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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.

5. Lost In Translation (2003) (Dir. Sofia Coppola)

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Sofia Coppola’s dreamy, otherworldly sort of-romance pairs a career-best Bill Murray with Scarlett Johansson, and gives them room to consider their lives amidst the lights and surprises of Tokyo, Japan, with a little bit of flirting thrown in for good measure. Lost In Translation is flawless in its pacing, never pushing its characters into places they wouldn’t naturally go.

Murray, a film star with his best years behind him, finds solace in Johansson’s newly-married Charlotte, and together they take in the sights and sounds of life at a speed that seems just right. Coppola’s script is slight but never lacking: for what it’s worth, Lost In Translation is the defining romantic comedy of the 21st century.

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