The 50 Greatest Movies of the 21st Century (So Far)

 

        A few weeks ago, the Hollywood Reporter polled a number of film critics to create a list of the greatest films of the 21^st century (so far). All such lists are subjective, but this one seemed especially strange due to the large number of little seen films and absence of obvious entries. Here would be my list of the Top 50 films of the 21^st century. 

 

1.      The Passion of the Christ (2004)

2.      Wall-E (2008)

3.      The Incredibles (2004)

4.      The Drop Box (2015)

5.      God’s Not Dead (2014)

6.      A Serious Man (2009)

7.      Hell House (2001)

8.      Shame (2011)

9.      The Tree of Life (2011)

10.   Gravity (2013)

11.   Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (2016)

12.   Unplanned (2019)

13.   Inside Out (2015)

14.   It Follows (2014)

15.   The King’s Speech (2010)

16.   The Bad Guys (2022)

17.   Tangled (2010)

18.   Becoming Santa (2008)

19.   Man of Steel (2013)

20.   District 9 (2009)

21.   The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

22.   Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

23.   Crash (2005)

24.   United 93 (2006)

25.   Frozen (2013)

26.   Finding Nemo (2003)

27.   The Fog of War (2004)

28.   The Queen (2006)

29.   Up (2009)

30.   The Hurt Locker (2009)

31.   I’m Not Ashamed (2016)

32.   A Beautiful Mind (2001)

33.   Into Great Silence (2005)

34.   Spirited Away (2001)

35.   Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

36.   Mass (2021)

37.   What is a Woman? (2022)

38.   Mad Max Fury Road (2015)

39.   Inception (2010)

40.   Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

41.   For Greater Glory (2012)

42.   Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

43.   Man of God (2022)

44.   The Case for Christ (2017)

45.   The LEGO Movie (2014)

46.   Luca (2021)

47.   No Country for Old Men (2006)

48.   The Blind Side (2009)

49.   The Martian (2015)

50.   Logan (2017)

 

Honorable Mention: The Artist, Big Fish, Bowling for Columbine, Buck, Burn, Encanto, Food Inc, Hail Caesar, Hugo, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, The Kite Runner, La La Land, The LEGO Movie 2, Les Misérables, Mean Girls, Moneyball, Muppets Most Wanted, Risen, Slumdog Millionaire, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Sully, Top Gun 2, Winter on Fire, Won’t You Be My Neighbor