Top 99: 2000 to 2010

By: RICHARD CLINE

My picks for the 99 best movies made between January 1, 2000 to December 31st, 2010.

• 01
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 02
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 03
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 04
  Zodiac
  David Fincher
• 05
  Memento
  Christopher Nolan
• 06
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 07
  City of God
  Fernando Meirelles
• 08
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 09
  Downfall
  Oliver Hirschbiegel
• 10
  Toy Story 3
  Lee Unkrich
• 11
  Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• 12
  Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  Quentin Tarantino
• 13
  Donnie Darko
  Richard Kelly
• 14
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 15
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 16
  District 9
  Neill Blomkamp
• 17
  Star Trek
  J.J. Abrams
• 18
  25th Hour
  Spike Lee
• 19
  O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  Joel Coen
• 20
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 21
  Requiem for a Dream
  Darren Aronofsky
• 22
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 23
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 24
  Traffic
  Steven Soderbergh
• 25
  Battle Royale
  Kinji Fukasaku
• 26
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 27
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 28
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 29
  Gran Torino
  Clint Eastwood
• 30
  Super Troopers
  Jay Chandrasekhar
• 31
  True Grit
  Ethan Coen
• 32
  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  Peter Weir
• 33
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky
• 34
  Lost in La Mancha
  Keith Fulton
• 35
  High Fidelity
  Stephen Frears
• 36
  Almost Famous
  Cameron Crowe
• 37
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 38
  The Descent
  Neil Marshall
• 39
  Once
  John Carney
• 40
  Being John Malkovich
  Spike Jonze
• 41
  Grizzly Man
  Werner Herzog
• 42
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 43
  Little Children
  Todd Field
• 44
  A History of Violence
  David Cronenberg
• 45
  Y tu mamá también
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 46
  Sideways
  Alexander Payne
• 47
  Ratatouille
  Brad Bird
• 48
  You Can Count on Me
  Kenneth Lonergan
• 49
  United 93
  Paul Greengrass
• 50
  Army of Shadows
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 51
  Munich
  Steven Spielberg
• 52
  Old School
  Todd Phillips
• 53
  Spellbound
  Jeffrey Blitz
• 54
  Casino Royale
  Martin Campbell
• 55
  Capturing the Friedmans
  Andrew Jarecki
• 56
  The Incredibles
  Brad Bird
• 57
  The Social Network
  David Fincher
• 58
  Persepolis
  Vincent Paronnaud
• 59
  Match Point
  Woody Allen
• 60
  In Bruges
  Martin McDonagh
• 61
  Michael Clayton
  Tony Gilroy
• 62
  American Splendor
  Shari Springer Berman
• 63
  Shaun of the Dead
  Edgar Wright
• 64
  The Squid and the Whale
  Noah Baumbach
• 65
  The Wind that Shakes the Barley
  Ken Loach
• 66
  Hidden
  Michael Haneke
• 67
  Batman Begins
  Christopher Nolan
• 68
  Team America: World Police
  Trey Parker
• 69
  Bloody Sunday
  Paul Greengrass
• 70
  Thank You for Smoking
  Jason Reitman
• 71
  Black Hawk Down
  Ridley Scott
• 72
  Taken
  Pierre Morel
• 73
  Moon
  Duncan Jones
• 74
  28 Days Later
  Danny Boyle
• 75
  Open Range
  Kevin Costner
• 76
  Up
  Pete Docter
• 77
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 78
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 79
  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  Ang Lee
• 80
  The Fountain
  Darren Aronofsky
• 81
  Borat
  Larry Charles
• 82
  Unbreakable
  M. Night Shyamalan
• 83
  In the Loop
  Armando Iannucci
• 84
  The Fighter
  David O. Russell
• 85
  Half Nelson
  Ryan Fleck
• 86
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 87
  The Prestige
  Christopher Nolan
• 88
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 89
  American Psycho
  Mary Harron
• 90
  Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
  Danny Leiner
• 91
  The Hangover
  Todd Phillips
• 92
  Into the Wild
  Sean Penn
• 93
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 94
  Zombieland
  Ruben Fleischer
• 95
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 96
  Minority Report
  Steven Spielberg
• 97
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Clint Eastwood
• 98
  Hot Rod
  Akiva Schaffer
• 99
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson