2000s FilmFilter CategoriesALL2000200120022003200420052006200720082009Reviewed 2000Edward Yang | WinStar#1 Yi Yi 2000Ang Lee | Sony Pictures Classics#2 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000Claire Denis | Sony Pictures Classics#3 Beau Travail 2000Lars von Trier | Fine Line#4 Dancer in the Dark 2000Ridley Scott | Dreamworks#5 Gladiator 2000Terence Davies | New Yorker#6 The House of Mirth 2000Sofia Coppola | Paramount#7 The Virgin Suicides 2000Abbas Kiarostami | New Yorker#8 The Wind Will Carry Us 2000Bruno Dumont | WinStar#9 L'Humanite 2000Spike Lee | New Line#10 Bamboozled 2000Darren Aronofsky | Artisan#11 Requiem for a Dream 2000David Gordon Green | Cowboy#12 George Washington 2000Jim Jarmusch | Artisan#13 Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai 2000Lynne Ramsey | First Look#14 Ratcatcher 2000Mary Harron | Lionsgate#15 American Psycho 2000Kinji Fukasaku | Toei#16 Battle Royale 2000Kenneth Lonergan | Paramount#17 You Can Count on Me 2000Christopher Guest | Warner Bros.#18 Best in Show 2000Chantal Akerman | Gemini#19 The Captive 2000Hong Sang-soo | Buena Vista Korea#20 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors 2000Lee Chang-dong | Cineclick Asia#21 Peppermint Candy 2000Joel & Ethan Coen | Buena Vista#22 O' Brother Where Are Thou? 2000Raúl Ruiz | Kino Intl.#23 Time Regained 2000Leos Carax | WinStar#24 Pola X 2000Nagisa Ôshima | New Yorker#25 Taboo Nagisa Ôshima | New Yorker#25 Taboo 2000Stephen Frears | Buena Vista#26 High Fidelity 2000Allison Maclean | Lionsgate#27 Jesus' Son 2000Lee Myung-se | Lionsgate#28 Nowhere to Hide 2000Lou Ye | Strand#29 Suzhou River 2000Cameron Crowe | Dreamworks#30 Almost Famous 2001David Lynch | Universal#1 Mulholland Drive 2001Wong Kar-wai | USA Films#2 In the Mood for Love 2001Jonas Mekas | Canyon Cinema#3 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2001Bela Tarr | Menemsha#4 Werckmeister Harmonies 2001Steven Spielberg | Warner Bros.#5 A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001Claire Denis | Film Desk#6 Trouble Every Day 2001Wes Anderson | Buena Vista#7 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001John Cameron Mitchell | New Line#8 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001Catherine Breillat | Cowboy#9 Fat Girl 2001Christopher Nolan | Newmarket#10 Memento 2001Takashi Miike | Vitagraph#11 Audition 2001David Wain | USA Films#12 Wet Hot American Summer 2001Baz Luhrmann | 20th Century Fox#13 Moulin Rouge! 2001Richard Linklater | Fox Searchlight#14 Waking Life 2001Joel & Ethan Coen | USA Films#15 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001Richard Kelly | Newmarket#16 Donnie Darko 2001John Fawcett | Lionsgate#17 Ginger Snaps John Fawcett | Lionsgate#17 Ginger Snaps 2001Pedro Costa | Gemini#18 In Vanda's Room 2001Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Cowboy#19 Cure 2001Sion Sono | Daiei#20 Suicide Club 2001Roy Andersson | New Yorker#21 Songs from the Second Floor 2001Lucrecia Martel | Cowboy#22 La Ciénaga 2001Jacques Rivette | Sony Pictures Classics#23 Va Savoir 2001Shinji Aoyama | Shooting Gallery#24 Eureka 2001Tom Green | 20th Century Fox#25 Freddy Got Fingered 2001Agnès Varda | Zeitgeist#26 The Gleaners & I 2001Lisandro Alonso | Distribution Co.#27 La Libertad 2001Karan Johar | Yash Raj#28 Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham 2001Terry Zwigoff | United Artists#29 Ghost World 2001Alain Guiraudie | Magouric#30 That Old Dream that Moves 2002Aleksandr Sokurov | Wellspring#1 Russian Ark 2002Hayao Miyazaki | Disney#2 Spirited Away 2002Alfonso Cuaron | IFC#3 Y Tu Mama También 2002Lynne Ramsey | Palisades#4 Morvern Callar 2002Martin Scorsese | Buena Vista#5 Gangs of New York 2002Spike Lee | Buena Vista#6 25th Hour 2002Pedro Almodóvar | Sony Pictures Classics#7 Talk to Her 2002Spike Jonze | Sony#8 Adaptation 2002Tsai Ming-liang | WinStar#9 What Time is It There? 2002Brian De Palma | Warner Bros.#10 Femme Fatale 2002Jean-Luc Godard | Manhattan Pictures Intl.#11 In Praise of Love 2002Roman Polanski | Focus Features#12 The Pianist 2002Hong Sang-soo#13 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate 2002Todd Haynes | Focus Features#14 Far From Heaven 2002Steven Spielberg | 20th Century Fox#15 Minority Report 2002Arnaud Desplechin | Empire#16 Esther Kahn 2002Laurent Cantet | THINKfilm#17 Time Out 2002Ryosuke Hashiguchi | Strand#18 Hush! 2002Shunji Iwai | Cowboy#19 All About Lily Chou-Chou 2002Michael Haneke | Kino Intl.#20 The Piano Teacher 2002Paul Thomas Anderson | Sony#21 Punch-Drunk Love 2002Wang Xiaoshuai | Sony Pictures Classics#22 Beijing Bicycle 2002Dover Koshashvili | Magnolia#23 Late Marriage 2002Philippe Grandrieux | Mars#24 A New Life 2002Michael Snow | Canyon Cinema#25 *Corpus Callosum 2002Ashutosh Gowariker | Sony Pictures Classics#26 Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India 2002Jiang Wen | Cowboy#27 Devils on the Doorstep 2002Zacharias Kunuk | Lot 4 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner 2002Michael Moore | MGM#29 Bowling for Columbine 2002Akihiko Shiota | Nikkatsu#30 Harmful Insect 2003Sofia Coppola | Focus Features#1 Lost in Translation 2003Jane Campion | Screen Gems#2 In the Cut 2003Gaspar Noé | Lionsgate#3 Irreversible 2003Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | New Yorker#4 The Son 2003Peter Jackson | New Line#5 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 2003Gus Van Sant | Fine Line#6 Elephant 2003Olivier Assayas | Palm Pictures#7 Demonlover 2003Robert Altman | Sony Pictures Classics#8 The Company 2003Jia Zhang-ke | Empire#9 Platform 2003Andrew Stanton | Buena Vista#10 Finding Nemo 2003Quentin Taratino | Miramax#11 Kill Bill: Volume 1 2003Takashi Miike | Media Blasters#12 Ichi the Killer 2003Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Palm Pictures#13 Millennium Mambo 2003Peyton Reed | 20th Century Fox#14 Down With Love 2003Tommy Wiseau | Chloe/TPW#15 The Room 2003Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.#16 Mystic River 2003João César Monteiro | Gemini Films#17 Come and Go 2003Peter Weir | 20th Century Fox#18 Master and Commander: Far Side of the World 2003Aki Kaurismaki | Sony Pictures Classics#19 The Man Without a Past 2003Peter Watkins | First Run#20 La Commune (Paris, 1871) 2003Seijun Suzuki | Media Blasters#21 Pistol Opera 2003Satoshi Kon | Go Fish#22 Millennium Actress 2003Abbas Kiarostami | Zeitgeist#23 Ten 2003Gus Van Sant | THINKfilm#24 Gerry 2003Travis Wilkerson | Icarus#25 An Injury to One 2003Jia Zhang-ke | New Yorker#26 Unknown Pleasures 2003Terry Zwigoff | Dimension#27 Bad Santa 2003Bill Morrison | Icarus#28 Decasia 2003Jacques Rivette | Les Filmes du Losange#29 The Story of Marie and Julien 2003Yee Chin-yen | Strand#30 Blue Gate Crossing 2004 2004Thom Andersen | Submarine Entertainment#1 Los Angeles Plays Itself 2004Richard Linklater | Warner Independent#2 Before Sunset 2004Lars von Trier | Lionsgate#3 Dogville 2004Zhang Yimou | Miramax#4 Hero 2004Michel Gondry | Focus Features#5 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004Vincent Gallo | Wellspring#6 The Brown Bunny 2004Pedro Almodóvar#7 Bad Education 2004Jonathan Glazer | New Line#8 Birth 2004Shane Carruth | THINKfilm/IFC#9 Primer 2004Tsai Ming-liang | Wellspring#10 Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2004Alexander Payne | Fox Searchlight#11 Sideways 2004Ken Jacobs#12 Star Spangled to Death 2004M. Night Shyamalan | Buena Vista#13 The Village 2004Lee Chang-dong | Lifesize Entertainment#14 Oasis 2004Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.#15 Million Dollar Baby 2004Jean-Luc Godard | Wellspring#16 Our Music 2004Andrey Zvyagintsev | Kino Intl.#17 The Return 2004Nuri Bilge Ceylan | New Yorker#18 Distant 2004Edgar Wright | Rogue#19 Shaun of the Dead 2004Alfonso Cuaron | Warner Bros.#20 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004Alan Mok & Andrew Lau | Miramax#21 Infernal Affairs 2004Quentin Taratino | Miramax#22 Kill Bill: Volume 2 2004Ousmane Sembene | New Yorker#23 Moolaade 2004Zhang Yimou | Sony Pictures Classics#24 House of Flying Daggers 2004Mel Gibson | Icon#25 The Passion of the Christ 2004Manoel de Oliveira#26 A Talking Picture 2004Rithy Panh | First Run Features#27 S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine 2004Bruno Dumont | Wellspring#28 Twentynine Palms 2004Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Plexifilm#29 Blissfully Yours 2004Farah Khan | Eros Intl.#30 Trust Me, I'm Here 2005Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Strand#1 Tropical Malady 2005Terrence Malick | New Line#2 The New World 2005Marco Tullio Giordana | Miramax#3 The Best of Youth 2005Park Chan-wook | Tartan#4 Oldboy 2005George Lucas | 20th Century Fox#5 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 2005Ang Lee | Focus Features#6 Brokeback Mountain 2005David Cronenberg | New Line#7 A History of Violence 2005Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Magnolia#8 Pulse 2005Michael Haneke | Sony Pictures Classics#9 Cache 2005Bong Joon-ho | Palm Pictures#10 Memories of Murder 2005Noah Baumbach | Samuel Goldwyn/Sony#11 The Squid and the Whale 2005Philippe Garrel | Ad Vitam#12 Regular Lovers 2005Neil Marshall | Pathé Distribution#13 The Descent 2005Jia Zhang-ke | Zeitgeist#14 The World 2005Rob Zombie | Lionsgate#15 The Devil's Rejects 2005Werner Herzog | Lionsgate#16 Grizzly Man 2005Lucrecia Martel | Fine Line#17 The Holy Girl 2005Stephen Chow | Sony Pictures Classics#18 Kung Fu Hustle 2005Maren Ade | Film Movement#19 The Forest for the Trees 2005Wong Kar-wai | Sony Pictures Classics#20 2046 2005Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Leisure Time#21 Innocence 2005Arnaud Desplechin | Wellspring Media#22 Kings and Queen 2005Gregg Araki | Tartan/TLA#23 Mysterious Skin 2005Hirokazu Kore-eda | IFC#24 Nobody Knows 2005Andrew Bujalski | Goodby Cruel/Wellspring#25 Funny Ha Ha 2005Johnnie To | Tai Seng#26 Throw Down 2005Lav Diaz#27 The Evolution of a Filipino Family 2005Seijun Suzuki | Nippon Herald#28 Princess Raccoon 2005Mitsuo Yanagimachi | Film Movement#29 Who's Camus Anyways? 2005Ryuichi Hiroki#30 Vibrator 2006Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | Sony Pictures Classics#1 L'enfant 2006Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.#2 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006Michel Gondry | Rogue Pictures#2 Dave Chapelle's Block Party 2006David Lynch | 518 Media/Absurda#4 Inland Empire 2006Larry Charles | 20th Century Fox#5 Borat 2006Michael Mann | Universal#6 Miami Vice 2006Alfonso Cuaron | Universal#7 Children of Men 2006Cristi Puiu | Tartan USA#8 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 2006Kelly Reichardt | Kino Intl.#9 Old Joy 2006Guillermo del Toro#10 Pan's Labyrinth 2006Christopher Nolan | Buena Vista#11 The Prestige 2006Sofia Coppola | Sony#12 Marie Antoinette 2006Hou Hsiao-hsien | IFC#13 Three Times 2006Robert Altman | Picturehouse/New Line#14 A Prairie Home Companion 2006Martin Scorsese | Warner Bros.#15 The Departed 2006Tony Scott | Buena Vista#16 Déjà Vu 2006Spike Lee | Universal#17 Inside Man 2006Pedro Almodóvar | Sony Pictures Classics#18 Volver 2006Park Chan-wook | Tartan#19 Sympathy for Lady Vengeance 2006Nobuhiro Yamashita | Viz#20 Linda Linda Linda 2006Rian Johnson | Focus Features#21 Brick 2006Mike Judge | 20th Century Fox#22 Idiocracy 2006Frank Coraci | Sony#23 Click 2006Liu Jiayin#24 Oxhide 2006Lu Chuan | IDP#25 Mountain Patrol 2006John Hillcoat | First Look Intl.#26 The Proposition 2006Martin Campbell | Sony#27 Casino Royale 2006Asghar Farhadi | Dreamlab#28 Fireworks Wednesday 2006Farah Khan | Eros Intl.#29 Om Shanti Om 2006Selvaraghavan | Parasakthi#30 Pudh Pettai 2007David Fincher | Paramount#1 Zodiac 2007Tony Gilroy | Warner Bros.#2 Michael Clayton 2007Paul Verhoeven | Sony Pictures Classics#3 Black Book 2007Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Strand#4 Syndromes and a Century 2007Various Directors | Dimension#5 Grindhouse 2007Paul Thomas Anderson | Paramount#6 There Will Be Blood 2007Joel Coen | Miramax#7 No Country for Old Men 2007Wang Bing | Ad Vitam#8 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2007Abderrahmane Sissako | New Yorker#9 Bamako 2007Andrew Dominik | Warner Bros.#10 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007Cristian Mungiu | IFC#11 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days 2007Pedro Costa | Equation#12 Colossal Youth 2007Johnnie To | Magnolia#13 Exiled 2007Bong Joon-ho#14 The Host 2007Greg Mottola | Sony#15 Superbad 2007James Gray | Columbia#16 We Own the Night 2007Julia Loktev | IFC#17 Day Night Day Night 2007Tsai Ming-liang | Strand#18 The Wayward Cloud 2007Richard Kelly | Samuel Goldwyn/Destination#19 Southland Tales 2007Peter Hutton#20 At Sea 2007Jafar Panahi | Sony Pictures Classics#21 Offside 2007Valeska Grisebach | Rommel#22 Longing 2007Joe Swanberg | IFC#23 Hannah Takes the Stairs 2007Wes Anderson | Fox Searchlight#24 The Darjeeling Limited 2007Kim Ki-duk | Lifesize Entertainment#25 Time 2007Jaume Balaquero & Paco Plaza | Sony#26 Rec 2007Mia Hansen-Love#27 All is Forgiven 2007Paul Greengrass | Universal#28 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007William Friedkin | Lionsgate#29 Bug 2007Jun Ichikawa#30 How to Become Myself 2008Steven Soderbergh | IFC#1 Che 2008Christopher Nolan | Warner Bros.#2 The Dark Knight 2008Steve McQueen | IFC#3 Hunger 2008Tomas Alfredson | Magnet#4 Let the Right One In 2008Andrew Stanton | Disney#5 Wall-E 2008Jonathan Demme | Sony Pictures Classics#6 Rachel Getting Married 2008The Wachowskis | Warner Bros.#7 Speed Racer 2008Hou Hsiao-hsien | IFC#8 The Flight of the Red Balloon 2008Bryan Bertino | Universal#9 The Strangers 2008Hong Sang-soo | New Yorker#10 Woman on the Beach 2008Abdellatif Kechiche | IFC#11 The Secret of the Grain 2008Jia Zhang-ke | New Yorker#12 Still Life 2008Gus Van Sant | IFC#13 Paranoid Park 2008Adam McKay | Sony#14 Step Brothers 2008Catherine Hardwicke | Summit Entertainment#15 Twilight 2008Guy Maddin | IFC#16 My Winnipeg 2008Jacques Rivette | IFC#17 The Duchess of Langeais 2008Olivier Assayas | Magnolia#18 Boarding Gate 2008Lou Ye | Palm Pictures#19 Summer Palace 2008Johnnie To | Universe Entertainment#20 Sparrow 2008Arnaud Desplechin | IFC#21 A Christmas Tale 2008Nacho Vigalando | Magnolia#22 Timecrimes 2008Éric Rohmer | Koch Lorber#23 Romance of Astree and Celadon 2008Laurent Cantet | Sony Pictures Classics#24 The Class 2008James Benning | Cal Arts/Films#25 RR 2008Jose Luis Guerin | New Yorker#26 In the City of Sylvia 2008Serge Bozon | Kino Intl.#27 La France 2008Li Yu | New Yorker#28 Lost in Beijing 2008Ryosuke Hashiguchi | Bitters End#29 All Around Us 2008John Gianvito | Watchmaker#30 Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind 2009Carlos Reygadas | Palisades Tartan#1 Silent Light 2009Quentin Tarantino | The Weinstein Company#2 Inglourious Basterds 2009Lars von Trier | IFC#3 Antichrist 2009John Woo | Magnolia#4 Red Cliff 2009James Cameron | 20th Century Fox#5 Avatar 2009Lucrecia Martel | Strand Releasing#6 The Headless Woman 2009James Gray | Magnolia#7 Two Lovers 2009Olivier Assayas | IFC#8 Summer Hours 2009Antonio Campos | IFC#9 Afterschool 2009Wes Anderson | 20th Century Fox#10 The Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009Kathryn Bigelow | Summit Entertainment#11 The Hurt Locker 2009Jane Campion | Apparition#12 Bright Star 2009Hong Sang-soo | IFC#13 Night and Day 2009Terence Davies | Strand Releasing#14 Of Time and the City 2009Zack Snyder | Warner Bros.#15 Watchmen 2009Corneliu Porumboiu | IFC#16 Police, Adjective 2009Claire Denis | The Cinema Guild#17 35 Shots of Rum 2009Aleksandr Sokurov | Lorber HT Digital#18 The Sun 2009Abbas Kiarostami#19 Shirin 2009Jia Zhang-ke | The Cinema Guild#20 24 City 2009Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine | Lionsgate#21 Crank: High Voltage 2009Joel Coen | Focus Features#22 A Serious Man 2009Oren Peli | Paramount#23 Paranormal Activity 2009Rob Zombie | Dimension#24 Halloween II 2009Nina Paley | GKIDS#25 Sita Sings the Blues 2009Adam Curtis#26 It Felt Like a Kiss 2009Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Regent#27 Tokyo Sonata 2009Lisandro Alonso | The Match Factory#28 Liverpool 2009Tsai Ming-liang#29 Face 2009Ursula Meier | Lorber Films#30 Home
Filter CategoriesALL2000200120022003200420052006200720082009Reviewed 2000Edward Yang | WinStar#1 Yi Yi 2000Ang Lee | Sony Pictures Classics#2 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000Claire Denis | Sony Pictures Classics#3 Beau Travail 2000Lars von Trier | Fine Line#4 Dancer in the Dark 2000Ridley Scott | Dreamworks#5 Gladiator 2000Terence Davies | New Yorker#6 The House of Mirth 2000Sofia Coppola | Paramount#7 The Virgin Suicides 2000Abbas Kiarostami | New Yorker#8 The Wind Will Carry Us 2000Bruno Dumont | WinStar#9 L'Humanite 2000Spike Lee | New Line#10 Bamboozled 2000Darren Aronofsky | Artisan#11 Requiem for a Dream 2000David Gordon Green | Cowboy#12 George Washington 2000Jim Jarmusch | Artisan#13 Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai 2000Lynne Ramsey | First Look#14 Ratcatcher 2000Mary Harron | Lionsgate#15 American Psycho 2000Kinji Fukasaku | Toei#16 Battle Royale 2000Kenneth Lonergan | Paramount#17 You Can Count on Me 2000Christopher Guest | Warner Bros.#18 Best in Show 2000Chantal Akerman | Gemini#19 The Captive 2000Hong Sang-soo | Buena Vista Korea#20 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors 2000Lee Chang-dong | Cineclick Asia#21 Peppermint Candy 2000Joel & Ethan Coen | Buena Vista#22 O' Brother Where Are Thou? 2000Raúl Ruiz | Kino Intl.#23 Time Regained 2000Leos Carax | WinStar#24 Pola X 2000Nagisa Ôshima | New Yorker#25 Taboo Nagisa Ôshima | New Yorker#25 Taboo 2000Stephen Frears | Buena Vista#26 High Fidelity 2000Allison Maclean | Lionsgate#27 Jesus' Son 2000Lee Myung-se | Lionsgate#28 Nowhere to Hide 2000Lou Ye | Strand#29 Suzhou River 2000Cameron Crowe | Dreamworks#30 Almost Famous 2001David Lynch | Universal#1 Mulholland Drive 2001Wong Kar-wai | USA Films#2 In the Mood for Love 2001Jonas Mekas | Canyon Cinema#3 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2001Bela Tarr | Menemsha#4 Werckmeister Harmonies 2001Steven Spielberg | Warner Bros.#5 A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001Claire Denis | Film Desk#6 Trouble Every Day 2001Wes Anderson | Buena Vista#7 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001John Cameron Mitchell | New Line#8 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001Catherine Breillat | Cowboy#9 Fat Girl 2001Christopher Nolan | Newmarket#10 Memento 2001Takashi Miike | Vitagraph#11 Audition 2001David Wain | USA Films#12 Wet Hot American Summer 2001Baz Luhrmann | 20th Century Fox#13 Moulin Rouge! 2001Richard Linklater | Fox Searchlight#14 Waking Life 2001Joel & Ethan Coen | USA Films#15 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001Richard Kelly | Newmarket#16 Donnie Darko 2001John Fawcett | Lionsgate#17 Ginger Snaps John Fawcett | Lionsgate#17 Ginger Snaps 2001Pedro Costa | Gemini#18 In Vanda's Room 2001Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Cowboy#19 Cure 2001Sion Sono | Daiei#20 Suicide Club 2001Roy Andersson | New Yorker#21 Songs from the Second Floor 2001Lucrecia Martel | Cowboy#22 La Ciénaga 2001Jacques Rivette | Sony Pictures Classics#23 Va Savoir 2001Shinji Aoyama | Shooting Gallery#24 Eureka 2001Tom Green | 20th Century Fox#25 Freddy Got Fingered 2001Agnès Varda | Zeitgeist#26 The Gleaners & I 2001Lisandro Alonso | Distribution Co.#27 La Libertad 2001Karan Johar | Yash Raj#28 Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham 2001Terry Zwigoff | United Artists#29 Ghost World 2001Alain Guiraudie | Magouric#30 That Old Dream that Moves 2002Aleksandr Sokurov | Wellspring#1 Russian Ark 2002Hayao Miyazaki | Disney#2 Spirited Away 2002Alfonso Cuaron | IFC#3 Y Tu Mama También 2002Lynne Ramsey | Palisades#4 Morvern Callar 2002Martin Scorsese | Buena Vista#5 Gangs of New York 2002Spike Lee | Buena Vista#6 25th Hour 2002Pedro Almodóvar | Sony Pictures Classics#7 Talk to Her 2002Spike Jonze | Sony#8 Adaptation 2002Tsai Ming-liang | WinStar#9 What Time is It There? 2002Brian De Palma | Warner Bros.#10 Femme Fatale 2002Jean-Luc Godard | Manhattan Pictures Intl.#11 In Praise of Love 2002Roman Polanski | Focus Features#12 The Pianist 2002Hong Sang-soo#13 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate 2002Todd Haynes | Focus Features#14 Far From Heaven 2002Steven Spielberg | 20th Century Fox#15 Minority Report 2002Arnaud Desplechin | Empire#16 Esther Kahn 2002Laurent Cantet | THINKfilm#17 Time Out 2002Ryosuke Hashiguchi | Strand#18 Hush! 2002Shunji Iwai | Cowboy#19 All About Lily Chou-Chou 2002Michael Haneke | Kino Intl.#20 The Piano Teacher 2002Paul Thomas Anderson | Sony#21 Punch-Drunk Love 2002Wang Xiaoshuai | Sony Pictures Classics#22 Beijing Bicycle 2002Dover Koshashvili | Magnolia#23 Late Marriage 2002Philippe Grandrieux | Mars#24 A New Life 2002Michael Snow | Canyon Cinema#25 *Corpus Callosum 2002Ashutosh Gowariker | Sony Pictures Classics#26 Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India 2002Jiang Wen | Cowboy#27 Devils on the Doorstep 2002Zacharias Kunuk | Lot 4 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner 2002Michael Moore | MGM#29 Bowling for Columbine 2002Akihiko Shiota | Nikkatsu#30 Harmful Insect 2003Sofia Coppola | Focus Features#1 Lost in Translation 2003Jane Campion | Screen Gems#2 In the Cut 2003Gaspar Noé | Lionsgate#3 Irreversible 2003Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | New Yorker#4 The Son 2003Peter Jackson | New Line#5 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 2003Gus Van Sant | Fine Line#6 Elephant 2003Olivier Assayas | Palm Pictures#7 Demonlover 2003Robert Altman | Sony Pictures Classics#8 The Company 2003Jia Zhang-ke | Empire#9 Platform 2003Andrew Stanton | Buena Vista#10 Finding Nemo 2003Quentin Taratino | Miramax#11 Kill Bill: Volume 1 2003Takashi Miike | Media Blasters#12 Ichi the Killer 2003Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Palm Pictures#13 Millennium Mambo 2003Peyton Reed | 20th Century Fox#14 Down With Love 2003Tommy Wiseau | Chloe/TPW#15 The Room 2003Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.#16 Mystic River 2003João César Monteiro | Gemini Films#17 Come and Go 2003Peter Weir | 20th Century Fox#18 Master and Commander: Far Side of the World 2003Aki Kaurismaki | Sony Pictures Classics#19 The Man Without a Past 2003Peter Watkins | First Run#20 La Commune (Paris, 1871) 2003Seijun Suzuki | Media Blasters#21 Pistol Opera 2003Satoshi Kon | Go Fish#22 Millennium Actress 2003Abbas Kiarostami | Zeitgeist#23 Ten 2003Gus Van Sant | THINKfilm#24 Gerry 2003Travis Wilkerson | Icarus#25 An Injury to One 2003Jia Zhang-ke | New Yorker#26 Unknown Pleasures 2003Terry Zwigoff | Dimension#27 Bad Santa 2003Bill Morrison | Icarus#28 Decasia 2003Jacques Rivette | Les Filmes du Losange#29 The Story of Marie and Julien 2003Yee Chin-yen | Strand#30 Blue Gate Crossing 2004 2004Thom Andersen | Submarine Entertainment#1 Los Angeles Plays Itself 2004Richard Linklater | Warner Independent#2 Before Sunset 2004Lars von Trier | Lionsgate#3 Dogville 2004Zhang Yimou | Miramax#4 Hero 2004Michel Gondry | Focus Features#5 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004Vincent Gallo | Wellspring#6 The Brown Bunny 2004Pedro Almodóvar#7 Bad Education 2004Jonathan Glazer | New Line#8 Birth 2004Shane Carruth | THINKfilm/IFC#9 Primer 2004Tsai Ming-liang | Wellspring#10 Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2004Alexander Payne | Fox Searchlight#11 Sideways 2004Ken Jacobs#12 Star Spangled to Death 2004M. Night Shyamalan | Buena Vista#13 The Village 2004Lee Chang-dong | Lifesize Entertainment#14 Oasis 2004Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.#15 Million Dollar Baby 2004Jean-Luc Godard | Wellspring#16 Our Music 2004Andrey Zvyagintsev | Kino Intl.#17 The Return 2004Nuri Bilge Ceylan | New Yorker#18 Distant 2004Edgar Wright | Rogue#19 Shaun of the Dead 2004Alfonso Cuaron | Warner Bros.#20 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004Alan Mok & Andrew Lau | Miramax#21 Infernal Affairs 2004Quentin Taratino | Miramax#22 Kill Bill: Volume 2 2004Ousmane Sembene | New Yorker#23 Moolaade 2004Zhang Yimou | Sony Pictures Classics#24 House of Flying Daggers 2004Mel Gibson | Icon#25 The Passion of the Christ 2004Manoel de Oliveira#26 A Talking Picture 2004Rithy Panh | First Run Features#27 S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine 2004Bruno Dumont | Wellspring#28 Twentynine Palms 2004Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Plexifilm#29 Blissfully Yours 2004Farah Khan | Eros Intl.#30 Trust Me, I'm Here 2005Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Strand#1 Tropical Malady 2005Terrence Malick | New Line#2 The New World 2005Marco Tullio Giordana | Miramax#3 The Best of Youth 2005Park Chan-wook | Tartan#4 Oldboy 2005George Lucas | 20th Century Fox#5 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 2005Ang Lee | Focus Features#6 Brokeback Mountain 2005David Cronenberg | New Line#7 A History of Violence 2005Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Magnolia#8 Pulse 2005Michael Haneke | Sony Pictures Classics#9 Cache 2005Bong Joon-ho | Palm Pictures#10 Memories of Murder 2005Noah Baumbach | Samuel Goldwyn/Sony#11 The Squid and the Whale 2005Philippe Garrel | Ad Vitam#12 Regular Lovers 2005Neil Marshall | Pathé Distribution#13 The Descent 2005Jia Zhang-ke | Zeitgeist#14 The World 2005Rob Zombie | Lionsgate#15 The Devil's Rejects 2005Werner Herzog | Lionsgate#16 Grizzly Man 2005Lucrecia Martel | Fine Line#17 The Holy Girl 2005Stephen Chow | Sony Pictures Classics#18 Kung Fu Hustle 2005Maren Ade | Film Movement#19 The Forest for the Trees 2005Wong Kar-wai | Sony Pictures Classics#20 2046 2005Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Leisure Time#21 Innocence 2005Arnaud Desplechin | Wellspring Media#22 Kings and Queen 2005Gregg Araki | Tartan/TLA#23 Mysterious Skin 2005Hirokazu Kore-eda | IFC#24 Nobody Knows 2005Andrew Bujalski | Goodby Cruel/Wellspring#25 Funny Ha Ha 2005Johnnie To | Tai Seng#26 Throw Down 2005Lav Diaz#27 The Evolution of a Filipino Family 2005Seijun Suzuki | Nippon Herald#28 Princess Raccoon 2005Mitsuo Yanagimachi | Film Movement#29 Who's Camus Anyways? 2005Ryuichi Hiroki#30 Vibrator 2006Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | Sony Pictures Classics#1 L'enfant 2006Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.#2 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006Michel Gondry | Rogue Pictures#2 Dave Chapelle's Block Party 2006David Lynch | 518 Media/Absurda#4 Inland Empire 2006Larry Charles | 20th Century Fox#5 Borat 2006Michael Mann | Universal#6 Miami Vice 2006Alfonso Cuaron | Universal#7 Children of Men 2006Cristi Puiu | Tartan USA#8 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 2006Kelly Reichardt | Kino Intl.#9 Old Joy 2006Guillermo del Toro#10 Pan's Labyrinth 2006Christopher Nolan | Buena Vista#11 The Prestige 2006Sofia Coppola | Sony#12 Marie Antoinette 2006Hou Hsiao-hsien | IFC#13 Three Times 2006Robert Altman | Picturehouse/New Line#14 A Prairie Home Companion 2006Martin Scorsese | Warner Bros.#15 The Departed 2006Tony Scott | Buena Vista#16 Déjà Vu 2006Spike Lee | Universal#17 Inside Man 2006Pedro Almodóvar | Sony Pictures Classics#18 Volver 2006Park Chan-wook | Tartan#19 Sympathy for Lady Vengeance 2006Nobuhiro Yamashita | Viz#20 Linda Linda Linda 2006Rian Johnson | Focus Features#21 Brick 2006Mike Judge | 20th Century Fox#22 Idiocracy 2006Frank Coraci | Sony#23 Click 2006Liu Jiayin#24 Oxhide 2006Lu Chuan | IDP#25 Mountain Patrol 2006John Hillcoat | First Look Intl.#26 The Proposition 2006Martin Campbell | Sony#27 Casino Royale 2006Asghar Farhadi | Dreamlab#28 Fireworks Wednesday 2006Farah Khan | Eros Intl.#29 Om Shanti Om 2006Selvaraghavan | Parasakthi#30 Pudh Pettai 2007David Fincher | Paramount#1 Zodiac 2007Tony Gilroy | Warner Bros.#2 Michael Clayton 2007Paul Verhoeven | Sony Pictures Classics#3 Black Book 2007Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Strand#4 Syndromes and a Century 2007Various Directors | Dimension#5 Grindhouse 2007Paul Thomas Anderson | Paramount#6 There Will Be Blood 2007Joel Coen | Miramax#7 No Country for Old Men 2007Wang Bing | Ad Vitam#8 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2007Abderrahmane Sissako | New Yorker#9 Bamako 2007Andrew Dominik | Warner Bros.#10 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007Cristian Mungiu | IFC#11 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days 2007Pedro Costa | Equation#12 Colossal Youth 2007Johnnie To | Magnolia#13 Exiled 2007Bong Joon-ho#14 The Host 2007Greg Mottola | Sony#15 Superbad 2007James Gray | Columbia#16 We Own the Night 2007Julia Loktev | IFC#17 Day Night Day Night 2007Tsai Ming-liang | Strand#18 The Wayward Cloud 2007Richard Kelly | Samuel Goldwyn/Destination#19 Southland Tales 2007Peter 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