The Top 25 Films Of The 21st Century Have Been Announced

Whenever someone asks you what your favourite film is, it’s always fairly impossible to say. You umm and ahhh until you eventually come up with a fairly unremakable anwer and then, when the conversation’s over, you come up with a much better option.

I’ve not got a clue what my favourite film is, I think Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is pretty high up there, though. But what if someone where to ask you what your favourite film of the 21st century was? To help you, BBC Culture colated a list of 100 films chosen by film critics and experts alike.

I’ve put the top 25 in a list for you here but, if you want to whole thing, click on the link above.

25. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)

Summit Entertainment

24. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)

The Weinstein Company

23. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)

France 3 Cinéma

22. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)

Focus Features

21. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)

Indian Paintbrush

20. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)

Sony Pictures Classics

19. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)

Warner Bros.

18. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)

Wega Film

17. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)

Esperanto Films

16. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)

Wild Bunch

15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)

BAC Films

14. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)

Final Cut for Real

13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)

Strike Entertainment

12. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)

Phoenix Pictures

11. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)

StudioCanal

10. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)

Paramount Vantage

9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

Sony Pictures Classics

8. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)

Kuzui Enterprises

7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

Plan B Entertainment

6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)

Focus Features

5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)

Universal Pictures

4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)

Studio Ghibli

3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)

Ghoulardi Film Company

2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

Universal Pictures

1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

Canal+

I’ve not seen nearly enough of them. My main issue with film critique is that comedy is a hugely and unjustly overlooked category - The Grand Budapest Hotel made it, which is good, but still… What else annoyed me about the list is that Inside Out came in at 41st, above Finding Nemo, which is frankly ridiculous. Awful film.

Also the year 2000 isn’t in this century but whatever.

What do you think? What’s your favourite film (of all time)? Let us know in the comments!

Speaking of film critics, Adam hates it when you criticise Suicide Squad…