CS Read the review, Rarely has summer lust been so headily captured as in Luca Guadagnino’s breakout Italian romance. “Toy Story” is Pixar’s richest film in terms of storytelling and packs the biggest emotional punch, as the lovable toys realize, like their owner, that childhood and innocence can’t last forever. It’s a touching love letter to the joy of music that will hit you right in the heart. AP Read the review, One of Isabelle Huppert’s finest performances, and that’s saying something. Jordan Peele's original ending for "Get Out" had the main character getting arrested for the murder of the white family that intended to steal his brain. Here in the second movie when they meet again in Paris for another brief encounter, they are in their 30s. Drag Me to Hell (2009) Add to Netflix Queue "Raimi's Drag Me to Hell does everything we want a horror film to do: It is fearsomely scary, wickedly funny and diabolically gross." From No Country for Old Men to Paddington 2, Guardian readers on the best films of the 21st century so far 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. It’s also a total blast. The backbone of “Brokeback Mountain” isn’t the stunning cinematography or its groundbreaking status as a romantic drama featuring two of Hollywood’s biggest male stars. Pixar’s most visually impressive film operates, for the most part, without the need for words. “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. Saddled with an untrustworthy husband and an erratic son, it’s all she can do to survive. 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. Von Trier’s use of stylised, floor-painted sets is the inspired final touch. CC Read the review, Lars von Trier’s Brechtian parable about coercive capitalism remains arguably the Danish provocateur’s masterpiece. Where did my life go? But the true power of the film lies in Chiwetel Ejiofor’s unrelenting eyes. Playful, ingenious and prodigiously informative, it’s a triumph of vision over verite. The performances are flawless. Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson and Ben Stiller are the Tenenbaum siblings, all former child prodigies. 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. 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. --Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times 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. In her feature debut, Unrelated, Kathryn Worth played a fortyish woman holidaying in Tuscany with two dysfunctional families and flirting outrageously with one of the lads (Tom Hiddleston in his first movie). He cannot go; his elderly father is sick. And the casting is killer, with Ezra Miller as Kevin and Tilda Swinton playing the mother. It's one of the best cop movies we got in the 2000s. Ridley Scott • Starring: Russell Crowe , Joaquin Phoenix , Connie Nielsen Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure Danny Boyle is been great at taking films focused on certain cultures and giving them a mainstream, international appeal. In this guide to the best-reviewed African American movies of the 21st Century – that’s from 2000 all the way to now – you’ll find some of the most incredible voices working in movies today, and some of the most game-changing, industry-shaking films to hit theaters in decades. Daniel Day-Lewis gives perhaps the greatest, certainly the most exotic performance of his career as an oil prospector in the early 20th century, rewarded with colossal wealth that never gives him the smallest pleasure. The 2010s was a roller coaster of a decade for film. The performances of Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons are top-notch in a movie with one of the best end scenes you will ever see. 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. Last modified on Tue 10 Dec 2019 22.27 EST, Quentin Tarantino’s latest jaw-dropper bumps Kill Bill: Vol 1 off the list in gloriously irreverent fashion. CS Read the review, Yorgos Lanthimos’s debut film was the only one, in the end, to make our list; its tonal idiosyncrasy and battily unsettling story and performances just edging out Alps, The Lobster and The Favourite. The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century. Nevertheless, this is still an outrageously watchable hatchet job. Here is the best movie of every year since 2000, according to critics: 2000: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Sony Pictures Classic CC Read the review, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw ranked The Incredibles as Pixar’s best ever film, the jewel in the crown. AP Read the review, From director Todd Haynes, this is pastiche at its most brilliantly acute. This decade saw Hollywood turn to computers even more to tell their stories, and a wide variety of genres experience success. CC Read the review, Possibly the most fun anyone’s had at the cinema so far this century, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street ought to be a cautionary tale. 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. It’s a bruising watch, but Ramsay makes it’s impossible to turn away. Here Are the Best Movies From Every Year Since 2000, According to Critics. 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. A shoplifting gang take in a young girl who seems abandoned; how they hang together – or not – is the film’s key theme. Originally conceived as the pilot of a new TV series, this expertly fuses Lynch’s softcore pulp obsessions with his trademark creepy surrealism. CS Read the review, Still Sacha Baron Cohen’s finest moment, a feature-length upscaling of his ludicrously hilarious TV character, whose purpose is to sucker the unsuspecting into condemning themselves out of their own mouths. It’s a movie of hope and heartache coexisting in a cruel world. CC Read the review, The Coens’ Cormac McCarthy adaptation is a scorching study of benevolence and evil with rich and weathered turns from Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and a glossily horrible one from Javier Bardem. Universal To determine the best movies since 2000, BBC Culture scoured the globe for the thoughts of film critics and received responses from 177. “The Wrestler” is the simplest move of stylish director Darren Aronofsky’s career. 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 … There's an understating beauty and brilliance that comes with Best Picture winner "The Artist." The performances of an overpowering Philip Seymour Hoffman and a completely vulnerable Joaquin Phoenix serve as a master class in acting. 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. CS Read the review, Jordan Peele’s debut is a perfect, hard-polished gem of a film. Daniel Auteuil plays a successful TV host whose contentment is disturbed by the arrival of mysterious surveillance tapes. If you’ve never “City of God,” brace yourself for a crime drama of epic proportions. 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. The change gives humor to a film with several twist and turns that prove haunting. Love is something that can’t be controlled. Available for everyone, funded by readers. Scarlett Johansson plays an alien in human form, trawling the streets of Glasgow for unsuspecting males to “take home” – in fact, using them as a food source. 1) In some ways, it felt more like an action film than an examination of the 1972 Olympics tragedy. David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” written by Aaron Sorkin, isn’t just about new technology. Still, we'll stand behind our updated list of the 50 best movies since 2000 that we chose. Spun from her first novel, Lady Susan, this is the tale of an epically bitchy and ambitious widow upending her nearest and dearest. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (each updated 1/1/20). Steve Carell is the most endearing of Apatow’s leading men, surrounded by the hilarious trio of Paul Rudd, Romany Malco and Seth Rogen. As in Manchester by the Sea, the effect is shattering; it is like watching actual lives fall apart. This is the most almighty achievement. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003). Probably. CC Read the review, Arguably Penélope Cruz’s finest performance, in one of Pedro Almodóvar’s key films: a heady stew of murder, family strife and supernatural shenanigans. The decade of the 2000s in film involved many significant developments in the film industries around the world, especially in the technology used. Selection Criteria for these films is described fully. Upon repeat viewings, you don't want to miss a second. It’s based on the autobiography of crooked stockbroker Jordan Belfort, convicted in 1999 for fraud and money-laundering. • Number 90 of this list was amended on 16 September 2019 to correct the year the film Eden was released to 2014, from 2012 as an earlier version said. "Moonlight" is one of those movies. Yet the Italian writer/director/star performs miracles making a movie so wrenching also so hopeful. From romantic comedies to dramas, here are the best movies that came out in the aughts. to Juno, Harry Potter and beyond. Tough stuff. 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. During the mid-2000s, every studio wanted a “Bourne” style film. It's a film about the American economy and greed that's as entertaining as it is eye-popping. The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films - BBC Culture Homepage AP Read the review, Stephen Frears brings tonal tact and unobtrusive genius to this wonderfully funny and touching real-life tale of an Irish natterer (Judi Dench) and cynical reporter (Steve Coogan) who demolish red tape and challenge evil nuns to try to find her long-lost son. So the questions are for grownups. After that, it’s complicated, with a flight into magic realism or perhaps even reincarnation. The brilliance has faded. Nor would it allow you to fully grasp this dark and cunning story of Scientology (though that word is never uttered). The “infected” are fast and menacing. CS Read the review, Passed over by the British and American film academies – though Timothy Spall’s glorious grunting lead was rightly recognised by Cannes – Mike Leigh’s painter biopic is meticulous, moving and still underappreciated. Love isn’t meant to be perfect and battling it is futile. It’s a science fiction film filled with teenage troubles and battles with moralities. It’s simply revelatory: innovative, wildly affecting, utterly beautiful. A film supercharged with edginess. Part memoir, part elegaic fiction, Cuaron hit the heights with this. 3. He spent months upon months building vehicles and choreographing stunts that would make “Mad Max: Fury Road” seem unlike any other film of today. CS Read the review, Groundbreaking single-shot paean to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg from Russian director Alexander Sokurov. 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. But why focus on regret, when there are hookers, drugs and fast cars? It’s about the struggle for humanity to live on, a battle you find yourself swept up in. 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. “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. A real original, and it still looks unique. Enter paterfamilias Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman), a man who consoles his grieving grandsons with: “I’m sorry for your loss. CS Read the review, The hardest-drinking movie on our list - with some stiff competition - Andrey Zvyagintsev’s anti-Putin polemic is brilliant, ballsy and completely sozzled. AP Read the review, Brutally visceral fable that plunges the viewer headlong into the all-encompassing horror of a Nazi extermination camp. The cinematography is out of this world, while Daniel Day Lewis gives an acting performance that’s beyond staggering. I can’t think of anything about this film I don’t like about it. A cinema of awkwardness, wielding a scalpel on the well-to-do middle classes, was born. 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. CC Read the review, Charlie Kaufman’s existential breakdown with stop-motion puppets is a miniature masterpiece of concept and execution. “Donnie Darko” accomplishes with an immense amount of tension driven by the first great performance of Jake Gyllenhaal’s career. Mickey Rourke gives the performance of a lifetime, both physically and emotionally, as a professional wrestler who can only find happiness abusing his body in the ring. Shot by director Gianfranco Rosi with an evocative lyricism that sits in counterpoint to the blazing anger at the film’s heart. 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. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that, 16 years later, we’re finally getting a sequel to Ang Lee’s gorgeous martial arts film. There are the visuals, as Aronofsky puts his full mind-bending arsenal on display. “To ache?” Few films try to answer: this Fabergé egg of a film does. TV Shows. Todd Haynes’ “Far from Heaven” is a period piece that carries a timeless vibe. Ant-Man gives the crime picture a superhero overhaul, but these movies do it better. It’s the story of a workaholic management consultant (Sandra Hüller) whose embarrassing dad turns up unannounced for the weekend wearing joke-shop false teeth. The past 10 years have featured an abundance of raunchy bro comedies. Director Cameron Crowe puts his love of music on full display in “Almost Famous,” one of the easiest movies to fall for. Alexander Payne’s black-and-white ode to small-town America is his best this century (Sideways has not aged like a fine wine). By Matt Patches. All rights reserved. AP Read the review, A magisterial achievement from David Lynch, despite the difficulties he had getting it off the ground. 2) That sex scene at the film's end is cringe-worthy. But where do movies like "Black Panther" or "Roma" rank among the best of this era? A film of mayhem and fury, three stories intersect around a car crash in which one of the passengers is a champion fighting dog. There’s the acting (led by an Oscar-nominated Ellen Burstyn). The 21st Century has been packed with mesmerizing films that have captivated audiences. 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. And it is all inscribed in the story of the movie’s leading character, a man with the Bunyanesque name of Daniel Plainview. Spike Jonze’s story redefines the concept of love, as a lovable man (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with his operating system. The performances of Sean Penn and Tim Robbins loom large over Clint Eastwood's powerful "Mystic River." 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. Depending on your tastes, a candidate for sexiest film of the century. He has a few stellar films to his credit, but “Pan’s Labyrinth” is the one that will leave you in awe. CS Read the review, Hubert Selby Jr’s lacerating novel that lasers in on the exhilaration and tragedy of addiction is given expansive, stylish treatment by the then-emerging director Darren Aronofsky. A what-if feminist parable, this is a movie that thinks the unthinkable: what if a mother doesn’t like her child, or even love him? Director Claire Denis drew on her own upbringing in colonial west Africa to give this study of a hard-as-nails plantation owner a pungent whiff of authenticity. A race satire that skewers beautifully, it’s also a chilling comedy, a proper horror and 104 minutes of complete entertainment. Corruption is so endemic, these people have even lost God. Do you agree? The inhabitants of a small village are dogged by mysterious, violent incidents that serve mostly to exacerbate the dysfunctional social codes they all live by – and elliptically suggests the moral climate that evolved into Nazism. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Will Ferrell created one of the most iconic film characters of the past two decades in Ron Burgundy. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as a fading western star and his mutt-loving stunt double in this relaxed and loving roast of bygone Tinseltown. 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. It’s also his most sincere. 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. “Kill Bill” is a revenge piece dressed up in style, creating a mesmerizing art piece with a high replay factor. The result is almost unwatchable: the murderers’ glee at performing, and the remorse they may or may not experience as a result. 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. That’s the message writer Charlie Kaufman delivers with “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” a mesmerizing love story for the ages. AP Read the review, Here’s another dark American tale from Manchester by the Sea writer-director Kenneth Lonergan (Margaret was completed in 2007 but only released in 2011 after a wrangle with the studio). AP Read the review, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or for this exquisitely turned drama that – like much of Kore-eda’s previous output – explores what it is to be a family in entirely non-conventional circumstances. 45. 100 Best Films of the 21st Century (Since 2000) Menu. Further down the page are additional lists of high- (and low-) scoring films by category. But who is the double-crosser? 25. Haneke ratchets up the tension with an unerring sense of dread and dismay. The '80s were rad and the '90s were fresh but the kids' movies in the 2000's were out-of-this-millennium good—and we're not exaggerating. Actor Katie Jarvis took six years off after shooting; roughly the same as audiences needed to recover from the shake it gave, and the sight of Michael Fassbender. And only Pixar could make a superhero movie for kids about a midlife crisis. “The Departed” is a remake of the Hong Kong film “Infernal Affairs” (which could have easily be on this list), but gives the story a charismatic vibe that redefines the concept of good and bad. Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuarón returned to the Mexico City of his childhood, telling the story of a middle-class family and their nanny-cum-maid in swooning, lyrical black and white. These are films that I think are the best from between these years of cinematic history. We saw Disney dominating at the box office with the rise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a renewed "Star Wars" franchise, live-action reboots, and the continued dominance of their animated films. The most riveting horror film of the past 15 years, “28 Days Later” defies the rules of the zombie apocalypse. CS Read the review, Israeli soldier-turned-film-maker Ari Folman’s film is a kind of animated companion to Apocalypse Now, a hallucinatory statement about the trauma of conflict and the madness of war. “What is it to be human?” asks Michael Stone (Thewlis). By Emma Carey The movie perhaps looks even stranger, starker and more unforgiving now than it did in 2007 when it first came out. 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. 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. This is pure art with performances worthy of the awards they received. Mission accomplished. 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