10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 2000-х по версии Dave Kehr (New York Times):

2000.
01. Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
02. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
03. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
04. Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)
05. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
06. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
07. Croupier (Mike Hodges)
08. Pola X (Leos Carax)
09. Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute)
10. Spectres of the Spectrum (Craig Baldwin)

2001.
01. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
02. The Tailor of Panama (John Boorman)
03. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
04. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
05. The Circle (Jafar Pahani)
06. À ma soeur (Fat Girl) (Catharine Breillat)
07. Shrek (Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson)
08. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
09. A Chronicle of Corpses (Andrew Repasky McElhinney)
10. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)

2002.
01. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
02. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
03. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
04. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
05. Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
06. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
07. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
08. Mahagonny (Harry Smith)
09. Windtalkers (John Woo)
10. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura)

2003.
01. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
02. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
03. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich)
04. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
05. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
06. To Be and to Have (Nicolas Philibert)
07. Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante)
08. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang-ke)
09. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
10. The Hunted (William Friedkin)

2004.
01. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
02. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
03. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
04. The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis)
05. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
06. Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
07. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
08. The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
09. The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier)
10. Undertow (David Gordon Green)

2005.
01. Oldboy (Park Chanwook)
02. The World (Jia Zhang-ke)
03. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
04. Kings and Queens (Arnaud Desplechin)
05. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
06. The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis)
07. Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
08. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
09. Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
10. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Tim Burton & Mike Johnson)

2006.
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)
L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Albert Brooks)
Manderlay (Lars von Trier)
Monster House (Gil Kenan)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
Le Petit Lieutenant (Xavier Beauvois)
Thank You For Smoking (Jason Reitman)