I knew I’d forget something: Winged Migration belongs on the list.
The Fountain
The Prestige
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
40 Year old Virgin
Closer
The Lives of Others
Brokeback Mountain
Napoleon Dynamite
Royal Tenenbaums
Waking Life
There were some from 1999, which is in the past decade but not the '00s, so I wasn’t sure if they counted:
Fight Club
American Beauty
The Sixth Sense
I looked up my five and four star movies on Netflix and looked at the ones made in the 2000s. There were 34 or 35. I then whittled it down to these 10:
High Fidelity
Inglourious Basterds
Spirited Away
Unbreakable
American Psycho
Collateral
The Incredibles
Mr. Brooks
Requiem for a Dream
The Sea Inside
I can’t help thinking I’m missing something, but here we go (listed roughly in chronological order):
Traffic
In the Mood for Love
Intacto
Asoka
Josie and the Pussycats
Heaven
Blue Crush
Russian Ark
Hero
Dogville
The Company
Ocean’s Twelve
The World
Alexander
Domino
Princess Raccoon
The Fountain
Stick It
Sunshine
Push
That’s an interesting list. I will have to see the movies you listed I haven’t watched yet.
I would have to give this some thought before I try to do a real list, but a couple of titles are pretty safe bets:
the Royal Tenenbaums
Still walking
No country for old men
Spirited Away
the Lives of others
3-Iron
I don’t really watch enough films to feel entitled to submit a top 10, but if I did I’m pretty sure the following would be in it:
The Lives of Others
Memento
The Prestige
other possibles:
Master and Commander
The Man on the Train
Waltz with Bashir
It’s a clever script and I’m a fan of Joe Pantoliano. However, I don’t find it aged too well.
Wow, I started to write a top 10, but since I had time narrowing it down to 10 (and because many of my movies were already on the list), I’m going to do the top 10 that haven’t been mentioned yet:
The Station Agent
Iron Man
Lost In Translation
Burn After Reading
Shrek (only the original, which I saw in theaters 3 times!)
The Strangers
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…And Spring
Brand Upon The Brain
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
You And Me And Everyone We Know
Oh hell yes. I was going to put it on my list but I blanked on the name. I’ve only watched it twice but one time was on a big HD set. Made me wish I’d seen it in a theater.
Well, since everybody else seems to be doing top 20 lists rather than top 10, I’ll add ten more to mine (some of which I only remembered after I missed the edit window.)
Still in no particular order:
Frida
Mysterious Skin
Waking Life
Insomnia (the remake with Al Pacino & Hilary Swank)
Sordid Lives
the Hurt Locker
Best In Show
Amelie
the Devil’s Backbone
Songs from the Second Floor
In no particular order:
Gosford Park
LOTR
Spirited Away
Yi Yi
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Queen
Lives of Others
Master and Commander
The Incredibles
I’m surprised at the lack of love given the Kill Bill films. I would’ve thought somebody among the first 30 posts would’ve mentioned it.
Here’s my list as of now:
KB 1&2 (In a decade dominated by comic book movies, Tarantino made the best one of all)
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert MacNamara
LOTR 1-3
Moulin Rouge!
The Incredibles
War of the Worlds
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
In the Bedroom
Million Dollar Baby
United 93
Brokeback Mountain
Inglorious Basterds