Top 100 Movies of The 21st Century

Provided by a census of 170-odd critics all over the world:

1 Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
2 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
3 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
4 Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
5 Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
7 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
8 Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
9 A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
10 Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)

11 No Country For Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
12 Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
13 Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
14 The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
15 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
16 Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
17 Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
18 The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
19 Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
20 Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)

21 The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
22 Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
22 Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
24 The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
25 Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2001)
26 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
27 The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
28 Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
29. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
30 Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)

31 Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
32 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
33 Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015)
33 The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
35 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
36 Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
37 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
38 City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)
39 The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
39 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
40 Inside Out (Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen, 2015)

41 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
42 Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
42 Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
45 Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
45 Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
45 Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
48 Brooklyn (John Crowley, 2015)
49 Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
49. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
49 The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)
52 Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
53 Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013)
53 Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
53 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
56 Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000)
56 Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
58 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
58 Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth, 2009)
58 Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene, 2004)
58 Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
58 Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
63 Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
63 The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
63 The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
66 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
66 The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
68 Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
68 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
70 Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)
70 Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
72 Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
72 Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
74 Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
75 Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
75 Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
75 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
78 Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
78 The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
78 The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
81 A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
81 A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009)
81 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
81 Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
81 Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
86 Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
86 Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
88 Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
89 The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
90 Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
90 Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
90 Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
90 Ratatouille (Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava, 2007)
90 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
90 The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
90 The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella, 2009)
97 Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
97 The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, 2000)
97 White Material (Claire Denis, 2009)
100 Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
100 Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
100 Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)

Fucking hell, no wonder Marvel are cleaning up. ::
I bet 20% of those listed movies are even watchable...

 

90% of the titles in this list are shit.

 

The Dark Knight is the best movie of the 21st century...end of story...fuck all these Japanese child molestation fantasy shit......

 

Artsy fartsy shit list. Any 80's classic is better than most on that list, and I'm talking about stuff like Predator or Rambo.

 

#74 Spring Breakers? :say:

 

....they have it rank ahead of The Pianist.....smh....AND Requiem For A Dream!!!!! THIS is the gayist worse arty fuck my ass I'm not a fag though list EVER...

 

These lists are always about trying to appear artistic rather than what you'd actually watch. 80% shit.

 

Word. And to extend an olive branch to Rainmaker and Dark Magus I'll add that most of the clueless critics that ranked 'Mulholland Drive' at the top of the list are the same ones that trashed 'Batman v Superman'.

 

word. What a horrible list. The critics that helped to compile this list had to have been gay

 

Yeah fuck liking films that don't appeal to 14 year olds, that's gay

 

BEHOLD!
We got one artsy ADULT critic seated in his high horse in our midst!

 

I really doubt there were 31 films better than The lives of others in that time

 

Don't you have, like, a cgi fight between a man in Lycra and a robot to watch or something?

 

Being deliberately non-conformist is nothing to be proud of.

 

Agreed! having the same taste as school kids makes you a real man!

 

Going out of your way to not have the same taste as them doesn't make you more of a man.

 

nobodys going out their way to do anything

 

True, but as everyone has stated, 80% or more of the list appeals to arthouse, high-brow wankers...

 

Any list that ranks 'Lost in Translation' among the greatest have zero credibility.

 

Great film

 

Lost in Translation was pointless.

 

I didn't think so at all

 

Word. All I remember is Bill Murray sitting in a hotel lobby sipping cocktails. That was the entire film. Lol

 

Since 2000 not out of range....maybe in the 80-100 range...but in the TOP 25....smh...

 

Overrated piece of shit.

 

The Life Aquatic was the same for me. Bill Murray turned into a humorless grouch in his old age.

 

I thought so too, but it's the kind of film you have to see more than once to get it.

Anyway here's the movies from that list I actually liked:

3 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
11 No Country For Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
17 Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
21 The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
22 Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
27 The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
29. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
32 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
33 The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
35 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
41 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
49. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
58 Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth, 2009)
58 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
66 The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
78 The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
86 Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
88 Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
90 Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
90 Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
90 Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
90 The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)


Most of the ones I left off was because I haven't seen them, but there were a few here and there I flat out hated, like Memento.

 

Seems like you mightve missed the point

 

Also excellent

 

Away and watch a man in tights throw a tank at a helicopter::