Not too much thought in this but: Inglorious Basterds The Departed Gladiator There Will Be Blood Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Ocean’s Eleven Gone Girl The Dark Knight The Town Ocean’s Twelve Edit: Honorable Mentions I might be talked into forcing into one of the last few spots: Uncut Gems, Wolf of Wall Street, Warrior, The Descendants, The Fighter, Moneyball, The Social Network, or Casino Royale. Answer from jpdakak on reddit.com
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IMDb
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MY ULTIMATE BEST MOVIES: 2000-2025
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. ... A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.DirectorMary HarronStarsChristian BaleJustin TherouxJosh Lucas ... In a dystopian future, a group of students from a Japanese high school are forced by the government to compete in a battle, killing one another until only one is left standing.DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTarô Yamamoto
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Rolling Stone
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100 Best Movies of the 21st Century
July 1, 2025 - British filmmaker Peter Watkins has always had a knack for mixing history lessons with modern formalist storytelling (his 1966 BBC mockumentary The War Game presented such an intensely real portrait of nuclear armageddon that the network deemed it “too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting; a 1974 biopic on Norwegian painter Edvard Munch resembled a cinéma vérité portrait, complete with characters staring into the camera). And his 2000 magnum opus takes that anachronistic ideology to the extreme by restaging the rise and fall of the Paris Commune, a socialist regime that briefly took power in France during the late 19th century before its member were brutally massacred.
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Reddit
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r/IMDbFilmGeneral on Reddit: The Bests of Each Decade - The 2000s
January 28, 2023 -

Here's the 2nd instalment from this weekly post series. I don't like the 2000s as much as the 2010s but I can't deny a lot of movies here are in my Top 150. 2006 particularly knocked it out of the park for me. What do you think, FG?

  1. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

  2. Mulholland Drive (2001)

  3. There Will Be Blood (2007)

  4. Synecdoche, New York (2008)

  5. Love Exposure (2008)

  6. Cache (2005)

  7. Children of Men (2006)

  8. Memento (2000)

  9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

  10. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

  11. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)

  12. The Prestige (2006)

  13. United 93 (2006)

  14. Inland Empire (2006)

  15. Memories of Murder (2003)

  16. The Piano Teacher (2001)

  17. The Dark Knight (2008)

  18. In Bruges (2008)

  19. The White Ribbon (2009)

  20. About Elly (2009)

  21. No Country for Old Men (2007)

  22. Primer (2004)

  23. Ten (2002)

  24. Oldboy (2003)

  25. Tell No One (2006)

  26. Moon (2009)

  27. Volver (2006)

  28. Syndromes and a Century (2006)

  29. 25th Hour (2002)

  30. A Prophet (2009)

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Take Care of My Cat (2001) As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004) Love Exposure (2008) At the First Breath of Wind (2002) Inland Empire (2006) Batang West Side (2001) My Winnipeg (2007) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Friday Night (2002) Primer (2004) Yi yi (2000) Synecdoche, New York (2008) The Ground (2001) Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) Time Out (2001) Where the Wild Things Are (2009) The World (2004) The Circle (2000) Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004) Chunhyang (2000) Away from Her (2006) The Saddest Music in the World (2003) The Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000) Platform (2000)
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The 2000’s would probably be my vote as best movie decade ever. I have a top 50 already made for the decade so I’m gonna include it: Children of Men (2006) Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Almost Famous (2000) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) High Fidelity (2000) Wall-E (2008) In Bruges (2008) The Incredibles (2004) Ratatouille (2007) Talk to Her (2002) No Country for Old Men (2007) Adventureland (2009) Before Sunset (2004) Take Care of My Cat (2001) 5 Centimeters per Second (2007) Yi Yi (2000) Superbad (2007) Three Times (2005) The Aviator (2004) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (2003) Spirited Away (2001) Unbreakable (2000) Eastern Promises (2007) Once (2007) Lost in Translation (2003) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) The Dark Knight (2008) Hot Rod (2007) The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009) Mulholland Drive (2001) Katyn (2007) Zodiac (2007) Munich (2005) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) The Hurt Locker (2009) A History of Violence (2005) Brokeback Mountain (2005) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Whale Rider (2002) Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007) Coraline (2009) Moolaade (2004) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) The Pianist (2002) Sideways (2004) Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) Adaptation. (2002) Shattered Glass (2003) Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) Touching the Void (2003) And there are also great short films like 2009’s Plastic Bag, 2007’s Validation, 2009’s Alma, 2000’s Father and Daughter, and 2008’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
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IMDb
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My Best Film of the Year (2000–2025)
A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour · After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues ...
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Critics Pick the Best Movies of the Last 25 Years | Rotten Tomatoes
November 6, 2023 - Critics’ top movies since the ... timeless classics to technical feats. They include iconic award-winners like Parasite and Mad Max: Fury Road....
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Reddit
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r/Letterboxd on Reddit: Favorite Movie of Every Year 2000-2024
February 9, 2025 -

Let me know what you think:

2000: Scream 3

2001: Jurassic Park III

2002: 8 Mile

2003: LOTR - Return of the King

2004: The Incredibles

2005: Revenge of the Sith

2006: The Departed

2007: American Gangster

2008: The Dark Knight

2009: Inglourious Basterds

2010: Insidious

2011: The Lincoln Lawyer

2012: Sinister

2013: The Conjuring

2014: Interstellar

2015: Avengers - Age of Ultron

2016: The Conjuring 2

2017: Logan

2018: Avengers - Infinity War

2019: Avengers - Endgame

2020: A Quiet Place - Part 2

2021: Spider Man - No Way Home

2022: Barbarian

2023: The Boogeyman

2024: Alien - Romulus

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Cleveland.com
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50 best movies since 2000 - cleveland.com
February 22, 2019 - They dig into the shattered souls of men who take different paths from childhood to adulthood. But regardless of who got in that car, their lives can't help but intersect. ... With "Black Panther" scoring big with critics and audiences, it reminds us of the movie that previously held the title of best film based on a Marvel character. The blueprint for the modern, mainstream superhero movie film lies with “Spider-Man 2,” from the strong female lead to the flawed superhero we see ourselves in.
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IMDb
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2000-2020 Movies
A young woman gets mixed up with a disgraced spy who is trying to clear his name.DirectorJames MangoldStarsTom CruiseCameron DiazPeter Sarsgaard ... A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade ...
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Shalon van Tine
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Best Films of the 2000s (So Far)
November 8, 2020 - 2023 Perfect Days 2023 Janet Planet 2024 Challengers 2024 The Substance 2024 I Saw the TV Glow 2024 Kinds of Kindness 2024 Nosferatu 2024 Twisters 2024 Lush: A Far from Home Movie 2024 Anora 2024 Friendship 2025 One of Them Days 2025 Frankenstein ...
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ScreenRant
screenrant.com › home › movies › movie lists › 25 best movies of the past 25 years (including 2023)
25 Best Movies Of The Past 25 Years (Including 2023)
April 18, 2024 - We look back on the past 25 years and select the best movies that have released (including in 2023) to celebrate Screen Rant's 20th anniversary.
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Yahoo!
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The Best Movies of the 2000s
May 14, 2024 - A Studio Ghibli classic, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away has made a name for itself as one of the most acclaimed animated films of all time. The film follows a young girl who inadvertently stumbles into the spirit world of Japanese folklore while moving to a new town. ... Nothing says 2000s like paying way too much money to watch James Cameron’s Avatar in an IMAX theater.
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Wikipedia
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2000 in film - Wikipedia
1 day ago - The top 10 films released in 2000 by worldwide gross are as follows: Chicken Run became the highest-grossing stop motion animated film ever. Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas's $55.1 million opening weekend became the highest debut for a Christmas-themed film.
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Films101
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The Best Movies by Year, Decade, Classic Movies
Browse the best movies by year or a number of years with these ranked lists.
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Metacritic
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Best Movies This Year - Metacritic
Find your next movie to watch. Filter by genre, release year, or streaming service.
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U2 Feedback
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Top Films of the Decade: The 2000s - Voting Thread | U2 Feedback
September 26, 2007 - Traffic (Soderbergh, 2000) In America ... 2002) United 93 (Greengrass, 2006) Adaptation (Jonze, 2002) The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001) Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000) Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006) O Brother, Where Art Thou?...
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Hollywood Reporter
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The 50 Best Movies of the 21st Century So Far, Ranked
December 26, 2023 - Over the course of a few months, several Zoom meetings, and countless emails, six THR film critics came together to hash out, and rank, what they consider the greatest films since 2000.
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Cinemablend
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The 100 Best Movies Of The 2000s | Cinemablend
July 1, 2024 - This list is CinemaBlend’s collective celebration of the 2000s, in all its neon-hued glory, and we hope everyone will find plenty to love, though a few disagreements and good-natured debate never hurt anyone. Let the arguments begin… ... While it's the last on this list, there's no denying Avatar's impact on the film industry back in 2009. The movie is a sci-fi masterpiece that features incredible visuals, mainly following the tale of Jake Sully, a human who finds love and acceptance within the world of the Na'vi, the native people of Pandora.