Top 10 of the Decade (2000-2009)

1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
4. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
5. The New World (Terrence Malick)
6. The Life Aquatic WIth Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
7. Silent Light (Carlos Reygades)
8. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
9. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
10. The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)

Special honorable mention goes to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings saga, which as a whole would merit inclusion on this list, but is increasingly difficult to single out any one particular entry.

2009

1. Silent Light (Carlos Reygades)
2. Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
3. A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
5. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
6. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
7. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
8. Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)
9. Taken (Pierre Morel)
10. Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)

Honorable Mentions:
Two Lovers (James Gray), Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater), Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze), Brothers (Jim Sheridan), Adoration (Atom Egoyan), Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (David Yates), Invictus (Clint Eastwood), Adventureland (Greg Mottola), Tyson (James Toback), Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)