The BBC’s 100 Greatest 21st Century Films

[:eek:]

By
Garth Franklin -

Monday, August 22nd 2016 7:06 pm
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In the wake of a U.S. summer film season in which not a lot was well-received, and a culture more vocal about their differing opinions on films than ever before, a good list of ‘Top Movies’ always seems to incite some healthy and rigorous debate. Today, the results have been published from a BBC Culture commissioned poll of critics to determine the 100 greatest films of the 21st Century.
The results is one of the best lists of this type in some time. An excellent mix of titles from 2000 onwards and from filmmakers of pretty much every nationality. Some like the Coens, Christopher Nolan, Wes Anderson, Michael Haneke and Paul Thomas Anderson made the list three times while David Fincher, Abbas Kiarostami, Andrew Stanton and Terrence Malick got on there twice.
As always there will be debate over what’s missing, and you could easily include another hundred films of worthy additions such as: “Y Tu Mama Tambien,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Casino Royale,” “Collateral,” “Black Swan,” “The Quiet American,” “Munich,” “In the Loop,” “Mommy,” “The Others,” “Gladiator,” “United 93,” “Drive,” “Skyfall,” “Donnie Darko,” “A Single Man,” “The Bourne Supremacy,” “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “The Grey,” “The Incredibles,” “Shaun of the Dead,” “Batman Begins,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “The Departed,” “The Guard,” “In Bruges,” “Traffic,” “28 Days Later,” “Bowling for Columbine,” “Chicago,” “Best in Show,” “Whiplash,” “Gran Torino,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “The Ghost Writer,” “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Birdman,” “Calvary,” “Minority Report,” “Tangerine,” “The Avengers,” “The Descent,” “The Wrestler,” “Hunger,” “Adaptation,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Battle Royale,” “The Babadook,” “Borat,” “Secret Sunshine,” “Spider-Man 2,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,” “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation,” “The Raid,” “The Raid 2,” “The Fog of War,” “A History of Violence,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Inside Man,” “Good Night and Good Luck,” “Brick,” “Kill Bill Vol. 2,” “Looper,” “Moon,” “Waltz with Bashir,” Snowpiercer,” “The Hunt,” “Primer,” “Memories of Murder,” “District 9,” “V or Vendetta,” “Before Midnight,” “Toy Story 3,” “Hero,” “Downfall,” “Little Children,” “Burn After Reading,” “Gone Baby Gone,” “Gravity,” “Prisoners,” “The The Imposter,” “Shadow of the Vampire,” “Erin Brockovich,” “Ex Machina,” “The Revenant,” “I’m Not There,” “Amores Perros,” “Starred Up,” “Edge of Tomorrow,” “Weekend,” “The Martian,” “I Am Love,” “Nightcrawler,” “Sicario,” “Aquarius,” “Creed,” “Clouds of Sils Maria” and one of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
Check out the list for yourself below. What changes would you make?
1. “Mulholland Drive” (David Lynch, 2001)
2. “In the Mood for Love” (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
3. “There Will Be Blood” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
4. “Spirited Away” (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
5. “Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)
6. “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (Michel Gondry, 2004)
7. “The Tree of Life” (Terrence Malick, 2011)
8. “Yi Yi: A One and a Two” (Edward Yang, 2000)
9. “A Separation” (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
10. “No Country for Old Men” (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
11. “Inside Llewyn Davis” (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
12. “Zodiac” (David Fincher, 2007)
13. “Children of Men” (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
14. “The Act of Killing” (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
15. “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
16. “Holy Motors” (Leos Carax, 2012)
17. “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
18. “The White Ribbon” (Michael Haneke, 2009)
19. “Mad Max: Fury Road” (George Miller, 2015)
20. “Synecdoche, New York” (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
21. “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (Wes Anderson, 2014)
22. “Lost in Translation” (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
23. “Cache” (Michael Haneke, 2005)
24. “The Master” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
25. “Memento” (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
26. “25th Hour” (Spike Lee, 2002)
27. “The Social Network” (David Fincher, 2010)
28. “Talk to Her” (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
29. “WALL-E” (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
30. “Oldboy” (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
31. “Margaret” (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
32. “The Lives of Others” (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
33. “The Dark Knight” (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
34. “Son of Saul” (Laszlo Nemes, 2015)
35. “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (Ang Lee, 2000)
36. “Timbuktu” (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
37. “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
38. “City of God” (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)
39. “The New World” (Terrence Malick, 2005)
40. “Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005)
41. “Inside Out” (Pete Docter, 2015)
42. “Amour” (Michael Haneke, 2012)
43. “Melancholia” (Lars von Trier, 2011)
44. “12 Years a Slave” (Steve McQueen, 2013)
45. “Blue Is the Warmest Color” (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
46. “Certified Copy” (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
47. “Leviathan” (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
48. “Brooklyn” (John Crowley, 2015)
49. “Goodbye to Language” (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
50. “The Assassin” (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)
51. “Inception” (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
52. “Tropical Malady” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
53. “Moulin Rouge!” (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
54. “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
55. “Ida” (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013)
56. “Werckmeister Harmonies” (Bela Tarr, director; Ágnes Hranitzky, co-director, 2000)
57. “Zero Dark Thirty” (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
58. “Moolaade” (Ousmane Sembène, 2004)
59. “A History of Violence” (David Cronenberg, 2005)
60. “Syndromes and a Century” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
61. “Under the Skin” (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
62. “Inglourious Basterds” (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
63. “The Turin Horse” (Bela Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
64. “The Great Beauty” (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
65. “Fish Tank” (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
66. “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring” (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
67. “The Hurt Locker” (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
68. “The Royal Tenenbaums” (Wes Anderson, 2001)
69. “Carol” (Todd Haynes, 2015)
70. “Stories We Tell” (Sarah Polley, 2012)
71. “Tabu” (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
72. “Only Lovers Left Alive” (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
73. “Before Sunset” (Richard Linklater, 2004)
74. “Spring Breakers” (Harmony Korine, 2012)
75. “Inherent Vice” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
76. “Dogville” (Lars von Trier, 2003)
77. “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
78. “The Wolf of Wall Street” (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
79. “Almost Famous” (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
80. “The Return” (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
81. “Shame” (Steve McQueen, 2011)
82. “A Serious Man” (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009)
83. “A.I. “Artificial Intelligence” (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
84. “Her” (Spike Jonze, 2013)
85. “A Prophet” (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
86. “Far From Heaven” (Todd Haynes, 2002)
87. “Amelie” (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
88. “Spotlight” (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
89. “The Headless Woman” (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
90. “The Pianist” (Roman Polanski, 2002)
91. “The Secret in Their Eyes” (Juan Jose Campanella, 2009)
92. “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
93. “Ratatouille” (Brad Bird, 2007)
94. “Let the Right One In” (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
95. “Moonrise Kingdom” (Wes Anderson, 2012)
96. “Finding Nemo” (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
97. “White Material” (Claire Denis, 2009)
98. “Ten” (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
99. “The Gleaners and I” (Agnès Varda, 2000)
100. “Carlos” (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
100. “Requiem for a Dream” (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
100. “Toni Erdmann” (Maren Ade, 2016)

 

[Boom]

Happy to see Zodiac, The Dark Knight, and Let the Right One In make the cut.

 

[Kyle]

Word up yo, that list lost all cred to mah when it has 'Spring Breakers' in the list, yo, that's like so totally whack!

Yes, written that way mocking the film - how the hell does a film that gets 66/64% critic and 33% audience on rotten tomatoes get listed as one of the top 100 films of the 21st Century? More than half of the films they listed as not being on the list deserve to be on there a heck of a lot more - because those films both critics and audiences actually well regard.

 

[Boom]

Wait. How the blazing hell is Fellowship of the Rings not on here?

 

[Kyle]

Wait. How the blazing hell is Fellowship of the Rings not on here?

'Cause Spring Breakers is a much better movie, yo! It's a better movie than any Lord of the Rings film, it's a better movah than Black Swan, word up holmes it's even a better cinematic masterpiece than Munich and all that. Word up!

That's only one odd pick that I caught in there from a quick glance through - almost like a teenager snuck into his or her dad's office and replaced something with it.

 

[Guts]

Word up yo, that list lost all cred to mah when it has 'Spring Breakers' in the list, yo, that's like so totally whack!

Yes, written that way mocking the film - how the hell does a film that gets 66/64% critic and 33% audience on rotten tomatoes get listed as one of the top 100 films of the 21st Century? More than half of the films they listed as not being on the list deserve to be on there a heck of a lot more - because those films both critics and audiences actually well regard.

'Cause Spring Breakers is a much better movie, yo! It's a better movie than any Lord of the Rings film, it's a better movah than Black Swan, word up holmes it's even a better cinematic masterpiece than Munich and all that. Word up!

That's only one odd pick that I caught in there from a quick glance through - almost like a teenager snuck into his or her dad's office and replaced something with it.

Spoiler

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[Kyle]

So, is that you saying that movie actually deserves more recognition than --

As always there will be debate over what’s missing, and you could easily include another hundred films of worthy additions such as: “Y Tu Mama Tambien,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Casino Royale,” “Collateral,” “Black Swan,” “The Quiet American,” “Munich,” “In the Loop,” “Mommy,” “The Others,” “Gladiator,” “United 93,” “Drive,” “Skyfall,” “Donnie Darko,” “A Single Man,” “The Bourne Supremacy,” “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “The Grey,” “The Incredibles,” “Shaun of the Dead,” “Batman Begins,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “The Departed,” “The Guard,” “In Bruges,” “Traffic,” “28 Days Later,” “Bowling for Columbine,” “Chicago,” “Best in Show,” “Whiplash,” “Gran Torino,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “The Ghost Writer,” “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Birdman,” “Calvary,” “Minority Report,” “Tangerine,” “The Avengers,” “The Descent,” “The Wrestler,” “Hunger,” “Adaptation,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Battle Royale,” “The Babadook,” “Borat,” “Secret Sunshine,” “Spider-Man 2,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,” “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation,” “The Raid,” “The Raid 2,” “The Fog of War,” “A History of Violence,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Inside Man,” “Good Night and Good Luck,” “Brick,” “Kill Bill Vol. 2,” “Looper,” “Moon,” “Waltz with Bashir,” Snowpiercer,” “The Hunt,” “Primer,” “Memories of Murder,” “District 9,” “V or Vendetta,” “Before Midnight,” “Toy Story 3,” “Hero,” “Downfall,” “Little Children,” “Burn After Reading,” “Gone Baby Gone,” “Gravity,” “Prisoners,” “The The Imposter,” “Shadow of the Vampire,” “Erin Brockovich,” “Ex Machina,” “The Revenant,” “I’m Not There,” “Amores Perros,” “Starred Up,” “Edge of Tomorrow,” “Weekend,” “The Martian,” “I Am Love,” “Nightcrawler,” “Sicario,” “Aquarius,” “Creed,” “Clouds of Sils Maria” and one of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.

Keep in mind, these are 'Spring Breakers' stats:

66% RT General Critics
64% RT All Critics
5.3/10 IMDB
33% RT General Audience

It sure looks like one of the top 100 films of the 21st Century to me - audiences and critics loved it (sarcasm)

Or that a drunk person put it on there? Which is very likely as well.

I should note I checked to make sure I wasn't confusing it for a different film that coincidentally had the same title, it's not.

Either someone's obnoxious teenage kid snuck that in there or they were drunk when they placed that in the list. Only thing that remotely makes sense.

Also if that's from # 1 pick, 1 being the best - these are the films they're saying 'Spring Breakers' is better than:

75. “Inherent Vice” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
76. “Dogville” (Lars von Trier, 2003)
77. “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
78. “The Wolf of Wall Street” (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
79. “Almost Famous” (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
80. “The Return” (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
81. “Shame” (Steve McQueen, 2011)
82. “A Serious Man” (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009)
83. “A.I. “Artificial Intelligence” (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
84. “Her” (Spike Jonze, 2013)
85. “A Prophet” (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
86. “Far From Heaven” (Todd Haynes, 2002)
87. “Amelie” (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
88. “Spotlight” (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
89. “The Headless Woman” (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
90. “The Pianist” (Roman Polanski, 2002)
91. “The Secret in Their Eyes” (Juan Jose Campanella, 2009)
92. “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
93. “Ratatouille” (Brad Bird, 2007)
94. “Let the Right One In” (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
95. “Moonrise Kingdom” (Wes Anderson, 2012)
96. “Finding Nemo” (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
97. “White Material” (Claire Denis, 2009)
98. “Ten” (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
99. “The Gleaners and I” (Agnès Varda, 2000)
100. “Carlos” (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
100. “Requiem for a Dream” (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
100. “Toni Erdmann” (Maren Ade, 2016)

As said, when I saw that - it made it very questionable to me personally.

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

Spring Breakers is on this list because of this critic from BBC Culture:

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[Kyle]

Spring Breakers is on this list because of this critic from BBC Culture:

https://***********/ctblauvelt/status/767923570953613312

https://***********/ctblauvelt/status/767894076578463744

Then they needed to get someone with a lot more credibility. I can see a critic liking it - you're always going to have someone. But, naming it as one of the top 100 is beyond bizarre. The second whoever was in charge of the list saw that - they should have looked elsewhere.

 

[David H.]

Nice to see Jesse James on here, though I'd place it higher. Most underrated movie of the 2000s.

 

[LoganGambit87]

By
Garth Franklin -

Monday, August 22nd 2016 7:06 pm
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In the wake of a U.S. summer film season in which not a lot was well-received, and a culture more vocal about their differing opinions on films than ever before, a good list of ‘Top Movies’ always seems to incite some healthy and rigorous debate. Today, the results have been published from a BBC Culture commissioned poll of critics to determine the 100 greatest films of the 21st Century.
The results is one of the best lists of this type in some time. An excellent mix of titles from 2000 onwards and from filmmakers of pretty much every nationality. Some like the Coens, Christopher Nolan, Wes Anderson, Michael Haneke and Paul Thomas Anderson made the list three times while David Fincher, Abbas Kiarostami, Andrew Stanton and Terrence Malick got on there twice.
As always there will be debate over what’s missing, and you could easily include another hundred films of worthy additions such as: “Y Tu Mama Tambien,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Casino Royale,” “Collateral,” “Black Swan,” “The Quiet American,” “Munich,” “In the Loop,” “Mommy,” “The Others,” “Gladiator,” “United 93,” “Drive,” “Skyfall,” “Donnie Darko,” “A Single Man,” “The Bourne Supremacy,” “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “The Grey,” “The Incredibles,” “Shaun of the Dead,” “Batman Begins,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “The Departed,” “The Guard,” “In Bruges,” “Traffic,” “28 Days Later,” “Bowling for Columbine,” “Chicago,” “Best in Show,” “Whiplash,” “Gran Torino,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “The Ghost Writer,” “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Birdman,” “Calvary,” “Minority Report,” “Tangerine,” “The Avengers,” “The Descent,” “The Wrestler,” “Hunger,” “Adaptation,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Battle Royale,” “The Babadook,” “Borat,” “Secret Sunshine,” “Spider-Man 2,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,” “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation,” “The Raid,” “The Raid 2,” “The Fog of War,” “A History of Violence,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Inside Man,” “Good Night and Good Luck,” “Brick,” “Kill Bill Vol. 2,” “Looper,” “Moon,” “Waltz with Bashir,” Snowpiercer,” “The Hunt,” “Primer,” “Memories of Murder,” “District 9,” “V or Vendetta,” “Before Midnight,” “Toy Story 3,” “Hero,” “Downfall,” “Little Children,” “Burn After Reading,” “Gone Baby Gone,” “Gravity,” “Prisoners,” “The The Imposter,” “Shadow of the Vampire,” “Erin Brockovich,” “Ex Machina,” “The Revenant,” “I’m Not There,” “Amores Perros,” “Starred Up,” “Edge of Tomorrow,” “Weekend,” “The Martian,” “I Am Love,” “Nightcrawler,” “Sicario,” “Aquarius,” “Creed,” “Clouds of Sils Maria” and one of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
Check out the list for yourself below. What changes would you make?
1. “Mulholland Drive” (David Lynch, 2001)
2. “In the Mood for Love” (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
3. “There Will Be Blood” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
4. “Spirited Away” (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
5. “Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)
6. “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (Michel Gondry, 2004)
7. “The Tree of Life” (Terrence Malick, 2011)
8. “Yi Yi: A One and a Two” (Edward Yang, 2000)
9. “A Separation” (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
10. “No Country for Old Men” (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
11. “Inside Llewyn Davis” (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
12. “Zodiac” (David Fincher, 2007)
13. “Children of Men” (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
14. “The Act of Killing” (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
15. “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
16. “Holy Motors” (Leos Carax, 2012)
17. “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
18. “The White Ribbon” (Michael Haneke, 2009)
19. “Mad Max: Fury Road” (George Miller, 2015)
20. “Synecdoche, New York” (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
21. “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (Wes Anderson, 2014)
22. “Lost in Translation” (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
23. “Cache” (Michael Haneke, 2005)
24. “The Master” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
25. “Memento” (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
26. “25th Hour” (Spike Lee, 2002)
27. “The Social Network” (David Fincher, 2010)
28. “Talk to Her” (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
29. “WALL-E” (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
30. “Oldboy” (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
31. “Margaret” (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
32. “The Lives of Others” (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
33. “The Dark Knight” (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
34. “Son of Saul” (Laszlo Nemes, 2015)
35. “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (Ang Lee, 2000)
36. “Timbuktu” (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
37. “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
38. “City of God” (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)
39. “The New World” (Terrence Malick, 2005)
40. “Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005)
41. “Inside Out” (Pete Docter, 2015)
42. “Amour” (Michael Haneke, 2012)
43. “Melancholia” (Lars von Trier, 2011)
44. “12 Years a Slave” (Steve McQueen, 2013)
45. “Blue Is the Warmest Color” (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
46. “Certified Copy” (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
47. “Leviathan” (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
48. “Brooklyn” (John Crowley, 2015)
49. “Goodbye to Language” (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
50. “The Assassin” (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)
51. “Inception” (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
52. “Tropical Malady” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
53. “Moulin Rouge!” (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
54. “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
55. “Ida” (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013)
56. “Werckmeister Harmonies” (Bela Tarr, director; Ágnes Hranitzky, co-director, 2000)
57. “Zero Dark Thirty” (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
58. “Moolaade” (Ousmane Sembène, 2004)
59. “A History of Violence” (David Cronenberg, 2005)
60. “Syndromes and a Century” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
61. “Under the Skin” (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
62. “Inglourious Basterds” (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
63. “The Turin Horse” (Bela Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
64. “The Great Beauty” (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
65. “Fish Tank” (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
66. “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring” (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
67. “The Hurt Locker” (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
68. “The Royal Tenenbaums” (Wes Anderson, 2001)
69. “Carol” (Todd Haynes, 2015)
70. “Stories We Tell” (Sarah Polley, 2012)
71. “Tabu” (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
72. “Only Lovers Left Alive” (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
73. “Before Sunset” (Richard Linklater, 2004)
74. “Spring Breakers” (Harmony Korine, 2012)
75. “Inherent Vice” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
76. “Dogville” (Lars von Trier, 2003)
77. “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
78. “The Wolf of Wall Street” (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
79. “Almost Famous” (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
80. “The Return” (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
81. “Shame” (Steve McQueen, 2011)
82. “A Serious Man” (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009)
83. “A.I. “Artificial Intelligence” (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
84. “Her” (Spike Jonze, 2013)
85. “A Prophet” (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
86. “Far From Heaven” (Todd Haynes, 2002)
87. “Amelie” (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
88. “Spotlight” (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
89. “The Headless Woman” (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
90. “The Pianist” (Roman Polanski, 2002)
91. “The Secret in Their Eyes” (Juan Jose Campanella, 2009)
92. “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
93. “Ratatouille” (Brad Bird, 2007)
94. “Let the Right One In” (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
95. “Moonrise Kingdom” (Wes Anderson, 2012)
96. “Finding Nemo” (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
97. “White Material” (Claire Denis, 2009)
98. “Ten” (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
99. “The Gleaners and I” (Agnès Varda, 2000)
100. “Carlos” (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
100. “Requiem for a Dream” (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
100. “Toni Erdmann” (Maren Ade, 2016)

that movie was terrible i could barely even finish that horrid movie

 

[Dr.]

Keep in mind, critics were being asked to put on their artsy/academic hats and list their choice for “great cinema.” I.e., they weren’t providing quickie “consumer advice” on the current crop of new releases. Analogously, these same critics might include some fairly obscure films (like Tokyo Story, Rules of the Game and Sunrise) in their Best of All Time List.

 

[Kyle]

Keep in mind, critics were being asked to put on their artsy/academic hats and list their choice for “great cinema.”

Precisely. Which is why they should have immediately looked elsewhere when that one critic named a film with very mediocre critic reviews and abysmal audience reception (Spring Breakers) as being one of the best 100. It stops this list from being academic and turns it into "these are the films our employees like" rather than "these are the top 100 of the 21st century." A list like this is best looking at three factors (1) overall critic response, (2) overall audience reception, and (3) legacy. Basically, it's best to be as "statistical" / analytical as possible with this kind of list.

 

[Boom]

The Dark Knight in the top 50.

 

[chamber-music]

Keep in mind, critics were being asked to put on their artsy/academic hats and list their choice for “great cinema.” I.e., they weren’t providing quickie “consumer advice” on the current crop of new releases. Analogously, these same critics might include some fairly obscure films (like Tokyo Story, Rules of the Game and Sunrise) in their Best of All Time List.

Yeah, you can tell this is more of an artistic auteur choice list.

The general public would not of voted for most of these movies on their top 100 list.

I can respect diverse creative visions and I directors should be given the opportunity to make different types of movies. Cinema is richer and more creative with many of these types of people making films.

I watched the long version of Gaspar Noé's Enter The Void purely for the experience. It isn't a film I would necessarily want to watch ever again but I'm glad I saw something so unique.

Hearing guys like Terry Gilliam talk about how they struggle to get a movie made these days is sadly disheartening.

Saying that, there is a lot of pretentious nonsense films wrapped up as some deep artsy BS as well.

Terrence Malick's movies are beautiful to look at but by god are they boring. I don't know anyone who has sat through the entirety of The New World. Badlands and The Thin Red Line are his most palatable films.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Mad Max Fury Road!

Also, I have only not seen 7 films from that list.

 

[Flint Marko]

Pumped that Dark Knight, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, and Zodiac were ranked higher than I would have expected, but I'm most pleased with seeing Ratatouille on the list. One of Pixar's best, and horrendously underrated

 

[Kargo Warrior]

The Dark Knight in the top 50.

Aging like a fine vintage.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Ha!

I'm glad Apichatpong got so much love, but maaan are his films a work to get through. Mind mess up films he makes, but sooo slow to get there. He makes Tarkovsky films feel short.

 

[Kyle]

The general public would not of voted for most of these movies on their top 100 list.

Nor critics, for at least some of them.

 

[Drizzle]

I almost spat water all over my laptop when I saw Spring Breakers on there. Was it entertaining? Sure, but does it deserve to be on a Best of the 21st Century list? Haaaaaaaaaayyyyyylllle naw.

And how the **** are all three Lord of the Rings films missing?

 

[Kyle]

I almost spat water all over my laptop when I saw Spring Breakers on there. Was it entertaining? Sure, but does it deserve to be on a Best of the 21st Century list? Haaaaaaaaaayyyyyylllle naw.

And how the **** are all three Lord of the Rings films missing?

Cause Spring Breakers is a better example of good filmmaking.

Jk. Glad I'm not alone on scratching my head. List lost all credibility when I saw that.

 

[redhawk23]

Wait, AI Artificial Intelligence made the list? Hooray!

For context, I love that film,. Personal favorite. I love the movie itself but am also fascinated by its production and writing history. My friends all hate it and feed me crap about it.

 

[Marvolo]

Its way way too early for a list like this. There are still 84 years left in this century.

 

[Kyle]

Wait, AI Artificial Intelligence made the list? Hooray!

For context, I love that film,. Personal favorite. I love the movie itself but am also fascinated by its production and writing history. My friends all hate it and feed me crap about it.

One of my favorite Spielberg films t: