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.

January 2012 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.
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
    by Michel Gondry
  5. 5.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki
  6. 6.
    There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
    by Paul Thomas Anderson
  7. 7.
    Lost in Translation
    by Sofia Coppola
  8. 8.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee
  9. 9.
    A History of Violence
    by David Cronenberg
  10. 10.
    Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
    by Pedro Almodóvar
  11. 11.
    Y Tu Mama Tambien
    by Alfonso Cuarón
  12. 12.
    Sideways

  13. 13.
    The Hurt Locker
    by Kathryn Bigelow
  14. 14.
    Far From Heaven

  16. 16.
    The Social Network (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher
  17. 17.
    Memento
    by Christopher Nolan
  18. 18.
    No Country for Old Men
    by Ethan Coen
  19. 19.
    Before Sunset
    by Richard Linklater
  20. 20.
    The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection)
    by Wes Anderson
  21. 21.
    Punch-Drunk Love (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Paul Thomas Anderson
  22. 22.
    Pan's Labyrinth (New Line Two-Disc Platinum Series)
    by Guillermo Del Toro
  23. 23.
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    by Cristian Mungiu
  24. 24.
    Zodiac (Widescreen Edition)

  25. 25.
    Cache (Hidden)
    by Michael Haneke
  26. 26.
    Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition)
    by Ang Lee
  27. 27.
    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles
  29. 29.
    Donnie Darko (Widescreen Edition)

  30. 30.
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    by Steven Spielberg
  31. 31.
    The Incredibles (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Brad Bird
  32. 32.
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    by Cristi Puiu
  34. 34.
    Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
    by Spike Jonze
  35. 35.
    Grizzly Man
    by Werner Herzog
  36. 36.
    The Lives of Others
    by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
  37. 37.
    The Tree Of Life
    by Terrence Malick
  38. 38.
    Mystic River (Widescreen Edition)

  39. 39.
    Syndromes and a Century
    by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  40. 40.
    Dogville
    by Lars von Trier
  41. 41.
    The Departed
    by Martin Scorsese
  42. 42.
    Wall-E (Single-Disc Edition)
    by Andrew Stanton
  43. 43.
    Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut)
    by Darren Aronofsky
  44. 44.
    Platform

  45. 45.
    2046
    by Kar Wai Wong
  46. 46.
    Children of Men
    by Alfonso Cuarón
  47. 47.
    Moulin Rouge! (Widescreen Edition)
    by Baz Luhrmann
  48. 48.
    Winter's Bone
    by Debra Granik
  49. 49.
    Ghost World
    by Terry Zwigoff
  50. 50.
    The Gleaners and I
    by Agns Varda

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jedgeco

2012 Update Complete — 18 weeks 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 — 18 weeks 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 — 1 year 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 — 1 year ago

All done.

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

seventypesofq

50%! — 2 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 — 2 years ago

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

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

flashman324

All done — 2 years ago

Reordered the last 100.

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

cfrydj

Implementing Update — 2 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

RazorGlove

Flight of the Red Balloon — 2 years ago

This was an homage to the classic Red Balloon, but unfortunately it’s not even 1/4 as good as that short movie and this was a full length. It was dull, stretched out, didn’t have any conflicts, the plot lacked a lot of substance and it tried to be art, which it wasn’t. It does not deserve a place on here. Period.

Nov 10, 09:43AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

alexyoutwonk

SPIDERMAN 2 — 3 years ago

WHAT ON EARTHAREYOU ON???

Even Sam Raimi knows this is awful!

May 25, 04:28PM | 0 comments | Reply to this


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