Top Movies 2000-2024.

[jpmcwjr]

No shoot-em-ups, no horror flicks, no long chase scenes. Sci-Fi if not about invasion or our space travel.

Too restrictive? You can start your own thread to include any and all of the above.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Have to think on that one....

 

[mingc]

In the Mood for Love:

In the Mood for Love | Rotten Tomatoes

In 1962, journalist Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and his wife move into a Hong Kong apartment, but Chow's spouse is often away on business. Before long, the lonely Chow makes the acquaintance of the alluring Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), whose own significant other also seems...

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The Favourite

The Favourite (2018) | Rotten Tomatoes

In the early 18th century, England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her close friend Lady Sarah governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new...

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Spirited Away

Spirited Away | Rotten Tomatoes

10-year-old Chihiro (Daveigh Chase) moves with her parents to a new home in the Japanese countryside. After taking a wrong turn down a wooded path, Chihiro and her parents discover an amusement park with a stall containing an assortment of food. To her surprise, Chihiro's parents begin eating...

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Lust, Caution

Lust, Caution | Rotten Tomatoes

During World War II a secret agent (Tang Wei) must seduce, then assassinate an official (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

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The Royal Tenenbaums

The Royal Tenenbaums

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was...

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[B.Lew]

Fifty Shades of Grey. Hands down. Oh, and The Good Dinosaur.

 

[tbradsim1]

Killers of The Flower Moon, and Oppenheimer!

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

If "top" means my favorite of the time period it's an easy answer for me. Lots of films I've enjoyed the past 24 years - "Gladiator", Craig's turns in "Casino Royale" and "Skyfall", LOTR TFOTR, other films more "serious", several documentaries including the one about Nolan Ryan in particular, even a couple mindless Hallmark flicks for Christmas, lol. But "Almost Famous" is so well written, takes me back to a particular age/time and for me is almost heartbreakingly entertaining in parts and laugh out loud funny most of the time - great cast and of course, a pretty important one missing below.

 

[fireground_piper]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

 

[kcghost]

I just loved "Howl's Moving Castle".

 

[Kobold]

If "top" means my favorite of the time period it's an easy answer for me. Lots of films I've enjoyed the past 24 years - "Gladiator", Craig's turns in "Casino Royale" and "Skyfall", LOTR TFOTR, other films more "serious", several documentaries including the one about Nolan Ryan in particular, even a couple mindless Hallmark flicks for Christmas, lol. But "Almost Famous" is so well written, takes me back to a particular age/time and for me is almost heartbreakingly entertaining in parts and laugh out loud funny most of the time - great cast and of course, a pretty important one missing below.

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We rewatched this the other day and it’s a great movie. Just really well done.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Which one?

 

[Kobold]

Which one?

Ah sorry. Almost Famous.

 

[gubbyduffer]

 

[autumnfog]

 

[jpmcwjr]

Killers of The Flower Moon, and Oppenheimer!

Two I am looking forward to, but don't want to spend $20 to rent it just for me.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Just added more wishes to how I see this thread evolving - in original post.

 

[brian64]

That's a long period of time, and for much of it Hollywood was still making watchable movies, so this is just a quick list...I'm sure I'm missing some...but the first 3 would be on a short list of my all time favorite films.

Maps to the Stars
No Country For Old Men
Inception
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Burn After Reading
LOTR trilogy
There Will be Blood
Million Dollar Baby
Gran Torino
Mystic River
Letters From Iwo Jima
Changeling
Hereafter
J. Edgar
Richard Jewell

EDIT: have to add The Prestige

 

[jpmcwjr]

That's the ticket! Of those movies in your list I have seen, agree 100%. Makes me think that the others in your list are ones I'd like, too. So double thank you.

One that I've never seen on any list is The Road to Wellville. Absolutely hilarious, and good illustrations and send ups of some of the "sound medical advice" doled out in the early 20th C.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Two I am looking forward to, but don't want to spend $20 to rent it just for me.

I was holding out on the latest/last Indiana Jones but since one of our daughters was home and we all wanted to watch …. we did! It’s not on the list, lol, but was better than most of the others in some ways.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

And I am embarrassed I didn’t include “Darkest Hour” - love the movie and also well acted and well written - headed to the depths of Churchill’s war rooms this spring!

 

[mingc]

I'm adding:

O Brother, Where Art Thou (@brian64 has already listed it, but its too good not to be repeated)

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang with simple Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and maladjusted Pete (John Turturro), then the trio sets out to pursue freedom and the promise of a fortune...

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True Grit (both the original and the remake)

True Grit

After hired hand Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) murders the father of 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), she seeks vengeance and hires U.S. Marshal

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True Grit

After an outlaw named Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) murders her father, feisty 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) hires Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), a boozy, trigger-happy lawman, to help her find Chaney and avenge her father. The bickering duo are not alone in their quest, for a...

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