TSPDT - The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films

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This is our sixth 21st Century listing, and it once again encompasses 250 films. It is primarily based on critics’ year-end lists (from 2000 to 2010), plus it also takes into account mentions given to any films from 2000 onwards that show up in critics’ all-time-best-of lists (that are also used for the compilation of our 1,000 Greatest Films list). Additionally, it also incorporates many best-of-the-decade lists from last year.

April 2013 Update.

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  1. 1.
    In the Mood for Love (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kar Wai Wong
  2. 2.
    Mulholland Dr.
    by David Lynch
  3. 3.
    Yi Yi (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward Yang
  4. 4.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki
  5. 5.
    Werckmeister Harmonies
    by Bela Tarr
  6. 6.
    The Tree Of Life
    by Terrence Malick
  7. 7.
    There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
    by Paul Thomas Anderson
  8. 8.
    Cache (Hidden)
    by Michael Haneke
  9. 9.
  10. 10.
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
    by Michel Gondry
  11. 11.
    Tropical Malady
    by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  12. 12.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee
  13. 13.
    Blissfully Yours
    by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  14. 14.
    Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
    by Pedro Almodóvar
  15. 15.
    Punch-Drunk Love (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Paul Thomas Anderson
  16. 16.
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    by Cristi Puiu
  17. 17.
    Platform

  18. 18.
    Wall-E (Single-Disc Edition)
    by Andrew Stanton
  19. 19.
    Dogville
    by Lars von Trier
  20. 20.
    Far from Heaven
    by Todd Haynes
  21. 21.
    A History of Violence
    by David Cronenberg
  22. 22.
    The Hurt Locker
    by Kathryn Bigelow
  23. 23.
    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles
  24. 24.
    Zodiac (Widescreen Edition)

  25. 25.
    The Gleaners and I
    by Agnès Varda
  26. 26.
    The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection)
    by Wes Anderson
  27. 27.
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    by Steven Spielberg
  28. 28.
    Y Tu Mama Tambien
    by Alfonso Cuarón
  29. 29.
    A Separation
    by Asghar Farhadi
  30. 30.
    Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  31. 31.
    No Country for Old Men
    by Ethan Coen
  32. 32.
    Melancholia
    by Lars von Trier
  33. 33.
    Dancer in the Dark
    by Lars Von Trier
  34. 34.
    The Social Network (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher
  35. 35.
    Sideways
    by Alexander Payne
  36. 36.
    The White Ribbon
    by Michael Haneke
  37. 37.
    The Son

  38. 38.
    Lost in Translation
    by Sofia Coppola
  39. 39.
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    by Cristian Mungiu
  40. 40.
    Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut)
    by Darren Aronofsky
  41. 41.
    Memento
    by Christopher Nolan
  43. 43.
    Colossal Youth
    by Pedro Costa
  44. 44.
    Before Sunset
    by Richard Linklater
  45. 45.
    Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition)
    by Ang Lee
  46. 46.
    Syndromes and a Century
    by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  47. 47.
    Elephant: A Film By Gus Van Sant
    by Gus Van Sant
  48. 48.
    The Turin Horse
    by Bela Tarr
  49. 49.
  50. 50.
    Pan's Labyrinth (New Line Two-Disc Platinum Series)
    by Guillermo Del Toro

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Created by maggiem on May 05, 2006.
 

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jedgeco

Untitled — 8 weeks ago

New Films for 2013:

Blissfully Yours

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

The Turin Horse

Code Unknown

In Vanda’s Room

Zero Dark Thirty

La Ciénaga

Amour

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

The Master

Moonrise Kingdom

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Waiting for Happiness

Avatar

Millennium Mambo

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Holy Motors

Divine Intervention

Lincoln

Argo

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring

Nostalgia for the Light

White Material

Mysteries of Lisbon

The Return

Memories of Murder

Le Havre

Oasis

Infernal Affairs

Crimson Gold

Evolution of a Filipino Family

The Devil’s Backbone

Zoolander

This is Not a Film

The Wire

Silver Linings Playbook

Django Unchained

Bamako

La Libertad

Pulse

You, the Living

Dropping off from 2012:

School of Rock

Spider

In the Loop

Demonlover

Eureka

Last Days

Milk

Ratatouille

In America

127 Hours

Chicago

Inside Job

I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Downfall

28 Days Later…

Hotel Rwanda

Bloody Sunday

Kinsey

Femme Fatale

Nobody Knows

Rachel Getting Married

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Casino Royale

A Prairie Home Companion

Chicken Run

Monsters, Inc.

Black Hawk Down

Collateral

Flags of Our Fathers

Old Joy

Slumdog Millionaire

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit

Maria Full of Grace

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

High Fidelity

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

I Am Love

Woman on the Beach

Apr 23, 01:55PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

scubadonc

Updated — 9 weeks ago

Lots of changes in the 2013 update. Enjoy!

Apr 15, 06:00PM | 4 comments | Reply to this

jedgeco

2012 Update Complete — 1 year ago

New additions:

*The Tree of Life

*A Separation

*The Artist

*The Descendants

*Hugo

*Certified Copy

*Take Shelter

*Drive

*Moneyball

*Melancholia

*Star Spangled to Death

*Another Year

*Old Joy

*Margaret

*The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

*Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The recently departed:

*Bright Star

*Blissfully Yours

*The Beaches of Agnes

*Battle in Heaven

*Match Point

*King Kong

*Tristram Shandy – A Cock and Bull Story

*The Fighter

*Keane

*The Man Who Wasn’t There

*The Dutches of Lageais

*Before Night Falls

*12:08 East of Bucharest

*Howl’s Moving Castle

*Late Marriage

*I Heart Huckabees

Enjoy!

Jan 20, 06:43AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

jedgeco

2012 Update in Progress — 1 year ago

Dropped films are off, new films have been added, but some re-ordering still needs to be done, which I will pick up tomorrow.

Jan 19, 03:53PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

3eyes

Untitled — 2 years ago

Would it be possible to include movies dropped from previous lists, maybe at the end?

Feb 19, 07:55AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

cfrydj

January 2011 Update — 2 years ago

All done.

Jan 28, 09:20AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

seventypesofq

50%! — 3 years ago

This is a great list, really THE list for me when it comes to recent films. Not sure how much further i’ll ever get, maybe 65%? (at least until it’s updated next year) The reason being is that there are so many foreign art films, which while I LOVE in moderation are hard to watch often. I really have to prep myself to watch films that are supposed to be slow and meticulously shot.

Anybody else working through this intriguing list?

May 22, 02:14PM | 2 comments | Reply to this

wokelstein

My turn to be a pretentious asshole — 3 years ago

How could Shrek make it two steps above Silent Light?!!!

Feb 26, 10:59PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

flashman324

All done — 3 years ago

Reordered the last 100.

Jan 27, 09:20PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

cfrydj

Implementing Update — 3 years ago

Done to 150, all additions and deletions made. The remaining 100 need to be reordered, that’s all.

Jan 27, 10:00AM | 1 comment | Reply to this


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