"Although the second decade of the new millennium has revealed a slight devolution in the proven cinematic possibilities of the first wave of the 21st century, this passing era of film culture has nonetheless been worthy of scrutiny, discussion, and appreciation. For the past ten years, the post-postmodern moviegoing zeitgeist has been an oscillating exhibition of the latest inadequacies and interminable potential of the medium.
For certain there are Best Picture winners and exalted critical darlings that will fill the margins of decade-in-review lists as the 2020s come into focus. In this piece let's acknowledge the films that attained a measure of grace, even greatness, and were unceremoniously left at the wayside in the ever-tightening spaces of the everyday spectator's attention span. To stall no further, here are some of the most underrated, undervalued or, at the very least, underseen movies of the decade according to an unavoidable subjectivity".
Films are in reverse order.
