Of course, we’re critics, so we decided to allow any film included in one of our previous best-of-the-year lists to compete too. A movie released in less than four theaters could force its way into the mix, we determined, if it had been nominated for an industry award - from the Academy, the Directors Guild, the New York Film Critics Circle, etc. But were we punishing smaller films simply because their distributors deemed them uncommercial? Cue the guilt, and the exceptions. That cut down the crop to something slightly more manageable.
Perhaps arbitrarily, we decided that for a film to be eligible for our ranking, it had to have played in at least four theaters in the U.S. The sheer amount posed the first and biggest challenge of putting together this list: deciding which of the movies that filtered through theaters and VOD services and streaming platforms qualified for a ranking of the decade’s best films. Not everything has been marked by radical changes, even over 10 years and the release of so many movies. Toy Story 3 came out, and now we’re on … well, Toy Story 4. Netflix, which is likely to be competing with itself at the Oscars this year, was just starting to stream in Canada. Hypercool indie darlings Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were the coupled-up stars of a lucrative supernatural teen romance.
From celestial collisions to man-eating aliens to human centipedes, here’s to another decade at the movies.*
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