The Popdose 100: The Best Movies of the 2000s
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Last year’s Thanksgiving-timed Popdose 100 proved so popular that this season we’ve compiled three critical-consensus lists for your reading (and arguing) pleasure — documenting our choices for the best films, albums and songs of the 21st century’s first decade. In fact, we’ve become so enamored of building these lists that it wouldn’t be surprising, a couple years from now, to find us offering one every day from Thanksgiving to Christmas. (Nah … that might detract from Mellowmas.) What can we say? We just love to quantify what we like, using elaborate point systems.
We begin with the decade’s best movies — and, if nothing else, our list is certainly genre-film-friendly: Somewhere in the middle, Let the Right One In, Hellboy, Hot Fuzz and Mulholland Drive sit proudly side by side. Because our crew of participants isn’t all that big (11 of Popdose’s writers contributed), a few personal favorites that one might not expect somehow earned enough votes to make the cut (hello, Dodgeball!); nonetheless, we were all pleasantly surprised to see that our compiled Top 100 offers such a nice balance of prestige films and high-quality popcorn fare. Of course, since this list is being posted before Thanksgiving, 2009’s holiday films (and likely Oscar bait) aren’t represented; over the coming months we’ll no doubt be kicking ourselves that we didn’t yet know the quality of films like Up in the Air, Invictus, The Lovely Bones, Nine … Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel… With that caveat in mind, away we go!
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Almost Famous
2000, in 9 top lists Check -
4 new
El laberinto del fauno
2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check -
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004, in 28 top lists Check -
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There Will Be Blood
2007, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Dark Knight
2008, in 27 top lists Check -
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Sideways
2004, in 8 top lists Check -
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No Country for Old Men
2007, in 23 top lists Check -
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Slumdog Millionaire
2008, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Wrestler
2008, in 3 top lists Check -
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Das Leben der Anderen
2006 — a.k.a. The Lives of Others, in 20 top lists Check -
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Mystic River
2003, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Royal Tenenbaums
2001, in 8 top lists Check -
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Wo hu cang long
2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check -
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The Prestige
2006, in 15 top lists Check -
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High Fidelity
2000, in 3 top lists Check -
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Children of Men
2006, in 12 top lists Check -
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Donnie Darko
2001, in 21 top lists Check -
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Michael Clayton
2007, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ghost World
2001, in 8 top lists Check -
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Brokeback Mountain
2005, in 21 top lists Check -
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Adaptation.
2002, in 11 top lists Check -
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Lost in Translation
2003, in 19 top lists Check -
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Little Miss Sunshine
2006, in 7 top lists Check -
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Ying xiong
2002 — a.k.a. Hero, in 6 top lists Check -
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25th Hour
2002, in 7 top lists Check -
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Låt den rätte komma in
2008 — a.k.a. Let the Right One In, in 14 top lists Check -
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Mulholland Dr.
2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check -
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Requiem for a Dream
2000, in 21 top lists Check -
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Hurt Locker
2008, in 13 top lists Check -
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Zodiac
2007, in 14 top lists Check -
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You Can Count on Me
2000, in 2 top lists Check -
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Munich
2005, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Departed
2006, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Queen
2006, in 4 top lists Check -
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Knocked Up
2007, in 4 top lists Check -
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Cast Away
2000, in 3 top lists Check -
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The New World
2005, in 10 top lists Check -
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Traffic
2000, in 7 top lists Check -
67 new
Caché
2005, in 15 top lists Check -
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Der Untergang
2004 — a.k.a. Downfall, in 14 top lists Check -
75 new
Wonder Boys
2000, in 2 top lists Check -
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About a Boy
2002, in 1 top list Check -
77 new
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001, in 10 top lists Check -
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Juno
2007, in 12 top lists Check -
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Moulin Rouge!
2001, in 17 top lists Check -
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Waitress
2007, in 0 top lists Check -
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Inglourious Basterds
2009, in 17 top lists Check -
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Gladiator
2000, in 25 top lists Check -
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Punch-Drunk Love
2002, in 12 top lists Check
Last updated on Mar 2, 2016; source