99. THE DEPARTED
 
United States
dir. Martin Scorsese
world premiere 2006
U.S. release 2006
 

 
Because the film achieves a prodigious verticality, plumbing the depths of DiCaprio's and Damon's best performances of the decade, while at the same time it attains a dazzling horizontality, spreading its personality, energy, and force across a sprawl of thinking, wounding, hustling characters. Just a shame about Jack.