Choosing the best movies of the decade wasn’t easy. Even dividing them into categories didn’t really help the difficulty. I’m sure some will disagree with my choices, heck I don’t like some of my choices but then, I like High School Musical and hated Napolean Dynamite. With that, here’s my thoughts on the best in film over the last 10 years.

Top 10 Comedies

Charlie Bartlett, Wedding Crashers, Napolean Dynamite, Bruce Almighty, Mean Girls, Oceans 11, Miss Congeniality, O Brother Where Art Thou, Legally Blonde, Zoolander

Top 10 Dramas

Brothers, Atonement, The Prestige, Crash, V for Vendetta, Brokeback Mountain, Mystic River, Almost Famous, Erin Brokovich, Traffic

Top 10 Teen Films

New Moon, High School Musical, Step Up, Juno, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, She’s the Man, The Princess Diaries, A Cinderella Story, What a Girl Wants, Bring It On

Top 10 Romances

500 Days of Summer, Away We Go, 27 Dresses, Failure to Launch, Pride & Prejudice, The Notebook, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Sweet Home Alabama, A Walk to Remember, Bridget Jones Diary

Top 10 Action

Inglourious Basterds, Transformers, Casino Royale, The Fast and the Furious, Taken, Mr & Mrs Smith, The Bourne Identity, The Italian Job, Enough, A Knight’s Tale

Top 10 Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, Star Trek, X-Men 3: Underworld, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

Top 10 Horror/Thriller

Saw, I Am Legend, Disturbia, The Departed, Donnie Darko, Lucky Number Slevin, Signs, When a Stranger Calls, American Psycho, The Butterfly Effect

Top 10 Historical

Blood Diamond, Flags of Our Fathers, Hotel Rwanda, Finding Neverland, Walk The Line, Ray, The Passion of the Christ, We Were Soldiers, Gladiator, Gangs of New York

Top 10 Animated

The Princess and The Frog, Up, The Incredibles, Madagascar, Enchanted, Cars, Hoodwinked, Finding Nemo, Shrek

Top 10 Family Films

The Blind Side, Night at the Museum, Marley & Me, Slumdog Millionaire, August Rush, Invincible, Amazing Grace, National Treasure, Holes, Remember the Titans