But that’s why it continues to resonate. The first part of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” functions, in a way, as a silent film. 100 Best Films of the 21st Century (Since 2000) Menu. CC Read the review, British director Andrew Haigh’s quietly devastating drama is a deeply moving portrait of marriage with the shiver of a ghost story. CC Read the review, The triumph of Barry Jenkins’s coming-of-age tale over La La Land for the best picture Oscar was extraordinary in all sorts of ways, of which Faye Dunaway’s envelope mixup was maybe the least remarkable. Not that they’re a couple, technically. Leonardo DiCaprio is outrageously entertaining as Belfort. By Emma Carey AP Read the review, Intense, anger-driven documentary from Ava DuVernay on the racialisation of the US’s justice system, positing the idea that the massively disproportionate incarceration of African-American men is simply slavery by another name. CS Read the review, Steve McQueen’s real-life story of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in 19th-century Louisiana, exudes all of the dignity, impatience and artistic fidelity of its director. CS Read the review, Nanni Moretti’s Palme d’Or-winning drama about a father crippled by grief after the accidental death of his child is not for the faint-hearted. And it is all inscribed in the story of the movie’s leading character, a man with the Bunyanesque name of Daniel Plainview. Do you agree with the picks? Crafting a brilliantly written dramedy around the concept of wine, Alexander Payne scored a tasty result with “Sideways.” The film is as hilarious as it is touching, anchored by Paul Giamatti’s character, who brings an unprecedented level of humanity to his role. He lays depth charges in seemingly inconsequential moments with emotionally thrilling consequences. And Murray scores with it, bringing a worthy Scarlett Johansson up to his level of poignant acting. It's one of the best cop movies we got in the 2000s. CC Read the review, Charlie Kaufman’s existential breakdown with stop-motion puppets is a miniature masterpiece of concept and execution. ... Esquire - The 100 Best Movies of All Time, Nov. 2020. Even with all his fantastic comedies, “Lost in Translation” is Bill Murray’s greatest performance. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that, 16 years later, we’re finally getting a sequel to Ang Lee’s gorgeous martial arts film. Love isn’t meant to be perfect and battling it is futile. AP Read the review, Steven Soderbergh is the Renaissance man of American cinema, and this intricately crafted heist movie – remade from the old Frank Sinatra chestnut – shows him on never-bettered, commercially minded form. And it's all anchored by Leonardo DiCaprio in what might be the greatest performance of his career. Daniel Auteuil plays a successful TV host whose contentment is disturbed by the arrival of mysterious surveillance tapes. Astoundingly good. It was the first film with an all-black cast as well as with an LGBTQ theme to scoop the prize – and it must also rank as one of the most visually and tonally ambitious: told in three parts, with three different leads, each showing the stages of repression and internalised loathing in the young life of a Miami man. Gladiator 2000, 155 min. Sure, there’s humor. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. CC Read the review, A beautifully shot observational documentary about the continuing humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean: the lethally dangerous boats that carry refugees from Africa and end up on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Absolute Top 100 Films Since 2000 - Page 2 show list info. AP Read the review, The film begins with a couple in front of a judge asking for a divorce. Mission accomplished. Get all the best … Who’s to blame? CS Read the review, Terrence Malick’s return to cinema six years after The New World has been vaguely tainted by the slew of woozy filmic xeroxes that have followed, but his first comeback – in which Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain stand in for his parents in 1950s Texas – is a choking knockout. A cinema of awkwardness, wielding a scalpel on the well-to-do middle classes, was born. He crafted a movie and a scenario (where babies have become extinct) that could terrifyingly happen. Haynes takes the bold, vivid melodrama beloved of Douglas Sirk, and reconfigures it to fully reveal the social faultlines of race, sex and class that were considerably more latent in the original. Incredibly glamorous and miserably heartbreaking, this film gave notice of Aronofsky’s brilliance. Shot in remorseless, unforgiving close-up by first time Hungarian director László Nemes, the story of a Jewish prison-camp worker whose job it is to help clear the gas chamber of corpses is cinema at its absolute rawest. 18. But no, there’s a mobile phone. These are the best 2000s romantic comedies, ranked from best to worst by user votes.Some of these great 2000s romantic comedies feature main characters that just can't do anything right but find love nonetheless, and there are others on this list that see … But don't let the cheesiness fool you. And the casting is killer, with Ezra Miller as Kevin and Tilda Swinton playing the mother. This compiled list below combines Filmsite's 100 Greatest Films list and Another 100 Greatest Films. Anderson plays Lily Bart, the woman whose reputation and standing are gradually sullied until she becomes an unmarriageable outcast in end of 19th-century America. Ryan Gosling’s character never gets an actual name in “Drive.” That’s on purpose, as he’s supposed to function like an unemotional vehicle. It’s a monster movie with immense beauty; a creepy version of “Alice in Wonderland;” a poetic masterpiece. Todd Haynes’ “Far from Heaven” is a period piece that carries a timeless vibe. CS Read the review, Bruce Dern discards his marbles on a windmill-tilting road trip with loving but frustrated son Will Forte. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). The movie perhaps looks even stranger, starker and more unforgiving now than it did in 2007 when it first came out. Take your pick as to which is the best “The Lord of the Rings” film. With very few words uttered, he tells a story of survival and family that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It never descends into cliche or even self-pity; it remains a film for adults, uninterested in anything but the truth. Daniel Giménez Cacho is petty, wretched Zama, clinging to his white man’s sense of importance (and his ill-fitting periwig), a symptom of colonial rot. AP Read the review, Andrea Arnold tossed out the costume drama rulebook with her raw, passionate retelling of Emily Brontë’s novel. Based on a great novel by Cormac McCarthy, “No Country for Old Men” is the Coen Brothers’ take on man’s desire to overcome his destiny. Haneke ratchets up the tension with an unerring sense of dread and dismay. CC Read the review, Kelly Reichardt is a master of slow cinema, the maker of films about American outsiders, living without a safety net. The Very Best of 2000 Its hard to argue about this spot with Memento, though I end up with R. Scott's Epic film. AP Read the review, A film that grabs you by the neck and shakes hard, this brutal crime drama announced the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu as a major new talent in 2000. The performances are flawless. “Her” is a movie that may always be ahead of its time. This decade saw Hollywood turn to computers even more to tell their stories, and a wide variety of genres experience success. Mostly, though, it’s just ferociously funny, even if most of the humour does, finally, come from the sight of the 2ft puppets tottering around, getting drunk, having wild sex, attempting to walk through doorways and wrestling panthers played by kittens. Martel has been called “the Malick of Latin American cinema” but this feels closer to Herzog. CS Read the review, Ridley Scott’s deluxe Roman blockbuster is toga soap turned up to the absolute maximus. 3. Yet there are many grace notes under the fire and fury. Stylish, visceral film-making, violent and hard-hitting, it’s got a valid claim to be India’s answer to The Godfather. Director Cameron Crowe puts his love of music on full display in “Almost Famous,” one of the easiest movies to fall for. Paul Thomas Anderson’s strange masterpiece, freely adapted by him from Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil!, has a dark title that threatens a calamity now visible on the horizon: destruction of the Earth itself. Ranking the best movies of the past 19 years, from "The Dark Knight" and "No Country for Old Men" to last year's "Black Panther." Like Brief Encounter, the film aches with the understanding that impossible love makes for a more romantic movie. AP Read the review, Having made his name as one of the pioneers of ordeal arthouse with unflinching chronicles of trauma and cruelty, Austrian auteur Michael Haneke achieved a unlikely popular success with this film that connected with France’s deep well of unease about events of the relatively recent past. CS Read the review, One of the recent stream of fine dramas issuing from South Korea, Lee Chang-dong’s adaptation of a Haruki Murakami story is an elusive, unsettling thriller, in which a young writer reconnects with a former schoolfriend, only to find she mysteriously disappears after a trip away. It’s gorgeously detailed, drenched in sensuality – a scene in which the two squeeze past each other in a narrow alleyway by night has a humid sexiness. “What is it to be human?” asks Michael Stone (Thewlis). AP Read the review, The Coen brothers don’t really do personal, but this is as close as they’ve got (so far). Perhaps no film showcases the magic of Pixar more. It is perfectly cast and paced, endlessly surprising, uncompromising and compassionate: a story purely and powefully told, yet full of the extraordinary visual grace notes. Set in their home town of Minneapolis in the late 60s, A Serious Man stars Michael Stuhlbarg as an academic whose life is roiled by continuing uncertainty and self-doubt – triggering repeat visits to his rabbis, a marriage breakdown and extended interactions with his oddball brother. All is resolved after various traumas are lanced. David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” written by Aaron Sorkin, isn’t just about new technology. Chadwick Boseman in "Black Panther." --Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times It’s about the struggle for humanity to live on, a battle you find yourself swept up in. “To ache?” Few films try to answer: this Fabergé egg of a film does. AP Read the review, The most audacious slaughter of sacred cows seen on celluloid, Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s marionette action-musical is a gleeful hail of precision-aimed bullets. Directed by Anurag Kashyap, this is conceived on a giant scale, as generations of three gangster families fight for supremacy over the course of half a century. Mixed within that is arguably the best acting performance in two decades with Heath Ledger’s incomparable Joker. What a spectacle Anderson and Day-Lewis create: a portrait of male belligerence and fear, a Tutankhamun of misery, walled up in his own sarcophagus of wealth and prestige. It’s simply revelatory: innovative, wildly affecting, utterly beautiful. Movie producers in the early 2000's must've taken pity on parents because they created some of the best kids movies that were just as … The 10 Best Heist Films Since 2000. He spent months upon months building vehicles and choreographing stunts that would make “Mad Max: Fury Road” seem unlike any other film of today. David Thewlis voices the depressed motivational speaker to whom everyone sounds the same – except for Jennifer Jason Leigh’s scarred sales agent. AP Read the review, Relegated to telly in the US, Steven Soderbergh’s wondrously funny and lavish Liberace biopic had a cinema release in the UK. But Sofia Coppola’s film paints a portrait of loneliness in a crowded world. CS Read the review, Groundbreaking single-shot paean to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg from Russian director Alexander Sokurov. Haleigh Foutch runs down the best horror movies from 2000 to 2010, from The Descent to Saw, in a wide-ranging, global list. Mark Wahlberg is great as the straight man to the foul-mouthed toy of the title, with Mila Kunis as his censorious fiancee. And only Pixar could make a superhero movie for kids about a midlife crisis. AP Read the review, Joanna Hogg’s belated international breakthrough is a story of extraordinary specificity – young Hogg has disastrous affair while living in Knightsbridge and studying as a film student in the early 1980s – with rare cut-through and relatability. AP Read the review, The Young Pope director Paolo Sorrentino crafted this swooningly beautiful love letter to Rome – “la grande bellezza” – in its decadent, jaded glory. Probably. CS Read the review, Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti struggle to start a family, and to keep their marriage together, in this subtle, funny and often wondrously uncomfortable Netflix comedy written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. Set in 1980 Texas, the movie’s structural simplicities make way for thrilling performances, the best of which comes from Javier Bardem who basically plays the devil. The best example of that is “Slumdog Millionaire,” an exciting and heartfelt film with a satisfying ending Oscar voters couldn’t help but embrace. The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century. CS Read the review, Edward Yang’s final film is a delicate domestic miracle: the story of one family seen through the perspectives of the father, the son and the daughter. Russell Crowe bellows and glowers opposite hyper-evil Joaquin Phoenix and lugubrious Oliver Reed (who died during production). Upon repeat viewings, you don't want to miss a second. But where do movies like "Black Panther" or "Roma" rank among the best of this era? Scarlett Johannson and Bill Murray are impeccable casting as the unlikely soulmates thrown together in high-rise Tokyo. Borat is on a trip in the US to try to marry Pamela Anderson; not everything works, but when it does it’s astounding: cruelly revelatory and hysterically funny at the same time. The Best Movies of the 2000s Offer Much More Than Turn of the Century Nostalgia Put some denim on your denim and step back a couple decades. The Hangover (2009) ... American Psycho (2000) Thank heavens that American Psycho got made, because it … CS Read the review, Seth MacFarlane’s brief ascent to the Hollywood firmament was down to this scabrously funny talking-bear farce, which helped reinvent the grossout comedy. CC Read the review, Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako won a lot of admirers for this slow-burn study of life in a west African town. With a title referring to the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery, DuVernay suggests that privatised prisons, cheap labour and light-touch capitalism are all in it together. In retrospect this is a movie that moves you through intensity and thrilling scenes, only to realize that vengeance or even justice can't cloud the fact that violence brings about more violence. It’s a movie of hope and heartache coexisting in a cruel world. “40 Year-Old Virgin” takes what would become director Judd Apatow’s go-to premise – a down on his luck loser looking to land a hot girl – and rides it to perfection. The best summer movie of every year since 2000 The summer movie season has been delayed with theaters closed across the US due to the coronavirus pandemic. Upon its release, Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" felt like a bloated body of work that could have been trimmed. Its downside is to ruin almost every single other film for you – at least all those in which the actors are conspicuously aged up or down. Toni Servillo, Sorrentino’s regular onscreen foil, plays journalist Jep Gambardella, a bon viveur beginning to sense the dying of his personal light, and hunting out meaning and substance in the world around him. CLEVELAND, Ohio - Last year was a big one for movies both in terms of critical acclaim and money. The “infected” are fast and menacing. It’s about how struggles with loneliness and longing for friendship can drive people to the fine line that exists between genius and self-destruction. AP Read the review, Michael Haneke won his first Palme d’Or with this chilling, steel-hard parable set in Germany just before the first world war. Am I with the right person? Orchestrated by director Joshua Oppenheimer, this film revisits the perpetrators of some horrific events and asks them – with little need for encouragement – to re-enact them. Jérémie Renier plays a petty criminal who sells his newborn baby in the adoption black market, but his devastated girlfriend’s response forces a kind of redemption. After that, it’s complicated, with a flight into magic realism or perhaps even reincarnation. Steve Carell is the most endearing of Apatow’s leading men, surrounded by the hilarious trio of Paul Rudd, Romany Malco and Seth Rogen. (And lumbered him for the while with the label “Mexico’s Tarantino”.) I’d argue the case for Wuthering Heights as one of the most criminally underrated movies of recent years – though it’s been influential, blazing a trail for stripped-back period movies such as Lady Macbeth. Not exactly easy viewing, but it’s a masterpiece of slow cinema. From its unnerving alien-POV sequences, to the empathetic scene with actor Adam Pearson (who has neurofibromatosis), to the sheer coldness of the predatory logic of its central figure, Under the Skin achieves a mood and texture unlike anything else before or since. Available for everyone, funded by readers. 6. “The Hurt Locker” has some of that, but focuses more on the psychology of an adrenaline junkie (the fantastic Jeremy Renner) who finds his only sense of purpose in what most would consider a death wish. Here are the best movies of the 2000s in terms of box office for each year - according to Box Office Mojo… 2000: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (total gross $7,511,547,085 ) 2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (total gross $8,110,960,182) 2002: Spider-Man (total gross $9,165,535,694) CS Read the review, Kathryn Bigelow’s extraordinary story of a controlled explosions team – headed by a never-better Jeremy Renner – is intense, immersive and impossible to shake. It’s totally fearless: pops are taken at Hollywood, Broadway, evil dictators, gung-ho superpowers, the intelligence service, bleeding heart liberals, actors – especially actors – before signing off with a devastating, if obscene, defence of US interventionism. 'I thought it was basically amazing': readers' pick of the best movies since 2000. A.O. Separate, each film would make its way onto this list. A film as unique as they come, David Lynch’s neo-noir masterpiece keeps you on the edge of your seat while it slowly ties together various storylines into one thrilling end game. CS Read the review, An early lead for Ben Whishaw as the ailing John Keats romancing Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) is the tremulous soul of this underappreciated Jane Campion drama. It’s a visual masterwork that easily stands the test of time, elevating its genre into something that equals cinematic art. It wasn’t enough for Christopher Nolan to play with the way in which a film reveals its story. But the magnitude of what you’re watching never escapes you. But Jonze, along with Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson’s voice, pieces together a perfect love story of the future. With "Black Panther" scoring big with critics and audiences, it reminds us of the movie that previously held the title of best film based on a Marvel character. CS Read the review, Events soured after the shoot but Nicolas Philibert’s sole big hit remains a disarmingly funny study of a graceful and kind schoolteacher caring for a motley crew of under-11s in rural France. Absolute Top 100 Films Since 2000 show list info. Nor would it allow you to fully grasp this dark and cunning story of Scientology (though that word is never uttered). Their leader is show-offy Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood), but Reichardt’s focus, as is customary for her, is on the women – a trio played by Michelle Williams, Zoe Kazan and Shirley Henderson. Kiarostami and his star Mania Akbari conjure knotty drama out of a series of conversations about marriage, family, religion and sex. Honor Swinton Byrne is astonishing in her first film; Tom Burke inch-perfect as the charming but parasitic older man. Originally conceived as the pilot of a new TV series, this expertly fuses Lynch’s softcore pulp obsessions with his trademark creepy surrealism. AP Read the review, Such was the glut of Judd Apatow-ish comedies to come our way about 10 years ago that it’s easy to forget what a gem this is; how deep and weird the performances (stand up, Steve Carell), how fast the laughs and rich the detail. So the questions are for grownups. From 2000 through 2009, audiences ... of directorial debut that makes you sad Wilkins hasn't turned out another original film since. Part memoir, part elegaic fiction, Cuaron hit the heights with this. Ant-Man gives the crime picture a superhero overhaul, but these movies do it better. The 17 Oscar best picture winners since 2000, from worst to best The blockbuster grossed over £300 million worldwide IMDb The movie blockbuster is the … The past 10 years have featured an abundance of raunchy bro comedies. It’s a film that examines the societal restraints of race, gender, sex and classism in ways that they still resonate today. It sounds nuts. By Matt Patches. AP Read the review, Despite lingering controversy over its adoption by Netflix in its war with the film industry, Roma still stands as an absolutely major work. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003). You had a feeling "Black Panther" would be good. There's a fine line between genius and psychopath, something magnified in the student/teacher relationship showcased in "Whiplash." George Clooney is at his most Cary Grant-ish as the leader of the crack team of robbers. The film’s climax is the massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian Phalangists at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Edna Mode, fashion designer to the supers, is an utter delight: “This is a hobo suit, dahlin, you can’t be seen in it!” CC Read the review, Lynne Ramsay didn’t soften the blows adapting Lionel Shriver’s bestselling novel about a Columbine-style high-school massacre. Martin Scorsese finally earned his Academy Award for Best Picture with “The Departed,” an acting showcase where many of the actors deliver career best performances.
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