Top Ten Movies of the past five years that you haven’t seen.

Author’s note: I’ve been editing my own blogs now. I have to work quickly, so please forgive any small mistakes.

Hey guys and girls, I’ve been away for two or three months now. I moved to NYC to work in the movie business and things have been pretty crazy, so I haven’t had much time to blog about all the stupid things I love to blog about.

Regardless, 2010 had some of the greatest movies of that decade and I feel like nobody saw them. Also, there are other great movies from the past five years that people will return to and decide they were overlooked.

Moreover, I’ve slowly been discovering these movies and can’t believe how good they are. My generation — I’m twenty-five — has yet to emerge, but the generation right ahead of me has come full-form and many of them are making classics. Such talents as Cary Fukunaga, Ramin Bahrani, Jeff Nichols, and David Gordon Green are showing that there are Americans who, influenced by the seventies, are again trying to make the great american movie.

Most importantly, there are movements and artists in other countries making movies that no Americans ever see, but should, because for the past five of six years many of the best films were made abroad.

10. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

I’ve been told I’m into more indie movies. This could not be more far from the truth. I’m into movies in every form, shape, budget, and virtue. Period. However, I must admit my favorite movies are about strange people, from strange places that I’ve never been. Movies that quietly observe lives I’ll never live and situations I’ll never be in, such movies captivate me.

4 Months is such a movie.

To detail what it is about will spoil everything for you, but it handles its subject with patience and dignity. The movie takes place in communist Romania before the end of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Life is drab, quiet, and harsh. Two university students are faced with a situation they must solve that breaks the rules of the oppressive government.

No greater compliment can be given to characters than allowing them no other motive than to do what is necessary. This movie isn’t about what many claim it is, instead it runs deeper. I’m not exactly sure how deep and what it means, but it is awesome when you get there.