Critics' Poll: ‘Mulholland Drive' Named Best Movie of the 2000s; ‘There Will Be Blood' and 'Zodiac' Finish Second and Third (Over 180 Polled)

Another poll, this time the 2000s (2000-2009) or the aughts as I'd rather call them. critics, directors, actors, industry people were asked to name their best movies of that decade. Almost half of the top 40 is foreign language, which I love, but The Dark Knight at #11?

1) Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)

2) There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)

3) Zodiac (David Fincher)

4) In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai)

5) No Country For Old Men (Joel Coen)

6) Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)

7) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)

8) Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)

9) Yi Yi: A One and A Two (Edward Yang)

10) Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)

11) The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)

12) Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)

13) 25th Hour (Spike Lee)

14) 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Cristi Mungiu)

15) The New World (Terrence Malick)

16) Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)

17) Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

18) Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuaron)

19) The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)

20) The Departed (Martin Scorsese)

21) City of God (Fernando Meirelles)

22) WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)

23) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Peter Jackson)

24) Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)

25) Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)

26) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)

27) Oldboy (Chan Woo-Park)

28) The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)

29) Dogville (Lars Von Trier)

30) The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)

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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 12:57AM by MC1Rmutated https://ift.tt/3bV4gtx