There will be lists

Now that the decade is officially over -- give or take a year -- we are declaring an end to our Best of the Decade coverage with a quick look at the films selected by critics as representing the best of the past ten years.

While the critics' selections were understandably all over the map (after all, they had literally thousands of titles to choose from), a handful of films appeared with some frequency on these lists. Paul Thomas Anderson's period drama There Will Be Blood topped our chart by appearing on 46% of the critic lists we tallied. Only three other films appeared on more than a quarter of the lists: the Michel Gondry-Charlie Kaufman collaboration Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, David Lynch's cryptic and surreal Mulholland Drive, and the Coen Brothers' dark thriller No Country For Old Men.

Below, we list the movies that appeared most frequently on the critics' decade-end lists. Our summary list is not weighted or scored in any way; films are simply ranked by the frequency with which they appear in critic Best of the Decade lists, in any position on those lists. (The number of times they appear in the #1 position is indicated as a convenience.) A full list of publications used -- with links to many of the individual lists -- appears beneath the table. You may notice that we have expanded our usual group of publications slightly to include additional sources.

The 37 individual Best of the Decade lists used to compile the above data were from (with their #1 picks indicated):

What are your favorites?

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