In 25th Hour Edward Norton gives what is perhaps the best performance of his career in what is easily one of the best movie’s of Spike Lee’s filmography. Norton plays a convicted drug dealer headed to prison for seven years. Before he goes Monty Brogan has twenty-four hours to say goodbye, and he spends most of them coming to grips with his father and friends while venting his anger and frustration at the path he’s taken.

This was an interesting list of films that are the “most unfairly overlooked of the last decade.”

First, get ready for a lot of decade-long lists. ‘Tis the season!

Second, there really are some real gems on the list that are wonderful movies that not many people saw. Mostly they are films that have flaws because they really stretched for something big.

Like Black Snake Moan or The Weatherman.

The 25th Hour is pretty wonderful and just got overlooked. It’s a fantastic movie. I highly recommend it. Others on the list … well. I haven’t seen Elisha Cuthbert in The Girl Next Door and even its inclusion on this list doesn’t make me want to race out and see it. But some of the others really are quality films. Full list below. I noted some I liked with asterisks.

Black Snake Moan*
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Zack and Miri Make a Porno*
Frailty
The Girl Next Door
City of Ember
Fearless
Below
Choke
Ghost Town*
25th Hour*
Open Range
Spartan*
The Lookout
Eagle vs. Shark
The Woodsman
Grindhouse*
The Weatherman*
The Notorious Bettie Page
Stardust
Open Water*
Death at a Funeral*
The Wackness

(via mattmike)