The A.V. Club's 50 Best Films of the '00s

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The scene was not unlike 12 Angry Men (or, in this case, 3 Shlubby Men, 1 Exasperated Woman, And A Dude On Speaker Phone From Arkansas): Armed with lists of their favorite movies of the decade, the five core A.V. Club film writers spent days sequestered in a stuffy, un-air-conditioned room—okay, it was actually just a few hours, and we were comfortable—in an effort to forge consensus on the Top 50 films of the ’00s. The result: A ranked list that is in no way arbitrary and will serve as the canonical standard for decades to come. You’re welcome.

  1. 1.
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition)
    by Michel Gondry

  2. 2.
    25th Hour
    by Spike Lee

  3. 3.
    There Will Be Blood
    by Paul Thomas Anderson

  4. 4.
    No Country for Old Men
    by Ethan Coen

  5. 5.
    Memento
    by Christopher Nolan

  6. 6.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki

  7. 7.
    Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Director 's Cut (Japanese Import, Region 2)
    by Quentin Tarantino

  8. 8.
    Capturing the Friedmans

  9. 9.
    The New World
    by Terrence Malick

  10. 10.
    Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
    by Alfonso Cuarón

  11. 11.
    Time Out

  12. 12.
    Before Sunset
    by Richard Linklater

  13. 13.
    Grizzly Man
    by Werner Herzog

  14. 14.
    Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)

  15. 15.
    Y Tu Mama Tambien
    by Alfonso Cuarón

  16. 16.
    Almost Famous
    by Cameron Crowe

  17. 17.
    The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection)
    by Wes Anderson

  18. 18.
    Mulholland Drive

  19. 20.
    The Squid and the Whale (Special Edition)
    by Noah Baumbach

  20. 21.
    Zodiac (Widescreen Edition)

  21. 22.
    United 93 (Widescreen Edition)

  22. 23.
    The Man Who Wasn't There
    by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

  23. 24.
    Yi Yi (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward Yang

  24. 25.
    Together
    by Lukas Moodysson

  25. 26.
    The Incredibles (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Brad Bird

  26. 27.
    What Time Is it There?
    by Ming-liang Tsai

  27. 28.
    Morvern Callar
    by Lynne Ramsay

  28. 29.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee

  29. 30.
    Wall-E (Single-Disc Edition)
    by Andrew Stanton

  30. 32.

  31. 33.
    Punch-Drunk Love (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Paul Thomas Anderson

  32. 34.
    American Psycho (Uncut Killer Collector's Edition)
    by Mary Harron

  33. 35.
    Waking Life
    by Bob Sabiston

  34. 36.
    Pan's Labyrinth
    by Guillermo del Toro

  35. 37.
    A History of Violence

  36. 38.
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
    by Kim Ki-Duk

  37. 39.
    The Prestige
    by Christopher Nolan

  38. 40.
    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles

  39. 42.
    L'Enfant
    by Jean-Pierre Dardenne

  40. 43.
    Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition)
    by Ang Lee

  41. 44.
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    by Cristian Mungiu

  42. 45.
    Audition: Collector's Edition
    by Takashi Miike

  43. 46.
    Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
    by Spike Jonze

  44. 47.
    Moulin Rouge! (Widescreen Edition)
    by Baz Luhrmann

  45. 48.
    Crimson Gold
    by Jafar Panahi

  46. 49.
    Gerry
    by Gus Van Sant

  47. 50.
    Oldboy
    by Chan-wook Park

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Created by cfrydj on Dec 02, 2009.
 

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Untitled — 2 years ago

audition was made in 99.




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