By In what’s bound to be a controversial ruling, a new poll at IndieWire for the Best Movies of the 2000s has landed on Stephen Spielberg’s 2002 film “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence” as the best movie of the first decade of this millennium.
The film beat out Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi” in second and David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” in third for the top spot in the poll assembled by a group of writers and film critics with plenty of acclaimed titles in the mix that deserve to be there including “There Will Be Blood,” “Lost in Translation,” “Spirited Away,” “Zodiac,” “No Country For Old Men,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Michael Clayton,” “Children of Men,” “In the Mood for Love,” “Memories of Murder,” “Far from Heaven,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
There’s also some very welcome mainstream inclusions like “Casino Royale,” “Shaun of the Dead,” “The Prestige,” “Speed Racer,” “Miami Vice,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Wet Hot American Summer,” “Inglourious Basterds,” and “Wall-E” along with some truly baffling inclusions like “Funny People,” “Ocean’s Twelve” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”.
More egregious though are the notable absentees which didn’t make the Top 100 – Peter Weir’s “Master & Commander,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Fernando Meirelles’ “City of God”, Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy,” Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight,” Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” Michael Mann’s “Collateral,” Brad Bird’s “The Incredibles,” Martin McDonagh’s “In Bruges,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed,” Andrew Dominik’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” David Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence,” Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2,” Richard Kelly’s “Donnie Darko,” and Tomas Alfredson’s “Let the Right One In”.
Here’s a sampling with the top 30:
1. “A.I.” Artificial Intelligence” (2001)
2. “Yi Yi” (2000)
3. “Mulholland Drive” (2001)
4. “2046” (2004)
5. “35 Shots of Rum” (2008)
6. “There Will Be Blood” (2007)
7. “The Beaches of Agnès” (2008)
8. “Lost in Translation” (2003)
9. “The Time That Remains” (2009)
10. “Spirited Away” (2001)
11. “25th Hour” (2002)
12. “Offside” (2006)
13. “In the Mood for Love” (2000)
14. “Children of Men” (2006)
15. “Waltz with Bashir” (2008)
16. “The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003))
17. “A Serious Man” (2009)
18. “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” (2003)
19. “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000)
20. “La Ciénaga” (2001)
21. “Y Tu Mama Tamben” (2001)
22. “Songs from the Second Floor” (2000)
23. “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004)
24. “Los Angeles Plays Itself” (2003)
25. “Synecdoche, New York” (2008)
26. “Werckmeister Harmonies” (2000)
27. “Dancer in the Dark” (2000)
28. “Love & Basketball” (2000)
29. “Millennium Actress” (2001)
30. “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (2008)
For the full 100 list with explanations, head over to Indiewire. For the Letterboxd version, click here.
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