>>212130808 (OP)
>Every generation gets its defining teen comedy. For the 21st century, that’s “Superbad.” The script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg — about pals named Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) trying to get laid before they graduate high school — is both hilariously profane and surreptitiously sweet. The director Greg Mottola took the antics and elevated them with retro opening titles and an uproarious sequence involving phallic cartoons. But “Superbad” is also a feat of casting, introducing moviegoers to the talents of Hill, Cera and Emma Stone.

>>212130808 (OP)
It better have Kizumonogatari. Best vampire movie trilogy of this century.

>>212130808 (OP)
Memories of Murder
Bong Joon Ho, 2005

>A close up image of two men dressed in green looking over a bush with intense expressions.
The first clue that this Korean police procedural isn’t bound by Hollywood genre conventions comes in the opening moments: A detective (played by Song Kang Ho) summoned to investigate a dead body in a rural outpost arrives by hitching a ride on a plodding tractor. The grim laughs continue when other hapless investigators fall quite literally into the crime scene. The director Bong Joon Ho has strong ideas about the limits of men facing unfathomable evil, and he explores them with his hallmark mix of unexpected humor and sharply observed drama.

>>212130878
98

Grizzly Man
Werner Herzog, 2005

A man dressed in black with sunglasses on gazes into the camera while a grizzly bear stands on a grassy field behind him.
It would be easy to assume that this Werner Herzog documentary about Timothy Treadwell, who spent many summers cohabitating with Alaska’s brown bears, would skew educational. But Treadwell wasn’t an expert in the traditional sense, and this film is more about a man grappling with his place in the world. Treadwell left behind hours of self-recorded videos, and his camera’s microphone was on when he and his girlfriend were mauled to death in 2003. We watch Herzog listen to those moments, making it the most haunting audio you’ll never hear.

>Jew York Times

>>212130924
97

Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón, 2013

Alfonso Cuarón’s action film is one of the 21st century’s greatest thrill rides, a real-time survival story about an abandoned astronaut (Sandra Bullock) who must find her way back to Earth while confronting the trauma she has long suppressed. With groundbreaking special effects that outshine most recent releases, Cuarón crafts a suspenseful story that suggests the true terror of being lost in space isn’t the prospect of certain death — it’s being alone with your thoughts.

>Parasite #1
Bruh, who gave unc the wifi password?

>>212130808 (OP)
What number is Emilia Perez?

96

Black Panther
Ryan Coogler, 2018

There’s so much to love. It’s a superhero spectacle that actually has something important to say, about how identity, history and responsibility intersect. Wakanda, the Afrofuturistic world where the story takes place, is a visual wonder. The women (played by Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o and Letitia Wright — all excellent) aren’t just sidekicks or love interests. Michael B. Jordan, as the tragically villainous Killmonger, has never been more swoon worthy. And, of course, Chadwick Boseman shines in the title role, sadly one of his last before dying of cancer.

>>212131052
95

The Worst Person in the World
Joachim Trier, 2021

A man in a white collared shirt blows smoke into a woman's mouth as she rests a hand on his shoulder.
At first, Julie (Renate Reinsve) may strike you as a dilettante. An Oslo college student, she changes majors like outfits; later, in her 20s, she dates tetchy Aksel (Anders Danielsen Lie) while fantasizing about a life spent with the simpler Eivind (Herbert Nordrum). But this empathetic dramedy from Joachim Trier never judges Julie for her indecision, since a life lived robustly is bound to include some detours. How are you supposed to find yourself without looking everywhere first?

With BP, no one can claim to have seen ALL 100

>>212131095
94

Minority Report
Steven Spielberg, 2002

The image of a nearly bald Samantha Morton shouting “Run!” is just one reason Steven Spielberg’s Philip K. Dick adaptation is still haunting. In this dystopia, crime is stopped before it happens thanks to the foresight of human “precogs” like Morton’s character. Tom Cruise is appropriately on edge as a falsely accused police officer, infusing a deep sadness into his actions as he draws closer to the center of a huge conspiracy. A gnawing agony powers Spielberg’s noir in which color has almost been drained from the world.

>>212131052
>superhero spectacle that actually has something important to say
What intern wrote this lmao

>>212131124
93

Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy, 2007

George Clooney, wearing a suit and tie, stares to the side while his hand rests on a car door.
“I’m not a miracle worker, I’m a janitor,” Michael Clayton tells a disgruntled client of the law firm he works for. George Clooney, in his finest performance, delivers the line with a mixture of seen-it-all bitterness and intelligence. His character is nominally an attorney, but really he’s a fixer trying to undo the damage after a colleague (Tom Wilkinson, at his absolute best) goes off his meds and finds his moral compass. What that does to Clayton’s conscience is the crux of the writer-director Tony Gilroy’s gripping thriller.


Cloondawg is heavy on this list.

>>212131052
kek

>>212131154
92

Gladiator
Ridley Scott, 2000

A gladiator holding a sword and shield charges a man with a knife.
Sword-and-sandal epics were long out of fashion when Ridley Scott charged in with this exciting drama full of intrigue and action. It helped that he had Russell Crowe, as the honorable soldier out for vengeance, working at the height of his artistry and a fresh, unaffected Joaquin Phoenix as the emperor longing to be beloved. The film set off a mini-resurgence in the genre, but none of the imitators understood that spectacle needs heart to match. That’s what made “Gladiator” so gripping.

>>212130878
memories of murder sucks. the premise of showing actual incompetent cops just makes for a terminally boring film.

>>212131197
91

Fish Tank
Andrea Arnold, 2010

In a scene from "Fish Tank," Katie Jarvis leans against a teal car wearing a light zip-up hoodie. Michael Fassbender is in the driver's seat leaning out of the door, which is open. Two beverages sit atop the vehicle and there are trees in the background.
Few movies about adolescent girls are quite this raw or daring. Andrea Arnold’s story concerns a girl (Katie Jarvis) who desperately wants to be a hip-hop dancer, a pursuit her mother’s new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender) encourages. But really the film is about her awakening passions, sexual and familial and more, and the ways in which this seemingly tough girl is achingly vulnerable. It’s fearless and electric, one of Arnold’s finest.

>>212130808 (OP)
Nigga we only 25% done with it.Why can't they wait? Anyways is there on of theses for the 20th century?
>>212130855
That was boring as shit and the occasional well animated fight and creep shot couldn't save it from that

>>212131230
90

Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach, 2013

Before Greta Gerwig struck out on her own to make “Lady Bird,” the first sign of her ascension was “Frances Ha,” which she co-wrote with the director Noah Baumbach. Gerwig also stars as Frances, a woman in her late 20s who is holding onto her youth in a way that is both irrepressibly joyful and deeply immature. Shot in nostalgic black and white, “Frances Ha” is a character study that captures the moment adulthood takes hold.

>>212131263
89

Interstellar
Christopher Nolan, 2014

The plot of Christopher Nolan’s dazzling, ambitious space epic is a puzzle that even today remains mind-bending, mirroring how little we understand about where we are in the universe and why we exist. At its center is Matthew McConaughey as a widower who leaves behind his children, father-in-law and an Earth ravaged by climate change to join a NASA team trying to find a new planet. For all the far-off horizons, the movie is at its best exploring the precarious yet seductive concept of home.

>>212131310
I just know this list is gonna have a gigaton of Nolanslop

>>212131310
88

The Gleaners & I
Agnès Varda, 2001

Agnes Varda, with heavy bangs, holds a video camera that rests on a metal bar.
The “I” is Agnès Varda, the pioneering filmmaker who helped kick-start the French new wave. With an intimate voice-over and hand-held digital camera, Varda travels throughout France to consider the personal and political identity of gleaners, people who traditionally collected grain left in fields after harvest. The result is a profound, uncommonly tender and searchingly philosophical dream of what it could mean to live in the world — take only what you need, share everything you have — that is itself a tour de force of cinematic gleaning.

>>212131259
>Anyways is there on of theses for the 20th century?
What a dumb question. Any Top 100 list worth its salt is gonna be majority 20th century films.

>>212131354
87

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Peter Jackson, 2001

A Hobbit in a brown coat reaches for a ring with a concerned look on his face.
With the first installment of his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Peter Jackson did the almost impossible: He brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth to life in the hills of New Zealand, appealing to longtime fans and newcomers who might be wary of the jargon about elves and orcs. The film set a new bar for fantasy blockbusters with makeup and effects that still hold up, and set pieces that are immersive and occasionally terrifying. As soon as Howard Shore’s score kicks in, it’s hard not to feel transported.

>>212131396
This, only the first 12 years of the 21st century were good. The rest of this century has been terrible so far.

>>212131406
86

Past Lives
Celine Song, 2023

The opening scene of Celine Song’s debut feature beguiles you: Late at night in a New York bar, a woman (played by Greta Lee) is seated between two men (Teo Yoo and John Magaro) and it’s unclear who they are to one another. The closing scene with the same three people, filmed in one take on a sidewalk, may well shatter your heart. In between, Song’s story unfolds in New York City and Seoul and is filled with exquisite reflections on time, love, fate and reinvention.

>>212131230
I'm the only person that's seen this film I bet

>>212131446
85

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Adam McKay, 2004

The endless one-liners, the absurd set pieces, the big dumb sexist lunk of an anchorman played with just the right amount of lunacy by Will Ferrell, at arguably his best — this comedy is the perfect antidote to whatever ails you. Does the story make sense? Not really. Does that matter? No. You’re there for the jokes, the rumble between rival news teams and the sense that cast members had the time of their lives making this movie. Plus now we all know “San Diago” means “a whale’s vagina” in German.

>>212131197
>2000
This is from the 20th century. NYT writers are retarded.

>>212131479
84

Melancholia
Lars von Trier, 2011

A blonde woman in a dark outfit holds her spread fingers up in the air against a pink sky.
Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia” is here to bum you out in ways both breathtaking and contemplative. Kirsten Dunst stars as a bride who is falling apart, all the better to match the state of the world, which just might be about to collide with a rogue planet. When it comes to bleak and brutal, von Trier does it best, yet the Danish auteur somehow manages to make total annihilation a th

>>212131545
83

Gay Niggers from Outer Space
Master Fatman, 1992

What can be said that the title hasn't already? There's niggers. They're gay. They're from outer space (could the niggers we see in real life also be?). Despite not being featured in this century, the impact and rate of.discovery by new audiences earns this film's spot on this jewy nepotism list.
From the world reknown premise to the poetry of the gay nigger love making, this film-nay, cinema- not only defines not one but not if all generations. A Tour de France of writing, lighting, penis fighting, and pillow biting. The genre defying movie shattered each one it tackled harder than any given black booty in this piece.

>>212131545
83

Inside Llewyn Davis
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, 2013

A man in a green jacket and a thick scarf holds a guitar and a cat.
The Coen brothers dug into the 1960s folk scene by focusing on one of its losers. The title character, played by a breakout Oscar Isaac, is a sad sack, mourning the loss of his musical partner, and a jerk, prone to taking advantage of supposed friends. Llewyn’s music is good, but not Bob Dylan good. This makes the movie one of the quintessential works of art about being an artist on the outside of greatness. The irony that the film itself is great is just the kind of karma Llewyn deserves.

>>212131600
82

The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer and Anonymous, 2013

Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary masterpiece concerns the perpetrators of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66. Really, though, the subject is the incredible capacity of the human mind to compartmentalize and rationalize monstrous acts of cruelty toward other people. The way Oppenheimer goes about it makes for a movie that plays like psychological horror — all the more petrifying because it is nonfiction.

>>212131636
81

Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky, 2010

A woman in a pink garment touches her hair, surrounded by images of herself.
Where is the line between the drive for perfection and unhealthy obsession? Natalie Portman took home the best actress Oscar for her role as Nina, a ballerina whose competition with a rival (Mila Kunis) for the lead role in “Swan Lake” pushes her into madness. The director Darren Aronofsky ratchets up the tension and disorientation in this psychological thriller until our heads are spinning along with the dancers. The scenes depicting Nina’s hallucinations infuse body horror with an unforgettable dark grandeur.

>>212131587
21st century, anon. Make one about Buck Breaking.

>>212131668
80

Volver
Pedro Almodóvar, 2006

Death, resurrection, family bonds and an electrifying performance by Penélope Cruz make up this gem of a drama from Pedro Almodóvar. Multiple generations of women show resolve as they navigate obstacle after obstacle. It’s an empowering work, dripping with beauty and passion (as so many of Almodóvar’s films are), and sprinkled with a dash of magical realism that opens up its narrative to new realms.

>>212131728
79

The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick, 2011

There’s ambitious subject matter and then there’s Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or-winning “The Tree of Life,” which tries to wrap its arms around all of creation. A meditation on memory and loss, this impressionistic film loosely follows a suburban family in 1950s Texas and a troubled son (Sean Penn) decades later. But in its audacious “history of the universe” sequence, the movie searches for the meaning of one human life by examining the violent, beautiful, mysterious origins of life itself.

>>212131757
78

Aftersun
Charlotte Wells, 2022

A young person in a striped T-shirt peers over a railing at the sea beside a man.
Watching this quietly devastating feature debut from Charlotte Wells, it feels as if you’re seeing someone’s home movies — even in the scenes that aren’t shot to look like camcorder footage of a father and daughter’s Turkish vacation. The perfectly tuned performances by the young newcomer Frankie Corio and a breakout Paul Mescal (who was nominated for a best actor Oscar) add to the intimate realism. When hints of darkness seep into their sun-dappled trip, and it becomes clear their time together is in the past tense, it’s heartbreaking.

>>212131810
77

Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022

How do you type when you have hot dogs for fingers? Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s wildly inventive movie might have you asking this, and so many other questions you never thought you would contemplate. Raining down ideas by the bucketful, this movie should not work as well as it does, but the sure-footed filmmakers distill their multiverse-themed, genre-hopping narrative into truths about love and family. Turns out those hot dog fingers can hug easily.

>>212131839
76

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, 2000

This sepia-toned Coen brothers adventure is presented as an adaptation of Homer’s “Odyssey,” and while that thread is loose at best, it delivers a hearty stew of folklore, tall tales and even fantasy. In dusty Depression-era Mississippi, three dimwitted escaped convicts take off on a treasure hunt. A whimsical, rollicking ride ensues, but it’s the filmmakers’ use of Americana music including gospel, Delta blues and bluegrass that elevates this quest into an allegory about freedom, forgiveness, hope and the many ways we are inherently flawed.

>2000 is the start of the 21st century, for any brainlets out there.

>>212131878
This is from the 20th century.

>Melancholia ranks higher than Interstellar
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>>212131878
75

Amour
Michael Haneke, 2012

Michael Haneke, the provocateur director of “Funny Games,” brought a surprisingly tender touch to this wrenching portrait of spousal devotion. Drawing on the audience’s memories of his octogenarian stars, Jean-Louis Trintignant (“The Conformist”) and Emmanuelle Riva (“Hiroshima Mon Amour”), Haneke cast them as Georges and Anne, married former music teachers. Georges tends to Anne as her health deteriorates; he recognizes that there is nothing much to be done, and that he is gradually closing off his own life.

Reminder that the 21st century is 2001-2100. 2000 was the last year of the 20th century.

>>212131909
Neither should be on the list

>>212131941
fascinating

>>212131914
74

The Florida Project
Sean Baker, 2017

A child in a lime tank top stands on a balcony with an older man with a pensive expression.
A heart-rending portrait of childhood imagination and innocence amid poverty and marginalization in America. Moonee, age 6 (Brooklynn Prince), runs riot at a tawdry motel near Disney World. You alternately want to squeeze her with joy and put her in a long timeout, and that’s the point: She’s a kid, effervescently so. The film draws power from an unspoken tension (this existence is unlikely to end well) and the way a magical fantasy world — manufactured and marketed by Disney — sits just out of her reach

>>212131990
73

Ratatouille
Brad Bird, 2007

An animated chef with a rat on his head leans over a cutting board in a kitchen.
A cartoon rodent, a Paris backdrop, an underdog (OK, under-rat) story: It’s the setup for many animated tales. But there’s a difference between rehashing the same-old and elevating a classic, much like the trajectory of this movie’s titular dish. Remy, a country rat with a sophisticated palate and a belief in himself, heads to the city to make his culinary dreams come true — setting off an enchanting, witty and touching adventure. Its lessons about reigniting our passions, even when they have long turned to drudgery, linger well after the feast.

>>212132011
72

Carol
Todd Haynes, 2015

You could call it the lesbian “Brokeback Mountain” — a moving same-sex love story with big stars (Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara), unpolitical except that it exists, set in a time (in this case, the 1950s) when gay people survived through self-imprisonment (notice how the motel blinds in “Carol” cast prison-bar shadows). “Carol,” however, ends on a slightly happier note. Blanchett’s high-society mother must relinquish custody of her beloved daughter, but she’s at least no longer fearful of her sexuality. Mara’s young photographer says it aloud at the end: “I’m not afraid.”

>>212131968
interstellar's "love transcends time" is its only flaw

>>212132042
71

Ocean’s Eleven
Steven Soderbergh, 2001

George Clooney, in a dark suit, Julia Roberts, in a pink sweater and Brad Pitt, in a beige jacket, pose in front of a car.
Star power has never been more glittery than in Steven Soderbergh’s remake of the 1960 Rat Pack heist picture. This version pairs George Clooney at his most suave with an impish, spiky-haired Brad Pitt for a romp that keeps tension high while remaining impeccably sleek and stylish. Each member of Danny Ocean’s team is an utter delight, including Elliott Gould in oversize glasses and Don Cheadle with a British accent. And Soderbergh gives Las Vegas a dreamy aura that matches the celebrities onscreen.
More Cloondawg

>>212132087
70

Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson, 2008

Two young people rest their heads on pillows under a brown blanket.
This one is for the outcasts. Unfolding for the most part with a chilly sense of calm, Tomas Alfredson’s drama follows a friendship between a detached boy, Oskar (Kare Hedebrant), and his offbeat neighbor, Eli (Lina Leandersson), who just might be a vampire. The film is tempered, bloody when it needs to be, but sympathetic to the challenges of its lead characters and generous in how it portrays their connection as it pushes the vampire movie in fresh directions.

>>212132115
69

Under the Skin
Jonathan Glazer, 2014

What a haunting head trip Jonathan Glazer delivers in this electrifying thriller. Scarlett Johansson plays an alien with a come-hither stare that makes men shed their clothes and follow her into a liquid void. The imagery is hypnotizing and disturbing at once. It’s a lyrical slow burn, with a score by Mica Levi that ratchets up the dread. And Johansson’s commanding presence just might make you follow her into that void as well.

>>212131909
>a decent film higher than the worst slop imaginable
There are so many objectionable things about this list, and this is what makes you take issue with it?

>>212131914
Caché, The Piano Teacher, The White Ribbon, should all be on this list. But the Hollywood establishment decided that Amour was the "safest" Haneke film to laud.

>>212132154
68

The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow, 2009

A person in a helmet in an explosion with clouds of dust and smoke.
“How many bombs have you disarmed?” an officer asks Staff Sgt. James (Jeremy Renner), who has just extinguished a flaming car and neutralized its trunkful of explosives. “Eight hundred seventy-three, sir,” he answers. Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the best director Oscar for this nerve-shredding film about a U.S. ordnance team in Iraq. In capturing the 21st-century warfare of insurgents and roadside I.E.D.s, “The Hurt Locker” also looks at the psyche of an adrenaline junkie more at home in a blast suit than in the cereal aisle.

>>212132191
67

Tár
Todd Field, 2022

After a 16-year absence, Todd Field returned to directing with what is perhaps the defining movie of the cancel culture era. Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a virtuosic conductor with perfectly tailored shirts and a hubristic streak that is both her greatest asset and her ultimate downfall. The trick of “Tár” is that Field and Blanchett so meticulously craft Lydia that it’s occasionally hard to remember she’s not a real person. And considering that it makes for a weighty dissection of power, it’s also often hilarious.

>>212132232
66

Spotlight
Tom McCarthy, 2015

Three journalists gather at a desk while one of the men stares at a computer screen.
A detective story about journalists uncovering the Boston archdiocese’s efforts to hide a huge child sexual abuse scandal, “Spotlight” is an understated procedural about heroes in dogged pursuit of the truth. This best picture Oscar winner was beloved precisely because it lacked the big speeches and exploitative flashbacks that often accompany newspaper dramas and instead committed itself to the unglamorous details of an often unglamorous job.

>>212132282
65

Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan, 2023

In a scene from "Oppenheimer," Cillian Murphy squints as he looks towards the sky while standing in the desert. He is wearing a button down shirt, tie, and blazer. There are trucks behind him.
The father of the atomic bomb, and thus of our apocalyptic age, provides the director Christopher Nolan an ideal subject for his magnum opus. Nolan is obsessed with the collision of science and humanism; in structuring the film explicitly around the ways power is created — fission and fusion, each potentially generative and destructive — he has made an operatic epic that is history, thriller and warning, all in one.

Can Cloondawg outlist Nolan?

Pretty good list so far desu. Black Panther is meh but they would have copped backlash if they didn’t have it so dumping it in the back end is fair play.

>>212132318
64

Gone Girl
David Fincher, 2014

A perfect example of the unreliable narrator, “Gone Girl” takes the he said/she said tale to new heights. Written by Gillian Flynn, author of the best-selling novel on which it’s based, the movie gives contradictory accounts of the marriage between urbane Amy and Midwestern Nick, played with pitch-perfect precision by Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck, and keeps us guessing over who is the hero and who is the villain. In the end, are there any winners in the land of toxic domesticity?

>>212132347
63

Little Miss Sunshine
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2006

If only every dysfunctional family could be this supportive of one another’s dreams. Perhaps that’s the takeaway from “Little Miss Sunshine,” which centers on the downtrodden, eclectic Hoovers, including a suicidal uncle, a heroin-ingesting grandpa and a father always looking for the next get-rich-quick scheme. They all pile into a VW bus to give 7-year-old Olive (Abigail Breslin) the chance to win a child beauty pageant. Part comedic road trip, part commentary on contemporary America, “Little Miss Sunshine” delights for both its heart and stunning performances.

>>212132380
62

Memento
Christopher Nolan, 2001

A man with blonde spiky hair holds up a Polaroid photograph.
This Christopher Nolan thriller stands out for its ingenious structure: starting at the story’s end and backtracking scene by scene. The disjointed narrative gives us a taste of what life is like for Leonard (Guy Pearce), who can’t store short-term memories and who tattoos his body with clues about his wife’s murder. It’s a clever puzzle, but what makes “Memento” unforgettable is what it says about identity and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, right up to its rug-pull of an ending — er, beginning.

>>212132412
61

Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Quentin Tarantino, 2003

Never before have shootings, stabbings, beatings, beheadings, disembowelings, amputations, mutilations, gougings, slicings, choppings and bitings been so much campy fun. Uma Thurman’s character, the Bride, awakens from a coma and vows revenge on her code-named assailants; they include the kimono-wearing, katana-wielding Cottonmouth (Lucy Liu) and the seemingly ordinary Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox), who keeps a gun in her daughter’s cereal box. Quentin Tarantino lovingly uses B-movie styles — spaghetti western, kung fu, anime, grindhouse — to tell his dark story.

A Tarantkino

>>212132435
60

Whiplash
Damien Chazelle, 2014

A music teacher from hell (J.K. Simmons) and his arrogant disciple (Miles Teller) engage in a spellbinding battle of wills. The director Damien Chazelle has said that he drew inspiration from Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” as he explored the idea that excellence, like combat, demands total discipline and surrender of self. The ultra-intense “Whiplash” — the final drum solo will make you work up a sweat — won three Oscars, including one for Simmons, and established Chazelle, then just 29, as one of the most promising filmmakers of his generation.

>>212132460
59

Toni Erdmann
Maren Ade, 2016

A blonde woman in a dark blazer and white shirt sits in a chair working on a project involving a white ball.
Nearly a decade before her celebrated turns in “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest,” the German actress Sandra Hüller co-starred in this dual character study of a tightly wound careerist and her aging prankster father (Peter Simonischek). When Pops makes a sudden unannounced visit to his semi-estranged daughter in Bucharest, what follows is a Dada-esque parade of forced karaoke, spontaneous nudity and borrowed Bulgarian folklore in which not one of the film’s shaggy, surreal and somehow deeply human 162 minutes feels wasted.

>>212132485
58

Uncut Gems
Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie, 2019

A man wearing a yellow shirt and dark jacket walks down a busy New York street, surrounded by pedestrians.
Arguably one of the most anxiety-inducing movies of the century so far, “Uncut Gems” is the Safdie brothers’ darkly hilarious character study of Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a Jewish diamond district dealer with a gambling problem. The movie is just as abrasive as Howard, who is constantly in a crisis of his own making as he tries to avoid the ire of his wife (Idina Menzel), a loan shark’s lackeys, and the basketball superstar Kevin Garnett, who has become entranced with an opal Howard imported from Ethiopia.

>>212132157
everything past the wedding in melancholia is terrible

>>212132522
57

Best in Show
Christopher Guest, 2000

By the time this was released, Christopher Guest had already mastered the mockumentary with “Waiting for Guffman.” But he found the perfect subject matter in the wacky world of elite dog shows. His trusty group of improvisers created indelible characters out of canine obsessives, like Parker Posey’s catalog-loving yuppie with braces and a Weimaraner, and Eugene Levy’s singing terrier-owner who quite literally has two left feet. For as mad as it all is, there’s a sweetness directed at these goofballs and their pooches.

>>212132556
That's 20th century.

>>212132556
56

Punch-Drunk Love
Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002

This Paul Thomas Anderson film incorporates the zaniness of a screwball comedy and the earnestness of a romantic drama, anchored by a career-best performance from Adam Sandler. He reveals layer after surprising layer as a socially awkward salesman who falls for a timid woman (Emily Watson). The two are a match made in quirk heaven in a film that celebrates the eccentric in all of us.

>>212132072
>the central core theme of interstellar is its only flaw
jej

The New York Times top ten films of 1925 were:

The Big Parade
The Last Laugh
The Unholy Three
The Gold Rush
The Merry Widow
The Dark Angel
Don Q, Son of Zorro
Ben-Hur
Stella Dallas
A Kiss for Cinderella

>>212132585
55

Inception
Christopher Nolan, 2010

Leonardo DiCaprio leans on a marble countertop with both arms while watching a spinning top.
The success of “The Dark Knight” bought Christopher Nolan the freedom to push the limits of his imagination and the boundaries of commercial moviemaking. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the head of a team of dream invaders charged with planting an idea deep in the subconscious of a business scion (Cillian Murphy, Nolan’s future J. Robert Oppenheimer). The writer-director continually toys with narrative structure, visual design and cinema’s capacity to manipulate time. The finale does for spinning tops what “Blade Runner” did for origami unicorns.

>>212132581
Apparently they wanted a round 25 years and couldn't wait?

>>212132649
54

Pan’s Labyrinth
Guillermo del Toro, 2006

A dark fairy tale set in Franco-era Spain, this was the film that propelled Guillermo del Toro from horror movies and comic-book adaptations into the world of prestige filmmaking, albeit with his signature humanism, magical realism and superb creature creations intact. Young Ofelia escapes her bleak circumstances — particularly life under her fascist new stepfather — by entering an imaginary space where a mystical faun sets her on a quest to prove her worth. The visually dazzling allegory affirmed del Toro as one of our finest filmmakers today.

>>212132693
53

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Larry Charles, 2006

Sacha Baron Cohen gave the United States a thorough, uproarious pranking when he brought Borat Sagdiyev, the Kazakh TV reporter he had played on “Da Ali G Show,” to movie screens. As Borat travels the country hoping to meet Pamela Anderson, he has alarmingly little trouble getting strangers to slip their masks: At a rodeo, spectators seem less disturbed about Borat’s call for George W. Bush to “drink the blood of every single man, woman and child of Iraq” than about his singing of Kazakhstan’s supposed national anthem.

>>212132717
52

The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018

In a room filled with candles, a younger woman stares up at an older queen in a headpiece.
The Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos looks at British history through his own fish-eye lens in this cheekily perverted take on the life of Queen Anne, played here as a desperate, ailing ruler by Olivia Colman in an Oscar-winning performance. The two women competing for Anne’s fickle affections are the domineering Sarah (Rachel Weisz) and the conniving Abigail (Emma Stone), each on her own quest for power. In a movie full of delectable zingers, Lanthimos leans into nastiness, both corporeal and otherwise.

>>212132756
51

12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen, 2013

Steve McQueen’s film broke every rule — a profoundly American story from a British director and star (Chiwetel Ejiofor); a Black-led period drama that grossed more than $130 million internationally; a clear-eyed reckoning with slavery that won best picture. Working from the astonishing autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free Black man kidnapped into slavery in the mid-19th century, McQueen crafted a blazingly ambitious, improbably poetic version of the “Odyssey” that reveals more about humanity, power, bigotry and grace than much of the previous 100 years of American political cinema combined.

>>212132788
50

Up
Pete Docter, 2009

Pixar at its risk-taking height. A cranky, 78-year-old widower clings to the past as he struggles to process grief that’s preventing new connections. Some early scenes are in black-and-white; others have no dialogue. In certain sections, the director Pete Docter is interested in a feeling more than linear storytelling. The film’s second half — after the house floats away — becomes more overtly commercial, with a young chatterbox, a dog with a magic collar, a mythical bird and an unexpected antagonist providing adventure and comedic relief.

It makes you wonder about the state of journalism when they fall for the rookie mistake of thinking 2000 is 21st century. Seinfeld had an episode about how the millennium ended a year later than people celebrated it.

>>212132831
49

Before Sunset
Richard Linklater, 2004

A man in a dark jacket gazes at a blonde woman in a black dress, with greenery behind them.
You’re not supposed to make a sequel to a love story. Certainly, it’s hard to imagine improving on “Before Sunrise,” Richard Linklater’s 1995 gem about 20-somethings Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy), who fall for each other on a train from Budapest. But the passage of time adds poignancy, and when “Before Sunset” reunites those star-crossed lovers in their 30s, the emotional baggage they’ve accrued in the meantime makes their second stab at love even more involving.

>>212132845
the chosen celebrated it on the correct year and they blew out 2 large candles to usher it in

>>212131636
This one actually deserves to be in the list. Bizarrely funny shit.

>>212132788
>profoundly American story from a British director
How is this "breaking" any rules kek? Tony Scott made Top Gun back in 1986.

>>212132866
48

The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2007

Whom can you trust in circa-1984 East Berlin? The lives of others — friends, neighbors, wayward co-workers — are anyone’s concern in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s taut, disquieting drama about a dashing playwright, his stage-actress lover and the Stasi agent assigned to monitor their loyalties. The stakes couldn’t be higher, but the movie’s emotional base line is both muted and devastating, a high-wire act of revelation and compliance.

>>212132906
47

Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe, 2000

Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical dramedy about a rock ’n’ roll-obsessed high school journalist who goes on the road with a rising band has become almost totemic, with aphorisms like “You cannot make friends with the rock stars.” Over a soundtrack of Cat Stevens, Yes and Elton John, Crowe brings to life the intoxicating milieu of 1970s rock, featuring an enigmatic guitarist (Billy Crudup) and an alluring don’t-call-her-a-groupie (Kate Hudson). But the movie is also bracingly clear-eyed about the perils of chasing fame.

anora is top 5 calling it now

>>212132939
46

Roma
Alfonso Cuarón, 2018

A black and white image of a woman in the back seat of a car cuddling with a child.
This is Alfonso Cuarón’s film for himself. After spending his 40s and early 50s mostly on big-budget fantasies, the Mexican virtuoso turned to this dazzlingly mundane black-and-white memory piece. Yalitza Aparicio plays Cleo, a maid for a middle-class family in Mexico City in the 1970s. Problems arise, ordinary and otherwise. Her quiet selflessness gets them through. Cuarón won Oscars for his direction and cinematography.

>>212130957
Dropped the list here. This movie was pure ass and doesn’t belong anywhere near a top 100

>>212132939
20th century

>>212132967
45

Moneyball
Bennett Miller, 2011

“Moneyball” doesn’t just depict the real-life success of the underdog Oakland Athletics in 2002. It describes a strategy to win — in business and baseball. Based on Michael Lewis’s book, this Bennett Miller drama stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the G.M. who, together with an aide (Jonah Hill), uses data to assemble a team of undervalued players. With Philip Seymour Hoffman fully inhabiting his role as the skeptical A’s manager, “Moneyball” captures the ruthlessness and romance of baseball at a time when unpopular ideas proved to be literally game-changing

>>212132984
yawn

>>212131941
Yes. And since the Times can't get that simple fact straight, why should we trust their judgment on the quality of these films?

>>212133002
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino, 2019

Leonardo DiCaprio dances on a white television set surrounded by dancers dressed in matching white outfits and boots. DiCaprio is holding a cigarette and there are large orange letters partially visible in the background.
Like Martin Scorsese’s New York or Federico Fellini’s Rome, Quentin Tarantino’s Los Angeles is a thing to behold: The director’s fevered love letter to his hometown circa 1969 is a gonzo-maximalist dream, encompassing a fictional fading TV star (Leonardo DiCaprio), his laconic stuntman-sidekick (Brad Pitt), a passel of Manson family freaks and the very real starlet Sharon Tate (played as pure blond sunshine by Margot Robbie). From there, the script breaks with established history, building to one of the most bravura and far-out finales in film history.

More Tarantkino

>>212133019
theyre all just festival darlings we've all seen already

>>212133029
43

Oldboy
Park Chan-wook, 2005

A man in a plaid shirt with a camera around his neck holds the hand of a woman with long dark hair who is leaning dangerously over a railing.
The middle entry in the South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy hits like a hammer — to the head, leg, arm and anywhere else its protagonist can strike as he fights his way out of a hallway full of thugs. That celebrated action sequence is emblematic of this twisty (and twisted) thriller’s operatic levels of violence, but its emotions are dialed to extremes, too: “Oldboy” provokes and unsettles, right up to its disturbingly ambiguous final frame.

>>212133061
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012

Fans are still unraveling Paul Thomas Anderson’s sixth and most elliptical feature, about the relationship between a drifting, emotionally regressive World War II veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) and a cult leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who is his physical and temperamental opposite. The production design’s extraordinary evocation of the period, the shimmery detail of the imagery (Anderson revived the nearly obsolete 65-millimeter format to shoot it) and the intensity of the performances — including Amy Adams’s turn as the cult leader’s wife — all contribute to the film’s durability and mystery.

>>212133089
41

Amélie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001

“Times are hard for dreamers,” a character says in this surprise smash hit that’s mainly remembered as a mash-up of rom-com and magical effects. But set aside moments like a heartbroken woman dissolving into a puddle. The director Jean-Pierre Jeunet takes a clear-eyed, very funny view of both people and love. That line, for instance, is uttered by a porn emporium clerk. And when a would-be suitor tells the object of his affection, “You’re beautiful when you blush,” she replies, “It’s my dyspepsia.”

>>212133114aaa
40

Yi Yi
Edward Yang, 2000

This multigenerational family epic, written and directed by Edward Yang, balances sublime poetry with explosive drama. Beautifully shot in Taiwan and Japan, the film follows three members of the Jian family after their matriarch falls into a coma. As they confront the banalities of their lives, they try to find meaning through music, memories and especially photographs, including the ones a preternaturally wise 8-year-old takes of the backs of people's heads, to show them what they can’t see for themselves — something Yang achieves with this singular film.

>>212133168
39

Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig, 2017

A young woman in a fancy hot pink dress rests a hand on an older woman in blue scrubs holding garments on hangers.
“Don’t you think maybe they are the same thing — love and attention?” This question, posed to the high schooler Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, is the central tenet of Greta Gerwig’s breakthrough directorial effort. Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) is so used to cataloging the things that frustrate her — from her overbearing mother (Laurie Metcalf) to the provincial indignities of her Sacramento hometown — that she hardly notices her attention and affection are interlinked. As a teenager, Lady Bird wears her defensiveness like a suit of armor, but Gerwig finds the vulnerable heart beating underneath.

>>212133197
38

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Céline Sciamma, 2019

In Céline Sciamma’s quietly piercing historical drama, two 18th-century women, the aristocrat Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) and the artist Marianne (Noémie Merlant), fall secretly and blisteringly in love along the coast of France. But this isn’t a typical saga of forbidden desire, and these women suffer no illusions, though with a deadline hanging over them like a noose, they certainly do suffer: Héloïse is promised to a Milanese nobleman. And the closing scene, long after they’ve parted, is an unshakable, eviscerating display of the aftershocks of social subordination and self-abandonment.

>>212133225
37

Call Me by Your Name
Luca Guadagnino, 2017

Are the best love stories really about heartbreak? In Luca Guadagnino’s masterpiece, Elio (Timothée Chalamet in his breakout role) and Oliver (Armie Hammer) share a tender, teasing summer romance in northern Italy. But it’s the aftermath of their affair that gives the film its depth — Elio’s tearful call to his mother, his father’s gentle wisdom and the unforgettable final scene in which Elio matures before our eyes. Even when love is fleeting, it can transform us in ways that last forever.

>>212133250
36

A Serious Man
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, 2009

A man wearing glasses and a brown suit jacket clutches a brown leather briefcase.
The Coen brothers spin memories of their childhood in late-1960s Minnesota into a dark comedy as knotty as a Talmudic passage. Michael Stuhlbarg plays Larry Gopnik, a physics professor simultaneously beset by a disgruntled student, a wayward brother, a tenure committee, a son’s bar mitzvah and a separation spurred by a guy named Sy Ableman. Is God testing him? Does a rabbi’s story about a “goy’s teeth” hold the answer? It’s the Coens’ most Jewish film — and, “The Big Lebowski” aside, a good candidate for their most quotable.

>>212133276
35

A Prophet
Jacques Audiard, 2010

Sadly, the outlines of this story — a teenager is sent to prison and emerges a hardened criminal — aren’t surprising. But Jacques Audiard is all about specifics, even deploying iris shots to direct our attention as Malik, an illiterate French teenager of Arab descent, uses his smarts not just to get by but to get ahead. Malik (a terrifically subtle Tahar Rahim) is also a stand-in for young Muslims dealing with prejudice and a lack of opportunity in France’s banlieues. In the years since this drama’s release, it has only grown more relevant.

what nigger worshipping flicka is at numero uno?

>>212133310
34

Wall-E
Andrew Stanton, 2008

Pixar’s most formally inventive movie is basically wordless for the first act, in which the last robot on earth is faithfully cleaning up after absent humans. Once it pivots to the sky, though, “Wall-E” is a fable about overconsumption and the climate that’s only gotten more real-feeling. The ending, seemingly cheery on the surface, also serves up a bleak warning that we’ve yet to heed.

>>212133324
Get Out is in the top 10

>>212133344
33

A Separation
Asghar Farhadi, 2011

A woman in a dark headscarf rests her head in a hand while a man in a blue shirt stands in the background.
In Asghar Farhadi’s drama, set in Tehran, a couple is mid-breakup but stuck: A judge has denied the divorce application. While the wife, Simin, takes refuge with her mother, a series of twists and turns lands the husband, Nader, in court facing a murder charge after he hires a woman to care for his ailing father. Full of suspense and moral ambiguity, this legal thriller went on to become the first Iranian movie to win the Oscar for best foreign language film.

>>212133324
ur Mom's secret sex tape.

>>212133374
32

Bridesmaids
Paul Feig, 2011

In 2011, the story of down-on-her-luck Annie (Kristen Wiig), her newly engaged bestie, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and Lillian’s wealthy pal (Rose Byrne) inspired discussions of women, gross-out comedy and box-office power. Today, the script by Wiig and Annie Mumolo remains laugh-out-loud funny, with impressively complex side characters (Melissa McCarthy’s bananas future sister-in-law; Jill Clayburgh’s daffy mom). What surprises is how deeply felt this Paul Feig film is: Annie is sad and jealous, unable to get out of her own way. We’ve all been there, though perhaps not with explosive diarrhea.

>>212133407
31

The Departed
Martin Scorsese, 2006

Jack Nicholson, wearing a hat and sunglasses, raises his hands while looking at Leonardo DiCaprio, whose hands are folded together.
The cat-and-rat gangster picture that finally won Martin Scorsese his Oscar happens to be one of the most downright entertaining of the century. Scorsese takes the Hong Kong flick “Infernal Affairs” and plops it in Boston, Dropkick Murphys soundtrack and all. On one side of the law there’s Leonardo DiCaprio’s rough-around-the-edges cop posing as a criminal. On the other there’s Matt Damon’s golden-boy police officer working for the Mafia. In the middle there’s Jack Nicholson’s Irish mob boss, smiling like the Cheshire Cat. Let the games begin.

Wow. There are a lot of shitty movies in that list.

>black panther mentioned at all
>social network in top 10
>TWWB is not #1
Crazy

>>212133433
30

Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola, 2003

Sofia Coppola’s sophomore feature is a cinematic miracle — effortlessly inventive, endlessly quoted, impossible to replicate. Shot at the Park Hyatt Tokyo (where Coppola had stayed while contemplating the end of her first marriage), it follows the enigmatic duo of Bob and Charlotte (Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson), a fading movie star and a floundering philosophy grad whose paths intersect for just as long as it takes to recognize a soul mate. “Lost in Translation” won Coppola an Oscar and cemented her status as an essential new voice in American film.

>>212133465
29

Arrival
Denis Villeneuve, 2016

A woman in an orange hazmat-like suit holds up a small whiteboard with the word “Human” written on it in marker.
Denis Villeneuve’s lyrical alien film, based on a short story by Ted Chiang, is sci-fi at its most emotionally devastating. When a mysterious, looming extraterrestrial craft lands on Earth, a linguist played by Amy Adams, in a career-best role, is recruited to try to speak to the tentacled beings known as heptapods. Less a saga about invasion than it is about communication, “Arrival” is intoxicatingly mysterious until it wallops you with its time-turning gut punch of an ending.

>>212131052
well we got that box checked off

crazy how ive seen all of these except like 2 so far

>>212133407
>bridesmaids is in the top 100
>its even in the top 50
>it’s even in the top 33%
Who the fuck was polled for this list, 40 year old Californiawomen?

>>212133500
28

The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan, 2008

Indifference to superheroes isn’t a prerequisite for making a great film about them. But Christopher Nolan’s allergy to comic-book logic and his infatuation with the grown-up crime movie canon (especially “Heat” and “The Godfather”) revitalized a character still laboring to emerge from the miasma of “Batman & Robin.” The second entry and high-water mark of Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy poses fruitful questions about the naïveté of its protagonist’s moral code. But the film’s greatest asset is Heath Ledger, whose staggering performance as the Joker set the bar for subsequent supervillains forever.

>>212133520
27

Adaptation
Spike Jonze, 2002

There’s a virtuosic hall-of-mirrors quality to “Adaptation,” directed by Spike Jonze and ostensibly written by Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother, Donald, who does not in fact exist. It’s an adaptation of a book that’s actually about how impossible it is to adapt a book; it’s a study of neuroses and courage and obsessive passion; and above all it is an incredibly funny movie, with a delicious, dual Nicolas Cage performance as both Kaufmans

>>212133557
26

Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet, 2023

A woman with short hair in winter clothes stands alone in front of a window, with a mountain behind her.
Not quite a he-said she-said — the defenestrated husband in question is, several minutes in, already dead — Justine Triet’s taut, stylish dissection of a tumultuous marriage is both forensic and thrillingly ambiguous. As the wife who may or may not have pushed her better half out of a chalet window, Sandra Hüller, who earned an Oscar nomination for the role, offers a master class in contained fury, indignation and ugly truths she (and Triet) will never tell.

>>212133592
25

Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017

A man in a white shirt and bow tie adjusts the formal beige dress of a woman with blonde hair.
Don’t you dare call Paul Thomas Anderson’s delectable 1950s fashion drama “chic.” The couturier Reynolds Woodcock, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, would have your head. This film is sumptuous and subversive, recounting the love story between the exacting Reynolds and his unruly muse, Alma (Vicky Krieps). He is prickly and easily perturbed; she delights in getting under his skin. It may seem that Anderson is investigating power imbalances in relationships; instead it’s the tale of a man meeting his match. Eat up, you hungry boys.

>>212133625
24

Her
Spike Jonze, 2013

A smiling man in an orange jacket stands on boat with a device peeking out from a chest pocket.
Eschewing the hard, gleaming surfaces of most speculative sci-fi for something more off-kilter and bittersweet, Spike Jonze’s digital romance follows a lonely, mustachioed introvert (Joaquin Phoenix) in near-future Los Angeles as he falls head-over-code for an adaptive operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Is it real machine love or just a grown man’s pathological avoidance of intimacy? “Her” refuses easy answers, though the many questions it raises, alas, feel a lot less theoretical today than they did in 2013.

>>212133654
23

Boyhood
Richard Linklater, 2014

A young boy in a green striped shirt holds a magnifying glass up to the face of a man.
An audacious concept — the movie was shot, in start-and-stop fashion, over more than a decade — meets a winningly low-key execution in Richard Linklater’s acute, unhurried portrait of a small-town Texas kid (Ellar Coltrane) navigating his parents’ divorce, first crushes and other travails and triumphs of adolescence. The result is a coming-of-age drama of uncommon loveliness, both piercing and sweet.

>>212133691
22

The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson, 2014

Two elevator operators in purple suits and caps stand in the red interior of an elevator as a female and male passenger sit close together and touch hands.
Wes Anderson’s candy-colored visions can be deceptive. The magnificent inn of the title is a glorious pink confection, but there are real stakes at play: Fascism is fast approaching and refugees have good reason to fear the authorities at the borders of a fictional European country. This between-the-wars tale of a beloved concierge (a terrific Ralph Fiennes) who calls men and women alike “darling” and sleeps with all his friends is in the end deeply moving.

>>212133727
21

The Royal Tenenbaums
Wes Anderson, 2001

Before his name became a byword for a distinctive and much-imitated aesthetic, Wes Anderson was also just a really good storyteller. His exploration of one eccentric New York family contains no shortage of Wes-lian signatures: deadpan line deliveries, dreamy Pantone palettes, first-rate needle drops. But it’s also a deeply felt and often very funny portrait of an emotionally distant patriarch (Gene Hackman) and his messy, overachieving offspring, played with exquisite agony by Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson and Gwyneth Paltrow.

>>212133759
20

The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese, 2013

More than a century after the days of “Gangs of New York,” Martin Scorsese finds more Lower Manhattan bros behaving badly. Playing the notorious stock trader Jordan Belfort (whose memoir the movie is based on), Leonardo DiCaprio has rarely been funnier onscreen, whether it’s chucking lobsters at pesky F.B.I. agents or going rubber-legged from one too many quaaludes. There’s inevitably a downfall, but if it seems as if Belfort gets off pretty easy — well, doesn’t that sound like Wall Street?

the top 20's just full of wes anderson and spike jonzes man thats crazy

>>212133794
19

Zodiac
David Fincher, 2007

Jake Gyllenhaal talks intently into a pay phone while a blonde woman in glasses and a hood looks on.
This drama, which sputtered at the box office, functions as an examination of obsession. The titular serial killer is obsessive in the creation of a persona. The bureaucracy-hindered cops (Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Edwards) obsessively chase leads, while newspaper journalists, including Robert Downey Jr.’s boozy beat reporter, do the same. That you feel satisfied by the time the credits roll — even though the Zodiac’s identity remains a mystery — speaks to David Fincher’s obsessive attention to detail and technique.

>>212133823
18

Y tu mamá también
Alfonso Cuarón, 2002

Alfonso Cuarón’s bildungsroman has much on its mind — lust, class, male friendship, mortality, but mainly lust. Sex is all that high schoolers Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael García Bernal) seem to live for — with their girlfriends, with each other’s girlfriends, with an alluring in-law who inspires a road trip to a beach. Cuarón shoots sex the way his characters feel it: hot, all-consuming, the weight of the world just off-camera. Like youth itself, we stumble out of the film blinking, disoriented, sifting through memories like sand strewn with gold.

>>212133849
17

Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee, 2005

Two men in cowboy hats and brown jackets look off into the distance.
“The gay cowboy movie” did more than start water-cooler conversations and win several Oscars (its best picture loss to “Crash” remains a notorious bugaboo of Oscar lore). Ang Lee’s austere, gently paced western turned a clandestine romance between two Wyoming ranch hands (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) into one of cinema’s great tragic love stories, as aesthetically beautiful as it was emotionally shattering.

>Also known as "What really won Heath the Oscar"

>>212133892
16

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee, 2000

When Ang Lee debuted this wuxia masterpiece starring Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-fat and Zhang Ziyi, the film appealed to Western and Eastern audiences alike, a rarity at the time, and demolished box-office records. This action drama marries acrobatic, aerodynamic martial arts with repressed love and forbidden futures. Seared in memory: the showdown between Yeoh’s swordswoman and the thief played by Zhang using a multitude of weapons, and the balletic sword fight between Chow’s warrior and Zhang in a bamboo forest.
>yes 2000 is not 21st century, fine

>>212133917
15

City of God
Fernando Meirelles, 2003

A young man in a gray striped shirt holds a camera with a strap and has a pensive expression.
A teenager forces a younger teenager to kill an even younger child. The victim cowers inside a fenced patio that resembles a playpen. Nearby sobs another child, who looks about 5; he’s been shot in the foot — to send a message, but also for fun. That a film can contain this scene and somehow make you feel anything but sick is a testament to its narrative complexity, dazzling visual style and charismatic cast. It’s a harrowing yet poetic meditation on survival in Rio de Janeiro’s Cidade de Deus slum.

>>212133989
14

Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino, 2009

Brad Pitt, dressed in a brown military uniform, looks at two soldiers in green jackets with guns.
Quentin Tarantino’s World War II revenge tale is epic but intimate: Life and death turn on a hand gesture, a dessert topping, a bad accent (not whatever Tennessee accent Brad Pitt is using — that one’s hilarious). Christoph Waltz stands out in a stacked ensemble cast, and won the best supporting actor Oscar. But after a conflagration of revisionist history has burned this movie to the ground, Pitt gets the last word, and it’s hard not to hear it in Tarantino’s voice: “I think this just might be my masterpiece.”

>>212134021
13

Children of Men
Alfonso Cuarón, 2006

A man on a bus with blue seats looks at a woman with red hair seated beside him.
While the near future is bleak in Alfonso Cuarón’s sci-fi drama, almost every scene is a stunner. Women have become infertile, and hope for the human race is all but gone, but in a locked-down Britain hostile to refugees, a bureaucrat (Clive Owen) finds himself in a position to protect a newcomer (Clare-Hope Ashitey), the only pregnant woman in the world. The performances are lived-in, the narrative is prescient and Emmanuel Lubezki’s camerawork dazzles. A one-shot ambush sequence filmed from inside a moving vehicle will leave you agape.

>>212134068
12

The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer, 2023

Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust narrative defies convention. Using the bones of Martin Amis’s novel of the same name, Glazer focuses on the day-to-day life of the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), and his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), who reside next door. They garden to the soundtrack of mass murder as the ash of human bodies falls from the sky. It’s a disorienting watch that shows just how easy it is to live with monstrosity, every so often jolting you out of your skin with Mica Levi’s unnerving score.

>>212134101
11

Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller, 2015

The fourth installment in George Miller’s postapocalyptic series finds the world still thirsting for water and Max (Tom Hardy) riding shotgun with Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a one-armed, truck-driving revolutionary. Churning with bodies — human, machined, deathly pale, shinily chromed — Miller’s kinetic, lunatic hallucination leaves you slack-jawed because of both its outrageous visuals and depth of feeling. Come for the guy playing a flame-throwing guitar while tied to a moving semi, stay for the requiem for a world that looks eerily, devastatingly like our own.

>>212134127
10

The Social Network
David Fincher, 2010

Less a biography than an evisceration, David Fincher’s hypnotically unflattering, often brutally funny origin story about Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and the creation of Facebook opens with a man and woman breaking up. By movie’s end, the man is the world’s loneliest billionaire, compulsively clicking refresh on his Facebook page. When “The Social Network” debuted, it seemed like a borderline cruel take on a classic American success story. Given how social media has radically reshaped the world, the film now seems almost quaint — and not nearly cruel enough.

>>212133917
Fuck me I thought Crouch Tiger Hidden Dragon was like 1990.
Good thread OP

>>212134166
9

Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki, 2002

An animated image of a child sitting next to a ghostly figure in a black rob with a blue sky and clounds seen through the windows.
Hayao Miyazaki’s hand-drawn fairy tale of adolescence is the “Alice in Wonderland” of our age. Unforgettable characters keep spilling out of an abandoned magical bathhouse — the boilerman and his soot sprites, the masked spirit No-Face, Haku the boy-dragon and, navigating it all, brave Chihiro, whose clueless parents have been turned into pigs by a witch. Beautifully uniting the master animator’s preoccupations — man’s corruption of nature, the loss of innocence, intimidating creatures who aren’t what they seem — “Spirited Away” is a spellbinding adventure with few peers in animation or elsewhere.

>Anime in the top 10

>>212134210
8

Get Out
Jordan Peele, 2017

When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), the hero of Jordan Peele’s freakout, visits his white girlfriend’s parents, it’s obvious that something is off. Her mother is weirdly watchful, her father embarrassingly obsequious. Chris soon discovers that the family and their friends are modern-day slavers transplanting white brains into Black bodies. With mordant wit, great timing and superb control, Peele — making a terrific directorial debut — marshals genre conventions for a movie that’s at once an electrifying thriller about the horrors of white supremacy and an unsparing sendup of a post-racial America.

>>212134237
7

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry, 2004

A woman with orange hair, holding a coffee cup, in bed with a man who is staring up at the ceiling.
Sometimes a movie comes along that is so wildly inventive and wonderfully strange, you wonder if you dreamed it. Directed by Michel Gondry from a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, this dream ventures far beyond its rom-com center. Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey play a broken-up couple who opt to get memories of their relationship erased. The movie — equal parts playful and gutting — emphasizes how strongly such memories, even terrible ones, shape us.

>>212134170
Thanks for the bump

>>212134268
6

No Country for Old Men
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, 2007

A man with a retro haircut and a menacing expression stands in a hallway in a denim jacket.
“What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?” the menacing hit man Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) asks a gas station owner, who didn’t realize he was going to gamble with death that day. Chigurh verges on superhuman as he stalks through this neo-western crime thriller that the Coen brothers adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s blood-soaked novel about violence and fate. Long stretches have no music or dialogue — it’s just men working hard not to die. But as one character puts it, “You can’t stop what’s comin’.”

>>212134302
5

Moonlight
Barry Jenkins, 2016

The weight of this delicate drama doesn’t hit until the end, but when the finale arrives, it is staggering. Barry Jenkins expertly takes us through the life of one Black gay man, played at different ages by Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Trevante Rhodes. “Moonlight” is about everything it takes to make you who you are. It’s about the beauty and love that come your way, what you embrace and what you don’t. And ultimately it’s about feeling like an outcast, but patiently, quietly finding your way home.

>>212134340
4

In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-Wai, 2001

Soon after a journalist (Tony Leung) and a secretary (Maggie Cheung), both married to other people, move into the same crowded Hong Kong building in 1962, they brush past each other in mesmerizing slow motion. Sparks don’t fly; they smolder. They keep on burning in Wong Kar-wai’s rapturously beautiful, elegiac romance, in which he inscribes desire in every glance and unspoken word. Here, the sensuous curve of a woman’s back becomes an emblem of longing while the tendrils of smoke from a man’s cigarette express the ache of life’s impermanence.

What if >we, /tv/ - television & film, held a poll and voted for our best 100 movies of the 21st century? Year 2000 allowed

>>212134367
3

There Will Be Blood
Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007

One man kneels under a bright white cross. A man standing next to him places his hand on the kneeling man's head and gestures to an audience with his other hand.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece about blood and oil, men and their gods, opens in the late 19th century with an American prospector, Daniel Plainview (a towering Daniel Day-Lewis), alone in a deep pit hacking at the earth. He continues gouging and pummeling (the earth, other people) to become an oil baron who ravages everything and everyone. Anderson’s filmmaking can make you gasp — the soaring camerawork speaks to the ambitions of protagonist and director alike — and so can the environmental and spiritual devastations that haunt this deeply American tragedy.

>>212134392
2

Mulholland Drive
David Lynch, 2001

David Lynch’s perverse fairy tale tracks the downward spiral of a bright-eyed young actress, Betty — a revelatory Naomi Watts in a career-defining performance — who stumbles into a dangerous, labyrinthine mystery shortly after arriving in Los Angeles. Filled with doubles, this is one of Lynch’s bleakest and most terrifying films, and among his most emotionally devastating. It’s also one of the great movies about Hollywood, a dark mirror world where dreams turn into nightmares, which means that it’s one of Lynch’s most autobiographical works, too.

>>212134425
1

Parasite
Bong Joon Ho, 2019

A tale of haves and have-nots, and a ferocious rebuke to the devastations of neoliberalism, Bong Joon Ho’s pleasurably kinked and unsettling shocker follows a destitute family as it insinuates itself into a wealthy household. Bong, a master of genre unbound by convention, fluidly shifts between broad comedy and blistering social satire throughout, then lights it all on fire with a paroxysm of tragic violence that’s as stunning as it is inevitable.

When the movie opened in the United States, Bong was a favorite on the art-house circuit; by the time it closed, he had a fistful of Oscars, including best picture, and the world had a new superstar.

>>212134455
this movie was really good but the best? cmon now

>>212134455
Weak as fuck

>>212134479
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.
I have personally seen 31 of these 100.

>>212134425
Should've been #1

>>212134524
Arguably, yes. But you could argue that for several in the top 20.

>>212134516
only 31? ive seen like 95

Where's Shotcaller?

>>212134237
this being top 10 is retarded lol

>>212134455
it was good but it wasn't that good

>>212134561
I'm not a big foreign language guy, (my loss I know).

>>212134597
At least no one has argued for Fellowship (yet).

What's everyone's top 5? 2000-2025.

>>212134605
Most of these are murican tho.Anyways I have seen 25 of these myself, I'm more of a 20th century guy myself.

>>212134690
probably something like
drive
milyang
enter the void
airdoll
amelie

>>212134166
This is the best

why are liberals jerking off this decade that is only 1/4 done?

>>212134764
*century

>>212134425
>>212134455
I'm gonna be totally honest, these are my two favorite movies of all time. But to put them in this order feels so horribly wrong. Mulholland Drive is magic. The pinnacle of cinema as we know it.

>>212134764
because if we waited 80 more years the nigger movies we're glazing now wouldnt have stood the test of time

>>212134832
I mean it's good but top 5? not possible

>no master & commander
>no amadeus
>no duellists
instead we have
>nig panther
>get out
>moonlight
>brokebuck mountain
>call me by your name
>portrait of lesbian on fire
>let the tranny in
uhhhh

>>212134690
1. Into Great Silence
2. Knight of Cups
3. The Act of Killing
4. Kung-Fu Hustle
5. Grizzly Man

>>212134905
>no amadeus
>no duellists
are you illiterate

>>212134375
I'd be interested to see it. I was trying to make my own and it is damn hard.

>>212131479
>>212131839
>>212132087
>>212132717
>>212132967
>>212133197
>>212133500
>>212133691
>>212133849
>>212134237
Is this a joke, right?

>>212131052
Weren't there any other nigga mo ies to glaze

>>212134946
I literally just watched them both and it is in fact the 21st century

>>212135060
retarded moron that wont just admit he fucked up...

>>212135060
get dunked on turbo nigger kekekeke

>>212134690
1. Finding Nemo
2. Fellowship of The Ring
3. Spider-Man 2
4. X2
5. Whiplash

>City of God
should have made top 10

>The Social Network
millennial American Psycho and it fails to live up to its predecessor
>Spirited Away
a weak film that people only like it for the vibes and animation
>Get Out
slop made to create white guilt
>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
bland.
>No Country for Old Men
the most overrated movie of the 21st century
>Moonlight
never saw and never will
>In the Mood for Love
the most boring, sexless movie in existence. totally hallow and trite. in the the mood to just get a divorce
>There Will Be Blood
only the milkshake scene is great
>Mulholland Drive
the only movie in the top 10 that deserves its place
>Parasite
"Ahhhh whatu if the rich and the poor are the parasituu. *insert titties n horror b movie tier murder plot twist* oooooohh im soo smartu." - Bong
i stand corrected, No Country for Old Men is the 2nd most overrated movie of the 21st century.

Overall a fairly shitty list.
Notable missing movies:
Megalopolis
Edge of Tomorrow
Elite Squad
Mean Girls
American Psycho* since they are retards who included 2000
Pirates of the Caribbean
Million Dollar Baby

>>212133168
>>212133197
Lady Bird is above fucking Yi Yi. Whoever approved this list should be thrown in front of a subway.

>>212135119
yi yi's nothing special it should never have even made the list desu

>>212134455
DAS RITE

Parasite over Mulholland Drive is a DEI ranking. Of course that's present throughout the list, but particular embarrassing at the very top of the list.

>>212135158
california commies are just happy a foreigner made a movie that could be interpreted as sympathetic to commie shit. of course they put it first

>no keit-ai
shit list put it in the trash.

>>212135077
so you concede about m&c then

>>212132232
>>212133892
are you fucking kidding me lmao

>>212134237
i knew itd be there. trash

>>212134367
the movie gay film nerds love to tout

>>212135234
>m&m's
fat mufucka talkin about CANDY

>>212134690
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Alita: Battle Angel
Cloud Atlas
LotR: TFotR
Be Kind Rewind

>no avatar

Bridesmaids is almost 30 spots ahead of Whiplash lmao

>>212135101
ESotSM actually deserves to be up here, its filmmaking sovl and a good script. Gondry is an actual artist. Trash like TAR and MOONLIGHT are only here for their content, which no one gives a shit about over time

Zone of Interest would be at least 40 spots lower if it was the exact same except about a different war and not about the Holocaust. Everyone agrees that Moonlight was wildly overrated, but they somehow still shoved that into the top 10.

>>212135334
damn ur right thats a big miss

>>212134690
American Pyscho
City of God
The Prestige
Klaus
Cars 2

>>212135391
>>212135346
>Moonlight
It's one of the most acclaimed movies of 2010s. You will find it on most best of the decade lists made by critics at the end of 2010s. Usually in top 5.
No, the movie wasn't forgotten.

>>212130808 (OP)
No star wars, Jurassic park, indiana jones, or jaws? These films were considered the best sci-fi, actions, and thriller films ever made and defined their genres for generations.

>>212135488
yeah right after it came out but it's not even been 10 years and its already completely forgotten. a flash in the pan nigga glaze film, nothing more

>>212135501
based retard

>>212135501
gigantic fucking moron

>>212134690
The Witch
The Two Towers
Kung Pow
District 9
Us

>>212130828
One of the most disgusting Jew lust movies ever made.

>>212130957
Pretends to be legit while ignoring physics.

>>212135519
Those are lists from 2019 or 2020. Moonlight is from 2016.
It shows in pretty much every such list in top ten. Sometimes it's first like in Rolling Stone or IndieWire, sometimes a bit lower like in Slant list (7).
2 years ago Hollywood Reporter made its own list of best movies of 21st century, Moonlight was 12.

>>212135941
Nigga glaze movie of the month bro what else can I tell you, you basically just agreed with my interpretation

OP put way too much effort into this thread. Chill out man just list the 100

>>212135101
>Notable missing movies:
>Megalopolis

>>212134166
I don’t get what’s so great about this movie.

>>212135137
On every other ranking of 21st century movies Yi Yi is always in the top 5 and rightfully so.

>>212131206
You fucking suck hard anon

>>212131446
This movie is so fucking overrated, I can’t for the life of me understand why it’s so praised. I’ve seen Korean dramas that were far, far better than this and they don’t get even a fraction of the acclaim because they’re considered inferior TV soap operas

>>212136302
Yes, Megalopolis was exceptional and was one of the only two good movies in 2024. It certainly would make a top 100 of the past 25 years.

>>212132831
I don't think there is any other film that is more overrated only for its first 15 minutes, everything after the house floats is from average to shit

>>212136465
*walks around field aimlessly, kick a bunch, beat up some retards, get mad and stare into camera*
yes that certainly was absolute cinema. truly groundbreaking stuff

>>212136536
Honestly I agree. The first 15 minutes of Up are sublime. The rest of the movie is just serviceable. It’s a very unbalanced movie, good example of a film that peaks too early

>>212132042
Carol isn't that good. There. I said it.

>>212133407
Entire list is disqualified with this. Unacceptable.

>>212136664
The first 15 of Up is pure emotional manipulation so you dont hate the grumpy old man the rest of the movie. Its technically impressive, but I do not care to watch it, so I give it 0/5. Simple as
>>212136511
The Korean government paid American media to astro turf their film industry so all their shit is overrated now as critics and audiences fall to consensus and don't form their own opinions.

>>212132522
Am I the only one that thinks Good Time is a much better film than Uncut Gems by the same directors in the same anxiety-driving format?

>>212136829
But it’s not a Korean movie, it’s an American movie made by a Korean immigrant married to the potion seller guy

>>212135501
Sorry, missed the century. Where are:
Lord of the Rings 2 and 3
Blade Runner 2049
Pirates of the Caribbean
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Shrek

>>212134237
>her father embarrassingly obsequious.
lol virtually all fucking liberals act like him around niggers.

>>212134455
lmao

>>212135101
Please explain how Spirited Away is “weak” but Mean Girls should be on the list

>>212134237
>>212134340
>>212134367
WHAT THE FUCK.
this list is Anora-tier. who paid for this to be published?

>>212131052
And the list is trash already

>>212136664
Exactly, yet critics list always love to put that as some of the highest of pixar entries along Wall-e (this one deserves it)

>>212134690
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Wolf of Wall Street
Mad Max: Fury Road
Banshees of Inisherin

Pretty surprised Martin McDonagh couldn't make the list at all. Banshees and In Bruges deserves to be there imo.

>>212130808 (OP)
I dont even think i've seen 100 movies made this century desu

>>212133727
>>212133759
kill whatever committee ordered this list.

>>212137198
I would've seen over a thousand from this century just the majority of it was slop.

>>212137274
sounds horrible

also just checked the list and i've only seen 16 and i dont feel compelled to see any i've missed.

>>212132611
I've seen The Gold Rush and Ben Hur. Better than most of the films on this list

where the hell is Jagten? absolutely loathe american obsession with exclusively american, "touristic" or asian films while pretending nothing else exists.

The Top 10 of Emmy Award winning writer and producer Mike McMahan, the creator of the hit series Star Trek: Lower Decks.

>no master and commander
A woman must have made this list

>zodiac is fucking number 19
>prisoners nowhere to be seen

>birdman absent
genuinely how were they confident in publishing this

>>212133407
My sister put this on for my family once while visiting and I disowned her.

If the person making this list had any balls the Turin Horse would be in the top 10

>>212137108
Mean Girls is a timeless, quintessential coming of age story about moving to a new place and struggling to fit in. Its had massive staying power and is culturally and politically relevant to this day and will continue to. I still hear people say fetch.

Spirited Away fails because of what I said in my post: it only looks cool. Specifically, its because the plot is confusing for children (the target audience) and the fantasy elements are continuously pulled out of a hat so it is constantly deus ex machina instead of an actual quest. The dialogue is all exposition and while the film attempts to cover many themes, it ends up not delving into any.

>>212134690
The Handmaiden
The Neon Demon
Megalopolis
City of God
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

>>212135101
>Million Dollar Baby
Not even Eastwood's best (or second, or third best) of the 21st century

>>212137713
stop repeatedly posting itt retard. no one cares.

>>212137448
So these are the brilliant minds creating our media today

>>212137664
It's not one person, it's based on 500 or so ballots from directors, screenwriters and other film people.

>>212134127
Overhyped 8/10 movie.

>>212137807
Then they all lack balls

>>212137733
For those wondering
>Letters from Iwo Jima
>Gran Torino
>Changeling

>>212137890
And the fact that none of these are on the list discredits it

>2000
Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas (Universal)
Road Trip (DreamWorks)
Chicken Run (DreamWorks)
Me Myself & Irene (Fox)
Legend of Bagger Vance (DreamWorks)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Universal)
Snatch (Sony)
Dude Where's My Car (Fox)
Emperor's New Groove (Disney)
Cast Away (Fox)
O Brother Where Art Thou (Touchstone)
>2001
Saving Silverman (Columbia)
Memento (Newmarket)
Joe Dirt (Columbia)
Shrek (DreamWorks)
Rat Race (Paramount)
Oceans Eleven (Warner)
Lotr Fellowship (New Line)
A Beautiful Mind (Universal)
>2002
Count of Monte Cristo (Touchstone)
The Bourne Identity (Universal)
Men in Black II (Columbia)
Road to Perdition (DreamWorks)
Stealing Harvard (Columbia)
Jackass the Movie (Paramount)
Treasure Planet (Disney)
Drumline (Fox)
Lotr Two Towers (new line)
Gangs of New York (Miramax)
Catch me if you Can (DreamWorks)
Chicago (Miramax)
>2003
City of God (Miramax)
Matrix Reloaded (Warner)
Pirates: black pearl (Disney)
School of rock (paramount)
Kill Bill (Miramax)
Lotr return of the king (new line)
Big fish (Columbia)
>2004
50 first dates (Columbia)
Eurotrip (DreamWorks)
Ladykillers (Touchstone)
Dodgeball (Fox)
Anchorman (DreamWorks)
Shaun of the Dead (Rogue)
I heart huckabees (fox)
>2005
Sin city (dimension)
Kung fu hustle (Columbia)
Wedding crashers (new line)
The island (DreamWorks)
40 year old virgin (universal)
A sound of thunder (Warner)
Wallace gromit were-rabbit (DreamWorks)
Waiting (lions gate)
King Kong (universal)

No
>Tropical Malady
>Syndromes and a Century
>Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
I thought NYT was progressive, but a chud like me cares more about ladyboys?

>>212130808 (OP)
No Megalopolis? Into the trash it goes

Obvious omissions:

Kung Fu Hustle 2004
Spider-Man 1 or 2 2002-2003
Love Exposure 2008
Baahubali 1&2 2015 2017
Apocalypto 2005
The Dark Knight Rises 2012
Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith 2005
The Dreamers 2003
The Fountain 2004
Hero 2002 (Hidden Dragon made it at 16, while Hero is a worse movie it isn't that much worse)
Speed Racer 2008
The Hunt 2012 or Another Round 2020
Idiocracy 2006

Could've made it

Nightcrawler 2014
3 Idiots 2009 (it's a better movie than the woke crap)
Batman Begins 2005 (it's better than TDK)
Battle Royale 2000
District 9 2009
Joker 2019 (surprise it's not on the list)
Blade Runner 2049 (they picked Arrival over it?)
Saw 2004 (classic horror franchise)
Pirates of the Caribbean 2003
The Cell/The Fall 2000/2006 (There's too few "fancy" flicks on the list)
The Neon Demon 2016
Russian Ark 2002 - Wow, how easy the critics forgot this (I guess russia ain't popular no more)
The Hollow Man 2000
A History of Violence 2005
meh I could add more, but what's the point, everyone agrees the NYTimes list sucks

It's a plebby list because they asked a lot of literally whos and a retarded mainstream directors.

>>212138287
>The Dreamers 2003
gooner

>>212138287
>Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith 2005
You're deranged

>>212136426
wrongfully so* it's just an indie people agreed to like there's far, far better taiwanese indie films but it's the only one that gets on lists and thus the only one anyone's seen so there you have it

No 300, no Watchmen, no Sucker Punch, no Man of Steel, no Batman v Superman. Shit list.

>>212138444
I know you're joking but 300 should unironically be on it somewhere in the 90's or 80's

>>212138349
I guess you prefer EEAAO, Amour, Anchorman, Michael Clayton, Black Panther?

>>212138391
No. The Saga of how Anakin became Darth Vader is among the most enjoyable and entertaining movies made in the 21st century. Lucas is a modern Shakespeare in his ability to mix classic heroism with memorable dialogue/imagery. Name one duel which is more iconic than the battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin. Name a better villain than Palpatine. Sure, ROTS has some faults but you can't deny it's among the more iconic movies of our time.

>>212133453
>>social network in top 10
deserved.

>>212138439
I disrespectfully disagree. The movie is phenomenal and does things and says things that other movies do not.

all this list tells me is that the NYT film board is still majority boomers with a largest minority of 40yo single women

>>212138741
Lol, it was an extremely typical film. It was nice, don't get me wrong, but it was just a stock standard family drama you're acting like it's Pi

>>212134375
It would be all capeshit and Star Wars and Nolanslop. /tv/ has garbage taste.

Ex Machina should’ve been on this list.

>>212138868
nope

>>212138868
as an alcoholic I can assure you Ex Machina has the most unrealistic depiction of alcoholism I have ever seen in film. thousands of movies watched, world's most common drug--Ex Machina has the most retarded portrayal.

>>212139206
what's the best depiction alcohol bro. I thought leaving las vegas really accurately captured a certain kind of alcoholism

>>212139206
It's a few years early but RIP.

>>212130808 (OP)
>Movies from the 100 I haven't seen
Black Panther
The Worst Person in the World
Fish Tank
Interstellar
Past Lives
Volver
Aftersun
Amour
The Florida Project
Under the Skin
Oppenheimer
Toni Erdmann
Before Sunset
Almost Famous
Roma
Yi Yi
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Call Me by Your Name
Phantom Thread
Y tu mamá también
The Zone of Interest
Parasite

Which of these am I doing myself a disservice by having not seen?

>>212130808 (OP)
I AM NOT.

>>212139369
Before Sunset
It's great burgerpunk.

>>212139369
you should probably see:
worst person in the world
fish tank
interstellar
volver
before sunset (and the other 2, before sunrise, and the other one it's a trilogy)
phantom thread (you should be wathcing all PTA's)
y tu mama
and parasite

the rest are take it or leave it

>>212139369
Before Sunset is the second movie in a trilogy. So if you didn’t see the first one it doesn’t work anyway.

>no Midnight in Paris
Garbage list

>>212139463
>woody allen slop
thank god its not

NO LALA LAND ON THE LIST?!?!?!

>>212133892
I thought it was a western!

>>212139475
>he hasn't watched the greatest depiction of hemingway on film
ngmi
https://youtu.be/PPDBtpMKzVA

>>212139369
>Fish Tank
>Interstellar
>Past Lives
>Volver
>The Florida Project
>Under the Skin
>Before Sunset
>Almost Famous
>Roma
>Yi Yi
>Y tu mamá también
>The Zone of Interest
>Parasite
these are good

>>212135285
giga based

>>212139532
My friend's dad thought the same, it was hilarious when he watched it.

>>212139533
cant even get through the first minute man that's judd apatow-tier adam sandler slop

>>212139571
He wanted to be cheering, "Go! Go, sheriff! You'll get the townspeople behind you!"
He didn't want to be whackin off, jizzin all over the guy in front of him, cum all over his face - THEN whose the homophobe? Here's a guy who's so insecure of his sexuality, he doesn't want cum all over him

>>212139619
I DIDNT EVEN KNOW HE WAS SICK!
cmon man

>>212139596
It's OK, I don't agree with your dogshit opinion but I'm not gonna argue.

>>212139655
why even come to /tv/ then. fight me nigger. i called your fave trash, your move

>>212139723
I've been here like 13 years, I have won more fights than anyone could count. I'm just plastered right now.

>>212139796
so here is where you die, interesting, over a hacky hemmingway impression? this is where your legacy ends? pathetic

>>212139859
I could come back tomorrow if you like

>>212130808 (OP)
This is going to be as terrible as a Rolling Stone top 100 best albums list.
Clicking for rage fuel

>>212139890
dont bother, you've disappointed me

>>212134690
Yi Yi, Mulholland Dr, Spirited Away, Memories of Murder, Battle Royale (criminal that it's missing).

>>212139911
It's nowhere near as bad as a Rolling Stone type music list. Film at the very least has a semblance of culture and professionalism, a huge swathe of 'classic albums' are complete turds from today's vantage.

>>212139911
>>212140030
link to the list?

>>212140370
Wasn't referring to a specific list of theirs but they're always dire. Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Yes, Queen, Metallica, etc, the capeshit of music, but with little actually good to offset the turds like with film lists.

>top 100 best movies of 21st century
>look inside
>tripping over itself to cram as many American movies as possible

>2006
V for vendetta (Warner)
Benchwarmers (Columbia)
Lucky number slevin (MGM)
Talladega Nights (Columbia)
Accepted (universal)
Crank (lions gate)
The Departed (Warner)
The prestige (touchstone)
Borat (fox)
Blood diamond (Warner)
>2007
Alpha dog (universal)
300 (Warner)
Hot fuzz (rogue)
28 weeks later (fox)
3:10 to Yuma (lions gate)
No Country for Old Men (Miramax)
Walk Hard (Columbia)
>2008
Iron Man (paramount)
Incredible Hulk (Universal)
Wall-E (Disney)
Dark Knight (Warner)
Step Brothers (Columbia)
Tropic Thunder (DreamWorks)
Burn after Reading (Focus)
>2009
Up (Disney)
Moon (Sony)
District 9 (TriStar)
World's Greatest Dad (Magnolia)
The men who stare at goats (Starz)
>2010
Shutter Island (paramount)
Kick Ass (lions gate)
Macgruber (rogue)
Get him to the Greek (universal)
Inception (Warner)
Tron Legacy (Disney)

>2011
Hobo withe a shotgun (rhombus)
Ths Big Year (fox)
>2012
Safety not guaranteed (film district)
>2013
Movie 43
Evil Dead (TriStar)
The purge (universal)
We're the Millers (Warner)
Anchorman 2 (paramount)

>no The Secret in Their Eyes
shit list

>>212130957
>>212130924
>>212130878
>>212130924
>>212130957
>>212131052
>korean hack's "deep cut" movie to pretend youre cultured
>gravity
>meme herzog film
>black panther
fucking dropped this hunk of shit list already
stick it in the waste basket

The Promised Land(2023) is better than half the movies on this list and it upsets me that /tv/ never talks about it. Regardless, list is slop, NYT are irrelevant hacks in 2025, and this list is the definition of engagement bait.

>>212134455
>this hunk of shit number one
find (((whom ever))) made this shit list and hang them from a tree

How much kike shit is in the top 100

That's directed by or majorly starring kikes. We all know it's all produced by kikes

>>212139379
i fucking hate phone posters and the fact I share this board with people who cant bypass paywalls

>>212131197
>>212131511
YEP

>>212131878
>2000 is the start of the 21st century, for any brainlets out there.

Factually incorrect and indefensible

>>212134690
Everybody Wants Some!
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Illusionist (2009)
Fellowship of the Ring
Sin City

Honorable Mentions:
The Squid and the Whale
Hateful Eight
The Nice Guys
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
21 + 22 Jump Street

>>212134455
Parasite #1
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring #87
Get Out #8

I was ready to disregard the list when it was including 20th century films in it's """""21st""""" century list but come on

>>212131878
You're as retarded as the dumbasses who made this list

>>212135101
>Edge of Tomorrow
>Elite Squad
>Pirates of the Caribbean
>Million Dollar Baby
These are pure slop.

>>212146736
sorry you cant enjoy kino and only like fart house sloppa

>>212137187
>Wall-e (this one deserves it)
Fuck no.

>>212146417
Truth, but it's a common misnomer.
Nice the thread is still alive.

>>212146759
Those are pure slop, lil guy. I'm surprised you didn't name Avengers Endgame too.

>>212146876
Endgame is less a movie and more of a fan event.

>>212134690
Avengers
Avengers 2
Avengers Infinity War
Avengers Endgame
Justice League

>>212146914
But which Justice League?

>>212136941
>potion seller guy
https://youtu.be/R_FQU4KzN7A?si=Lle8k2M2S7nlAHp5
>>212131839
i cant for the life of me understand how anyone can like this horseshit movie, no movie i've ever watched gave me a repulsive feeling as strong as one while watching this

>>212135689
you shut your damn mouth fingers

>>212147208
I feel it's worst sin is being a bit TOO wacky towards the end.
I also feel that Heat Legend is being glazed the most on this list, I don't mind his gay cowboy movie ranking that high, but TDK? Really?

It's nice of them to put both Moonlight and 12 Years a Slave on there so we can know to completely ignore the entire list. Those two films are nothing more than oscar bait nigger porn for libtards to masturbate over. They have absolutely nothing going for them apart from the forced subject matter.