Best movies of the 2000s
Here’s an update to this list.
Best of the best
- 50 First Dates
- About a Boy
- About Schmidt
- Adaptation.
- Amelie
- American Splendor
- Atonement
- The Aviator
- Babel
- Batman Begins
- A Beautiful Mind
- Big Fish
- The Bourne Identity
- The Bourne Supremacy
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
- Bruce Almighty
- Casino Royale
- Cast Away
- Catch Me If You Can
- Changeling
- Chicago
- Chicken Run
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Donnie Darko
- Elf
- Enchanted
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Finding Forrester
- Finding Neverland
- Freedom Writers
- Gosford Park
- Hero
- The Illusionist
- The Incredibles
- Inside Man
- The Invention of Lying
- The Italian Job
- Juno
- Just Like Heaven
- The Kite Runner
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Love Actually
- A Love Song for Bobby Long
- Madagascar
- Mary and Max
- Minority Report
- Mission: Impossible III
- Monsoon Wedding
- Monsters, Inc.
- Moon
- My Life Without Me
- Mystic River
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Ocean’s Eleven
- The Prestige
- Pride & Prejudice
- Proof
- Ray
- The Reader
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Seraphim Falls
- Serenity
- Shrek
- Spider-man
- Spider-man 2
- Spirited Away
- Stardust
- Star Trek
- State of Play
- Stranger Than Fiction
- The Terminal
- Things We Lost in the Fire
- The Triplets of Belleville
- Tropic Thunder
- Unbreakable
- The Village
- The Visitor
- Waitress
- WALL-E
- Water
- Zoolander
Runner ups
- 10 Items or Less
- 16 Blocks
- 500 Days of Summer
- All the Real Girls
- Angels & Demons
- Appaloosa
- Australia
- Away We Go
- Becoming Jane
- Bend It Like Beckham
- Best in Show
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Black Snake Moan
- Blindness
- Bolt
- Breach
- Bridge to Terabithia
- Broken Flowers
- The Brothers Bloom
- The Bucket List
- Burn After Reading
- Capote
- Cashback
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Charlie Wilson’s War
- Charlie’s Angels
- Children of Men
- Chocolat
- Clerks II
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Collateral
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- The Constant Gardener
- The Contender
- Corpse Bride
- Crash
- Crazy Heart
- Crossing Over
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Dan in Real Life
- The Darjeeling Limited
- The Dark Knight
- The Day After Tomorrow
- Definitely, Maybe
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Dirty Pretty Things
- District 9
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Down with Love
- Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
- Drowning Mona
- Duplicity
- Eagle Eye
- Eagle vs Shark
- An Education
- Erin Brockovich
- Everybody’s Fine
- The Fall
- The Family Man
- The Final Cut
- Finding Nemo
- Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
- Garden State
- Get Low
- Get Smart
- Ghost Town
- Ghost World
- The Girl Next Door
- Gone Baby Gone
- Good Night, and Good Luck.
- A Good Woman
- The Great Buck Howard
- The Great Debaters
- The Greatest
- Hancock
- Hearts in Atlantis
- The History Boys
- Hitch
- The Hoax
- Hollywood Homicide
- House of Flying Daggers
- I Am Legend
- Idiocracy
- I Love You Phillip Morris
- In Good Company
- In the Valley of Elah
- Infamous
- Insomnia
- Iron Man
- The Jane Austen Book Club
- Jersey Girl
- Junebug
- Keeping Mum
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- Knowing
- The Lake House
- Lars and the Real Girl
- The Last Samurai
- Legally Blonde
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
- Lost in Translation
- Love That Boy
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
- The Majestic
- Mamma Mia!
- Man on Fire
- The Man Who Wasn’t There
- The Matador
- Matchstick Men
- Me and Orson Welles
- Mean Girls
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Micmacs
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
- The Missing
- Mona Lisa Smile
- Moulin Rouge!
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Mr. Deeds
- National Treasure
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets
- No Reservations
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Ocean’s Twelve
- The Painted Veil
- Panic Room
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Paper Man
- Pay It Forward
- Penelope
- Persepolis
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Ponyo
- Push
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- Quantum of Solace
- Ratatouille
- School of Rock
- Secondhand Lions
- Sherlock Holmes
- Sherrybaby
- Shrek 2
- Sideways
- Signs
- Silver City
- The Simpsons Movie
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Something’s Gotta Give
- Spanglish
- The Station Agent
- Sugar & Spice
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Sweet November
- Team America: World Police
- Thumbsucker
- Tideland
- Transsiberian
- Up
- Up in the Air
- V for Vendetta
- Vanilla Sky
- Vantage Point
- A Very Long Engagement
- Walk the Line
- Watchmen
- Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Whip It
- Wonderful World
- World Trade Center
- World’s Greatest Dad
- X2: X-Men United
- Yes Man
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Honourable mentions
- Across the Universe
- The Air I Breathe
- The Astronaut Farmer
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
- Cargo
- Cars
- The Cat Returns
- Catch and Release
- Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
- Chloe
- City of Ember
- Closer
- Code 46
- Copying Beethoven
- CQ
- Curse of the Golden Flower
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Delicate Art of Parking
- Deja Vu
- Die Another Day
- Domino
- Fanboys
- Firewall
- Frequency
- Fun with Dick and Jane
- The Girl in the Park
- The Go-Getter
- Hidalgo
- A History of Violence
- Horton Hears a Who!
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- The Human Stain
- I, Robot
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Impostor
- The Incredible Hulk
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- The Island
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
- Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
- K-19: The Widowmaker
- K-Pax
- Kingdom of Heaven
- The Ladykillers
- Lord of War
- Man of the Year
- Meet Bill
- Memento
- Miss Congeniality
- Monsters vs. Aliens
- Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
- Mr. Nobody
- Nurse Betty
- Ocean’s Thirteen
- Once
- Paradise Now
- Paycheck
- Possible Worlds
- Priceless
- The Princess and the Frog
- Rendition
- The Savages
- Showtime
- Shrek the Third
- A Single Man
- Solaris
- Space Cowboys
- The Squid and the Whale
- Starsky & Hutch
- Starter for 10
- Sunshine
- Surrogates
- Sweet Home Alabama
- The Tailor of Panama
- The Wackness
- The Weather Man
- What Lies Beneath
- The X Files: I Want to Believe
- X-Men
Worth watching once
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Avatar
- The Fountain
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Hellboy
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Jurassic Park III
- Lady in the Water
- Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Mission: Impossible II
- Pitch Black
- S1m0ne
- Star Trek: Nemesis
- Waking Life
- Where the Wild Things Are
I previously listed the best movies of the 1990s.