Dir. James Cameron
The film is set in 2154, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. The expansion of the mining threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na’vi an indigenous humanoid species. We’ve seen this type of story before (Dances With Wolves and The Last Samurai are just two that come to mind), but never looking like this.
700. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Dir. Woody Allen, 103 mins.
Hannah and Her Sisters tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends with a Thanksgiving dinner.
699. Days of Being Wild (1990) Dir. Wong Kar-Wai, 94 mins.
Although a box office flop domestically, Wong Kar-Wai’s second feature maintained his reputation as one of the best up and coming art house directors on the international scene. Set in 1960, the stylish drama centres on the young, boyishly handsome rebel, Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Deciding to trace the Filipino who gave birth to him, he leaves behind, with heartless disregard, two woman (Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau) who have fallen for him. With an intricately structured narrative and striking cinematography by Christopher Doyle, Days of Being Wild is probably Wong’s most underrated film.
698. The Big Heat (1953) Dir. Fritz Lang, 89 mins.
It centres on a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city, after the murder of his wife.
697. The Cranes Are Flying (1957) Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov, 94 mins.
It depicts the cruelty of war and the damage suffered to the Soviet psyche as a result of World War II.
696. RoboCop (1987) Dir. Paul Verhoeven, 103 mins.
Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, in the near future, RoboCop centres on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is murdered by a gang of criminals and subsequently revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) as a superhuman cyborg law enforcer known as RoboCop.
695. The Sword of Doom (1966) Dir. Kihachi Okamoto, 119 mins.
A bloodthirsty young fighter (Tatsuya Nakadai) kills a man in competition and is pursued by the slain warrior’s brother.
694. Avatar (2009) Dir. James Cameron, 150 mins.
The film is set in 2154, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. The expansion of the mining threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na’vi an indigenous humanoid species. We’ve seen this type of story before (Dances With Wolves and The Last Samurai are just two that come to mind), but never looking like this.
693. Breaker Morant (1980) Dir. Bruce Beresford, 107 mins.
While maybe lacking in subtlety, Bruce Beresford’s film touches a nationalist nerve by portraying Australian positivity against the pompous arrogance, conniving and incompetence of the British, who needing scapegoats for war crimes committed during the Second Anglo-Boer War, court martial three Australian Lieutenants Harry Morant (Edward Woodward), Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown) and George Witton. Set in 1902 and based on one of the first war crime prosecutions in British military history, the film offers historical insight from a time when Australia’s nationhood was being formed and still resonates with contemporary audiences thanks to its powerful sense of injustice.
692. Babette’s Feast (1987) Dir. Gabriel Axel, 102 mins.
A Danish film based on a short story by Karen Blixen (portrayed by Meryl Streep in Out of Africa) about two middle-aged sisters who take in a refugee as their housekeeper.
691. Goldfinger (1964) Dir. Guy Hamilton, 110 mins.
The quintessential Bond film follows Sean Connery’s 007 investigating gold smuggling by bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger and eventually uncovering his plans to contaminate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox. The third entry in the series was a huge commercial success and features Shirley Bassey’s marvellous theme song and terrific action sequences.
690. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) Dir. Michael Curtiz, 97 mins.
The film chronicles the fictional rise and fall of the notorious gangster William “Rocky” Sullivan (James Cagney). After spending three years in prison for armed robbery, Rocky intends to collect $100,000 from his co-conspirator, mob lawyer Jim Frazier. All the while, Father Jerry Connolly tries to prevent a group of youths from falling under Rocky’s influence.
689. Seven Beauties (1975) Dir. Lina Wertmüller, 115 mins.
Written by Wertmüller, the film is about an Italian everyman who deserts the army during World War II and is then captured by the Germans and sent to a prison camp, where he does anything to survive. Through flashbacks, we learn about his family of seven unattractive sisters, his accidental murder of one sister’s lover, his imprisonment in an insane asylum, where he rapes a patient, and his volunteering to be a soldier to escape confinement.
688. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 108 mins.
Although Ingmar Bergman had been directing films since the mid 1940s, it was not until Smiles of a Summer Night that he achieved substantial international recognition. Somewhat indebted to Mozart’s ‘ The Marriage of Figaro’, the film follows four people who indulge in a sexual rivalry during a wild weekend at a resort. A sophisticated comedy, the elegant ironies temper the film’s sense of the transience of love, happiness and enlightenment. The film inspired Woody Allen’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy.
687. Casque d’Or (1952) Dir. Jacques Becker, 96 mins.
One of the great films of the French classical era, Becker’s Casque d’Or is set in the turn of the century milieu of pimps and prostitutes. Not a popular success when released, perhaps because of its understated style, it has since been lauded for Simone Signoret’s performance and its heartbreaking romantic narrative.
686. War and Peace (1967) Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk, 453 mins.
An epic adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel that centres around the lives of two families during Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia.
685. Jurassic Park (1993) Dir. Steven Spielberg, 127 mins.
Based on the novel by Michael Crichton, Spielberg’s dinosaur epic is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America’s Pacific Coast near Costa Rica, where a billionaire philanthropist (Richard Attenborough) and a small team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs. When the park’s technology breaks the dinosaurs are set loose. While the film has a ferocity which sits uneasily alongside its tidy moral lessons, Spielberg manages to combine the bitter horror of his early work with state of the art special effects to create some awe inspiring moments. The film surpassed the earnings of E.T. to become, what was then, the biggest grossing film of all time.
684. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) Dir. Jacques Rivette, 192 mins.
The film begins with Julie sitting on a park bench reading a book of magic spells when a woman (Céline) walks past, and begins dropping (à la Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit) various possessions. Julie begins picking them up, and tries to follow Céline around Paris, sometimes at a great pace (for instance, sprinting up Montmartre to keep pace with Céline’s tram). After adventures following Céline around the Parisian streets, at one point it looks as if they have gone their separate ways, never to meet up again, Céline finally decides to move in with Julie.
683. Halloween (1978) Dir. John Carpenter, 91 mins.
In the film, on Halloween night in 1963, Michael Myers murders his sister in the fictional Midwestern United States town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He escapes on October 30, 1978, from Smith’s Grove Sanitarium, and returns home to kill again. The next day, Halloween, Michael stalks teenager Laurie Strode and her friends, while Michael’s psychiatrist, Samuel Loomis, pursues his patient, knowing his intentions.
682. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Dir. Danny Boyle, 120 mins.
The film tells the story of 18 year old orphan Jamal Malik, from the Juhu slums of Mumbai, who becomes a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Jamal looks back on his life so far, showing how he is able to answer every question while dealing with the suspicions that he is cheating. A feel good film that’s often exhilarating, Slumdog won eight academy awards.
681. Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Dir. Godfrey Reggio, 86 mins.
The first of Reggio’s trilogy of non-narrative examinations of landscapes and people-escapes with non-stop musical backing from Philip Glass.
Michael Kenneth Mann is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive brand of stylised crime drama. For his work, he has received nominations from international organisations and juries, including those at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His most acclaimed works are the crime film Heat (1995) and the docudrama The Insider (1999). Total Film ranked Mann No. 28 on its list of the 100 Greatest Directors Ever, Sight and Sound ranked him No. 5 on their list of the 10 Best Directors of the Last 25 Years, and Entertainment Weekly ranked Mann No. 8 on their 25 Greatest Active Film Directors list. Below are his top 10 choices for Sight & Sound’s Director film poll for 2012.
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola |
Avatar |
2009 | James Cameron |
| Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M Eisenstein |
Biutiful |
2009 | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| Dr. Strangelove | 1963 | Stanley Kubrick |
My Darling Clementine |
1946 | John Ford |
| Passion of Joan of Arc | 1927 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese |
The Wild Bunch |
1969 | Sam Peckinpah |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
The 21st Century’s Most Acclaimed Films from theyshootpictures.com is an annually updated compendium of end-of-year, end-of-decade, all-time and miscellaneous lists and ballots relating specifically to films released from 2000 onward. It contains, based on TSPDT’s calculations, the 1,000 leading films (critically-speaking) from 2000 to 2017. It has been compiled from the multiple lists/ballots of 3,176 critics/sources.
1 Faa yeung nin wa 2000 Kar-Wai Wong
2 Mulholland Drive
3 Yi Yi
4 Spirited Away
5 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6 Werckmeister Harmonies
7 Cache (Hidden)
8 The Tree Of Life
9 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson
10 Russian Ark
11 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
12 The Gleaners & I
13 Tropical Malady
14 Hable con ella 2002 Pedro Almodóvar
15 Tiexi qu 2002 Bing Wang
16 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson
17 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola
18 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón
19 Cidade de Deus 2002 Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
20 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier
21 Zhantai 2000 Zhangke Jia
22 WALL·E 2008 Andrew Stanton
23 Sud sanaeha 2002 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
24 Jodaeiye Nader az Simin 2011 Asghar Farhadi
25 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant
26 The Social Network 2010 David Fincher
27 Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu 2005 Cristi Puiu
28 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee
29 No Country for Old Men 2007 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
30 Far from Heaven 2002 Todd Haynes
31 Artificial Intelligence: AI 2001 Steven Spielberg
32 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier
33 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson
34 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson
35 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg
36 Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne
37 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow
38 Loong Boonmee raleuk chat 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
39 Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
40 Grizzly Man 2005 Werner Herzog
41 Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier
42 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan
43 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater
44 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher
45 La pianiste 2001 Michael Haneke
46 Le fils 2002 Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
47 Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte 2009 Michael Haneke
48 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky
49 El laberinto del fauno 2006 Guillermo del Toro
50 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood
51 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile 2007 Cristian Mungiu
52 No Quarto da Vanda 2000 Pedro Costa
53 Sånger från andra våningen 2000 Roy Andersson
54 Bu san 2003 Ming-liang Tsai
55 Uzak 2002 Nuri Bilge Ceylan
56 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson
57 Sang sattawat 2006 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
58 A torinói ló 2011 Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
59 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze
60 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann
61 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 Kathryn Bigelow
62 Capturing the Friedmans 2003 Andrew Jarecki
63 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
64 Juventude Em Marcha 2006 Pedro Costa
65 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 George Miller
66 Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages 2000 Michael Haneke
67 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood
68 Boyhood 2014 Richard Linklater
69 Sanxia haoren 2006 Zhangke Jia
70 Oldeuboi 2003 Chan-wook Park
71 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch
72 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong
73 Amour 2012 Michael Haneke
74 Atanarjuat 2001 Zacharias Kunuk
75 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich
76 La Ciénaga 2001 Lucrecia Martel
77 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth
78 Das Leben der Anderen 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
79 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 Jonas Mekas
80 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón
81 La mujer sin cabeza 2008 Lucrecia Martel
82 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird
83 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
84 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman
85 Stellet Licht 2007 Carlos Reygadas
86 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly
87 The Master 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson
88 Winter’s Bone 2010 Debra Granik
89 The Act of Killing 2012 Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, Anonymous
90 Up 2009 Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
91 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese
92 Ying xiong 2002 Yimou Zhang
93 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara 2003 Errol Morris
94 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff
95 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky
96 Låt den rätte komma in 2008 Tomas Alfredson
97 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Wes Anderson
98 Hunger 2008 Steve McQueen
99 Shijie 2004 Zhangke Jia
100 L’enfant 2005 Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
101 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson
102 Inside Llewyn Davis 2013 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
103 Vals Im Bashir 2008 Ari Folman
104 American Splendor 2003 Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
105 A Serious Man 2009 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
106 Hugo 2011 Martin Scorsese
107 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Wes Anderson
108 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino
109 La commune (Paris, 1871) 2000 Peter Watkins
110 Être et avoir 2002 Nicolas Philibert
111 The New World 2005 Terrence Malick
112 Nostalgia de la luz 2010 Patricio Guzmán
113 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006 Larry Charles
114 You Can Count on Me 2000 Kenneth Lonergan
115 Irréversible 2002 Gaspar Noé
116 The Queen 2006 Stephen Frears
117 Gwoemul 2006 Joon-ho Bong
118 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson
119 Under the Skin 2013 Jonathan Glazer
120 Her 2013 Spike Jonze
121 Dah 2002 Abbas Kiarostami
122 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott
123 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski
124 About Schmidt 2002 Alexander Payne
125 Avatar 2009 James Cameron
126 12 Years a Slave 2013 Steve McQueen
127 L’heure d’été 2008 Olivier Assayas
128 Man on Wire 2008 James Marsh
129 Gegen die Wand 2004 Fatih Akin
130 Mies vailla menneisyyttä 2002 Aki Kaurismäki
131 The Squid and the Whale 2005 Noah Baumbach
132 The Kids Are All Right 2010 Lisa Cholodenko
133 Holy Motors 2012 Leos Carax
134 In the Bedroom 2001 Todd Field
135 United 93 2006 Paul Greengrass
136 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater
137 My Winnipeg 2007 Guy Maddin
138 Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer
139 Le voyage du ballon rouge 2007 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
140 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 Andrew Dominik
141 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan
142 Dayereh 2000 Jafar Panahi
143 35 rhums 2008 Claire Denis
144 Guizi lai le 2000 Wen Jiang
145 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Clint Eastwood
146 Volver 2006 Pedro Almodóvar
147 Moolaadé 2004 Ousmane Sembene
148 Carol 2015 Todd Haynes
149 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan
150 Salinui chueok 2003 Joon-ho Bong
151 Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da 2011 Nuri Bilge Ceylan
152 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore
153 Rois et reine 2004 Arnaud Desplechin
154 George Washington 2000 David Gordon Green
155 La niña santa 2004 Lucrecia Martel
156 Ni na bian ji dian 2001 Ming-liang Tsai
157 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe
158 De fem benspænd 2003 Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier
159 Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom 2003 Ki-duk Kim
160 Les triplettes de Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet
161 Un conte de Noël 2008 Arnaud Desplechin
162 Beasts of the Southern Wild 2012 Benh Zeitlin
163 The Artist 2011 Michel Hazanavicius
164 Wendy and Lucy 2008 Kelly Reichardt
165 I’m Not There. 2007 Todd Haynes
166 The House of Mirth 2000 Terence Davies
167 Shi mian mai fu 2004 Yimou Zhang
168 Un prophète 2009 Jacques Audiard
169 Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003 Thom Andersen
170 L’emploi du temps 2001 Laurent Cantet
171 Lincoln 2012 Steven Spielberg
172 Copie conforme 2010 Abbas Kiarostami
173 Inside Out 2015 Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen
174 L’intrus 2004 Claire Denis
175 Leviathan 2012 Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
176 Saraband 2003 Ingmar Bergman
177 Dans la ville de Sylvia 2007 José Luis Guerín
178 Shrek 2001 Vicky Jenson, Andrew Adamson
179 Kôhî jikô 2003 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
180 Le scaphandre et le papillon 2007 Julian Schnabel
181 Darwin’s Nightmare 2004 Hubert Sauper
182 Tillsammans 2000 Lukas Moodysson
183 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh
184 Éloge de l’amour 2001 Jean-Luc Godard
185 Stories We Tell 2012 Sarah Polley
186 Spotlight 2015 Tom McCarthy
187 Brooklyn 2015 John Crowley
188 Argo 2012 Ben Affleck
189 Vera Drake 2004 Mike Leigh
190 Les amants réguliers 2005 Philippe Garrel
191 Spellbound 2002 Jeffrey Blitz
192 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry
193 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright
194 Heremakono 2002 Abderrahmane Sissako
195 Munich 2005 Steven Spielberg
196 Before Midnight 2013 Richard Linklater
197 25th Hour 2002 Spike Lee
198 Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn
199 Gosford Park 2001 Robert Altman
200 In film nist 2011 Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi
201 La mala educación 2004 Pedro Almodóvar
202 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir
203 The Descendants 2011 Alexander Payne
204 Vozvrashchenie 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev
205 Ren xiao yao 2002 Zhangke Jia
206 Persepolis 2007 Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
207 The King’s Speech 2010 Tom Hooper
208 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese
209 Mou gaan dou 2002 Alan Mak, Wai-Keung Lau
210 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino
211 Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 Michael Moore
212 Oasiseu 2002 Chang-dong Lee
213 The Ghost Writer 2010 Roman Polanski
214 Yadon ilaheyya 2002 Elia Suleiman
215 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle
216 Carlos 2010
217 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón
218 À ma soeur! 2001 Catherine Breillat
219 Tarnation 2003 Jonathan Caouette
220 24 Hour Party People 2002 Michael Winterbottom
221 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino
222 Take Shelter 2011 Jeff Nichols
223 Solntse 2005 Aleksandr Sokurov
224 Zui hao de shi guang 2005 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
225 Exit Through the Gift Shop 2010 Banksy
226 Paranoid Park 2007 Gus Van Sant
227 Margaret 2011 Kenneth Lonergan
228 Half Nelson 2006 Ryan Fleck
229 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 George Clooney
230 Ida 2013 Pawel Pawlikowski
231 Le Havre 2011 Aki Kaurismäki
232 La vie d’Adèle 2013 Abdellatif Kechiche
233 White Material 2009 Claire Denis
234 Politist, adjectiv 2009 Corneliu Porumboiu
235 Trouble Every Day 2001 Claire Denis
236 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Loveleen Tandan, Danny Boyle
237 Morvern Callar 2002 Lynne Ramsay
238 Mistérios de Lisboa 2010 Raoul Ruiz
239 Frances Ha 2012 Noah Baumbach
240 Two Lovers 2008 James Gray
241 Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India 2001 Ashutosh Gowariker
242 La meglio gioventù 2003 Marco Tullio Giordana
243 Inside Job 2010 Charles Ferguson
244 Notre musique 2004 Jean-Luc Godard
245 Kynodontas 2009 Yorgos Lanthimos
246 The Wrestler 2008 Darren Aronofsky
247 Only Lovers Left Alive 2013 Jim Jarmusch
248 Erin Brockovich 2000 Steven Soderbergh
249 Happy-Go-Lucky 2008 Mike Leigh
250 Silver Linings Playbook 2012 David O. Russell
251 Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord, Nick Park
252 Match Point 2005 Woody Allen
253 Talaye sorkh 2003 Jafar Panahi
254 The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005 Nick Park, Steve Box
255 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
256 21 Grams 2003 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
257 Zwartboek 2006 Paul Verhoeven
258 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg
259 La libertad 2001 Lisandro Alonso
260 Qianxi mànbo 2001 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
261 Kung fu 2004 Stephen Chow
262 Du levande 2007 Roy Andersson
263 Batalla en el cielo 2005 Carlos Reygadas
264 Monsoon Wedding 2001 Mira Nair
265 Moneyball 2011 Bennett Miller
266 Once 2007 John Carney
267 Offside 2006 Jafar Panahi
268 Capote 2005 Bennett Miller
269 Another Year 2010 Mike Leigh
270 Ex Machina 2014 Alex Garland
271 Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
272 Kairo 2001 Kiyoshi Kurosawa
273 Gerry 2002 Gus Van Sant
274 Primer 2004 Shane Carruth
275 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott
276 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese
277 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller
278 Solaris 2002 Steven Soderbergh
279 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
280 Madeo 2009 Joon-ho Bong
281 Old Joy 2006 Kelly Reichardt
282 Wonder Boys 2000 Curtis Hanson
283 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton
284 Eastern Promises 2007 David Cronenberg
285 Upstream Color 2013 Shane Carruth
286 Roozi ke zan shodam 2000 Marzieh Makhmalbaf
287 Shi 2010 Chang-dong Lee
288 127 Hours 2010 Danny Boyle
289 Up in the Air 2009 Jason Reitman
290 Turist 2014 Ruben Östlund
291 True Grit 2010 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
292 Last Days 2005 Gus Van Sant
293 The Heart of the World 2000 Guy Maddin
294 Je rentre à la maison 2001 Manoel de Oliveira
295 Martha Marcy May Marlene 2011 Sean Durkin
296 Dare mo shiranai 2004 Hirokazu Koreeda
297 The School of Rock 2003 Richard Linklater
298 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
299 Bamako 2006 Abderrahmane Sissako
300 Deux jours, une nuit 2014 Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
301 Blue Valentine 2010 Derek Cianfrance
302 El espinazo del diablo 2001 Guillermo del Toro
303 The Immigrant 2013 James Gray
304 The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenábar
305 Adieu au langage 2014 Jean-Luc Godard
306 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell
307 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011 Tomas Alfredson
308 Yurîka 2000 Shinji Aoyama
309 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich
310 Batoru rowaiaru 2000 Kinji Fukasaku
311 Meek’s Cutoff 2010 Kelly Reichardt
312 Demonlover 2002 Olivier Assayas
313 In the Loop 2009 Armando Iannucci
314 Milk 2008 Gus Van Sant
315 Anomalisa 2015 Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
316 Kinsey 2004 Bill Condon
317 Bloody Sunday 2002 Paul Greengrass
318 Nightcrawler 2014 Dan Gilroy
319 Inherent Vice 2014 Paul Thomas Anderson
320 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann
321 Tian zhu ding 2013 Zhangke Jia
322 In America 2002 Jim Sheridan
323 Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino 2004 Lav Diaz
324 A Prairie Home Companion 2006 Robert Altman
325 Hotel Rwanda 2004 Terry George
326 Hei yan quan 2006 Ming-liang Tsai
327 Aruitemo aruitemo 2008 Hirokazu Koreeda
328 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis
329 Star Spangled to Death 2004 Ken Jacobs
330 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 Martin Scorsese
331 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005 Tommy Lee Jones
332 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Wes Anderson
333 Crash 2004 Paul Haggis
334 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall
335 Rachel Getting Married 2008 Jonathan Demme
336 The Fighter 2010 David O. Russell
337 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears
338 The Arbor 2010 Clio Barnard
339 Ônibus 174 2002 José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
340 Paradise Now 2005 Hany Abu-Assad
341 Creed 2015 Ryan Coogler
342 American Hustle 2013 David O. Russell
343 An Inconvenient Truth 2006 Davis Guggenheim
344 Dupa dealuri 2012 Cristian Mungiu
345 Coraline 2009 Henry Selick
346 District 9 2009 Neill Blomkamp
347 Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005 Miranda July
348 Auf der anderen Seite 2007 Fatih Akin
349 Iklimler 2006 Nuri Bilge Ceylan
350 13 Lakes 2004 James Benning
351 Tangerine 2015 Sean Baker
352 Maria Full of Grace 2004 Joshua Marston
353 The Wire 2002
354 Gran Torino 2008 Clint Eastwood
355 Vendredi soir 2002 Claire Denis
356 La captive 2000 Chantal Akerman
357 Beginners 2010 Mike Mills
358 Io sono l’amore 2009 Luca Guadagnino
359 We Need to Talk About Kevin 2011 Lynne Ramsay
360 Fish Tank 2009 Andrea Arnold
361 Der Untergang 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel
362 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 Clint Eastwood
363 Femme Fatale 2002 Brian De Palma
364 Shame 2011 Steve McQueen
365 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster 2004 Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
366 Billy Elliot 2000 Stephen Daldry
367 28 Days Later… 2002 Danny Boyle
368 La piel que habito 2011 Pedro Almodóvar
369 Bright Star 2009 Jane Campion
370 Entre les murs 2008 Laurent Cantet
371 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 Phillip Noyce
372 Gone Girl 2014 David Fincher
373 All Is Lost 2013 J.C. Chandor
374 About a Boy 2002 Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz
375 The Century of the Self 2002
376 Atonement 2007 Joe Wright
377 Otesánek 2000 Jan Svankmajer
378 Haebyeonui yeoin 2006 Sang-soo Hong
379 Les plages d’Agnès 2008 Agnès Varda
380 Vi är bäst! 2013 Lukas Moodysson
381 Bridesmaids 2011 Paul Feig
382 Ne touchez pas la hache 2007 Jacques Rivette
383 The Deep Blue Sea 2011 Terence Davies
384 Away from Her 2006 Sarah Polley
385 Hatuna Meuheret 2001 Dover Koshashvili
386 Before Night Falls 2000 Julian Schnabel
387 Spring Breakers 2012 Harmony Korine
388 Dark Days 2000 Marc Singer
389 Dokfa nai meuman 2000 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
390 The Man Who Wasn’t There 2001 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
391 Weekend 2011 Andrew Haigh
392 My Summer of Love 2004 Pawel Pawlikowski
393 Of Time and the City 2008 Terence Davies
394 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass
395 Diarios de motocicleta 2004 Walter Salles
396 Room 2015 Lenny Abrahamson
397 Life of Pi 2012 Ang Lee
398 Monster’s Ball 2001 Marc Forster
399 Tian bian yi duo yun 2005 Ming-liang Tsai
400 Death Proof 2007 Quentin Tarantino
401 Ballast 2008 Lance Hammer
402 Gui tu lie che 2009 Lixin Fan
403 Yihe yuan 2006 Ye Lou
404 Le quattro volte 2010 Michelangelo Frammartino
405 The 40 Year Old Virgin 2005 Judd Apatow
406 Spider-Man 2 2004 Sam Raimi
407 Selma 2014 Ava DuVernay
408 A fost sau n-a fost? 2006 Corneliu Porumboiu
409 Babel 2006 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
410 King Kong 2005 Peter Jackson
411 Where the Wild Things Are 2009 Spike Jonze
412 Into the Wild 2007 Sean Penn
413 Spider 2002 David Cronenberg
414 No Man’s Land 2001 Danis Tanovic
415 Gomorra 2008 Matteo Garrone
416 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Wes Anderson
417 Des hommes et des dieux 2010 Xavier Beauvois
418 Chunhyangdyun 2000 Kwon-taek Im
419 Er shi si cheng ji 2008 Zhangke Jia
420 S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge 2003 Rithy Panh
421 Cosmopolis 2012 David Cronenberg
422 Antichrist 2009 Lars von Trier
423 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson
424 It Follows 2014 David Robert Mitchell
425 The Corporation 2003 Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
426 Dirty Pretty Things 2002 Stephen Frears
427 Citizenfour 2014 Laura Poitras
428 Mysterious Skin 2004 Gregg Araki
429 Bad Santa 2003 Terry Zwigoff
430 Les herbes folles 2009 Alain Resnais
431 Whale Rider 2002 Niki Caro
432 Bam gua nat 2008 Sang-soo Hong
433 Suzhou he 2000 Ye Lou
434 The Interrupters 2011 Steve James
435 Enter the Void 2009 Gaspar Noé
436 I Heart Huckabees 2004 David O. Russell
437 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010 Edgar Wright
438 A Cock and Bull Story 2005 Michael Winterbottom
439 Sicario 2015 Denis Villeneuve
440 Sharasôju 2003 Naomi Kawase
441 The Babadook 2014 Jennifer Kent
442 Milyang 2007 Chang-dong Lee
443 From the Notebook of… 2000 Robert Beavers
444 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell
445 The Deep End 2001 Scott McGehee, David Siegel
446 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 Christopher Nolan
447 Dig! 2004 Ondi Timoner
448 Mang jing 2003 Yang Li
449 Lilja 4-ever 2002 Lukas Moodysson
450 The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear 2004
451 Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens 2015 J.J. Abrams
452 45 Years 2015 Andrew Haigh
453 Chuck & Buck 2000 Miguel Arteta
454 Encounters at the End of the World 2007 Werner Herzog
455 Syriana 2005 Stephen Gaghan
456 Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010 Werner Herzog
457 Mr. Turner 2014 Mike Leigh
458 Lovely & Amazing 2001 Nicole Holofcener
459 The Clock 2010 Christian Marclay
460 Se, jie 2007 Ang Lee
461 Sous le sable 2000 François Ozon
462 Museum Hours 2012 Jem Cohen
463 American Psycho 2000 Mary Harron
464 Juno 2007 Jason Reitman
465 Unser täglich Brot 2005 Nikolaus Geyrhalter
466 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 Alfonso Cuarón
467 Let Me In 2010 Matt Reeves
468 Ali 2001 Michael Mann
469 The Lego Movie 2014 Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
470 The Descent 2005 Neil Marshall
471 Iraq in Fragments 2006 James Longley
472 Searching for Sugar Man 2012 Malik Bendjelloul
473 Twentynine Palms 2003 Bruno Dumont
474 Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead 2007 Sidney Lumet
475 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Tim Burton
476 The Proposition 2005 John Hillcoat
477 Team America: World Police 2004 Trey Parker
478 The Brown Bunny 2003 Vincent Gallo
479 Le temps du loup 2003 Michael Haneke
480 Skyfall 2012 Sam Mendes
481 Touching the Void 2003 Kevin Macdonald
482 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Richard Linklater
483 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 Adam McKay
484 Decasia 2002 Bill Morrison
485 The Station Agent 2003 Tom McCarthy
486 Xiao cheng zhi chun 2002 Zhuangzhuang Tian
487 Coeurs 2006 Alain Resnais
488 Les invasions barbares 2003 Denys Arcand
489 Birth 2004 Jonathan Glazer
490 The Big Short 2015 Adam McKay
491 Saul fia 2015 László Nemes
492 Film socialisme 2010 Jean-Luc Godard
493 Blue Jasmine 2013 Woody Allen
494 Computer Chess 2013 Andrew Bujalski
495 The Diary of a Teenage Girl 2015 Marielle Heller
496 De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté 2005 Jacques Audiard
497 Public Enemies 2009 Michael Mann
498 Michael Clayton 2007 Tony Gilroy
499 Southland Tales 2006 Richard Kelly
500 Looper 2012 Rian Johnson
501 A Single Man 2009 Tom Ford
502 Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 Rupert Wyatt
503 Magic Mike 2012 Steven Soderbergh
504 The Saddest Music in the World 2003 Guy Maddin
505 Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind 2007 John Gianvito
506 Kill List 2011 Ben Wheatley
507 Midnight in Paris 2011 Woody Allen
508 Vincere 2009 Marco Bellocchio
509 Elf 2003 Jon Favreau
510 Knocked Up 2007 Judd Apatow
511 To the Wonder 2012 Terrence Malick
512 Bamboozled 2000 Spike Lee
513 Wuthering Heights 2011 Andrea Arnold
514 Melancholia 2008 Lav Diaz
515 Junebug 2005 Phil Morrison
516 La grande bellezza 2013 Paolo Sorrentino
517 Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008 Woody Allen
518 Historias extraordinarias 2008 Mariano Llinás
519 The Martian 2015 Ridley Scott
520 Timbuktu 2014 Abderrahmane Sissako
521 Che 2008 Steven Soderbergh
522 Va savoir 2001 Jacques Rivette
523 Snowpiercer 2013 Joon-ho Bong
524 War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg
525 Bend It Like Beckham 2002 Gurinder Chadha
526 Session 9 2001 Brad Anderson
527 Marie Antoinette 2006 Sofia Coppola
528 No 2012 Pablo Larraín
529 How to Survive a Plague 2012 David France
530 Land of the Dead 2005 George A. Romero
531 Reprise 2006 Joachim Trier
532 Trolösa 2000 Liv Ullmann
533 Nanjing! Nanjing! 2009 Chuan Lu
534 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan
535 Greenberg 2010 Noah Baumbach
536 Broken Flowers 2005 Jim Jarmusch
537 Melancholian 3 huonetta 2004 Pirjo Honkasalo
538 Sweet Sixteen 2002 Ken Loach
539 Spider-Man 2002 Sam Raimi
540 The Magdalene Sisters 2002 Peter Mullan
541 Keane 2004 Lodge Kerrigan
542 Okuribito 2008 Yôjirô Takita
543 Anvil: The Story of Anvil 2008 Sacha Gervasi
544 De rouille et d’os 2012 Jacques Audiard
545 Tabu 2012 Miguel Gomes
546 Lantana 2001 Ray Lawrence
547 Petition 2009 Liang Zhao
548 Hauru no ugoku shiro 2004 Hayao Miyazaki
549 Los muertos 2004 Lisandro Alonso
550 Mean Girls 2004 Mark Waters
551 Phoenix 2014 Christian Petzold
552 Nebraska 2013 Alexander Payne
553 Listen Up Philip 2014 Alex Ross Perry
554 Chi-Raq 2015 Spike Lee
555 The Hateful Eight 2015 Quentin Tarantino
556 Shortbus 2006 John Cameron Mitchell
557 Margot at the Wedding 2007 Noah Baumbach
558 Le goût des autres 2000 Agnès Jaoui
559 Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession 2004 Xan Cassavetes
560 The Look of Silence 2014 Joshua Oppenheimer
561 Foxcatcher 2014 Bennett Miller
562 A Dangerous Method 2011 David Cronenberg
563 Adventureland 2009 Greg Mottola
564 Zamani barayé masti asbha 2000 Bahman Ghobadi
565 Catch Me If You Can 2002 Steven Spielberg
566 Please Give 2010 Nicole Holofcener
567 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 David Fincher
568 La morte rouge 2006 Víctor Erice
569 Whisky 2004 Pablo Stoll, Juan Pablo Rebella
570 At Berkeley 2013 Frederick Wiseman
571 L’ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) 2002 Marco Bellocchio
572 Oslo, 31. august 2011 Joachim Trier
573 Little Children 2006 Todd Field
574 The Devil’s Rejects 2005 Rob Zombie
575 Superbad 2007 Greg Mottola
576 Shattered Glass 2003 Billy Ray
577 Riri Shushu no subete 2001 Shunji Iwai
578 Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands 2003 Guy Maddin
579 Miami Vice 2006 Michael Mann
580 Goodbye Solo 2008 Ramin Bahrani
581 Red Road 2006 Andrea Arnold
582 All or Nothing 2002 Mike Leigh
583 Day Night Day Night 2006 Julia Loktev
584 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005 Shane Black
585 Die große Stille 2005 Philip Gröning
586 In Bruges 2008 Martin McDonagh
587 La graine et le mulet 2007 Abdellatif Kechiche
588 Ray 2004 Taylor Hackford
589 Flandres 2006 Bruno Dumont
590 8 Mile 2002 Curtis Hanson
591 Like Someone in Love 2012 Abbas Kiarostami
592 Manakamana 2013 Pacho Velez, Stephanie Spray
593 Cold Mountain 2003 Anthony Minghella
594 Lumumba 2000 Raoul Peck
595 Papurika 2006 Satoshi Kon
596 Short Term 12 2013 Destin Daniel Cretton
597 Yi dai zong shi 2013 Kar-Wai Wong
598 The Loneliest Planet 2011 Julia Loktev
599 Innocence 2004 Lucile Hadzihalilovic
600 Avant que j’oublie 2007 Jacques Nolot
601 Profils paysans:La Vie moderne 2008 Raymond Depardon
602 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans 2009 Werner Herzog
603 Jiao you 2013 Ming-liang Tsai
604 Akarui mirai 2002 Kiyoshi Kurosawa
605 The Trip 2010 Michael Winterbottom
606 Precious 2009 Lee Daniels
607 The World’s End 2013 Edgar Wright
608 Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest
609 Star Trek 2009 J.J. Abrams
610 L’inconnu du lac 2013 Alain Guiraudie
611 Du zhan 2012 Johnnie To
612 Saenghwalui balgyeon 2002 Sang-soo Hong
613 Innocence 2004 Mamoru Oshii
614 The Ring 2002 Gore Verbinski
615 Opera Jawa 2006 Garin Nugroho
616 Merci pour le chocolat 2000 Claude Chabrol
617 Intimacy 2001 Patrice Chéreau
618 Raising Victor Vargas 2002 Peter Sollett
619 Pina 2011 Wim Wenders
620 The Devil and Daniel Johnston 2005 Jeff Feuerzeig
621 Fong juk 2006 Johnnie To
622 State and Main 2000 David Mamet
623 Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand 2004 Bahman Ghobadi
624 Monster 2003 Patty Jenkins
625 Bin-jip 2004 Ki-duk Kim
626 Startup.com 2001 Jehane Noujaim, Chris Hegedus
627 Esther Kahn 2000 Arnaud Desplechin
628 The Passion of the Christ 2004 Mel Gibson
629 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 Jared Hess
630 Vai~E~Vem 2003 João César Monteiro
631 Senna 2010 Asif Kapadia
632 Control Room 2004 Jehane Noujaim
633 The Sessions 2012 Ben Lewin
634 Clouds of Sils Maria 2014 Olivier Assayas
635 The Limits of Control 2009 Jim Jarmusch
636 Taxi 2015 Jafar Panahi
637 The Avengers 2012 Joss Whedon
638 De l’origine du XXIe siècle 2000 Jean-Luc Godard
639 Alle Anderen 2009 Maren Ade
640 An Education 2009 Lone Scherfig
641 The Ground 2001 Robert Beavers
642 Tokyo Sonata 2008 Kiyoshi Kurosawa
643 Margin Call 2011 J.C. Chandor
644 Win Win 2011 Tom McCarthy
645 La bocca del lupo 2009 Pietro Marcello
646 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
647 The Savages 2007 Tamara Jenkins
648 Domestic Violence 2001 Frederick Wiseman
649 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 David Fincher
650 Animal Kingdom 2010 David Michôd
651 Lady Chatterley 2006 Pascale Ferran
652 Lucía y el sexo 2001 Julio Medem
653 Comme une image 2004 Agnès Jaoui
654 El Valley Centro 1999 James Benning
655 L’image manquante 2013 Rithy Panh
656 Le lait de la tendresse humaine 2001 Dominique Cabrera
657 Pride & Prejudice 2005 Joe Wright
658 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 2006
659 Chinjeolhan geumjassi 2005 Chan-wook Park
660 Mar adentro 2004 Alejandro Amenábar
661 Moon 2009 Duncan Jones
662 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker
663 The Fountain 2006 Darren Aronofsky
664 Marwencol 2010 Jeff Malmberg
665 Boxing Gym 2010 Frederick Wiseman
666 Les amours d’Astrée et de Céladon 2007 Éric Rohmer
667 La vallée close 1995 Jean-Claude Rousseau
668 Hot Fuzz 2007 Edgar Wright
669 Beijing de feng hen da 2000 Anqi Ju
670 (500) Days of Summer 2009 Marc Webb
671 Cìkè Niè Yinniáng 2015 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
672 Bridge of Spies 2015 Steven Spielberg
673 Trudno byt bogom 2013 Aleksey German
674 Sweetgrass 2009 Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
675 Road to Nowhere 2010 Monte Hellman
676 The Quiet American 2002 Phillip Noyce
677 Une visite au Louvre 2004 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
678 Il divo – La spettacolare vita di Giulio Andreotti 2008 Paolo Sorrentino
679 The House I Live In 2012 Eugene Jarecki
680 Love Is Strange 2014 Ira Sachs
681 Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan 2013 Lav Diaz
682 Vous n’avez encore rien vu 2012 Alain Resnais
683 The Queen of Versailles 2012 Lauren Greenfield
684 Trouble the Water 2008 Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
685 Le dernier des injustes 2013 Claude Lanzmann
686 El orfanato 2007 J.A. Bayona
687 Le pont des Arts 2004 Eugène Green
688 Inside Man 2006 Spike Lee
689 Gake no ue no Ponyo 2008 Hayao Miyazaki
690 Seom 2000 Ki-duk Kim
691 Safar e Ghandehar 2001 Mohsen Makhmalbaf
692 Timecode 2000 Mike Figgis
693 Buongiorno, notte 2003 Marco Bellocchio
694 A Mighty Wind 2003 Christopher Guest
695 Takhté siah 2000 Samira Makhmalbaf
696 The Duke of Burgundy 2014 Peter Strickland
697 RR 2007 James Benning
698 Incendies 2010 Denis Villeneuve
699 The Gatekeepers 2012 Dror Moreh
700 Panique au village 2009 Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
701 The Grey 2011 Joe Carnahan
702 La marche de l’empereur 2005 Luc Jacquet
703 Room 237 2012 Rodney Ascher
704 Flandersui gae 2000 Joon-ho Bong
705 Tishe! 2003 Victor Kossakovsky
706 Dave Chappelle’s Block Party 2005 Michel Gondry
707 In This World 2002 Michael Winterbottom
708 The Time that Remains 2009 Elia Suleiman
709 Apocalypto 2006 Mel Gibson
710 The Kid Stays in the Picture 2002 Brett Morgen, Nanette Burstein
711 Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha 2000 Takashi Miike
712 Father and Daughter 2000 Michael Dudok de Wit
713 Frozen River 2008 Courtney Hunt
714 L’Anglaise et le duc 2001 Éric Rohmer
715 L’illusionniste 2010 Sylvain Chomet
716 Revolutionary Road 2008 Sam Mendes
717 Xiao cai feng 2002 Sijie Dai
718 Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu 2010 Andrei Ujica
719 Grindhouse 2007 Edgar Wright, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth
720 Secretary 2002 Steven Shainberg
721 Captain Phillips 2013 Paul Greengrass
722 Steve Jobs 2015 Danny Boyle
723 Love & Mercy 2014 Bill Pohlad
724 Mistress America 2015 Noah Baumbach
725 The Revenant 2015 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
726 Bright Leaves 2003 Ross McElwee
727 War Horse 2011 Steven Spielberg
728 The Secret Lives of Dentists 2002 Alan Rudolph
729 Le gamin au vélo 2011 Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
730 Shadow of the Vampire 2000 E. Elias Merhige
731 Mommy 2014 Xavier Dolan
732 Où gît votre sourire enfoui? 2001 Pedro Costa, Thierry Lounas
733 Daratt 2006 Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
734 Le conseguenze dell’amore 2004 Paolo Sorrentino
735 Kis Uykusu 2014 Nuri Bilge Ceylan
736 Strojenie instrumentów 2000 Jerzy Kucia
737 Une vieille maîtresse 2007 Catherine Breillat
738 Young Adult 2011 Jason Reitman
739 Import Export 2007 Ulrich Seidl
740 The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein 2001 John Gianvito
741 Four Lions 2010 Christopher Morris
742 Revanche 2008 Götz Spielmann
743 Ling yi ban 2006 Liang Ying
744 Kaze tachinu 2013 Hayao Miyazaki
745 O Estranho Caso de Angélica 2010 Manoel de Oliveira
746 The Cabin in the Woods 2012 Drew Goddard
747 Unbreakable 2000 M. Night Shyamalan
748 Chop Shop 2007 Ramin Bahrani
749 Darbareye Elly 2009 Asghar Farhadi
750 Funny Ha Ha 2002 Andrew Bujalski
751 Kippur 2000 Amos Gitai
752 Back Against the Wall 2002 James Fotopoulos
753 Booye kafoor, atre yas 2000 Bahman Farmanara
754 The Wind that Shakes the Barley 2006 Ken Loach
755 Ong-bak 2003 Prachya Pinkaew
756 Happy Feet 2006 Judy Morris, Warren Coleman, George Miller
757 Lebanon 2009 Samuel Maoz
758 Mind Game 2004 Masaaki Yuasa, Kôji Morimoto
759 Thank You for Smoking 2005 Jason Reitman
760 The Village 2004 M. Night Shyamalan
761 Porto da Minha Infância 2001 Manoel de Oliveira
762 Janghwa, Hongryeon 2003 Jee-woon Kim
763 Les salauds 2013 Claire Denis
764 Interstellar 2014 Christopher Nolan
765 Contagion 2011 Steven Soderbergh
766 Flight 2012 Robert Zemeckis
767 The Tailor of Panama 2001 John Boorman
768 Our Song 2000 Jim McKay
769 Standard Operating Procedure 2008 Errol Morris
770 The Constant Gardener 2005 Fernando Meirelles
771 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard
772 Jogo de Cena 2007 Eduardo Coutinho
773 Stevie 2002 Steve James
774 Monsters 2010 Gareth Edwards
775 Nueve reinas 2000 Fabián Bielinsky
776 Lilo & Stitch 2002 Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
777 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 2014 Ana Lily Amirpour
778 Bernie 2011 Richard Linklater
779 Amy 2015 Asif Kapadia
780 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese
781 The Future 2011 Miranda July
782 Bikur Ha-Tizmoret 2007 Eran Kolirin
783 In the Cut 2003 Jane Campion
784 La science des rêves 2006 Michel Gondry
785 Le silence de Lorna 2008 Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
786 Burn After Reading 2008 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
787 4 2004 Ilya Khrzhanovskiy
788 The Order of Myths 2008 Margaret Brown
789 Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle 2006 Philippe Parreno, Douglas Gordon
790 National Gallery 2014 Frederick Wiseman
791 Edge of Tomorrow 2014 Doug Liman
792 Brother 2000 Takeshi Kitano
793 The King of Kong 2007 Seth Gordon
794 Üç Maymun 2008 Nuri Bilge Ceylan
795 Marti, dupã Crãciun 2010 Radu Muntean
796 Leviafan 2014 Andrey Zvyagintsev
797 This Is England 2006 Shane Meadows
798 Gambling, Gods and LSD 2002 Peter Mettler
799 Black Sun 2005 Gary Tarn
800 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 2001 Jill Sprecher
801 Santiago 2007 João Moreira Salles
802 Gone Baby Gone 2007 Ben Affleck
803 Idiocracy 2006 Mike Judge
804 Koroshiya 1 2001 Takashi Miike
805 La stanza del figlio 2001 Nanni Moretti
806 Berberian Sound Studio 2012 Peter Strickland
807 Girl with a Pearl Earring 2003 Peter Webber
808 Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick 2008 Jan Troell
809 Soshite chichi ni naru 2013 Hirokazu Koreeda
810 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer
811 Bug 2006 William Friedkin
812 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis
813 *Corpus Callosum 2002 Michael Snow
814 Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei 2004 Theodoros Angelopoulos
815 Jiabiangou 2010 Bing Wang
816 Teza 2008 Haile Gerima
817 Combat d’amour en songe 2000 Raoul Ruiz
818 Lohdutusseremonia 2000 Eija-Liisa Ahtila
819 Der schöne Tag 2001 Thomas Arslan
820 Das Himmler Projekt 2000 Romuald Karmakar
821 Tôkyô Marîgôrudo 2001 Jun Ichikawa
822 Quills 2000 Philip Kaufman
823 Ocean’s Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh
824 Rango 2011 Gore Verbinski
825 Millions 2004 Danny Boyle
826 Open Range 2003 Kevin Costner
827 Hustle & Flow 2005 Craig Brewer
828 Laissez-passer 2002 Bertrand Tavernier
829 Girlfight 2000 Karyn Kusama
830 My Architect 2003 Nathaniel Kahn
831 Old School 2003 Todd Phillips
832 Aurora 2010 Cristi Puiu
833 The House of the Devil 2009 Ti West
834 Lan se da men 2002 Chih-yen Yee
835 Ruang rak noi nid mahasan 2003 Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
836 It’s Such a Beautiful Day 2012
837 Dolls 2002 Takeshi Kitano
838 Un long dimanche de fiançailles 2004 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
839 La France 2007 Serge Bozon
840 Magic Mike XXL 2015 Gregory Jacobs
841 Igby Goes Down 2002 Burr Steers
842 Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 2009 Julian Jarrold
843 Rabbit Hole 2010 John Cameron Mitchell
844 Anna Karenina 2012 Joe Wright
845 Restrepo 2010 Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
846 Momma’s Man 2008 Azazel Jacobs
847 The Informant! 2009 Steven Soderbergh
848 Killing Them Softly 2012 Andrew Dominik
849 Take This Waltz 2011 Sarah Polley
850 Clean 2004 Olivier Assayas
851 Never Let Me Go 2010 Mark Romanek
852 The Forbidden Room 2015 Evan Johnson, Guy Maddin
853 Pitch Black 2000 David Twohy
854 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes
855 Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien 2000 Dominik Moll
856 Japón 2002 Carlos Reygadas
857 Attack the Block 2011 Joe Cornish
858 Workingman’s Death 2005 Michael Glawogger
859 Bread and Roses 2000 Ken Loach
860 Frozen 2013 Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck
861 Sex Is Comedy 2002 Catherine Breillat
862 Wedding Crashers 2005 David Dobkin
863 The Good Shepherd 2006 Robert De Niro
864 Life Itself 2014 Steve James
865 Actress 2014 Robert Greene
866 8 femmes 2002 François Ozon
867 The Company 2003 Robert Altman
868 Bridget Jones’s Diary 2001 Sharon Maguire
869 Samson and Delilah 2009 Warwick Thornton
870 Frownland 2007 Ronald Bronstein
871 Cavalo Dinheiro 2014 Pedro Costa
872 Manderlay 2005 Lars von Trier
873 Dying at Grace 2003 Allan King
874 Locke 2013 Steven Knight
875 La Nana 2009 Sebastián Silva
876 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 2002 George Clooney
877 Rang De Basanti 2006 Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
878 Rescue Dawn 2006 Werner Herzog
879 Siu Lam juk kau 2001 Stephen Chow
880 L’avocat de la terreur 2007 Barbet Schroeder
881 The Fall 2006 Tarsem Singh
882 At Sea 2007 Peter B. Hutton
883 Drag Me to Hell 2009 Sam Raimi
884 The American Astronaut 2001 Cory McAbee
885 Heremias: Unang aklat – Ang alamat ng prinsesang bayawak 2006 Lav Diaz
886 Arbor Vitae 2000 Nathaniel Dorsky
887 Baise-moi 2000 Coralie, Virginie Despentes
888 Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 Stacy Peralta
889 Indigènes 2006 Rachid Bouchareb
890 Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures 2001 Claude Lanzmann
891 Angels in America 2003
892 Osama 2003 Siddiq Barmak
893 Boksuneun naui geot 2002 Chan-wook Park
894 Martyrs 2008 Pascal Laugier
895 Jûsan-nin no shikaku 2010 Takashi Miike
896 Wadjda 2012 Haifaa Al-Mansour
897 House of Sand and Fog 2003 Vadim Perelman
898 Serbuan maut 2011 Gareth Evans
899 Ararat 2002 Atom Egoyan
900 Mai shou 2009 Tong Xu
901 Liverpool 2008 Lisandro Alonso
902 Niu pi 2005 Jiayin Liu
903 Afterschool 2008 Antonio Campos
904 La frontière de l’aube 2008 Philippe Garrel
905 Taxi to the Dark Side 2007 Alex Gibney
906 Ne le dis à personne 2006 Guillaume Canet
907 Seabiscuit 2003 Gary Ross
908 X2 2003 Bryan Singer
909 Murderball 2005 Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
910 We Own the Night 2007 James Gray
911 No End in Sight 2007 Charles Ferguson
912 Haute tension 2003 Alexandre Aja
913 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 Paul Greengrass
914 Standing in the Shadows of Motown 2002 Paul Justman
915 Five Dedicated to Ozu 2003 Abbas Kiarostami
916 Blade II 2002 Guillermo del Toro
917 Depuis qu’Otar est parti… 2003 Julie Bertuccelli
918 Fruitvale Station 2013 Ryan Coogler
919 Mud 2012 Jeff Nichols
920 Straight Outta Compton 2015 F. Gary Gray
921 Closer 2004 Mike Nichols
922 Sunshine State 2002 John Sayles
923 Enough Said 2013 Nicole Holofcener
924 Calvary 2014 John Michael McDonagh
925 Dreamgirls 2006 Bill Condon
926 En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron 2014 Roy Andersson
927 As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 1-3 2015 Miguel Gomes
928 Auto Focus 2002 Paul Schrader
929 Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters 2006 Guy Maddin
930 La Noche de Enfrente 2012 Raoul Ruiz
931 Razzle Dazzle 2007 Ken Jacobs
932 Heaven Knows What 2014 Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
933 Episode 3: ‘Enjoy Poverty’ 2009 Renzo Martens
934 Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura 2009 Manoel de Oliveira
935 Quei loro incontri 2006 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
936 Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa 2010 Sang-soo Hong
937 Let the Fire Burn 2013 Jason Osder
938 Pardé 2013 Kambuzia Partovi, Jafar Panahi
939 Night Moves 2013 Kelly Reichardt
940 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012 Stephen Chbosky
941 Much Ado About Nothing 2012 Joss Whedon
942 Be Kind Rewind 2008 Michel Gondry
943 Devdas 2002 Sanjay Leela Bhansali
944 Jodorowsky’s Dune 2013 Frank Pavich
945 In the Family 2011 Patrick Wang
946 Sugar 2008 Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
947 Tokyo Goddofazazu 2003 Shôgo Furuya, Satoshi Kon
948 Super 8 2011 J.J. Abrams
949 Like Crazy 2011 Drake Doremus
950 Friday Night Lights 2004 Peter Berg
951 Julia 2008 Erick Zonca
952 L.I.E. 2001 Michael Cuesta
953 Life During Wartime 2009 Todd Solondz
954 Lourdes 2009 Jessica Hausner
955 Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 James Gunn
956 Thirteen 2003 Catherine Hardwicke
957 Unfaithful 2002 Adrian Lyne
958 Zatôichi 2003 Takeshi Kitano
959 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary 2002 Guy Maddin
960 Kekexili 2004 Chuan Lu
961 Otets i syn 2003 Aleksandr Sokurov
962 Yes 2004 Sally Potter
963 Lake of Fire 2006 Tony Kaye
964 All the Real Girls 2003 David Gordon Green
965 Hamlet 2000 Michael Almereyda
966 Shotgun Stories 2007 Jeff Nichols
967 Mutual Appreciation 2005 Andrew Bujalski
968 O Som ao Redor 2012 Kleber Mendonça Filho
969 My Country, My Country 2006 Laura Poitras
970 Nine Lives 2005 Rodrigo García
971 Gabrielle 2005 Patrice Chéreau
972 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 2006 Adam McKay
973 Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu 2001 Shôhei Imamura
974 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski
975 Ginger Snaps 2000 John Fawcett
976 Temporada de patos 2004 Fernando Eimbcke
977 Food, Inc. 2008 Robert Kenner
978 The Mother 2003 Roger Michell
979 The Pledge 2001 Sean Penn
980 Wet Hot American Summer 2001 David Wain
981 From Hell 2001 Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
982 Young Adam 2003 David Mackenzie
983 Biutiful 2010 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
984 Liu lian piao piao 2000 Fruit Chan
985 Jitsuroku Rengo Sekigun: Asama sanso e no michi 2007 Kôji Wakamatsu
986 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan
987 The Polar Express 2004 Robert Zemeckis
988 Sennen joyû 2001 Satoshi Kon
989 Trash Humpers 2009 Harmony Korine
990 Aleksandra 2007 Aleksandr Sokurov
991 Mission to Mars 2000 Brian De Palma
992 The Dreamers 2003 Bernardo Bertolucci
993 3 Idiots 2009 Rajkumar Hirani
994 He Fengming 2007 Bing Wang
995 ¡Vivan las antípodas! 2011 Victor Kossakovsky
996 Louyre: This Our Still Life 2011 Andrew Kotting
997 Water 2005 Deepa Mehta
998 The Bourne Identity 2002 Doug Liman
999 The History Boys 2006 Nicholas Hytner
1000 The Imitation Game 2014 Morten Tyldum
After a month of polling in 2015, Flicks received votes from 3,000 New Zealanders which were then compiled into the 100 favourite films of all time. The Shawshank Redemption, which was written and directed by Frank Darabont, took the top spot. Max Max: Fury Road was the most recent film to make the top 100.
Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time was a two-hour television special that aired on March 22, 2011, on ABC in the United States. Hosted by Tom Bergeron and Cynthia McFadden, it was a collaboration between ABC News and People magazine that gave American film fans the chance to choose their favourite movies of all time. The results were presented on the program, which included interviews with some of the stars and directors of the chosen films including Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, and Olivia Newton-John. The categories for the special were Best Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Musical, Best Action Film, Greatest Film Character, Best Horror Film, Best Chick Flick, Greatest Screen Kiss, Best Comedy, Best Animated Film, Best Suspense/Thriller, Most Romantic Screen Couple, Greatest Line, Best Western Film and Best Political/Historical Film.
To vote for their favourite films, movie fans went online at abcnews.com and people.com to select the winners from a list of nominees created by a group of film industry experts. Online voting was open from late November 2010 to January 2011. The televised special counted down the top five films in 10 of the 15 categories: Best Comedy, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Musical, Greatest Screen Kiss, Greatest Line, Best Action Film, Best Suspense/Thriller, Best Animated Film, Greatest Film Character and Best Film. The results in the remaining five categories (Best Horror Film, Best Chick Flick, Most Romantic Screen Couple, Best Western Film and Best Political/Historical Film) were revealed online.
Television Results
Best Comedy
Best Sci-fi film
Best Musical
Greatest On Screen Kiss
Greatest Line
Best Action Film
Best Suspense/Thriller
Best Animated Film
Greatest Film Character
Best Film
Online Results
Most Romantic On Screen Couple
Best Horror Film
Best Western Film
Best Chick Flick
Best Political/Historical Film
In November 2009 Telegraph film critics David Gritten, Tim Robey and Sukhdev Sandhu compiled a list of 100 films that defined the noughties. The list will surprise some but, as the title suggests, it appears that the ranking order is stressing the importance of the films to their time rather than which they consider the best. For example, Saw is placed at 14th presumably because it was at the forefront of the horror/torture genre that became so prominent and not because it’s a brilliant example of 21st century cinema while there have been far funnier and cleverer films than Kocked Up but the film is a prime example of the New American Comedy that was brought in by director Judd Apatow.
Total Film’s 100 Greatest Movies was compiled from the movie magazine’s 5-star reviews in 2010. The list is in alphabetical order. Half Nelson stands out as the one film that would struggle get a 5-star review in most publications.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien
All About Eve
Amadeus
Amelie
American Graffiti
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Apocalypse Now
Avatar
Back To The Future
Badlands
Bambi
The Battle Of Algiers
Belle De Jour
The Bicycle Thieves
The Big Lebowski
Black Narcissus
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Bonnie And Clyde
Boogie Nights
Brazil
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Casablanca
Chinatown
Cinema Paradiso
Citizen Kane
City of God
The Conversation
The Dark Knight
Das Boot
The Deer Hunter
Die Hard
Dirty Harry
Donnie Darko
Don’t Look Now
Double Indemnity
Dr Strangelove
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
The Exorcist
Fargo
Fight Club
Finding Nemo
Gladiator
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Godfather
Goldfinger
Gone With The Wind
Goodfellas
Half Nelson
Halloween
Heat
His Friday Girl
It’s A Wonderful Life
Jaws
King Kong
L.A. Confidential
Lawrence Of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
M
Manhattan
Metropolis
Millers Crossing
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
Nashville
Network
Night Of The Living Dead
No Country For Old Men
North By Northwest
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Persona
The Philadelphia Story
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Rear Window
Reservoir Dogs
The Seventh Seal
Sideways
Singin’ In The Rain
Some Like It Hot
Star Wars Ep IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Ep V: The Empire Strikes Back
Sunset Boulevard
The Sweet Smell of Success
There Will Be Blood
The Third Man
This Is England
This Is Spinal Tap
Tokyo Story
Touch Of Evil
The Truman Show
Vertigo
West Side Story
When We Were Kings
Withnail and I
The Wrestler
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25 – Moon
24 – District 9
23 – The Thing
22 – Avatar
21 – Jurassic Park
20 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
19 – Forbidden Planet
18 – Brazil
17 – Back To The Future
16 – Metropolis
15 – Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
14 – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
13 – A Clockwork Orange
12 – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
11 – Aliens
10 – T2: Judgement Day
9 – The Road Warrior
8 – The Day The Earth Stood Still
7 – The Matrix
6 – Planet Of The Apes
5 – The Empire Strikes Back
4 – Alien
3 – A New Hope
2 – 2001: A Space Odyssey
1 – Blade Runner
Below is a list of Metacritic.com’s top movies during the ten years since it started, 2000-2009. The website has collated reviews of the films, from top professional critics, and given them numerical scores, out of 100, before working out an overall average. To make the list the films needed 7 or more reviews and re-releases and alternate versions are excluded. Also shown is the average site user score that is out of ten.
| Title | Year | Metascore | Users | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pan’s Labyrinth | 2006 | 98 | 8.3 |
| 2 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 2008 | 97 | 8.0 |
| 3 | Ratatouille | 2007 | 96 | 8.6 |
| 4 | Spirited Away | 2002 | 94 | 9.3 |
| 5 | Hurt Locker, The | 2009 | 94 | 7.6 |
| 6 | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The | 2003 | 94 | 8.6 |
| 7 | Sideways | 2004 | 94 | 6.1 |
| 8 | WALL-E | 2008 | 93 | 8.9 |
| 9 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | 93 | 7.0 |
| 10 | 35 Shots of Rum | 2009 | 93 | 7.3 |
| 11 | Yi Yi (A One and a Two) | 2000 | 92 | 8.2 |
| 12 | Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The | 2007 | 92 | 8.1 |
| 13 | Class, The | 2008 | 92 | 6.9 |
| 14 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | 92 | 7.1 |
| 15 | Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The | 2001 | 92 | 8.4 |
| 16 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2001 | 92 | 7.0 |
| 17 | Moolaadé | 2004 | 91 | 7.9 |
| 18 | Fast Runner, The | 2002 | 91 | 7.8 |
| 19 | Triplets of Belleville, The | 2003 | 91 | 7.8 |
| 20 | Queen, The | 2006 | 91 | 6.0 |
| 21 | Beau Travail | 2000 | 91 | 7.8 |
| 22 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | 91 | 8.1 |
| 23 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | 91 | 6.9 |
| 24 | My Voyage to Italy | 2001 | 90 | 7.0 |
| 25 | Bloody Sunday | 2002 | 90 | 8.4 |
| 26 | Incredibles, The | 2004 | 90 | 8.7 |
| 27 | Before Sunset | 2004 | 90 | 8.2 |
| 28 | Almost Famous | 2000 | 90 | 8.3 |
| 29 | American Splendor | 2003 | 90 | 8.0 |
| 30 | Gosford Park | 2001 | 90 | 6.1 |
| 31 | United 93 | 2006 | 90 | 7.5 |
| 32 | Capturing the Friedmans | 2003 | 90 | 8.5 |
| 33 | Persepolis | 2007 | 90 | 8.1 |
| 34 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | 89 | 6.3 |
| 35 | Best of Youth, The | 2005 | 89 | 9.1 |
| 36 | Lives of Others, The | 2006 | 89 | 9.0 |
| 37 | Still Walking | 2009 | 89 | 9.1 |
| 38 | House of Flying Daggers | 2004 | 89 | 7.7 |
| 39 | Man on Wire | 2008 | 89 | 8.1 |
| 40 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | 2006 | 89 | 6.9 |
| 41 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | 89 | 8.5 |
| 42 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | 89 | 8.6 |
| 43 | No End in Sight | 2007 | 89 | 8.2 |
| 44 | Goodbye Solo | 2009 | 89 | 7.5 |
| 45 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | 89 | 8.1 |
| 46 | Once | 2007 | 88 | 8.0 |
| 47 | Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The | 2002 | 88 | 8.9 |
| 48 | Ghost World | 2001 | 88 | 8.4 |
| 49 | Capote | 2005 | 88 | 7.9 |
| 50 | Tulpan | 2009 | 88 | 5.7 |
| 51 | Time Out | 2002 | 88 | 7.2 |
| 52 | Away from Her | 2007 | 88 | 8.0 |
| 53 | Chicken Run | 2000 | 88 | 7.1 |
| 54 | Up | 2009 | 88 | 9.0 |
| 55 | Y Tu Mamá También | 2002 | 88 | 7.8 |
| 56 | Nobody Knows | 2005 | 88 | 9.0 |
| 57 | L’Enfant (The Child) | 2006 | 87 | 8.4 |
| 58 | Gomorrah | 2009 | 87 | 6.1 |
| 59 | Fog of War, The | 2003 | 87 | 8.7 |
| 60 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | 87 | 8.2 |
| 61 | Maria Full of Grace | 2004 | 87 | 8.4 |
| 62 | Fateless | 2006 | 87 | 8.4 |
| 63 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | 87 | 8.2 |
| 64 | Tarnation | 2004 | 87 | 7.3 |
| 65 | Murderball | 2005 | 87 | 9.0 |
| 66 | Grizzly Man | 2005 | 87 | 6.7 |
| 67 | Marooned in Iraq | 2003 | 86 | 7.3 |
| 68 | Wind Will Carry Us, The | 2000 | 86 | 8.2 |
| 69 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | 86 | 7.9 |
| 70 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | 86 | 7.8 |
| 71 | To Be and to Have | 2003 | 86 | 10.0 |
| 72 | In the Bedroom | 2001 | 86 | 7.4 |
| 73 | I’m Going Home | 2002 | 86 | 7.0 |
| 74 | Ten | 2003 | 86 | 8.3 |
| 75 | Russian Ark | 2002 | 86 | 7.1 |
| 76 | Deliver Us from Evil | 2006 | 86 | 8.5 |
| 77 | Beaches of Agnes, The | 2009 | 86 | 8.2 |
| 78 | Traffic | 2000 | 86 | 8.0 |
| 79 | Under the Sand | 2001 | 86 | 8.7 |
| 80 | Talk to Her | 2002 | 86 | 8.4 |
| 81 | Our Daily Bread | 2006 | 86 | 7.7 |
| 82 | This Is England | 2007 | 86 | 7.4 |
| 83 | Son, The | 2003 | 86 | 7.5 |
| 84 | Sweet Sixteen | 2003 | 86 | 8.5 |
| 85 | Departed, The | 2006 | 86 | 7.7 |
| 86 | Ponyo | 2009 | 86 | 7.6 |
| 87 | Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film | 2006 | 86 | 8.0 |
| 88 | Flight of the Red Balloon, The | 2008 | 86 | 5.5 |
| 89 | Before Night Falls | 2000 | 85 | 9.0 |
| 90 | Bourne Ultimatum, The | 2007 | 85 | 7.7 |
| 91 | Pianist, The | 2002 | 85 | 8.6 |
| 92 | You Can Count On Me | 2000 | 85 | 8.5 |
| 93 | Children Underground | 2001 | 85 | 9.8 |
| 94 | Edge of Heaven, The | 2008 | 85 | 8.7 |
| 95 | Savages, The | 2007 | 85 | 7.4 |
| 96 | Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The | 2001 | 85 | 8.2 |
| 97 | Offside | 2007 | 85 | 8.6 |
| 98 | Los Angeles Plays Itself | 2004 | 85 | 7.8 |
| 99 | Knocked Up | 2007 | 85 | 6.4 |
| 100 | Turtles Can Fly | 2005 | 85 | 9.4 |
The list below shows the top 100 films over this period that had a wide cinema release. The reasoning for Metacritic.com publishing this list is for the benefit of the average site visitors who may not have heard of some of the foreign and art-house films in the list above.
| Title | Year | Metascore | Users | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pan’s Labyrinth | 2006 | 98 | 8.3 |
| 2 | Ratatouille | 2007 | 96 | 8.6 |
| 3 | Spirited Away | 2002 | 94 | 9.3 |
| 4 | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The | 2003 | 94 | 8.6 |
| 5 | Sideways | 2004 | 94 | 6.1 |
| 6 | WALL-E | 2008 | 93 | 8.9 |
| 7 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | 93 | 7.0 |
| 8 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | 92 | 7.1 |
| 9 | Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The | 2001 | 92 | 8.4 |
| 10 | Queen, The | 2006 | 91 | 6.0 |
| 11 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | 91 | 6.9 |
| 12 | Incredibles, The | 2004 | 90 | 8.7 |
| 13 | Almost Famous | 2000 | 90 | 8.3 |
| 14 | Gosford Park | 2001 | 90 | 6.1 |
| 15 | United 93 | 2006 | 90 | 7.5 |
| 16 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | 89 | 6.3 |
| 17 | House of Flying Daggers | 2004 | 89 | 7.7 |
| 18 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | 2006 | 89 | 6.9 |
| 19 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | 89 | 8.5 |
| 20 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | 89 | 8.6 |
| 21 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | 89 | 8.1 |
| 22 | Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The | 2002 | 88 | 8.9 |
| 23 | Capote | 2005 | 88 | 7.9 |
| 24 | Chicken Run | 2000 | 88 | 7.1 |
| 25 | Up | 2009 | 88 | 9.0 |
| 26 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | 87 | 8.2 |
| 27 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | 87 | 8.2 |
| 28 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | 86 | 7.9 |
| 29 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | 86 | 7.8 |
| 30 | In the Bedroom | 2001 | 86 | 7.4 |
| 31 | Traffic | 2000 | 86 | 8.0 |
| 32 | Departed, The | 2006 | 86 | 7.7 |
| 33 | Ponyo | 2009 | 86 | 7.6 |
| 34 | Bourne Ultimatum, The | 2007 | 85 | 7.7 |
| 35 | Pianist, The | 2002 | 85 | 8.6 |
| 36 | Knocked Up | 2007 | 85 | 6.4 |
| 37 | About Schmidt | 2002 | 85 | 5.4 |
| 38 | Atonement | 2007 | 85 | 7.2 |
| 39 | Children of Men | 2006 | 84 | 7.6 |
| 40 | Milk | 2008 | 84 | 7.4 |
| 41 | Mystic River | 2003 | 84 | 5.4 |
| 42 | Shrek | 2001 | 84 | 8.7 |
| 43 | Volver | 2006 | 84 | 8.8 |
| 44 | Dave Chappelle’s Block Party | 2006 | 84 | 7.3 |
| 45 | Hero | 2004 | 84 | 7.0 |
| 46 | Adaptation | 2002 | 83 | 7.4 |
| 47 | Avatar | 2009 | 83 | n/a |
| 48 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | 83 | 8.2 |
| 49 | Star Trek | 2009 | 83 | 7.9 |
| 50 | Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride | 2005 | 83 | 7.0 |
| 51 | Up in the Air | 2009 | 83 | 7.9 |
| 52 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | 83 | 7.7 |
| 53 | Drag Me to Hell | 2009 | 83 | 6.1 |
| 54 | U2 3D | 2008 | 83 | 7.8 |
| 55 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | 2004 | 83 | 7.3 |
| 56 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | 83 | 7.4 |
| 57 | Constant Gardener, The | 2005 | 82 | 6.9 |
| 58 | School of Rock | 2003 | 82 | 9.3 |
| 59 | Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | 82 | 8.9 |
| 60 | Chicago | 2002 | 82 | 7.9 |
| 61 | Michael Clayton | 2007 | 82 | 7.0 |
| 62 | Dark Knight, The | 2008 | 82 | 8.8 |
| 63 | Eastern Promises | 2007 | 82 | 7.2 |
| 64 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | 81 | 6.6 |
| 65 | Mighty Wind, A | 2003 | 81 | 7.5 |
| 66 | History of Violence, A | 2005 | 81 | 6.8 |
| 67 | Juno | 2007 | 81 | 8.5 |
| 68 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | 81 | 5.6 |
| 69 | Hot Fuzz | 2007 | 81 | 8.5 |
| 70 | Wrestler, The | 2008 | 81 | 8.2 |
| 71 | Hours, The | 2002 | 81 | 8.5 |
| 72 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | 81 | 7.8 |
| 73 | Hairspray [2007] | 2007 | 81 | 7.7 |
| 74 | King Kong [2005] | 2005 | 81 | 7.0 |
| 75 | Casino Royale | 2006 | 81 | 7.7 |
| 76 | District 9 | 2009 | 81 | 7.9 |
| 77 | Simpsons Movie, The | 2007 | 80 | 7.2 |
| 78 | Coraline | 2009 | 80 | 7.8 |
| 79 | Good Night, and Good Luck | 2005 | 80 | 7.4 |
| 80 | Little Miss Sunshine | 2006 | 80 | 7.4 |
| 81 | Minority Report | 2002 | 80 | 7.5 |
| 82 | Frost/Nixon | 2008 | 80 | 7.5 |
| 83 | March of the Penguins | 2005 | 79 | 8.2 |
| 84 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | 79 | 8.5 |
| 85 | High Fidelity | 2000 | 79 | 8.5 |
| 86 | Flags of Our Fathers | 2006 | 79 | 7.0 |
| 87 | Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire | 2009 | 79 | 8.1 |
| 88 | Iron Monkey | 2001 | 79 | 8.2 |
| 89 | Iron Man | 2008 | 79 | 8.3 |
| 90 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | 78 | 8.7 |
| 91 | 28 Weeks Later… | 2007 | 78 | 7.0 |
| 92 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | 2008 | 78 | 7.2 |
| 93 | Punch-Drunk Love | 2002 | 78 | 6.0 |
| 94 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | 78 | 6.6 |
| 95 | Insomnia | 2002 | 78 | 6.6 |
| 96 | Zodiac | 2007 | 78 | 7.7 |
| 97 | Kung Fu Hustle | 2005 | 78 | 8.9 |
| 98 | Aviator, The | 2004 | 77 | 6.8 |
| 99 | Happy Feet | 2006 | 77 | 5.8 |
| 100 | 8 Mile | 2002 | 77 | 8.3 |
| Title | Year | Metascore | Users | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singing Forest, The | 2003 | 1 | 3.1 |
| 2 | Chaos | 2005 | 3 | 2.5 |
| 3 | Strippers | 2000 | 5 | 5.1 |
| 4 | Vulgar | 2002 | 5 | 4.1 |
| 5 | National Lampoon’s Gold Diggers | 2004 | 6 | 2.7 |
| 6 | Hottie and the Nottie, The | 2008 | 7 | 2.1 |
| 7 | Screwed | 2000 | 7 | 7.2 |
| 8 | Miss March | 2009 | 7 | 3.9 |
| 9 | Transylmania | 2009 | 8 | 2.7 |
| 10 | State Property | 2002 | 9 | 5.6 |
| 11 | Dirty Love | 2005 | 9 | 3.0 |
| 12 | Meet the Spartans | 2008 | 9 | 2.7 |
| 13 | Alone in the Dark | 2005 | 9 | 1.7 |
| 14 | Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 | 2004 | 9 | 2.3 |
| 15 | Battlefield Earth | 2000 | 9 | 2.6 |
| 16 | Whipped | 2000 | 10 | 5.8 |
| 17 | Pinocchio [2002] | 2002 | 11 | 2.3 |
| 18 | Date Movie | 2006 | 11 | 3.1 |
| 19 | 3 Strikes | 2000 | 11 | 4.8 |
| 20 | King’s Ransom | 2005 | 11 | 1.2 |
| 21 | Master of Disguise, The | 2002 | 12 | 4.0 |
| 22 | Adventures of Pluto Nash, The | 2002 | 12 | 4.9 |
| 23 | Slackers | 2002 | 12 | 6.0 |
| 24 | Strange Wilderness | 2008 | 12 | 4.7 |
| 25 | New Best Friend | 2002 | 13 | 7.2 |
| 26 | Down To You | 2000 | 13 | 7.7 |
| 27 | Beautiful Life, A | 2009 | 13 | 3.3 |
| 28 | Freddy Got Fingered | 2001 | 13 | 6.4 |
| 29 | Fascination | 2005 | 13 | 5.1 |
| 30 | Daddy Day Camp | 2007 | 13 | 1.4 |
| 31 | In Crowd, The | 2000 | 14 | 2.5 |
| 32 | Dungeons & Dragons | 2000 | 14 | 5.3 |
| 33 | Glitter | 2001 | 14 | 5.7 |
| 34 | From Justin to Kelly | 2003 | 14 | 4.0 |
| 35 | Sculptress, The | 2000 | 14 | 4.5 |
| 36 | Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist | 2002 | 14 | 8.9 |
| 37 | Rollerball | 2002 | 14 | 2.5 |
| 38 | Dischord | 2003 | 14 | n/a |
| 39 | What Love Is | 2007 | 14 | 8.7 |
| 40 | House of the Dead | 2003 | 15 | 1.6 |
| 41 | College | 2008 | 15 | 2.5 |
| 42 | Disaster Movie | 2008 | 15 | 1.4 |
| 43 | Yu-Gi-Oh! | 2004 | 15 | 5.2 |
| 44 | Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 | 2000 | 15 | 3.3 |
| 45 | Darkness | 2004 | 15 | 2.9 |
| 46 | In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale | 2008 | 15 | 8.1 |
| 47 | Tomcats | 2001 | 15 | 6.2 |
| 48 | Cookout, The | 2004 | 15 | 5.6 |
| 49 | Kangaroo Jack | 2003 | 16 | 4.5 |
| 50 | Deuces Wild | 2001 | 16 | 7.4 |
