Best Movie of the 2000s: The Master List

Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed reading about us tackling the best movies of the 2010s, and so we’re back for more: the 2000s!

We have similar criteria to our 2010s bracket: Any movie nominated for Best Picture has made the cut. Just about every movie that had a nominee for a major Oscar (Best Picture, Director, Actor/Actress, Supporting Actor/Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography) made the cut. We also looked at a bunch of lists, including Rotten Tomatoes’ list of “The 140 Essential 2000s Movies.” As you can tell from this list, we aren’t watching only the highest reviewed movies; we wanted to expand our horizons toward more foreign films and more movies that had a “moment.” Is Snakes on a Plane going to get 100% on Rotten Tomatoes? No, but it was everywhere in 2006 and deserves to be in consideration. Box office matters too!

Disclaimer, though: we have over 300 movies on this list. We reserve the right to decide to clip any of them from the list at any time. The goal is to watch them all! We want to be as comprehensive as possible. But this is going to be a fly-by-night operation. This is more than we had for the 2010s. We’re going to do our best!

In this list, if a movie is marked with a "(T)," it means I haven't seen it, and if it's marked with an "(E)," you guessed it, Erin has yet to watch it. So, enough of my rambling: here’s the list! Let us know what you think. Hope you enjoy!

2000
Almost Famous (T) (dir. Cameron Crowe, starring Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, & Billy Crudup)
American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron, starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, & Jared Leto)
Battle Royale (E) (dir. Kinji Fukasaku, starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, & Takeshi Kitano)
Before Night Falls (T)(E) (dir. Julian Schnabel, starring Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, & Olivier Martinez)
Best in Show (dir. Christopher Guest, starring Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, & Michael McKean)
Billy Elliot (T) (dir. Stephen Daldry, starring Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, & Gary Lewis)
Bring It On (T) (dir. Peyton Reed, starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, & Gabrielle Union)
Cast Away (E) (dir. Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, & Nick Searcy)
Chocolat (T)(E) (dir. Lasse Hallstrom, starring Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, & Alfred Molina)
Chicken Run (dir. Peter Lord & Nick Park, starring Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, & Mel Gibson)
The Contender (T)(E) (dir. Rod Lurie, starring Gary Oldman, Joan Allen, & Jeff Bridges)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (T)(E) (dir. Ang Lee, starring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, & Zhang Ziyi)
Dancer in the Dark (T)(E) (dir. Lars von Trier, starring Bjork, Catherine Denueve, & David Morse)
Erin Brockovich (T) (dir. Steven Soderbergh, starring Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, & Aaron Eckhart)
Ginger Snaps (T)(E) (dir. John Fawcett, starring Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, & Kris Lemche)
Gladiator (dir. Ridley Scott, starring Russel Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, & Connie Nielsen)
Love and Basketball (T)(E) (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood, starring Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, & Alfre Woodard)
Miss Congeniality (dir. Donald Petrie, starring Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, & Benjamin Bratt)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (T)(E) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen, starring George Clooney, John Turturro, & Tim Blake Nelson)
Pollock (T)(E) (dir. Ed Harris, starring Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, & Tom Bower)
Quills (T)(E) (dir. Philip Kaufman, starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, & Joaquin Phoenix)
Remember the Titans (dir. Boaz Yakin, starring Denzel Washington, Will Patton, & Donald Faison)
Requiem for a Dream (dir. Darren Aronofsky, starring Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, & Ellen Burstyn)
The Replacements (E) (dir. Howard Deutch, starring Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, & Brooke Langton)
Shadow of the Vampire (T)(E) (dir. E. Elias Merhige, starring John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, & Cary Elwes)
Snatch (dir. Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, & Stephen Graham)
Together (T)(E) (dir. Lukas Moodysson, starring Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson, & Sam Kessel)
Traffic (T)(E) (dir. Steven Soderbergh, starring Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, & Michael Douglas)
Unbreakable (E) (dir. M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, & Robin Wright Penn)
Wonder Boys (T)(E) (dir. Curtis Hanson, starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, & Frances McDormand)
Yi Yi (T)(E) (dir. Edward Yang, starring Wu Nien-jen, Elaine Jin, & Issey Ogata)
You Can Count on Me (T)(E) (dir. Kenneth Lonergan, starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, & Matthew Broderick)

2001
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (T)(E) (dir. Steven Spielberg, starring Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, & Frances O’Connor)
Ali (T)(E) (dir. Michael Mann, starring Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, & Jon Voight)
Amelie (T)(E) (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, & Rufus)
Amores Perros (T)(E) (dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, starring Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, & Goya Toledo)
Audition (T)(E) (dir. Takashi Miike, starring Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, & Jun Kunimura)
A Beautiful Mind (dir. Ron Howard, starring Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, & Jennifer Connelly)
Black Hawk Down (T) (dir. Ridley Scott, starring Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, & Ewan McGregor)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (T) (dir. Sharon Maguire, starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, & Hugh Grant)
The Devil’s Backbone (T)(E) (dir. Guillermo del Toro, starring Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, & Federico Luppi)
Donnie Darko (dir. Richard Kelly, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, & Maggie Gyllenhaal)
The Fast and the Furious (E) (dir. Rob Cohen, starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, & Michelle Rodriguez)
Ghost World (T)(E) (dir. Terry Zwigoff, starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, & Steve Buscemi)
Gosford Park (T)(E) (dir. Robert Altman, starring Eileen Atkins, Michael Gambon, & Charles Dance)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (dir. Chris Columbus, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, & Emma Watson)
I Am Sam (T)(E) (dir. Jessie Nelson, starring Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, & Dakota Fanning)
In the Mood for Love (T)(E) (dir. Wong Kar-wai, starring Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, & Siu Ping Lam)
In the Bedroom (T)(E) (dir. Todd Field, starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, & Nick Stahl)
Iris (T)(E) (dir. Richard Eyre, starring Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, & Kate Winslet)
Legally Blonde (Robert Luketic, starring Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, & Selma Blair)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (dir. Peter Jackson, starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, & Viggo Mortensen)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (T)(E) (dir. Joel Coen, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, & James Gandolfini)
Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan, starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, & Joe Pantoliano)
Monster’s Ball (T)(E) (dir. Marc Forster, starring Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton, & Heath Ledger)
Monsters, Inc. (dir. Pete Docter, starring John Goodman, Billy Crystal, & Steve Buscemi)
Moulin Rouge! (T)(E) (dir. Baz Luhrmann, starring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, & John Leguizamo)
Mulholland Drive (T)(E) (dir. David Lynch, starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, & Laura Elena Harring)
Ocean’s Eleven (T)(E) (dir. Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, & Brad Pitt)
The Others (dir. Alejandro Amenabar, starring Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, & Christopher Eccleston)
The Royal Tenenbaums (T) (dir. Wes Anderson, starring Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, & Anjelica Huston)
Save the Last Dance (T)(E) (dir. Thomas Carter, starring Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas, & Kerry Washington)
Sexy Beast (T)(E) (dir. Jonathan Glazer, starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, & Ian McShane)
Shrek (dir. Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, & Cameron Diaz)
Spy Kids (dir. Robert Rodriguez, starring Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, & Antonio Banderas)
Time Out (T)(E) (dir. Laurent Cantet, starring Aurelien Recoing & Karin Viard)
Training Day (dir. Antoine Fuqua, starring Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, & Scott Glenn)
Waking Life (T)(E) (dir. Richard Linklater, starring Wiley Wiggins)
What Time Is It There? (T)(E) (dir. Tsai Ming-liang, starring Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, & Lu Yi-Ching)
Zoolander (dir. Ben Stiller, starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, & Will Ferrell)

2002
25th Hour (T)(E) (dir. Spike Lee, starring Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, & Rosario Dawson)
About a Boy (T) (dir. Chris & Paul Weitz, starring Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, & Toni Colette)
About Schmidt (T)(E) (dir. Alexander Payne, starring Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, & Kathy Bates)
Adaptation (T)(E) (dir. Spike Jonze, starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, & Chris Cooper)
Barbershop (T)(E) (dir. Tim Story, starring Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, & Sean Patrick Thomas)
Better Luck Tomorrow (T)(E) (dir. Justin Lin, starring Parry Shen, Jason Tobin, & Sung Kang)
The Bourne Identity (E) (dir. Doug Liman, starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente, & Chris Cooper)
Catch Me If You Can (E) (dir. Steven Spielberg, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, & Christopher Walken)
Chicago (T) (dir. Rob Marshall, starring Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, & Richard Gere)
Far From Heaven (T)(E) (dir. Todd Haynes, starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, & Dennis Haysbert)
Frida (T)(E) (dir. Julie Taymor, starring Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, & Geoffrey Rush)
Gangs of New York (dir. Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, & Cameron Diaz)
Gerry (T)(E) (dir. Gus Van Sant, starring Matt Damon & Casey Affleck)
The Hours (T)(E) (dir. Stephen Daldry, starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, & Nicole Kidman)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (dir. Peter Jackson, starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, & Viggo Mortensen)
Minority Report (T)(E) (dir. Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, & Max von Sydow)
Morvern Callar (T)(E) (dir. Lynne Ramsay, starring Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, & Paul Popplewell)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (dir. Joel Zwick, starring Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, & Lainie Kazan)
Panic Room (T)(E) (dir. David Fincher, starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, & Forest Whitaker)
The Pianist (T)(E) (dir. Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, & Frank Finlay)
Punch-Drunk Love (T)(E) (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, & Philip Seymour Hoffman)
The Ring (T)(E) (dir. Gore Verbinski, starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, & David Dorfman)
Road to Perdition (T)(E) (dir. Sam Mendes, starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, & Daniel Craig)
Spellbound (documentary dir. Jeffrey Blitz)
Spirited Away (T)(E) (dir. Hayao Miyazaki, starring Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, & Mari Natsuki)
The Quiet American (T)(E) (dir. Phillip Noyce, starring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, & Do Thi Hai Yen)
Talk to Her (T)(E) (dir. Pedro Almodovar, starring Javier Camara, Dario Grandinetti, & Leonor Watling)
Unfaithful (T) (dir. Adrian Lyne, starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, & Olivier Martinez)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (T) (dir. Alfonso Cuaron, starring Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, & Diego Luna)

2003
21 Grams (T)(E) (dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, & Benicio del Toro)
28 Days Later (T)(E) (dir. Danny Boyle, starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, & Christopher Eccleston)
American Splendor (T)(E) (dir. Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini, starring Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, & Judah Friedlander)
Bad Santa (dir. Terry Zwigoff, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, & Bernie Mac)
The Barbarian Invasions (T)(E) (dir. Denys Arcand, starring Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau, & Marie-Josee Croze)
Bend It Like Beckham (T) (dir. Gurinder Chadha, starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, & Jonathan Rhys Meyers)
Big Fish (T)(E) (dir. Tim Burton, starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, & Billy Crudup)
Capturing the Friedmans (T)(E) (documentary dir. Andrew Jarecki)
City of God (T)(E) (dir. Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund, starring Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora, & Jonathan Haagensen)
Cold Mountain (T)(E) (dir. Anthony Minghella, starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, & Renee Zellweger)
The Cooler (T)(E) (dir. Wayne Kramer, starring William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, & Maria Bello)
Crimson Gold (T)(E) (dir. Jafar Panahi, starring Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, & Azita Rayeji)
Dirty Pretty Things (T)(E) (dir. Stephen Frears, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, & Sergi Lopez)
Elf (dir. Jon Favreau, starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, & Zooey Deschanel)
Finding Nemo (dir. Andrew Stanton, starring Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, & Alexander Gould)
House of Sand and Fog (T)(E) (dir. Vadim Perelman, starring Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, & Shohreh Aghdashloo)
In America (T)(E) (dir. Jim Sheridan, starring Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, & Djimon Hounsou)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (dir. Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, & Vivica A. Fox)
The Last Samurai (T)(E) (dir. Edward Zwick, starring Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, & Ken Watanabe)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (dir. Peter Jackson, starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, & Viggo Mortensen)
Lost in Translation (T) (dir. Sofia Coppola, starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, & Giovanni Ribisi)
Love Actually (T) (dir. Richard Curtis, starring Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, & Colin Firth)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (T)(E) (dir. Peter Weir, starring Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, & James D’Arcy)
Monster (T)(E) (dir. Patty Jenkins, starring Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, & Bruce Dern)
Mystic River (dir. Clint Eastwood, starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, & Kevin Bacon)
Oldboy (T)(E) (dir. Park Chan-wook, starring Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, & Kang Hye-jung)
Pieces of April (T)(E) (dir. Peter Hedges, starring Katie Holmes, Derek Luke, & Sean Hayes)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (T) (dir. Gore Verbinski, starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, & Orlando Bloom)
School of Rock (dir. Richard Linklater, starring Jack Black, Joan Cusack, & Mike White)
Seabiscuit (T)(E) (dir. Gary Ross, starring Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, & Chris Cooper)
Something’s Gotta Give (T) (dir. Nancy Meyers, starring Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, & Keanu Reeves)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (T)(E) (dir. Kim Ki-duk, starring Oh Yeong-su, Kim Ki-duk, & Kim Young-min)
Thirteen (T)(E) (dir. Catherine Hardwicke, starring Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, & Nikki Reed)
X2: X-Men United (E) (dir. Bryan Singer, starring Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, & Halle Berry)
Whale Rider (T)(E) (dir. Niki Caro, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, & Vicky Haughton)

2004
2046 (T)(E) (dir. Wong Kar-wai, starring Tony Leung, Gong Li, & Faye Wong)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (dir. Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, & Paul Rudd)
The Aviator (T)(E) (dir. Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, & Kate Beckinsale)
Before Sunset (T) (dir. Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy)
Being Julia (T)(E) (dir. Istvan Szabo, starring Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, & Shaun Evans)
The Bourne Supremacy (T)(E) (dir. Paul Greengrass, starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente, & Brian Cox)
Collateral (T)(E) (dir. Michael Mann, starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, & Jada Pinkett Smith)
Closer (T)(E) (dir. Mike Nichols, starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, & Clive Owen)
Dawn of the Dead (T)(E) (dir. Zack Snyder, starring Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, & Jake Weber)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (T)(E) (dir. Michel Gondry, starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, & Kirsten Dunst)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (T)(E) (documentary dir. Michael Moore)
Finding Neverland (T)(E) (dir. Marc Forster, starring Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, & Julie Christie)
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (E) (dir. Danny Leiner, starring John Cho, Kal Penn, & Neil Patrick Harris)
Hotel Rwanda (T)(E) (dir. Terry George, starring Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, & Joaquin Phoenix)
House of Flying Daggers (T)(E) (dir. Zhang Yimou, starring Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi, & Takeshi Kaneshiro)
The Incredibles (dir. Brad Bird, starring Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, & Spencer Fox)
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (T)(E) (dir. Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman, David Carradine, & Michael Madsen)
Kinsey (T)(E) (dir. Bill Condon, starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, & Chris O’Donnell)
Layer Cake (T)(E) (dir. Matthew Vaughn, starring Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, & Kenneth Cranham)
The Manchurian Candidate (T)(E) (dir. Jonathan Demme, starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, & Liev Schreiber
Maria Full of Grace (T)(E) (dir. Joshua Marston, starring Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, & John Alex Toro)
Mean Girls (dir. Mark Waters, starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, & Tim Meadows)
Million Dollar Baby (T) (dir. Clint Eastwood, starring Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, & Morgan Freeman)
The Motorcycle Diaries (T)(E) (dir. Walter Salles, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, & Mia Maestro)
Napoleon Dynamite (dir. Jared Hess, starring Jon Heder, Jon Gries, & Aaron Ruell)
National Treasure (dir. Jon Turteltaub, starring Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, & Sean Bean)
The Notebook (dir. Nick Cassavetes, starring Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams)
Ocean’s Twelve (dir. Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, & Julia Roberts)
Ray (T)(E) (dir. Taylor Hackford, starring Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, & Clifton Powell)
Saw (E) (dir. James Wan, starring Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, & Danny Glover)
Shaolin Soccer (T)(E) (dir. Stephen Chow, starring Stephen Chow, Zhao Wei, & Ng Man-tat)
Shaun of the Dead (dir. Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, & Kate Ashfield)
Sideways (T)(E) (dir. Alexander Payne, starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, & Virginia Madsen)
Team America: World Police (E) (dir. Trey Parker, starring Trey Parker & Matt Stone)
The Terminal (T) (dir. Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, & Stanley Tucci)
Vera Drake (T)(E) (dir. Mike Leigh, starring Imelda Staunton, Eddie Marsan, & Daniel Mays)
A Very Long Engagement (T)(E) (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, starring Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, & Marion Cotillard)

2005
The 40-Year Old Virgin (dir. Judd Apatow, starring Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, & Paul Rudd)
Batman Begins (dir. Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, & Liam Neeson)
A Bittersweet Life (T)(E) (dir. Kim Jae-woon, starring Lee Byung-hun, Kim Yeong-cheol, & Shin Min-ah)
Brokeback Mountain (T) (dir. Ang Lee, starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, & Michelle Williams)
Broken Flowers (T)(E) (dir. Jim Jarmusch, starring Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, & Sharon Stone)
Capote (T)(E) (dir. Bennett Miller, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, & Clifton Collins Jr.)
Cinderella Man (T) (dir. Ron Howard, starring Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, & Paul Giamatti)
The Constant Gardener (T)(E) (dir. Fernando Meirelles, starring Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, & Danny Huston)
Crash (dir. Paul Haggis, starring Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, & Matt Dillon)
Good Night, and Good Luck (T)(E) (dir. George Clooney, starring David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, & George Clooney)
Grizzly Man (T)(E) (documentary dir. Werner Herzog)
A History of Violence (T)(E) (dir. David Cronenberg, starring Viggo Mortensen, William Hurt, & Maria Bello)
Hustle & Flow (T)(E) (dir. Craig Brewer, starring Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, & Taryn Manning)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (T)(E) (dir. Shane Black, starring Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, & Michelle Monaghan)
L’Enfant (T)(E) (dir. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, starring Jeremie Renier & Deborah Francois)
Match Point (T)(E) (dir. Woody Allen, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, & Scarlett Johansson)
Memoirs of a Geisha (T)(E) (dir. Rob Marshall, starring Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, & Michelle Yeoh)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (T)(E) (dir. Doug Liman, starring Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, & Vince Vaughn)
Mrs. Henderson Presents (T)(E) (dir. Stephen Frears, starring Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, & Kelly Reilly)
Munich (T)(E) (dir. Steven Spielberg, starring Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, & Ciaran Hinds)
Murderball (T) (documentary dir. Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro)
The New World (T)(E) (dir. Terrence Malick, starring Colin Farrell, Q’orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, & Christian Bale)
North Country (T)(E) (dir. Niki Caro, starring Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, & Sean Bean)
Pride & Prejudice (T) (dir. Joe Wright, starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, & Brenda Blethyn)
The Proposition (T)(E) (dir. John Hillcoat, starring Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, & Emily Watson)
Serenity (T)(E) (dir. Joss Whedon, starring Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, & Summer Glau)
Sin City (dir. Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez, starring Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, & Benicio del Toro)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (T) (dir. Ken Kwapis, starring Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, & Alexis Bledel)
The Squid and the Whale (T)(E) (dir. Noah Baumbach, starring Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, & Owen Kline)
Syriana (T)(E) (dir. Stephen Gaghan, starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, & Jeffrey Wright)
Transamerica (T)(E) (dir. Duncan Tucker, starring Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, & Graham Greene)
Walk the Line (T) (dir. James Mangold, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, & Robert Patrick)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (T)(E) (dir. Nick Park & Steve Box, starring Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, & Helena Bonham
Carter)
Wedding Crashers (dir. David Dobkin, starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, & Isla Fisher)

2006
Babel (T)(E) (dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, & Gael Garcia Bernal)
The Black Dahlia (T)(E) (dir. Brian De Palma, starring Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, & Aaron Eckhart)
Blood Diamond (T) (dir. Edward Zwick, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, & Djimon Hounsou)
Borat (dir. Larry Charles, starring Sacha Baron Cohen & Ken Davitian)
Casino Royale (T)(E) (dir. Martin Campbell, starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, & Mads Mikkelsen)
Children of Men (T)(E) (dir. Alfonso Cuaron, starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, & Clare-Hope Ashitey)
Crank (T)(E) (dir. Neveldine/Taylor, starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, & Jose Pablo Castillo)
The Da Vinci Code (T) (dir. Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, & Ian McKellen)
The Departed (dir. Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, & Jack Nicholson)
The Descent (T)(E) (dir. Neil Marshall, starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, & Alex Reid)
The Devil Wears Prada (T) (dir. David Frankel, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, & Stanley Tucci)
Dreamgirls (T) (dir. Bill Condon, starring Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, & Eddie Murphy)
Half Nelson (T)(E) (dir. Ryan Fleck, starring Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, & Anthony Mackie)
Happy Feet (T) (dir. George Miller, starring Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, & Brittany Murphy)
Idiocracy (T)(E) (dir. Mike Judge, starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, & Dax Shepard)
The Illusionist (dir. Neil Burger, starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, & Jessica Biel)
Inside Man (E) (dir. Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, & Jodie Foster)
The Last King of Scotland (T) (dir. Kevin Macdonald, starring Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, & Kerry Washington)
Letters from Iwo Jima (T)(E) (dir. Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, & Tsuyoshi Ihara)
Little Children (T) (dir. Todd Field, starring Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, & Jackie Earle Haley)
Little Miss Sunshine (dir. Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, starring Toni Colette, Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, & Alan Arkin)
The Lives of Others (T)(E) (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, starring Ulrich Muhe, Martina Gedeck, & Sebastian Koch)
Notes on a Scandal (T)(E) (dir. Richard Eyre, starring Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, & Bill Nighy)
Pan’s Labyrinth (E) (dir. Guillermo del Toro, starring Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu, & Ivana Baquero
The Prestige (dir. Christopher Nolan, starring Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, & Michael Caine)
The Pursuit of Happyness (T) (dir. Gabriele Muccino, starring Will Smith, Jaden Smith, & Thandiwe Newton)
The Queen (T)(E) (dir. Stephen Frears, starring Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, & James Cromwell)
A Scanner Darkly (T)(E) (dir. Richard Linklater, starring Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., & Woody Harrelson)
Snakes on a Plane (T) (dir. David R. Ellis, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, & Nathan Phillips)
Stranger Than Fiction (T)(E) (dir. Marc Forster, starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, & Dustin Hoffman)
Tenacious D In: The Pick of Destiny (T)(E) (dir. Liam Lynch, starring Jack Black & Kyle Gass)
United 93 (T)(E) (dir. Paul Greengrass, starring Christian Clemenson, Cheyenne Jackson, & David Alan Basche)
V for Vendetta (dir. James McTeigue, starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, & Stephen Rea)
Venus (T)(E) (dir. Roger Michell, starring Peter O’Toole, Leslie Phillips, & Jodie Whittaker)
Volver (T)(E) (dir. Pedro Almodovar, starring Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, & Lola Duenas)

2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (T)(E) (dir. Cristian Mungiu, starring Adi Carauleanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, & Madalina Ghitescu)
300 (dir. Zack Snyder, starring Gerard butler, Lena Headey, & David Wenham)
American Gangster (E) (dir. Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington, Chiwetel Ejiofor, & Ruby Dee)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (T)(E) (dir. Andrew Dominik, starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, & Sam Shepard)
Atonement (T) (dir. Joe Wright, starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, & Saoirse Ronan)
Away from Her (T)(E) (dir. Sarah Polley, starring Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, & Olympia Dukakis)
The Bourne Ultimatum (T)(E) (dir. Paul Greengrass, starring Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, & David Strathairn)
Charlie Wilson’s War (T)(E) (dir. Mike Nichols, starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, & Philip Seymour Hoffman)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (T)(E) (dir. Julian Schnabel, starring Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, & Anne Consigny)
Eastern Promises (T)(E) (dir. David Cronenberg, starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi watts, & Vincent Cassel)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (T)(E) (dir. Shekhar Kapur, starring Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, & Clive Owen)
Gone Baby Gone (dir. Ben Affleck, starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, & Morgan Freeman)
The Host (T)(E) (dir. Bong Joon-ho, starring Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, & Park Hae-il)
Hot Fuzz (dir. Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, & Jim Broadbent)
Hot Rod (E) (dir. Akiva Schaffer, starring Andy Samberg, Isla Fisher, & Jorma Taccone)
I’m Not There (T)(E) (dir. Todd Haynes, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, & Richard Gere)
In the Valley of Elah (T)(E) (dir. Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, & Susan Sarandon)
Into the Wild (dir. Sean Penn, starring Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, & William Hurt)
Juno (T) (dir. Jason Reitman, starring Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, & Jason Bateman)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (T) (documentary dir. Seth Gordon)
La Vie en Rose (T)(E) (dir. Olivier Dahan, starring Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, & Pascal Greggory)
Lars and the Real Girl (T)(E) (dir. Craig Gillespie, starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, & Paul Schneider)
Michael Clayton (T)(E) (dir. Tony Gilroy, starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, & Tilda Swinton)
No Country for Old Men (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, & Josh Brolin)
Once (T) (dir. John Carney, starring Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova)
The Orphanage (T)(E) (dir. J.A. Bayona, starring Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, & Roger Princep)
Persepolis (T)(E) (dir. Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, starring Chiara Mastroianni & Catherine Denueve)
Ratatouille (dir. Brad Bird, starring Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, & Lou Romano)
The Savages (T)(E) (dir. Tamara Jankins, starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, & Philip Bosco)
Superbad (dir. Greg Mottola, starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, & Christopher Mintz-Plasse)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (T)(E) (dir. Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, & Alan Rickman)
There Will Be Blood (T)(E) (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, & Kevin J. O’Connor)
Transformers (T) (dir. Michael Bay, starring Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, & Megan Fox)
Zodiac (T) (dir. David Fincher, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, & Robert Downey Jr.)

2008
Burn After Reading (T)(E) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen, starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, & John Malkovich)
Changeling (T)(E) (dir. Clint Eastwood, starring Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, & Amy Ryan)
Cloverfield (T) (dir. Matt Reeves, starring Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, & T.J. Miller)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (T)(E) (dir. David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, & Mahershala Ali)
The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, & Michael Caine)
Doubt (T) (dir. John Patrick Shanley, starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, & Viola Davis)
Frost/Nixon (T) (dir. Ron Howard, starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, & Kevin Bacon)
Frozen River (T)(E) (dir. Courtney Hunt, starring Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, & Charlie McDermott)
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (T)(E) (dir. Kim Jee-woon, starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, & Jung Woo-sung)
Happy-Go-Lucky (T)(E) (dir. Mike Leigh, starring Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, & Alexis Zegerman)
Hunger (T)(E) (dir. Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, & Liam McMahon)
In Bruges (T)(E) (dir. Martin McDonagh, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, & Ralph Fiennes)
Iron Man (dir. Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, & Jeff Bridges)
Let the Right One In (T) (dir. Tomas Alfredson, starring Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, & Per Ragnar)
Mamma Mia! (T) (dir. Phyllida Lloyd, starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, & Colin Firth)
Man on Wire (T)(E) (documentary dir. James Marsh)
Milk (E) (dir. Gus Van Sant, starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, & Josh Brolin)
Rachel Getting Married (T)(E) (dir. Jonathan Demme, starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, & Bill Irwin)
The Reader (T)(E) (dir. Stephen Daldry, starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, & David Kross)
Revolutionary Road (T) (dir. Sam Mendes, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, & Michael Shannon)
Slumdog Millionaire (T) (dir. Danny Boyle, starring Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, & Madhur Mittal)
Step Brothers (dir. Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins, & Mary Steenburgen)
Synecdoche, New York (T)(E) (dir. Charlie Kaufman, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, & Michelle Williams)
Tropic Thunder (dir. Ben Stiller, starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., & Jack Black)
Twilight (dir. Catherine Hardwicke, starring Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (T)(E) (dir. Woody Allen, starring Javier Bardem, Patricia Clarkson, & Penelope Cruz)
The Visitor (T)(E) (dir. Tom McCarthy, starring Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, & Haaz Sleiman)
WALL-E (T) (dir. Andrew Stanton, starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, & Jeff Garlin)
The Wrestler (E) (dir. Darren Aronofsky, starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, & Evan Rachel Wood)

2009
(500) Days of Summer (dir. Marc Webb, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Zooey Deschanel)
Adventureland (T)(E) (dir. Greg Mottola, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, & Ryan Reynolds)
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (T)(E) (documentary dir. Sacha Gervasi)
Avatar (T) (dir. James Cameron, starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, & Stephen Lang)
The Blind Side (T) (dir. John Lee Hancock, starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, & Quinton Aaron)
Coraline (T)(E) (dir. Henry Selick, starring Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, & Jennifer Saunders)
Crazy Heart (T)(E) (dir. Scott Cooper, starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, & Robert Duvall)
District 9 (dir. Neill Blomkamp, starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, & David James)
Drag Me to Hell (T) (dir. Sam Raimi, starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long, & Lorna Raver)
An Education (T) (dir. Lone Scherfig, starring Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, & Alfred Molina)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (T)(E) (dir. Wes Anderson, starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, & Jason Schwartzman)
Fish Tank (T)(E) (dir. Andrea Arnold, starring Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, & Kierston Wareing)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (dir. David Yates, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, & Emma Watson)
The Hurt Locker (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, & Ben Geraghty)
In the Loop (T)(E) (dir. Armando Iannucci, starring Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, & Gina McKee)
Inglourious Basterds (dir. Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, & Michael Fassbender)
Invictus (dir. Clint Eastwood, starring Morgan Freeman & Matt Damon)
Jennifer’s Body (T)(E) (dir. Karyn Kusama, starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, & Johnny Simmons)
Julie &Julia (T) (dir. Nora Ephron, starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, & Stanley Tucci)
The Last Station (T)(E) (dir. Michael Hoffman, starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, & Paul Giamatti)
The Lovely Bones (T) (dir. Peter Jackson, starring Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, & Mark Wahlberg)
The Messenger (T)(E) (dir. Oren Moverman, starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, & Samantha Morton)
Nine (T)(E) (dir. Rob Marshall, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, & Penelope Cruz)
Paranormal Activity (T) (dir. Oren Peli, starring Katie Featherston & Micah Sloat)
Precious (T)(E) (dir. Lee Daniels, starring Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, & Mariah Carey)
The Princess and the Frog (dir. Ron Clements & John Musker, starring Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, & Keith David)
The Secret of Kells (T)(E) (dir. Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey, starring Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson, & Christen Mooney)
A Serious Man (T)(E) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen, starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, & Fred Melamed)
A Single Man (T)(E) (dir. Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, & Nicholas Hoult)
Star Trek (T) (dir. J.J. Abrams, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, & Karl Urban)
State of Play (T)(E) (dir. Kevin Macdonald, starring Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, & Rachel McAdams)
Taken (dir. Pierre Morel, starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, & Leland Orser)
Up (dir. Pete Docter, starring Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai, & Bob Peterson)
Up in the Air (dir. Jason Reitman, starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, & Anna Kendrick)
The White Ribbon (T)(E) (dir. Michael Haneke, starring Christien Friedel, Ulrich Tukur, & Josef Bierbichler)