Rent, bosses, ambition: life as it's actually paid for.
neorealism's defining film
Brando, and the taxi scene
Best Picture, and much sadder than its reputation
an oil executive, a Scottish village, no villains
the film its own targets adopted as a manual
one block, one day, one rising temperature
the meanest script ever handed to a cast that good
French banlieue, black and white, still furious
savaged then, defended seriously now; the *Starship Troopers* rehabilitation in progress
Mike Leigh's peak
bombed, then defined a generation of work
the star vehicle, done properly
Smith's best dramatic work
the Romanian New Wave's peak
Best Picture, and the era's optimism
Palme winner, a classroom in real time
a comedy about the pressure to succeed, and a global phenomenon
firing people for a living, and the decade's loneliness
the dialogue, the score, the chill
the Ozarks, and Lawrence's arrival
the financial crisis in one office, one night
enormously popular and genuinely contested
one of the highest-grossing non-English films ever made
Cotillard and the Dardennes
six revenge stories, and the wedding is worth the whole film
shot entirely on iPhones
the financial crisis, made legible
the crowd-pleaser done with real craft
Loach's second Palme
ACT UP, and the best crowd scenes of the decade
the first non-English Best Picture winner
landscape and grief
five films, one project, all worth it
Palme winner, Baker's best
a prison theater program, mostly real participants
topped virtually every critics' poll
