The Best Films of the 2000s

By: Jack Kyser

My personal favorites of the decade.

• 01
  The Departed
  Martin Scorsese
• 02
  Mystic River
  Clint Eastwood
• 03
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 04
  The Aviator
  Martin Scorsese
• 05
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 06
  Gangs of New York
  Martin Scorsese
• 07
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 08
  Minority Report
  Steven Spielberg
• 09
  Brokeback Mountain
  Ang Lee
• 10
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 11
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 12
  About Schmidt
  Alexander Payne
• 13
  Zodiac
  David Fincher
• 14
  Munich
  Steven Spielberg
• 15
  Almost Famous
  Cameron Crowe
• 16
  Wonder Boys
  Curtis Hanson
• 17
  Into the Wild
  Sean Penn
• 18
  I'm Not There.
  Todd Haynes
• 19
  The Wrestler
  Darren Aronofsky
• 20
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 21
  Million Dollar Baby
  Clint Eastwood
• 22
  Sideways
  Alexander Payne
• 23
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 24
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 25
  21 Grams
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 26
  Milk
  Gus Van Sant
• 27
  Memento
  Christopher Nolan
• 28
  City of God
  Fernando Meirelles
• 29
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 30
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 31
  Up in the Air
  Jason Reitman
• 32
  Collateral
  Michael Mann
• 33
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 34
  Slumdog Millionaire
  Danny Boyle
• 35
  25th Hour
  Spike Lee
• 36
  Michael Clayton
  Tony Gilroy
• 37
  Capote
  Bennett Miller
• 38
  Syriana
  Stephen Gaghan
• 39
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Clint Eastwood
• 40
  Babel
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 41
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 42
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 43
  The Good Shepherd
  Robert De Niro
• 44
  Black Hawk Down
  Ridley Scott
• 45
  American Splendor
  Shari Springer Berman
• 46
  Revolutionary Road
  Sam Mendes
• 47
  A Prophet
  Jacques Audiard
• 48
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 49
  Road to Perdition
  Sam Mendes
• 50
  House of Sand and Fog
  Vadim Perelman
• 51
  Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  Quentin Tarantino
• 52
  Crazy Heart
  Scott Cooper
• 53
  Traffic
  Steven Soderbergh
• 54
  Far from Heaven
  Todd Haynes
• 55
  Shattered Glass
  Billy Ray
• 56
  Little Children
  Todd Field
• 57
  United 93
  Paul Greengrass
• 58
  Before Sunset
  Richard Linklater
• 59
  No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
  Martin Scorsese
• 60
  Match Point
  Woody Allen
• 61
  Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
  Sidney Lumet
• 62
  Monster
  Patty Jenkins
• 63
  The Quiet American
  Phillip Noyce
• 64
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 65
  Matchstick Men
  Ridley Scott
• 66
  Little Miss Sunshine
  Jonathan Dayton
• 67
  Good Night, and Good Luck.
  George Clooney
• 68
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  David Fincher
• 69
  The Assassination of Richard Nixon
  Niels Mueller
• 70
  Walk the Line
  James Mangold
• 71
  Rachel Getting Married
  Jonathan Demme
• 72
  O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  Joel Coen
• 73
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 74
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 75
  Passing Strange
  Spike Lee
• 76
  Gosford Park
  Robert Altman
• 77
  A Beautiful Mind
  Ron Howard
• 78
  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  Peter Weir
• 79
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 80
  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  Tommy Lee Jones
• 81
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 82
  The Fog of War
  Errol Morris
• 83
  Hotel Rwanda
  Terry George
• 84
  The Man Who Wasn't There
  Joel Coen
• 85
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 86
  Frost/Nixon
  Ron Howard
• 87
  Sin City
  Frank Miller
• 88
  American Gangster
  Ridley Scott
• 89
  This Is England
  Shane Meadows
• 90
  The Squid and the Whale
  Noah Baumbach
• 91
  The Pledge
  Sean Penn
• 92
  (500) Days of Summer
  Marc Webb
• 93
  Shine a Light
  Martin Scorsese
• 94
  About a Boy
  Chris Weitz
• 95
  Public Enemies
  Michael Mann
• 96
  Insomnia
  Christopher Nolan
• 97
  Burn After Reading
  Ethan Coen
• 98
  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  Shane Black
• 99
  The Last King of Scotland
  Kevin Macdonald
• 100
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  Wes Anderson