Are we living in a new golden age of cinema?

Are we living in a new golden age of cinema?

Here they are: the finest films of the 21st Century so far, as voted for by 177 critics from around the world. Topped by a surreal Hollywood neo-noir that was intended as a pilot for a television series, the top 10 includes a Japanese cartoon about a girl who works in a bath house for monsters (Spirited Away: number four on the list), a plotless overview of a Texan boy’s adolescence (Boyhood: five), a chaste love story spanning several years in 1960s Hong Kong (In the Mood for Love: two), and a melancholy romantic comedy involving a memory-erasing machine (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: six).

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