Some of you expressed some interest in seeing a recap of my “best of” list so I’ve enclosed it below. I decided to add an additional twenty that merited serious consideration.
1. Kill Bill (2003-2004)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
3. No Country For Old Men (2007)
4. Almost Famous (2000)
5. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007)
7. High Fidelity (2000)
8. The Departed (2006)
9. There Will Be Blood (2007)
10. Sideways (2004)
11. The Savages (2007)
12. Wedding Crashers (2005)
13. The Lives of Others (2006)
14. Mystic River (2003)
15. The Aviator (2004)
16. The Dark Knight (2008)
17. Children of Men (2006)
18. The Pianist (2002)
19. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
20. Gladiator (2000)
21. In the Bedroom (2001)
22. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
23. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
24. Half Nelson (2006)
25. Crash (2004)
26. The 25th Hour (2002)
27. Munich (2005)
28. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
29. Once (2007)
30. Frozen River (2008)
31. Zodiac (2007)
32. Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
33. L’ Enfant (2005)
34. Collateral (2004)
35. You Can Count on Me (2000)
36. Apocalypto (2006)
37. Amores Perros (2000)
38. Volver (2006)
39. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
40. Minority Report (2002)
41. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
42. A History of Violence (2005)
43. 21 Grams (2003
44. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
45. Garden State (2004)
46. United 93 (2006)
47. Memento (2000)
48. Old School (2003)
49. The Hangover (2009)
50. Donnie Darko (2001)
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Thanks for the comprehensive list. It will guide our family movie night viewing for a period of time this year.
Any time buddy, thanks for reading!
Not a bad list but the Hollywood Foreign Press might ? some of those picks.
They’re a bunch of idiots; Avatar for Best Picture? WTF?
Good list but I think a few of the films need to be rated a little higher, such as Donnie Darko, 25th hour, and gladiator. Plus, Children of men and Munich were very over rated movies. Other than that, good list