The best that cinema has had to offer since 2000 as picked by 177 film critics from around the world.

Aug 31, 2016 10:01 PM

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100. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
100. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
100. Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
99. The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, 2000)
98. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
97. White Material (Claire Denis, 2009)
96. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
95. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
94. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
93. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
92. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
91. The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella, 2009)
90. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
89. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
88. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
87. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
86. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
85. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
84. Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
83. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
82. A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009)
81. Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
80. The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
79. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
78. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
77. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
76. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
75. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
74. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
73. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
72. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
71. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
70. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)
69. Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
68. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
67. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
66. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
65. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
64. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
63. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
62. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
61. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
60. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
59. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
58. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène, 2004)
57. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
56. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, director; Ágnes Hranitzky, co-director, 2000)
55. Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013)
54. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
53. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
52. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
51. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
50. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)
49. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
48. Brooklyn (John Crowley, 2015)
47. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
46. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
45. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
44. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
43. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
42. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
41. Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015)
40. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
39. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
38. City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)
37. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
36. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
35. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
34. Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015)
33. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
32. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
31. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
30. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
29. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
28. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
27. The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
26. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
25. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
24. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
23. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
22. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
21. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
20. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
19. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
18. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
17. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
16. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
14. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
12. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
11. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
10. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
8. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films

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Everyone who commented on this posts needs to chill and take a cinema class. I hate when people ignorant on cinema, not just american film.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Mulholland Drive pissed me off to no end!

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I started to read it. Swiped kick. Read a few more. Gave up. I'm a lazy piece of shit.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Someone's fucking with us.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

A.I.?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?!

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 3

That movie was worse than Bicentennial Man

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I hate "best of [blank]" lists because 99% of the comments are people bitching about the choices and ranking. Make your own fucking list.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Loys of good stuff... some duds in there though

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Lots

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

With a list like this you might as well put sharknado as #1

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

I'm sorry but mulholland drive is drivel.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I would've put In Bruges on there for sure

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I don't agree with a lot of these either but y'all are being ridiculous. "People ranked the best movies DIFFERENTLY than I do?! HOWDARETHEY"

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

2016 is slowly turning to be the year I hate people who declare "You disagreed with me, therefore you're a tasteless idiot." There's so 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The movies i want to watch are largely dependent on my mood, so while a movie may be good, i may never have the interest to watch it.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Also this list is missing Doom with The Rock, which im always in the mood for.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You'll never be in the mood to watch #14 - 4 months 3 weeks 2 days. It's like coming out of a root canal saying "that was great"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Huh, It's almost like this is a list by film critics instead of imgur dorks... imagine that.

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 3

Almost like a life when they get paid for watching movies. Whats a waste of life, right, they should have done engineering I guess...

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I disagree with about 3/4 of these.

10 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

9/10

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

5/7

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

This list is a joke

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Everything about this list makes me angry. Zero Dark Thirty? Fuck off.

10 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 7

It has a 7.4/10 on imdb. That's relatively good.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Worth noting, 2000 is the last year of the 20th century, not the first year of the 21st. Also, this list is garbage.

10 years ago | Likes 79 Dislikes 9

Oh, REKT!!

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"we surveyed 62 film critics from around the world. This time, we received responses from 177"

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

How is spring breakers higher on the list than Requiem for a dream?

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

Because this list is dog shit

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Because titties

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Your list is bad and you should feel bad v

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Omg, FUCK BOYHOOD. So sick of that damn movie.

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

seriously. I watched it to see what the rage was about and almost fell asleep. only good thing about it was the ending scene.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Why is there 3 in the #100 spot?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Presumably a tie.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hate film critics. Pompous, artsy fartsy, dick salad eating, shit slathered cunt lips. This list is shit!

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 9

You're shit.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Uuhhh... dude, where's my car?????

10 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

Dude you got a tattoo

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Whats it say?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sweet, what about mine?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Dude! What about mine?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

:repeats this like 50 times:

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hope Spring Breakers is just a typo and that you actually meant to write Little Miss Sunshine.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Boyhood was terrible.

10 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 5

Thank you, someone agrees with me.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

I agree too. It's to be respected for the effort but that doesn't make it entertaining.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Exactly

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But it took 12 years to make!

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Who gives a fuck when the lead character cant act.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was a reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzhpbXQDl6g

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ok, I still hate it though

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is the worst best of list I've ever seen

10 years ago | Likes 495 Dislikes 13

100 best movies of the 21st century would have to see the future. So far, there's not much "best" out there.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We're all precious snowflakes. I would have Tron: Legacy and The Village on my list, and people would hate me too. Whatevs.

10 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 4

I hate you already

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

If anything, we should be surprised there are as many actually good movies on it as there are.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They lost me at "film critics".

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

It's almost like every list of bests that have ever been are just someone's opinion. Fuck me, right?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Seriously! I get that Mulholland Drive is artsy and all but that doesn't mean it should be close to #1

10 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 6

Might not be numerically ranked. Could just be that these are considered the best 100 movies.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or rather, what some critics think are the best 100.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I watched that shit movie a dozen times! No matter how hard I tried, my dick would pop out of my pants, fully erect, during the lesbo scene

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

I remember I watched this when I was 12 years old and I jizzed in my boxers. I ended up stuffing it in my bottom drawer to hide it from mom.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

+1 for unneeded honesty

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Easily the most confusing thing I've ever seen. I read a synopsis explaining everything and was still confused.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

It's the pretentious critic's dream list. Almost every one of these movies is along the same "artsy" vein. Some are far better than others

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

I mean i feel like this list is judging these movies as art, if you don't like that kind of a movie, why complain that someone else does

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I think this list is based off number of positive reviews by critics around the world.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Which ones though?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

If you read the article in the post it tells you. They picked 177 critics from all continents except Antarctica.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

May I ask why? I am an avid film nerd but didn't really see anything wrong with it

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

Not one bollywood movie! Are we being serious here? http://m.imgur.com/BgrgQT8

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Most of these should be nowhere near a top 100

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 5

This. Wall-E was tripe of the worst kind. No Country For Old Men was good, but not great.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 12

You are just awful

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

You are just awful

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I can agree with you for half of that statement.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Spring Breakers ? WTF ?

10 years ago | Likes 142 Dislikes 3

What's wrong with it being spring break, for-evah?

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I have my issues with this list, but Spring Breakers being at 74 is not one of them. It's a great and misunderstood film

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Stopped reading this list the moment I saw this title in it. Couldn't take it seriously anymore.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I was thinking the same! That movie was awful!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right? Like I loved the movie (mostly because of selena Gomez) but it was nowhere close to getting on this list. Along with some others.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

You talking shit about Harmony Korine?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

apparently yes.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

JUST MAKING SURE!!!!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This list is bull shit.

10 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 3

To be fair, spring breakers was so sneakily and diabolically brilliant. I love it.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

This movie gets shit because it was "artsy" but it was an amazing performance by Franco. You could feel the smarmy emanating from the screen

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Now that is a laughably horrible film

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I don't think the list cares about the opinions of stupid people

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

For real? This list was made by stupid people!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Actually, it is an aggregate of noteworthy critics' opinions on the greatest films since 2000

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Maybe an aggregate of noteworthy critics with their heads up their asses, because there is some shit on this list.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0