Historical Top Ten Lists - 2000s

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2004

1. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
2. The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
3. Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (Andrew Repasky McElhinney)
4. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
5. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
6. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
7. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
8. Collateral (Michael Mann)
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
10. Birth (Jonathan Glazer) / Closer (Mike Nichols) (tie)

Honorable mentions:

• Two from Lars von Trier (Dogville, The Five Obstructions)
• Powerful personal visions (The Passion of the Christ, The Village, Fahrenheit 9/11, Alexander )
• Inspired comedies (Mean Girls, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, I Heart Huckabees)
• Smart Hollywood films (The Bourne Supremacy, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Incredibles, Ray, Spartan, The Terminal, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie)
• Promising newcomers (Primer, Open Water, Dawn of the Dead, Garden State, New Guy, Shaun of the Dead )
• Unique international perspectives (The Dreamers, Gozu, A Tale of Two Sisters, Belvaux's Trilogy, Twentynine Palms, Crimson Gold, Distant, Son Frere, Secret Things, Blissfully Yours, Bright Future, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Last Life in the Universe, Raja, The Return, A Thousand Clouds of Peace, Time of the Wolf)

Overrated:

• Sideways
• Kinsey
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Maria Full of Grace
• Hotel Rwanda
• Saved!
• Spider-Man 2
• Team America: World Police

2003

1. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
2. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
3. The Company (Robert Altman)
4. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
5. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
6. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe)
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
8. Dracula: Pages From a Virign's Diary (Guy Maddin)
9. Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
10. In the Cut (Jane Campion)

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