Best of the '00s (as ranked in 2010)

By: Sam Stander

Quite possibly this has changed drastically, and I need to update and revise it, but here, for posterity, is the top list of films of the past decade that I submitted to my college paper.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Hot Fuzz
3. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
4. Ghost World
5. Me and You and Everyone We Know
6. In Bruges
7. Lost in Translation
8. High Fidelity
9. Brick
10. Amélie
11. Mulholland Drive
12. Pan’s Labyrinth
13. Children of Men
14a. Adaptation (tie)
14b. Synecdoche, New York (tie)
15. There Will Be Blood
16. Let the Right One In
17a. O Brother Where Art Thou? (tie)
17b. No Country for Old Men (tie)
18. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
19. Donnie Darko
20. Shaun of the Dead
21. The Dark Knight
22. Once
23. Oldboy
24. Coffee and Cigarettes
25. Zoolander

• 01
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 02
  Hot Fuzz
  Edgar Wright
• 03
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  Wes Anderson
• 04
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 05
  Me and You and Everyone We Know
  Miranda July
• 06
  In Bruges
  Martin McDonagh
• 07
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 08
  High Fidelity
  Stephen Frears
• 09
  Brick
  Rian Johnson
• 10
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 11
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 12
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 13
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 14
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 15
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 16
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 17
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 18
  O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  Joel Coen
• 19
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 20
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  John Cameron Mitchell
• 21
  Donnie Darko
  Richard Kelly
• 22
  Shaun of the Dead
  Edgar Wright
• 23
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 24
  Once
  John Carney
• 25
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 26
  Coffee and Cigarettes
  Jim Jarmusch
• 27
  Zoolander
  Ben Stiller