My top-rated movies of the 2000s.

Rated 10/10
Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Yang, 2000)
In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
Traffic (Soderbergh, 2000)
Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, 2001)
Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
Fat Girl (Breillat, 2001)
Waking Life (Linklater, 2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
Talk to Her (Almodóvar, 2002)
American Splendor (Berman & Pulcini, 2003)
Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki, 2003)
Dogville (von Trier, 2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Moore, 2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
Tarnation (Caouette, 2004)
Downfall (Hirschbiegel, 2004)
Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005)
Once (Carney, 2006)
The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck, 2006)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu, 2007)
Juno (Reitman, 2007)
No Country for Old Men (Coen, 2007)
Encounters at the End of the World (Herzog, 2007)
Slumdog Millionaire (Boyle, 2008)
The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)

Rated 9/10
Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
Best in Show (Guest, 2000)
Memento (Nolan, 2000)
Chuck & Buck (Arteta, 2000)
The House of Mirth (Davies, 2000)
You Can Count on Me (Lonergan, 2000)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)
Amélie (Jeunet, 2001)
The Piano Teacher (Haneke, 2001)
Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Kunuk, 2001)
Bloody Sunday (Greengrass, 2002)
City of God (Meirelles & Lund, 2002)
Ten (Kiarostami, 2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson, 2002)
The Best of Youth (Giordana, 2003)
The Fog of War (Morris, 2003)
Touching the Void (Macdonald, 2003)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen, 2003)
Mystic River (Eastwood, 2003)
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids (Briski, 2004)
Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
Mysterious Skin (Araki, 2004)
The Holy Girl (Martel, 2004)
Darwin’s Nightmare (Sauper, 2004)
A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005)
The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach, 2005)
March of the Penguins (Jacquet, 2005)
Caché (Hidden) (Haneke, 2005)
United 93 (Greengrass, 2006)
Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)
Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006)
There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
The Edge of Heaven (Akin, 2007)
Crazy Love (Klores, 2007)
No End in Sight (Ferguson, 2007)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh, 2008)
Food, Inc. (Kenner, 2008)
Milk (Van Sant, 2008)
Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008)
The Secret in Their Eyes (Campanella, 2009)