The 15 Best Screenplays Of The Last Decade

This film blew me away with its layers of meaning in all of the actions of the characters. I still have no idea how to write such a film.

The Disappearance of Alice Creed is still fresh in my mind because I saw it just a week ago, but it has quickly climbed all of my "best" lists. The characters are just so well crafted in this thriller that by the end it becomes about them and not the plot, and I am still blown away by it everytime I try to think about how he wrote it.

Cleverly walks the line between drama and comedy, and succesfully makes dark subject matter funny without losing its heart. Not an easy task to do at all.

After reading the book, I had no idea how to turn it into a film. After watching the film, I realized he took the book almost word-for-word and somehow made it into a comprehensible masterpiece, but I still have no idea how.

Woody Allen is always very great at adding meaning to all the elements in his story, and in this story he was particularly great at adding a little bit of comedy to his dark murder mystery drama.

Revolutionary Road accurately painted a time, but even better, painted characters that are relevant in today's time.

This should have been one of those stories that you just can't adapt, but Charlie Kaufman did it. But I also never attempt to understand the genius of Kaufman.

Again it's the genius of Charlie Kaufman, here he took a crazy story but made it feel down-to-Earth enough so we could enjoy it.

I will admit that I didn't get it at first, but the very clever twist with Zooey Deschanel's character makes this is a very well written film.

Thank You for Smoking is one of the best satires ever. They pointed out the absurdity to all the sides and did it with some very smart humour. They also cleverly did it through creating one very good character that we could just follow - he was smart, sarcastic, funny, but also human.

Milk was a powerful film, because of how personal the screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black, made it, but at the same time he kept true to the story and never inserted himself into it.

Stranger Than Fiction walked that fine line between fiction and absurdity, and created meaningful characters, and gave us just a fun comedy.

The true art of You Can Count on Me was creating real, accessible but flawed characters that were each able to express and exert emotion.

A great example of how to write a dysfunctional family dramedy. The drama was honest, the comedy funny and touching, and the actors didn't have to carry everything through dialogue alone but also their actions.

A great example of how to write a romantic comedy because it's accessible, smart, funny and all the characters are likable.