The A Hundred Fine Movies Of The Twenty First Century

100Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Quentin Tarantino’s trendy jaw-dropper bumps Kill Bill: Vol 1 off the listing in gloriously irreverent style. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt megastar as a fading western star and his mutt-loving stunt double in this stress-free and loving roast of bygone Tinseltown. CS Read the review99Bright Star (2009)

An early lead for Ben Whishaw because the sick John Keats romancing Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) is the tremulous soul of this underappreciated Jane Campion drama. The butterflies are too tropical for Hampstead, but the rest is spot-on. CS Read the review98The Dark Knight (2008)

The handiest comedian book film to make the cut is Christopher Nolan’s genre masterpiece: fatalist, bracing and for all time the legacy of Heath Ledger, posthumously offered an Oscar for his terrifying overall performance. CS Read the review97Fahrenheit 9-11 (2004)

Michael Moore’s best hour: a blazing juggernaut with George W Bush, the Iraq struggle, the media, democracy and us, the gullible loads, in its crosshairs. Agitprop, and crucial. CS Read the reviewPaul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn in Private Life. Photograph: Jojo Whilden/Netflix96Private Life (2018)

Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti war to start a circle of relatives, and to keep their marriage together, in this diffused, humorous and often wondrously uncomfortable Netflix comedy written and directed by way of Tamara Jenkins. CS Read the review95Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Rarely has summer season lust been so headily captured as in Luca Guadagnino’s breakout Italian romance. Transformative leads from Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer captured the collective imagination; Michael Stuhlbarg lightly grounded realities. CS Read the overviewMaximus attitude … Russell Crowe in Gladiator. Photograph: Dreamworks/Sportsphoto/Allstar94Gladiator (2000)

Ridley Scott’s deluxe Roman blockbuster is toga cleaning soap turned up to absolutely the maximus. Russell Crowe bellows and glowers opposite hyper-evil Joaquin Phoenix and lugubrious Oliver Reed (who died at some stage in production). Yet there are numerous grace notes beneath the hearth and fury. CS Read the review93You, the Living (2007)

The 2nd in Roy Andersson’s trilogy of wackily incisive Swedish vignettes comes at you thick and speedy – approximately 50 micro-sketches, sometimes loosely linked – but sticks like plasticine beneath your fingernails. CS Read the review92The Hurt Locker (2008)

Kathryn Bigelow’s superb story of a controlled explosions team – headed by using a never-better Jeremy Renner – is excessive, immersive and impossible to shake. CS Read the review91Etre et Avoir (2002)

Events soured after the shoot however Nicolas Philibert’s sole huge hit stays a disarmingly funny examine of a sleek and type schoolteacher being concerned for a motley crew of beneath-11s in rural France. CS Read the review90Eden (2014)

Even non-ravers can’t fail to be shaken through Mia Hansen-Løve’s crucial tale of affection and clubbing, vaguely primarily based at the rise of Daft Punk. Giddy yet gripping. CS Read the review89The Selfish Giant (2013)

Clio Barnard’s 2nd characteristic doesn’t have the shock of innovation of her verbatim cinema debut, The Arbor, but the tale of two lads scrapping around junkyards to escape their houses is a masterpiece of lyrical social realism. CS Read the assessmentSavagery … Gomorrah. Photograph: Mario Spada/AP88Gomorrah (2008)

Director Matteo Garrone announced himself large-time with this blazing screen treatment of Roberto Saviano’s fearless account of the modern-day activities of Neapolitan mobsters: a thoroughly chilling chronicle of corruption and savagery rendered in exceptional fashion. AP Read the review87The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)

When Ken Loach won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for his movie approximately the Irish revolt against British rule, the tabloids went at the assault (Daily Mail: “Why Does Ken Loach hate his u . s . a . a lot?”). None of them had truly seen the film, a effective, compassionate drama starring Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney as Republican brothers cut up via the civil warfare that followed independence in 1922. CC Read the reviewJavier Barden in No Country for Old Men. Photograph: Allstar/Paramount Vantage86No Country for Old Men (2007)

The Coens’ Cormac McCarthy model is a sizzling look at of benevolence and evil with rich and weathered turns from Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and a glossily horrible one from Javier Bardem. CS Read the review85Burning (2018)

One of the current move of pleasant dramas issuing from South Korea, Lee Chang-dong’s edition of a Haruki Murakami tale is an elusive, unsettling thriller, in which a young creator reconnects with a former schoolfriend, handiest to find she mysteriously disappears after a experience away. AP Read the evaluateHypnotic experimentalism ... Tropical Malady. Photograph: Kick the Machine Films84Tropical Malady (2005)

A younger solider and a feral boy fall in love, dance to the Clash then trek to the jungle attempting to find a shaman dressed up as a tiger. Thai grasp Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s hypnotic experimentalism has in no way been bettered; sorry, Uncle Boonmee. CS Read the review83The Son’s Room (2001)

Nanni Moretti’s Palme d’Or-prevailing drama approximately a father crippled through grief after the accidental dying of his infant isn't always for the faint-hearted. Yet the Italian creator/director/big name plays miracles making a movie so wrenching additionally so hopeful. CS Read the review82Stories We Tell (2012)

Sarah Polley observed Away From Her and Take This Waltz with the aid of turning the digicam on her own family secrets and techniques on this tricksy and compassionate documentary uncovering the genuine identification of her father. CS Read the assessmentUpset … Katie Jarvis and Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank. Photograph: Holly Horner81Fish Tank (2009)

Andrea Arnold’s bad mum excessive-rise dance tragedy is singular, sensuous and alive with normal dissatisfied. Actor Katie Jarvis took six years off after taking pictures; more or less similar to audiences needed to get over the shake it gave, and the sight of Michael Fassbender. CS Read the review80Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Hubert Selby Jr’s lacerating novel that lasers in on the excitement and tragedy of addiction is given expansive, fashionable remedy with the aid of the then-rising director Darren Aronofsky. Incredibly glamorous and miserably heartbreaking, this film gave be aware of Aronofsky’s brilliance. AP Read the evaluateIt nonetheless seems particular … Persepolis. Photograph: Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paron79Persepolis (2007)

Iranian-French director Marjane Satrapi adapted her very own image novel in this animated delusion-memoir approximately a 10-year-antique lady growing up in Tehran after the 1979 revolution. A actual unique, and it nevertheless seems precise. AP Read the review78Ocean’s Eleven (2001)