BEST FILMS of the 21st CENTURY (so far)
1.Children of Men/Alfonso Cuarón-2006
2.Michael Clayton/Tony Gilroy-2007
3.Traffic/Steven Soderbergh-2000
4.Roma/Alfonso Cuarón-2018
5.Cold War/Pawel Pawlikowski-2018
6.Inherent Vice/Paul Thomas Anderson-2014
7.The Revenant/Alejandro G. Iñárritu-2015
8.No Country For Old Men/The Coen Brothers-2007
9.Y Tu Mama Tambien/Alfonso Cuarón-2001
10.The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford/Andrew Dominik-2007
11.The Tree of Life/Terrence Malick-2011
12.Hunger/Steve McQueen-2008
13.Mulholland Drive/David Lynch-2001
14.Inside Llewyn Davis/The Coen Brothers-2013
15.Primer/Shane Carruth-2004
16.Drive/Nicolas Winding Refn-2011
17.Margaret/Kenneth Lonergan-2011
18.The Descendants/Alexander Payne-2011
19.Kill Bill-Part One/Quentin Tarantino-2003
20.Dawn of the Dead/Zack Snyder-2004
21.The Hunt/Thomas Vinterberg-2012
22.Tár/Todd Field-2022
23.Birdman/Alejandro G. Iñárritu-2014
24.The Road/John Hillcoat-2009
25.Margin Call/J.C. Chandor-2011
26.Rachel Getting Married/Jonathan Demme-2008
27.The Great Beauty/Paolo Sorrentino-2013
28.Spring Breakers/Harmony Korine-2012
29.Maestro/Bradley Cooper-2023
30.American Honey/Andrea Arnold-2016
31.Society of the Snow/J.A. Bayona-2023
32.Grizzly Man/Werner Herzog-2005
33.Solaris/Steven Soderbergh-2002
34.The Pianist/Roman Polanski-2002
35.Syriana/Stephen Gaghan-2005
36.Amour/Michael Haneke-2012
37.Good Night and Good Luck/George Clooney-2005
38.Once Upon A Time in Hollywood/Quentin Tarantino-2019
39.The Master/Paul Thomas Anderson-2012
40.Another Round/Thomas Vinterberg-202
41.Valhalla Rising/Nicolas Winding Refn-2009
42.Ali/Michael Mann-2001
43.12 Years a Slave/Steve McQueen-2013
44.In the Cut/Jane Campion-2003
45.Sideways/Alexander Payne-2011
46.Bad Santa/Terry Zwigoff-2003
47.Pina/Wim Wenders-2011
48.Boyhood/Richard Linklater-2014
49.Homo Sapiens/Nikolaus Geyrhalter-2016
50.Amores Perros/Alejandro G. Iñárritu-2000
Runners-Up:
Blonde / The Alchemist’s Cookbook / Million Dollar Baby / Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths / The American / 4 months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days / Killing Them Softly / Caché / Code Unknown / Biutiful / Bright Star / Fish Tank / Oslo, August 31st / The Big Short / The Prison in Twelve Landscapes / 21 Grams / What Now, Aida? / First Reformed / The Blackcoat’s Daughter / United 93 / Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead / Gangs of New York / Kill List / Martha Marcy May Marlene / Bloody Sunday / Collateral / Apocalypto / Borat / Blue is the Warmest Color / Babel / The Turin Horse / The Rolling Thunder Revue / Lilya 4-Ever / Willow Creek / Let The Right One In / Smile / Güeros / The Proposition / Mad Max: Fury Road / About a Son / Norte, The End of History / Upstream Color / Zero Dark Thirty / You Can Count On Me / Zodiac / Inland Empire / No Direction Home / Wolf of Wall Street / Donnie Darko / Miami Vice / A Hidden Life / Licorice Pizza / The Snowtown Murders