The New York Times 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century

Name the 100 best movies from 2000 through 2025 as listed by The New York Times!

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Rank	Year	Rating	Director	Featured	Answer
1.	2019	R	Bong Joon Ho	Song Kang-ho Lee Sun-kyun	Parasite
2.	2001	R	David Lynch	Naomi Watts Laura Harring	Mulholland Drive
3.	2007	R	Paul Thomas Anderson	Daniel Day-Lewis Paul Dano	There Will Be Blood
4.	2000	PG	Wong Kar-Wai	Maggie Cheung Tony Leung Chiu-wai	In the Mood for Love
5.	2016	R	Barry Jenkins	Mahershala Ali Naomie Haris	Moonlight
6.	2007	R	The Coen Brothers	Tommy Lee Jones Javier Bardem	No Country for Old Men
7.	2004	R	Michel Gondry	Jim Carrey Kate Winslet	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8.	2017	R	Jordan Peele	Daniel Kaluuya Allison Williams	Get Out
9.	2001	PG	Hayao Miyazaki	Daveigh Chase Suzanne Pleshette	Spirited Away
10.	2010	PG-13	David Fincher	Jesse Eisenberg Andrew Garfield	The Social Network
11.	2015	R	George Miller	Tom Hardy Charlize Theron	Mad Max: Fury Road
12.	2023	PG-13	Jonathan Glazer	Christian Friedel Sandra Hüller	The Zone of Interest
13.	2006	R	Alfonso Cuarón	Julianne Moore Clive Owen	Children of Men
14.	2009	R	Quentin Tarantino	Brad Pitt Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds
15.	2002	R	Fernando Meirelles Kátia Lund	Alexandre Rodrigues Leandro Firmino	City of God
16.	2000	PG-13	Ang Lee	Chow Yun-Fat Michelle Yeoh	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
17.	2005	R	Ang Lee	Jake Gyllenhaal Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain
18.	2001	NR	Alfonso Cuarón	Maribel Verdú Gael García Bernal	Y tu mamá también
19.	2007	R	David Fincher	Jake Gyllenhaal Robert Downey Jr.	Zodiac
20.	2013	R	Martin Scorsese	Leonardo DiCaprio Jonah Hill	The Wolf of Wall Street
21.	2001	R	Wes Anderson	Gene Hackman Gwyneth Paltrow	The Royal Tenenbaums
22.	2014	R	Wes Anderson	Ralph Fiennes F. Murray Abraham	The Grand Budapest Hotel
23.	2014	R	Richard Linklater	Patricia Arquette Ethan Hawke	Boyhood
24.	2013	R	Spike Jonze	Joaquin Phoenix Amy Adams	Her
25.	2017	R	Paul Thomas Anderson	Vicky Krieps Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread
26.	2023	R	Justine Triet	Sandra Hüller Swann Arlaud	Anatomy of a Fall
27.	2002	R	Spike Jonze	Nicolas Cage Meryl Streep	Adaptation
28.	2008	PG-13	Christopher Nolan	Christian Bale Heath Ledger	The Dark Knight
29.	2016	PG-13	Denis Villeneuve	Amy Adams Jeremy Renner	Arrival
30.	2003	R	Sofia Coppola	Bill Murray Scarlett Johansson	Lost in Translation
31.	2006	R	Martin Scorsese	Leonardo DiCaprio Matt Damon	The Departed
32.	2011	R	Paul Feig	Kristen Wiig Maya Rudolph	Bridesmaids
33.	2011	PG-13	Asghar Farhadi	Payman Maadi Leila Hatami	A Separation
34.	2008	G	Andrew Stanton	Ben Burtt Elissa Knight	WALL-E
35.	2009	R	Jacques Audiard	Tahar Rahim Niels Arestrup	A Prophet
36.	2009	R	The Coen Brothers	Michael Stuhlbarg Richard Kind	A Serious Man
37.	2017	R	Luca Guadagnino	Timothée Chalamet Armie Hammer	Call Me by Your Name
38.	2019	R	Céline Sciamma	Noémie Merlant Adele Haenel	Portrait of a Lady on Fire
39.	2017	R	Greta Gerwig	Saorise Ronan Laurie Metcalf	Lady Bird
40.	2000	NR	Edward Yang	Nien-Jen Wu Elaine Jin	Yi Yi
41.	2001	R	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	Audrey Tautou Mathieu Kassovitz	Amélie
42.	2012	R	Paul Thomas Anderson	Joaquin Phoenix Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Master
43.	2003	R	Park Chan-wook	Choi Min-sik Yoo Ji-tae	Oldboy
44.	2019	R	Quentin Tarantino	Leonardo DiCaprio Brad Pitt	Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
45.	2011	PG-13	Bennett Miller	Brad Pitt Jonah Hill	Moneyball
46.	2018	R	Alfonso Cuarón	Yalitza Aparicio Marina de Tavira	Roma
47.	2000	R	Cameron Crowe	Billy Crudup Patrick Fugit	Almost Famous
48.	2006	R	Floridan Henckel von Donnersmarck	Ulrich Mühe Martina Gedeck	The Lives of Others
49.	2004	R	Richard Linklater	Ethan Hawke Julie Delpy	Before Sunset
50.	2009	PG	Pete Docter Bob Peterson	Ed Asner Jordan Nagai	Up

Rank	Year	Rating	Director	Featured	Answer
51.	2013	R	Steve McQueen	Chiwetel Ejiofor Michael Fassbender	12 Years a Slave
52.	2018	R	Yorgos Lanthimos	Olivia Colman Emma Stone	The Favourite
53.	2006	R	Larry Charles	Sacha Baron Cohen Ken Davitian	Borat
54.	2006	R	Guillermo del Toro	Ivana Baquero Ariadna Gil	Pan's Labyrinth
55.	2010	PG-13	Christopher Nolan	Leonardo DiCaprio Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Inception
56.	2002	R	Paul Thomas Anderson	Adam Sandler Emily Watson	Punch-Drunk Love
57.	2000	PG-13	Christopher Guest	Fred Willard Eugene Levy	Best in Show
58.	2019	R	Safdie Brothers	Adam Sandler Julia Fox	Uncut Gems
59.	2016	R	Maren Ade	Sandra Hüller Peter Simonischek	Toni Erdmann
60.	2014	R	Damien Chazelle	Miles Teller JK Simmons	Whiplash
61.	2003	R	Quentin Tarantino	Uma Thurman David Carradine	Kill Bill: Vol. 1
62.	2000	R	Christopher Nolan	Guy Pearce Carrie-Anne Moss	Memento
63.	2006	R	Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris	Steve Carell Toni Collette	Little Miss Sunshine
64.	2014	R	David Fincher	Ben Affleck Rosamund Pike	Gone Girl
65.	2023	R	Christopher Nolan	Cillian Murphy Emily Blunt	Oppenheimer
66.	2015	R	Tom McCarthy	Mark Ruffalo Rachel McAdams	Spotlight
67.	2022	R	Todd Field	Cate Blanchett Noémie Merlant	Tár
68.	2008	R	Kathryn Bigelow	Jeremy Renner Anthony Mackie	The Hurt Locker
69.	2013	R	Jonathan Glazer	Scarlett Johansson Jeremy McWilliams	Under the Skin
70.	2008	R	Tomas Alfredson	Kare Hedebrant Lina Leandersson	Let the Right One In
71.	2001	PG-13	Steven Soderbergh	George Clooney Brad Pitt	Ocean's Eleven
72.	2015	R	Todd Haynes	Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara	Carol
73.	2007	G	Brad Bird Jan Pinkava	Brad Garrett Lou Romano	Ratatouille
74.	2017	R	Sean Baker	Brooklynn Prince Bria Vinaite	The Florida Project
75.	2012	PG-13	Michael Haneke	Jean-Louis Trintignant Emmanuelle Riva	Amour
76.	2000	PG-13	Coen Brothers	George Clooney John Turturro	O Brother, Where Art Thou?
77.	2022	R	Daniel Kwan Daniel Scheinert	Michelle Yeoh Stephanie Hsu	Everything Everywhere All at Once
78.	2022	R	Charlotte Wells	Paul Mescal Frankie Corio	Aftersun
79.	2011	PG-13	Terrence Malick	Brad Pitt Sean Penn	The Tree of Life
80.	2006	R	Pedro Almodóvar	Penélope Cruz Carmen Maura	Volver
81.	2010	R	Darren Aronofsky	Natalie Portman Mila Kunis	Black Swan
82.	2012	NR	Joshua Oppenheimer	Anwar Congo Herman Koto	The Act of Killing
83.	2013	R	Coen Brothers	Oscar Isaac Carey Mulligan	Inside Llewyn Davis
84.	2011	R	Lars von Trier	Kirsten Dunst Charlotte Gainsbourg	Melancholia
85.	2004	PG-13	Adam McKay	Will Ferrell Christina Applegate	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
86.	2023	PG-13	Celine Song	Greta Lee Teo Yoo	Past Lives
87.	2001	PG-13	Peter Jackson	Elijah Wood Ian McKellen	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
88.	2000	NR	Agnes Varda	Francois Wertheimer Agnes Varda	The Gleaners & I
89.	2014	PG-13	Christopher Nolan	Matthew McConaughey Anne Hathaway	Interstellar
90.	2012	R	Noah Baumbach	Greta Gerwig Mickey Sumner	Frances Ha
91.	2009	NR	Andrea Arnold	Katie Jarvis Michael Fassbender	Fish Tank
92.	2000	R	Ridley Scott	Russell Crowe Joaquin Phoenix	Gladiator
93.	2007	R	Tony Gilroy	George Clooney Tilda Swinton	Michael Clayton
94.	2002	PG-13	Steven Spielberg	Tom Cruise Colin Farrell	Minority Report
95.	2021	R	Joachim Trier	Renate Reinsve Anders Danielson Lie	The Worst Person in the World
96.	2018	PG-13	Ryan Coogler	Chadwick Boseman Michael B. Jordan	Black Panther
97.	2013	PG-13	Alfonso Cuarón	Sandra Bullock George Clooney	Gravity
98.	2005	R	Werner Herzog	Timothy Treadwell Amie Huguenard	Grizzly Man
99.	2003	NR	Bong Joon Ho	Song Kang-ho Kim Sang-kyung	Memories of Murder
100.	2007	R	Greg Mottola	Michael Cera Jonah Hill	Superbad

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