
KinoSearch: 6.7 out of 10
IMDB: 7.50 out of 10
Genre: historical drama, biography
Country: UK, USA, France
Producer: Ava DuVernay
Music: Jason Moran
Duration: 128 minutes
This is the story of three protest marches organized by famed human rights activist Martin Luther King. They began in Selma, Alabama and were important episodes in the history of the African American Civil Rights Movement.
And while King is trying to draw the government's attention to these protests, there are not at all tolerant characters nearby - politicians, police officers and simply indifferent people who do not understand why blacks need civil rights.
The topic of infringement of the rights of blacks is irrelevant for Russia, therefore our viewers perceive "Selma" as a dramatic, not a historical movie.
5. Phoenix (2014)
KinoSearch: 6.6 out of 10
IMDB: 7.30 out of 10
Genre: drama, melodrama, history
Country: Germany, Poland
Producer: Christian Petzold
Music: Stefan Will
Duration: 98 minutes
Nelly, the disfigured victim of the Holocaust, is like a phoenix reborn from the ashes of war, wanting to pretend that nothing happened. She wants to return to the life she lived before her nationality became a death sentence; she wants to return to her husband, who has already built his life without her.
When she finds her husband Johannes in post-war Berlin, he does not recognize her and thinks that she is just another woman who looks like Nelly. Nevertheless, he enlists the help of this "stranger" to claim Nelly's inheritance.
Critics call "Phoenix" one of the best films about the war precisely because of the study of the psychological destruction that continues long after the last shot was fired.
4. John Wick (2014)
KinoSearch: 6.8 out of 10
IMDB: 7.40 out of 10
Genre: thriller, thriller
Country: China, USA
Producer: Chad Stahelski, David Leitch
Music: Tyler Bates, Joel J. Richard
Duration: 101 minutes
Try to imagine this decade without Keanu Reeves in the movies. There is no "Master of Tai Chi" - Keanu's directorial debut. No Keanu in Toy Story 4. There are no Keanu memes from the comedy You Are My Doubt. And worst of all, there is no first of the three John Wick films (losing parts 2 and 3 might not be all that bad).
"John Wick" is a story about a former top-class hitman whose dog was killed by a Russian gangster. Therefore, John kills all Russian gangsters and all other criminals who dare to stand in his way. He does it as efficiently, effectively and realistically as possible, and the camera work deserves all praise.
According to Keanu himself, he performed 90% of the stunts in John Wick himself.
3. Moonlight (2016)
KinoSearch: 6.1 out of 10
IMDB: 7.40 out of 10
Genre: drama
Country: USA
Producer: Barry Jenkins
Music: Nicholas Britell
Duration: 110 minutes
Top 3 best films of the decade according to Time opens a triptych picture of moments from a person's life, which presents his difficulties and conflicts as everyday realities.
Three actors - Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Trevante Rhodes - play the main character - a black gay - as he transitions from a thin and insecure teenager to a man who is strong physically but emotionally fragile.
2. Lost City of Z (2016)
KinoSearch: 6.3 out of 10
IMDB: 6.60 out of 10
Genre: historical drama, adventure
Country: USA
Producer: James gray
Music: Christopher Spelman
Duration: 141 minutes
The Lost City of Z by James Gray is a film adaptation of David Grann's book on the ill-fated expeditions to the Amazon by British explorer Percy Fawcett.
Fawcett, played by Charlie Hunnam, makes three trips to the rainforests of Bolivia and Brazil in search of the ruins of a lost civilization. The events of the film cover an interval of almost 20 years, painting in front of the viewer a beautiful picture of a purposeful search for something that may not exist at all.
The film seduces us with visual grandeur, showing bats on a night flight or a sacred hillside ritual lit by torches: we see what Fawcett sees and, like him, reach out to the mysteries of this mysterious world.
Just remember that this is not an adventure movie, so if you are looking for something in the spirit of Indiana Jones, then "The Lost City of Z" will rather disappoint you.
1. Roma (2018)
KinoSearch: 5.8 out of 10
IMDB: 6.30 out of 10
Genre: drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Producer: Alfonso Cuaron
Music: Elbert Moguel y Los Strwck, The Singers
Duration: 135 minutes
The camera, shooting in black and white, focuses on the servant woman Cleo (Yalica Aparicio), who takes care of children from a middle-class Mexican family.
Cleo is a responsible, kind and honest girl who is also pregnant and very afraid of losing her job.
“Roma” is a movie about the life of ordinary people, in which there is a place for both joy and tears. There will be no frank "chernukha", no attempts to make a sugary tale about Cinderella out of the movie. It was to create such a balance that the picture was shot in black and white.