The 20 Best Movies of the 2000s

Cast your mind back to the year 2000. To set the mood, crank up NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye,” put on your finest trucker hat, and begin panicking about the Y2K virus.

Everyone there? Great. Now we are ready to look back at the best movies of the decade, the finest films release from 2000-2009. (Keep the trucker hat on, by the way, it looks great on you.)

The 2000s were an incredible period for movies. (Especially the year 2007. Half the movies released in 2007 were classics. Was there something in the water in 2007? What happened there?) Christopher Nolan and the Marvel Cinematic Universe were on the rise. Pixar was in the midst of an unprecedented creative hot streak. And Hollywood regularly made these incredible things called “comedies,” where the whole purpose was to make audiences laugh. (Kids ask your parents about that last one.)

We truly did not know how good we had it. As evidence, check out this list of the 20 best titles released from the year 2000 to the year 2009. How many have you seen? Hopefully all 20; if not you have some really fun homework to do, especially if the ones you haven’t seen are the comedies. (Can you believe studios used to make funny movies? It really was a wild time.)

Who decided these 20 movies were the best of the best of the decade? Well, me, in my quasi-professional infinite wisdom. And if you disagree, that’s okay. Just listen to what NSYNC said and go bye bye bye to another website.