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| Match Point |
The title sums up this up. I don't know if I'll be around for a list of my favorites for the first half of the century and barring remarkable medical breakthroughs I won't see the end of this century. So on that morbid note here are my favorite films released between 2000 and 2024. Exactly half are in English language films and half in foreign tongues. There are two Woody Allen and two Quentin Tarantino films in the top six and two Coen brothers movies in the top seven. But the director with the most films here is Finland's Aki Kaurismäki with three. The only other director with two pictures on this list is Pawel Pawlikowski. There were four films from last year on the list, nor surprising given that I've ranked 2023 among the better years in cinematic history. The next closest was 2011 with three pictures. All told twenty of twenty-five years had a film in my top thirty. I was surprised that there was nothing from Wes Anderson though if I'd expanded the list to forty both The Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom would have featured. Two more Coens' films, A Serious Man and O Brother Where Art Thou?, also just missed.
2. Once Upon a Time .... in Hollywood (2019) Tarantino
3. In the Mood For Love (2000) Kar-Wai
4. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Coens
5. Inglorious Basterds (2009) Tarantino
6. Midnight in Paris (2011) Allen
7. No Country For Old Men (2007) Coens
8. Requiem For A Dream (2000) Aronofsky
10. Drive My Car (2021) Hamaguchi
11. Y Tu Mama También (2001) Cuarón
12. Le Havre (2011) Kaurismäki
13. Fallen Leaves (2023) Kaurismäki
16. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Gondry
17. Zone of Interest (2023) Glazer
18. Habla Con Ella (2002) Almodóvar
19. Personal Shopper (2016) Assayas
20. First Reformed (2017) Schraeder
21. A Separation (2011) Farhadi
22. Cold War (2018) Pawlikowski
23. Des hommes et des dieux (2010) Beauvois
24. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018) Gan
25. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) Iñárritu
29. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) Ceylan
