The Best Films of the 2000s: Top 10s by Year

These are fairly easy to gauge from my top 100 of the decade list (previous post), but some years had more than 10 films included in that, meaning that others had less than 10. I scoured my ratings and other lists to figure out the rest.

2000

1. High Fidelity

2. Almost Famous

3. In the Mood for Love

4. Memento

5. Dancer in the Dark

6. Chocolat

7. You Can Count on Me

8. Before Night Falls

9. Best in Show

10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2001

1. The Royal Tenenbaums

2. Amélie

3. Moulin Rouge

4. Ocean's Eleven

5. Shrek

6. Donnie Darko

7. Vanilla Sky

8. Bridget Jones's Diary

9. CQ

10. Me Without You

2002

1. Punch-Drunk Love

2. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

3. Far From Heaven

4. The Pianist

5. 25th Hour

6. Mostly Martha

7. Bend It Like Beckham

8. Chicago

9. About Schmidt

10. Adaptation

2003

1. Kill Bill, Vol. 1

2. Lost in Translation

3. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

4. Dogville

5. The Twilight Samurai

6. The Triplets of Belleville

7. The Best of Youth

8. The Man Who Copied

9. Mystic River

10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. Kill Bill, Vol. 2

3. Garden State

4. The Motorcycle Diaries

5. The Sea Inside

6. A Very Long Engagement

7. Finding Neverland

8. Sideways

9. Shaun of the Dead

10. The Incredibles

2005

1. Good Night, and Good Luck.

2. Everything Is Illuminated

3. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

4. Batman Begins

5. Brick

6. Pride and Prejudice

7. Brokeback Mountain

8. Syriana

9. Capote

10. Sin City

2006

1. Stranger Than Fiction

2. This Film Is Not Yet Rated

3. The Prestige

4. The Fountain

5. Children of Men

6. Volver

7. Scoop

8. The Departed

9. Little Miss Sunshine

10. The Science of Sleep

2007

1. Once

2. I'm Not There

3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

4. Hot Fuzz

5. Sweeney Todd

6. The Darjeeling Limited

7. Persepolis

8. There Will Be Blood

9. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2008

1. Man on Wire

2. Synecdoche, New York

3. The Dark Knight

4. Wall-E

5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

6. The Fall

7. Happy-Go-Lucky

8. Milk

9. Brideshead Revisted

10. In Bruges

2009 (so far - I still have to see Crazy Heart and Broken Embraces)

1. Away We Go

2. 500 Days of Summer

3. Bright Star

4. Inglourious Basterds

5. Fantastic Mr. Fox

6. Up in the Air

7. A Single Man

8. The Beaches of Agnes

9. An Education

10. Up