Best Films of the 2000s: Q1 • Page 4

Threw most of my five stars from Letterboxd plus some others I love into the ranker and then edited a bit. I'm sure I missed a bunch (and haven't seen tons of important movies), but this feels mostly true to my tastes.

1. The Social Network
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Arrival
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (but this really stands in for the entire project)
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Knives Out
7. Parasite
8. Unbreakable
9. Inception
10. Lady Bird
11. Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
12. Green Room
13. No Country For Old Men
14. Thirst
15. The Dark Knight
16. Sound of Metal
17. Children of Men
18. There Will Be Blood
19. Moonlight
20. Toy Story 3

 

Green Room, good flick

 

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
2. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
   
3. Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
   
4. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2002)
   
5. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010)
6. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
   
7. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
   
8. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
   
9. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)
   
10. Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)
    
    
11. I Saw the Devil (Kim Jee-woon, 2010)
12. It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
    
13. Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)
    
14. Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022)
    
15. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
    
16. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
    
17. La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016)
    
18. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
19. The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)
    
20. Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)
    
    
21. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)
22. Dune (Denis Villeneuve, 2021/4)
    
23. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
    
24. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
    
25. Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, 2003/4)
    
26. Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé, 2009)
    
27. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)
    
28. Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie, 2007)
    
29. Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)
    
30. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
    
    
31. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
32. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018)
    
33. Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
    
34. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019)
    
35. Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame (Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, 2018/19)
    
36. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
    
37. Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan, 2022)
    
38. American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
    
39. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016)
    
40. A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon, 2005)
    
    
41. Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010)
42. Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2005)
    
43. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
    
44. Hope (Lee Joon-ik, 2013)
    
45. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook, 2016)
    
46. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
    
47. The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, 2014)
    
48. mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)
    
49. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)
    
50. Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
    
    
51. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)
52. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
    
53. The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
    
54. Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier, 2013)
    
55. Pearl (Ti West, 2022)
    
56. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
    
57. Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024)
    
58. Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
    
59. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
    
60. Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green, 2001)
    
    
61. The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
62. Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006)
    
63. Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
    
64. Thirst (Park Chan-wook, 2009)
    
65. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
    
66. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023)
    
67. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)
    
68. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)
    
69. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
70. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006)
    
    
71. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh, 2023)
72. Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 2001/2/3)
    
73. Anora (Sean Baker, 2024)
    
74. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
    
75. Visitor Q (Takashi Miike, 2001)
    
76. Big Fish (Tim Burton, 2003)
    
77. Beginners (Mike Mills, 2010)
    
78. The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber, 2004)
    
79. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
    
80. Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)
    
    
81. Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)
    
82. Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005)
    
83. Logan (James Mangold, 2017)
    
84. Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, 2014)
    
85. Climax (Gaspar Noé, 2018)
    
86. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (James Gunn, 2023)
    
87. The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki, 2023)
    
88. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, 2020)
    
89. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
    
90. Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)
    
    
91. Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002)
92. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
    
93. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009)
    
94. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009)
    
95. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
    
96. The Raid (Gareth Evans, 2011)
    
97. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, 2018)
    
98. The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2018)
    
99. Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, 2022)
    
100. The Northman (Robert Eggers, 2022)

 

I really really do not like everything everywhere all at once.

 

I hated it. It felt like Juno for a new generation.

Should we do a worst of the quarter-century?

 

The overall list has a lot of similarities at the top to what you would see if you did big critics' polls. The glaring omission is Yi Yi. @Nathan would not have let that happen.

 

Where is nathan for us?

 

I didn't like what it was trying to do, but the jokes were good enough.

 

are you a big Rick and Morty fan?

 

I don't watch television

 

One of my favorite interactions here ever was when people were talking about the similarity to Rick and Morty, someone tried to say that it was unfair and ridiculous, and then a quick Google search reveals that even the directors admitted that they saw how similar it was.

 

What is this word you keep saying?

 

add all your movies and it puts them head to head and you pick which one you like more. It does it with all the movies and gives you a ranking at the end.

bias sorter

 

A film ranking is by definition biased, unless you are ranking them by something like runtime or budget or year released. It sort of reminds of when people will cite a critics' star or numerical rankings if their Best Of lists don't match up exactly with those numbers.

There is a huge gap between my second favorite movie of the quarter-century and my 200th, but when you get really close it can flip day to day. In my head Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, and There Will Be Blood are all masterpieces from Paul Thomas Anderson, but on the day I made that list The Master beat There Will Be Blood and Punch-Drunk Love didn't appear at all. On any given day that could be reversed or switched. It doesn't mean Norbit might be number one some day, but it will never be a list set in stone.

 

I thought Everything Everywhere was okay. Didn't love it, but thought it was fun enough, and I like Daniels. I don't watch Rick and Morty, but I think I get the gist of the similarities.

Juno is a good film, and the better of the two.

 

It’s not really a bias sorter just a sorter. I picked my top 25 and used that because I truly don’t care that much about the ranking. The difference in something being 11th and 14th feels so arbitrary.

 

It gets really hard when you are using such a big sample. I brought up my top hundred of the 2000's and my top hundred of the 2010's but then I had to look at my top tens of each year in the 2020's.

I used to play around with Flickchart years ago. It is meaningless but it wastes time. It pits movie head to head to try and get an idea of a list.

https://www.flickchart.com/

 

Stop the steal