Chris Vognar is Culture Critic for The Dallas Morning News, where he was movie critic from 2006-2014. He was the 2009 Arts and Culture Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. He has taught arts journalism at Southern Methodist University and film history at the University of Texas at Arlington. Below are his picks for the top 25 films of the decade 2000-2009.
- 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, directed by Michel Gondry)
- 2. Wall-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
- 3. The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)
- 4. Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (2000, Edward Yang)
- 5. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
- 6. The Fog of War (2003, Errol Morris)
- 7. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
- 8. Nobody Knows (2004, Hirokazu Koreeda)
- 9. Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
- 10. Sexy Beast (2000, Jonathan Glazer)
- 11. Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog)
- 12. Monsoon Wedding (2001, Mira Nair)
- 13. Letters From Iwo Jima (2006, Clint Eastwood)
- 14. The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)
- 15. Up in the Air (2009, Jason Reitman)
- 16. The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)
- 17. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
- 18. 25th Hour (2002, Spike Lee)
- 19. Match Point (2005, Woody Allen)
- 20. Talk to Her (2002, Pedro Almodóvar)
- 21. Saraband (2003, Ingmar Bergman)
- 22. The Aura (2005, Fabián Bielinsky)
- 23. The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
- 24. Crimson Gold (2003, Jafar Panahi)
- 25. Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)