Best Movies, TV, Books and Theater of the Decade
TIME's critics pick their favorites from a bountiful decade in the arts
Full List
Movies
- WALL-E (2008)
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03)
- Talk to Her (2002)
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Moulin Rouge! (2001)
- The Hurt Locker (2009)
- White Diamond (2005)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
- Avatar (2009)
TV Shows
- The Wire
- Lost
- Freaks and Geeks
- Arrested Development
- Mad Men
- The Office
- Deadwood
- The Sopranos / Survivor (tie)
- The Daily Show
- Battlestar Galactica
Books
- Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (2004), by Susanna Clarke
- The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), by Junot Diaz
- The Known World (2003), by Edward P. Jones
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003), by J.K. Rowling
- Atonement (2002), by Ian McEwan
- Lush Life (2008), by Richard Price
- Then We Came to the End (2007), by Joshua Ferris
- American Gods (2001), by Neil Gaiman
Plays and Musicals
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