New York Times 100 Top Movies of the 21st Century

[1987_Lakers]

The New York Times compiled a list of the 100 greatest movies of the 21st century. More than 500 filmmakers, stars and influential film fans were asked to vote for the 10 best movies (however they chose to define that) released since Jan. 1, 2000. Perusing some of the individual ballots reveals a wide variety of choices and tastes and often precious little overlap. Still, from all that data a ranked list of 100 was compiled.

01. Parasite (Bong Joon Ho)
02. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
03. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
04. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai)
05. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
06. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
07. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
08. Get Out (Jordan Peele)
09. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
10. The Social Network (David Fincher)
11. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
12. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
14. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
15. City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
16. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
17. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
18. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
19. Zodiac (David Fincher)
20. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
21. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
22. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
23. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
24. Her (Spike Jonze)
25. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
26. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
27. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
28. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
29. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
30. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
31. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
32. Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
33. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
34. WALL-E Andrew Stanton)
35. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
36. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
37. Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
38. Portrait of A Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma)
39. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
40. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
41. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
42. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
43. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
44. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
45. Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
46. ROMA (Alfonso Cuaron)
47. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
48. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck)
49. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
50. Up! (Pete Docter)
51. 12 Years A Slave (Steve McQueen)
52. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
53. Borat (Larry Charles)
54. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
55. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
56. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
57. Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
58. Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)
59. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
60. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
61. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
62. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
63. Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton & Faris)
64. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
65. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
66. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
67. TAR (Todd Field)
68. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
69. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
70. Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
71. Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
72. Carol (Todd Haynes)
73. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
74. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
75. Amour (Michael Haneke)
76. O Brother, Where Art Thou (Joel & Ethan Coen)
77. Everything Everywhere All At Once (The Daniels)
78. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
79. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
80. Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
81. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
82. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
83. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
84. Melancholia (Lars Von Trier)
85. Anchorman (Adam McKay)
86. Past Lives (Celine Song)
87. The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
88. The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda)
89. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
90. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
91. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
92. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
93. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
94. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
95. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
96. Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
97. Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)
98. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
99. Memories of A Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
100. Superbad (Greg Motolla)

[highwhey]

how is interstellar at 88? wtf

and parasite was good, but nowhere close to #1 of the century.

anyone not on drugs knows the list is a joke. christopher nolan is the best director of this century thus far though.

[ShawkFactory]

how is interstellar at 88? wtf

and parasite was good, but nowhere close to #1 of the century.

anyone not on drugs knows the list is a joke. christopher nolan is the best director of this century thus far though.

It appears to be a list compiled with data from other filmmakers and cinephiles. You can disagree but it’s certainly not a joke. They often look for different things in a film than people who just watch movies to be purely entertained.

[1987_Lakers]

how is interstellar at 88? wtf

and parasite was good, but nowhere close to #1 of the century.

anyone not on drugs knows the list is a joke. christopher nolan is the best director of this century thus far though.

Idk, I think Parasite & There Will Be Blood for great arguments for #1. Interstellar is way too low, I agree.

They put "Y Tu Mama Tambien", but I think "Amores Perros" was a better Mexican movie.

I think Gone Girl should have made this list. I loved that movie when it came out.

Edit: Gone Girl did make the list, didn't see it somehow.

[highwhey]

It appears to be a list compiled with data from other filmmakers and cinephiles. You can disagree but it’s certainly not a joke. They often look for different things in a film than people who just watch movies to be purely entertained.

shit be a joke bruh.

i would go into further detail but i'm not autistic like jstern.

[highwhey]

Idk, I think Parasite & There Will Be Blood for great arguments for #1. Interstellar is way too low, I agree.

They put "Y Tu Mama Tambien", but I think "Amores Perros" was a better Mexican movie.

I think Gone Girl should have made this list. I loved that movie when it came out.

there will be blood has top 10 placement for sure. and i agree about amores perros being better than y tu mama tambien although both are great films.

i have a hard time understanding what the criteria is in the first place. interstellar is top 50 for sure, i think maybe top 25 given how amazing the score is, the visuals and storyline.

[ShawkFactory]

shit be a joke bruh.

i would go into further detail but i'm not autistic like jstern.

I mean you’re entitled to your opinion

Glad to see Zone of Interest so high. Almost nobody talked about it because of Oppenheimer/Barbie but I thought it was the best movie of the year, and the year was stacked.

[SouBeachTalents]

5 best movies off the top of my head that didn't make the list

Training Day
Collateral
Hot Fuzz
Donnie Darko
28 Days Later

[1987_Lakers]

5 best movies off the top of my head that didn't make the list

Training Day
Collateral

Get rid of Moonlight & Brokeback for these movies.

[1987_Lakers]

I think Sideways should have made the list. I thought this movie was going to suck ass from the looks of it, but I was laughing my ass off and really enjoyed the story.

[ShawkFactory]

Best movie not on here has to be The Pianist.

[GOBB]

I stopped at Parasite. Trash list

[ArbitraryWater]

Parasite?! A gimmick movie?


They wanna humiliate Americans putting a foreign movie at 1.

Get Out is a decent horror movie, what the **** is it doing at 8th best movie of the century?


You could only make that claim if you make that movie political/see some "deep meaning" in it.

This list is designed to demoralize.

[1987_Lakers]

I'm surprised at the hate for Parasite, calling it a gimmick movie is wild.

You can call "everything everywhere all at once" a gimmick movie, but not Parasite.

[ShawkFactory]

I'm surprised at the hate for Parasite, calling it a gimmick movie is wild.

You can call "everything everywhere all at once" a gimmick movie, but not Parasite.

Agreed on Parasite. I think it's almost a perfect film.

It's better on second watch too.