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Top 30 Movies of 21st Century According to Actors/Directors/Hollywood

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1:23p, 6/27/25
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#30 - Lost In Translation
#29 - Arrival
#28 - The Dark Knight
#27 - Adaptation
#26 - Anatomy of a Fall
#25 - Phantom Thread
#24 - Her
#23 - Boyhood
#22 - The Grand Budapest Hotel
#21 - The Royal Tenenbaums
#20 - Wolf of Wall Street
#19 - Zodiac
#18 - Y tu mam tambin
#17 - Brokeback Mountain
#16 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
#15 - City of God
#14 - Inglorious *******s
#13 - Children of Men
#12 - The Zone of Interest
#11 - Mad Max: Fury Road
#10 - The Social Network
#9 - Spirited Away
#8 - Get Out
#7 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
#6 - No Country for Old Men
#5 - Moonlight
#4 - In the Mood for Love
#3 - There Will Be Blood
#2 - Mulholland Drive
#1 - Parasite
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1:32p, 6/27/25
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No LOTR films, therefore not legit.

/this board. Probably.
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1:35p, 6/27/25
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Mullholland Drive. Entirely overrated, pretentious, and nonsensical.
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In reply to An L of an Ag • 1:39p, 6/27/25
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An L of an Ag said:
No LOTR films, therefore not legit.

/this board. Probably.
But its true. 17 Oscars across 3 films, 11 for ROTK. They are masterpieces
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1:42p, 6/27/25
Tough with lists like these to separate best movies and movies that did what they were trying to do the best.

Eg. Get Out... Peele made the perfect movie for what he was trying to do. And it was a great movie. But I wouldn't say its one of the Top 10 most entertaining films of the century.

Zodiac by most people's opinion is perfectly crafted. I think its a bore.

Wolf of Wall Street is fun, but I wouldn't even put it in Scorcese's Top 5 (and much of that Top 5 IMO is prior to 2000).

Mulholland Drive is a slog.

The ones I think on first glance I do agree with: Dark Knight, Boyhood, Mad Max, Social Network, Eternal Sunshine
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1:43p, 6/27/25
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Looks like a Rolling Stone list
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1:46p, 6/27/25
They left off Deadpool and Wolverine.
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2:02p, 6/27/25
Laughable top 30. Some great movies in there, of course, but come on.
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2:10p, 6/27/25
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That is a 'We take movies very seriously' list.
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In reply to An L of an Ag • 2:31p, 6/27/25
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An L of an Ag said:
No LOTR films, therefore not legit.

/this board. Probably.
I'd be very curious to hear a serious argument for Mad Max: Fury Road being better than all the LOTR movies.
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3:18p, 6/27/25
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Gladiator
Top Gun-Maverick
The Batman
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In reply to Proposition Joe • 3:51p, 6/27/25
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Your notes on Get Out and Wolf of Wall Street are spot on
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3:57p, 6/27/25
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if David Lynch didn't pass away there is no way MD is #2 in the list.

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In reply to JoCoAg09 • 4:11p, 6/27/25
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I agree with a lot of them (love Mulholland Drive actually) but Ummm missing quite a few.

Gladiator
Hell or High Water
Oppenheimer
Traffic
The Departed
LOTR: RotK at least
Birdman
Spotlight
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Interstellar

there are 10 I could easily remove from it to make room
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4:14p, 6/27/25
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Horrible list.

Arrival, The Dark Knight, and the Grand Budapest Hotel in the 20's while all those other movies are ranked so high? Bull***** Those are all top 10 movies of the 21st century. Also, Royal Tenenbaums is great, but Grand Budapest Hotel is the superior film.

No Interstellar or Inception? Really?

Also, was looking through their list... the #1 ranked comedy of the 21st century, according to NY Times, is Bridesmaids. Are you freaking joking?!?! You have the comedy years of 2000-2015ish. There are more comedies that are better and funnier than Bridesmaids in that time than I can count on both hands.

And then there's their top Pixar pick being Wall-E at #34. Give me a freaking break. Who puts Wall-E as their top Pixar pick when you have The Incredibles, Toy Story 3, Inside Out, or UP? Perhaps I can give this more of a pass than other transgressions, but I still think that's a ****ty take.

All in all, It's a ****ty list. However, I would expect nothing less from the NY Times.

ETA: I didn't add my many paragraphs at the complete lunacy of leaving the Lord of the Rings off this list. To quote a great name for these kinds of companies from a favorite movie of mine that was ALSO not in the top 30... the NY Times is a swill merchant.

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4:32p, 6/27/25
That is a garbage list. What in the actual ****
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In reply to Lathspell • 4:38p, 6/27/25
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The list is not from the NY Times. It's a poll of actors and directors. The Times just published it.
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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 4:43p, 6/27/25
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There's never a bad excuse to bash the NYT.

Now if you'll excuse me, I still need to do Wordle, Mini-Crossword, and Connections today.
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5:18p, 6/27/25
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That list sucks ass. There are maybe 5-6 titles on that list that would be on my list, which is the only one that matters to me.
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5:24p, 6/27/25
I think they mostly got the movies right. The order is another story.
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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 8:02p, 6/27/25
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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
That list sucks ass. There are maybe 5-6 titles on that list that would be on my list, which is the only one that matters to me.
I've seen seven of the 30. I don't think I've heard of half of them.

No Wreck it Ralph?

GTFO

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9:47p, 6/27/25
Plot twist. The poll the article is referring to never existed and this is just a list a few NYT columnists made while they got high in the bathroom.
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12:29p, 6/28/25
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the top 30 movies from the 90's would trump most of that list

maybe all of that list
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In reply to JoCoAg09 • 12:35p, 6/28/25
AG
These are the movies from this list that I haven't seen

#30 - Lost In Translation
#27 - Adaptation
#26 - Anatomy of a Fall
#25 - Phantom Thread
#23 - Boyhood
#22 - The Grand Budapest Hotel
#21 - The Royal Tenenbaums
#18 - Y tu mam tambin
#17 - Brokeback Mountain
#16 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
#15 - City of God
#13 - Children of Men
#11 - Mad Max: Fury Road
#9 - Spirited Away
#5 - Moonlight
#4 - In the Mood for Love
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In reply to W • 12:57p, 6/28/25
W said:
the top 30 movies from the 90's would trump most of that list

maybe all of that list
Just 94 and 95 could
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12:58p, 6/28/25
Parasite was dog ****
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In reply to The Original Houston 1836 • 1:12p, 6/28/25
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The Original Houston 1836 said:
W said:
the top 30 movies from the 90's would trump most of that list

maybe all of that list
Just 94 and 95 could
yep
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I'm just surprised Black Panther wasn't on the list.
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In reply to Wolfpac 08 • 4:13p, 6/28/25
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Wolfpac 08 said:
These are the movies from this list that I haven't seen

#30 - Lost In Translation
#27 - Adaptation
#26 - Anatomy of a Fall
#25 - Phantom Thread
#23 - Boyhood
#22 - The Grand Budapest Hotel
#21 - The Royal Tenenbaums
#18 - Y tu mam tambin
#17 - Brokeback Mountain
#16 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
#15 - City of God
#13 - Children of Men
#11 - Mad Max: Fury Road
#9 - Spirited Away
#5 - Moonlight
#4 - In the Mood for Love
BOLD are worth seeing for sure.

Skip these.
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In reply to Zombie Jon Snow • 4:27p, 6/28/25
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I'd put Boyhood over every movie you bolded.
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Without doing further reading, did they reveal their methodology for this pile?
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Here's the full 100:

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)
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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 5:49p, 6/28/25
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Bruce Almighty said:
I'd put Boyhood over every movie you bolded.

I'll have to watch it, thats one of the few on there I haven't seen.

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In reply to Chipotlemonger • 5:50p, 6/28/25
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Chipotlemonger said:
Without doing further reading, did they reveal their methodology for this pile?


They polled 500 actors, directors and other Hollywood people.
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In reply to Queso1 • 5:54p, 6/28/25
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Queso1 said:
I'm just surprised Black Panther wasn't on the list.


At quick glance, it looks like Black Panther was the only Marvel movie to make the top 100.
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