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)

Лучшие ленты 2000-х годов по версии издания Movieweb:

Top-10:
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
2. Casino Royale
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. The Devil Wears Prada
7. The Dark Knight
8. Avatar
9. Spirited Away
10. The Prestige

11-25:
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
12. Iron Man
13. Mean Girls
14. The Pianist
15. 28 Days Later
16. The Pursuit of Happiness
17. Million Dollar Baby
18. Moulin Rouge!
19. Into The Wild
20. (500) Days of Summer
21. Lost in Translation
22. Pride & Prejudice
23. The Notebook
24. Before Sunset
25. Juno

Лучшие ленты 2000-х годов по версии издания Decider:

Top-10:
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Almost Famous
3. Mulholland Drive
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. Moulin Rouge
7. The Royal Tenenbaums
8. There Will Be Blood
9. Mean Girls
10. The Social Network

11-20:
11. Midnight In Paris
12. Wet Hot American Summer
13. Kill Bill Vol. 1
14. Juno
15. Children of Men
16. Napoleon Dynamite
17. Mad Max Fury Road
18. Frances Ha
19. Ratatouille
20. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

21-30:
21. Bridesmaids
22. Zodiac
23. Inception
24. Snowpiercer
25. Amelie
26. The Pursuit of Happyness
27. The Notebook
28. Inglorious Basterds
29. Ex Machina
30. Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story

31-40:
31. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
32. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
33. Before Sunset
34. 21 Jump Street
35. Where the Heart Is
36. WALL-E
37. The Queen Of Versailles
38. The Avengers
39. Spider-Man 2
40. Martha Marcy May Marlene

41-50:
41. In Bruges
42. Drive
43. Django Unchained
44. Best in Show
45. 28 Days Later
46. Whiplash
47. The Way Way Back
48. The Babadook
49. Sexy Beast
50. Nightcrawler

51-60:
51. Iron Man
52. The Lord Of The Rings The Fellowship of the Ring
53. The Hours
54. Moonrise Kingdom
55. Garden State
56. Dancer In The Dark
57. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
58. Blue is the Warmest Color
59. Black Swan
60. The Help

61-70:
61. The Devil Wears Prada
62. The Departed
63. Stories We Tell
64. School Of Rock
65. Pan’s Labyrinth
66. Obvious Child
67. You Can Count on Me
68. The Bourne Identity
69. Miami Vice
70. Magic Mike XXL

71-80:
71. Love Actually
72. Weekend
73. The Grand Budapest Hotel
74. Take Shelter
75. Step Brothers
76. Dope
77. Certified Copy
78. Brokeback Mountain
79. Atonement
80. Zoolander

81-90:
81. Talladega Nights
82. Superbad
83. Spirited Away
84. Skyfall
85. Rachel Getting Married
86. Lost in Translation
87. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
88. A Royal Affair
89. Bright Star
90. Shaun of the Dead

91-100:
91. No Country for Old Men
92. I Heart Huckabees
93. Carol
94. 500 Days of Summer
95. Hanna
96. Short Term 12
97. 25th Hour
98. Match Point
99. Upstream Color
100. Greenberg

Лучшие ленты 2000-х годов по версии издания The Cinemaholic:

Top-10:
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. Mulholland Drive (2001)
3. Before Sunset (2004)
4. Memento (2000)
5. Lost in Translation (2003)
6. Zodiac (2007)
7. No Country for Old Men (2007)
8. Requiem For A Dream (2000)
9. There Will Be Blood (2007)
10. Brokeback Mountain (2005)

11-20:
11. Children of Men (2006)
12. United 93 (2006)
13. Primer (2004)
14. Birth (2004)
15. Almost Famous (2000)
16. Inglorious Bastards (2008)
17. The Painted Veil (2007)
18. Dogville (2003)
19. 25th Hour (2002)
20. The Dark Knight (2008)

Культовые ленты 2000-х годов по версии издания CBR:

Top-10:
1. Mean Girls (2004)
2. She's The Man (2006)
3. Legally Blonde (2001)
4. Bring It On (2000)
5. The Harry Potter Franchise (2001)
6. Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
7. The Incredibles (2004)
8. Juno (2007)
9. The Original Spider-Man Trilogy (2002)
10. The House Bunny (2008)

10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 2000-х по версии Andrew Sarris (New York Observer):

2000.
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE
01. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
02. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
03. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
04. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
05. Croupier (Mike Hodges)
06. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
07. Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute)
08. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
09. Dr. T & the Women (Robert Altman)
10. State and Main (David Mamet)

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE
01. Yi Yi (A One and a Two...) (Edward Yang)
02. La Bûche (Danièle Thompson)
03. Solas (Benito Zambrano)
04. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
05. Butterfly (José Luis Cuerda)
06. Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
07. Not One Less (Zhang Yimou)
08. It All Starts Today (Bertrand Tavernier)
09. Chunhyang (Im Kwon-taek)
10. Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa)

2001.
ENGLIGH-LANGUAGE
01. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
02. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
03. Innocence (Paul Cox)
04. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
05. A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
06. Iris (Richard Eyre)
07. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
08. Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
09. The Golden Bowl (James Ivory)
10. Bridget Jones's Diary (Sharon Maguire)

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE
01. The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
02. The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro)
03. With A Friend Like Harry (Dominik Moll)
04. The Town Is Quiet (Robert Guediguian)
05. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
06. The Taste Of Others (Agnes Jaoui)
07. Faithless (Liv Ullmann)
08. The Day I Became A Woman (Marzeieh Meshkini)
09. Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu)
10. The Circle (Jafar Panahi)

NONFICTION
01. My Voyage to Italy (Martin Scorsese)
02. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (George Butler)
03. The Turandot Project (Allan Miller)
04. The Gleaners & I (Agnes Varda)
05. Go Tigers! (Kenneth A. Carlson)
Best Animation Feature: Shrek (Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson)

2002.
ENGLIGH-LANGUAGE
01. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
02. The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta)
03. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
04. The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
05. The Hours (Stephen Daldry)
06. Frida (Julie Taymor)
07. 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson)
08. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
09. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
10. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE
01. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
02. The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti)
03. The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer)
04. Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard)
05. Mostly Martha (Sandra Nettelbeck)
06. Y tu mamá tambien (Alfonso Cuarón)
07. Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf)
08. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili)
09. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
10a. Safe Conduct (Bertrand Tavernier)
10b. Alias Betty (Betty Fisher and Other Stories) (Claude Miller)
10c. How I Killed My Father (Anne Fontaine)

NONFICTION
01. The Kid Stays in the Picture (Brett Morgen & Nanette Burstein)
02. Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
03. Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (Paul Cox)
04. Shanghai Ghetto (Dana Janklowicz-Mann & Amir Mann)
05. Standing In The Shadows Of Motown (Paul Justman)
06. Strange Fruit (Joel Katz)
07. Derrida (Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering Kofman)
08. Massoud, the Afghan (Christophe de Ponfilly)
09. In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq (Scott Ritter)
10. Étoiles: Dancers of the Paris Ballet (Nils Tavernier)

2003.
ENGLIGH-LANGUAGE
01. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
02. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
03. American Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)
04. Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach)
05. The Human Stain (Robert Benton)
06. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
07. Sylvia (Christine Jeffs)
08. The Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph)
09. Shattered Glass (Billy Ray)
10. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE
01. The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand)
02. Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson)
03. Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte)
04. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
05. Autumn Spring (Vladimir Michálek)
06. The Flower of Evil (Claude Chabrol)
07. Together (Lukas Moodysson)
08. Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link)
09. Cet Amour-La (Josée Dayan)
10. The Housekeeper (Claude Berri)

NONFICTION
01. Stone Reader (Mark Moskowitz)
02. My Architect (Nathaniel Kahn)
03. To Be and to Have (Nicolas Philibert)
04. Sex in a Cold Climate (Steve Humphries)
05. Winged Migration (Jacques Perrin & Jacques Cluzaud & Michel Debats)
06. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers in World War II (Aviva Slesin)
07. Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)
08. Stevie (Steve James)
09. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (Damian Pettigrew)
10. Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (André Heller & Othmar Schmiderer)

2004.
ENGLIGH-LANGUAGE
01. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
02. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
03. Ray (Taylor Hackford)
04. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
05. Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
06. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
07. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
08. Fnding Neverland (Marc Forster)
09. I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell)
10. Collateral (Michael Mann)

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE
01. The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
02. Intimate Strangers (Patrice Leconte)
03. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
04. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
05. The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
06. Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston)
07. A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
08. Fear and Trembling (Alain Corneau)
09. Rosenstrasse (Magarethe von Trotta)
10. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)

NONFICTION
01. The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier)
02. Born Into Brothels (Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman)
03. Persons of Interest (Alison Maclean & Tobias Perse)
04. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
05. Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee)
06. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
07. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (George Butler)
08. Orwell Rolls in His Grave (Robert Kane Pappas)
09. Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (Richard Schickel)
10. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill)

2005.
ENGLIGH-LANGUAGE
01. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
02. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
03. Match Point (Woody Allen)
04. Frank Miller's Sin City (Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez)
05. Proof (John Madden)
06. Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan)
07. Walk the Line (James Mangold)
08. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
09. Shopgirl (Anand Tucker)
10. Junebug (Phil Morrison)

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE
01. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
02. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
03. Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui)
04. My Mother's Smile (Marco Bellocchio)
05. Brothers (Susanne Bier)
06. My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski)
07. The Memory of a Killer (Erik Van Looy)
08. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Sijie Dai)
09. Ushpizin (Giddi Dar)
10. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad)

NONFICTION
01. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
02. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney)
03. David Hockney: The Colors of Music (Maryte Kavaliauskas & Seth Schneidman)
04. Gunner Palace (Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker)
05. Stalin's Wife (Slava Tsukerman)
06. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (Liam Lynch)
07. Cinévardaphoto (Agnès Varda)
08. The Venetian Dilemma (Carole & Richard Rifkind)
09. With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America (Calvin Skaggs & David Van Taylor)
10. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception (Danny Schechter)

2006.
ENGLIGH-LANGUAGE
01. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
02. Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)
03. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
04. Flags of Our Fathers / Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
05. Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick)
06. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
07. The Painted Veil (John Curran)
08. Find Me Guilty (Sidney Lumet)
09. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
10a. Flannel Pajamas (Jeff Lipsky)
10b. Come Early Morning (Joey Lauren Adams)

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE
01. Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
02. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)
03. Water (Deepa Mehta)
04. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
05. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Marc Rothemund)
06. Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
07. My Brother's Wife (Ricardo de Montreuil)
08. Le Petit Lieutenant (Xavier Beauvois)
09. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
10. La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrere)

NONFICTION
01. King Leopold's Ghost (Pippa Scott & Oreet Rees)
02. 49 Up (Michael Apted)
03. Wordplay (Patrick Creadon)
04. Cowboy del Amor (Michèle Ohayon)

10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 2000-х по версии Ed Gonzalez (Slant Magazine):

2000:
1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
3. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
4. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
5. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
6. Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
7. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
8. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
9. Shadow of the Vampire (Elias E. Merhige)
10. Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)

Honorable Mention: Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta), Charlie’s Angels (McG), Common Wealth (Alex de la Iglesia), O Fantasma (Joao Pedro Rodrigues), Hollow Man (Paul Verhoeven), Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis), The Captive (Chantal Akerman), Mission To Mars (Brian De Palma), Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), The Big Animal (Jerzy Stuhr)
Blind Spots: Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong), Land of the Wandering Souls (Rithy Panh), Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin), The Ruination of Men (Arturo Ripstein)

2001:
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
3. The Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
4. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
5. Litte Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
6. Children Underground (Edet Belzberg)
7. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
8. Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau)
9. Under the Sand (François Ozon)
10. The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda)

Honorable Mention: Vengo (Tony Gatlif), Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings (Peter Jackson), Gosford Park (Robert Altman), Baise-moi (Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Tri), Audition (Takashi Miike), Shallow Hal (Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly), The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro), The Circle (Jafar Panahi), and Together (Lukas Moodysson)

2002:
1. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
2. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
3. Spider (David Cronenberg)
4. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
6. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
7. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili)
8. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
9. The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme)
10. Sunshine State (John Sayles)

Honorable Mention: Adaptation. (Spike Jonze), Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese), Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman), ’R Xmas (Abel Ferrara), Heaven (Tom Tykwer), All or Nothing (Mike Leigh), Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney), Time Out (Laurent Cantet), I’m Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira), and Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Claude Chabrol)

2003:
1. The Company (Robert Altman)
2. Balseros (Carlos Bosch and José María Doménech)
3. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
4. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
5. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
6. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
7. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
8. In America (Jim Sheridan)
9. Cabin Fever (Eli Roth)
10. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)

Honorable Mention: Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang-ke), To Be and To Have (Nicolas Philibert), Friday Night (Claire Denis), Waiting for Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako), Love and Diane (Jennifer Dworkin), Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett), Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (Guy Maddin), The Fog of War (Errol Morris), Bus 174 (José Padilha), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)

2004:
1. Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
2. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
3. Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
4. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
5. Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
6. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
7. Son Frère (Patrice Chéreau)
8. Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
9. Raja (Jacques Doillon)
10. The Keys to the House (Gianni Amelio)

Honorable Mention: When Will I Be Loved (James Toback), Hero (Zhang Yimou), Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee), The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano), Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette), The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme), Cellular (David R. Ellis), Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill), Before Sunset (Richard Linklater), BAADASSSSS! (Mario Van Peebles)

2005:
1. The New World (Terrence Malick)
2. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
3. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
5. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
6. Wolf Creek (Greg McLean)
7. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
8. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
9. The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)
10. The Intruder (Claire Denis)

Honorable Mention: Last Days (Gus Van Sant), Machuca (Andrés Wood), Private (Saverio Costanzo), Schultze Gets the Blues (Michael Schorr), HellBent (Paul Etheredge-Ouzts), Fever Pitch (Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly), Crimen Ferpecto (Álex de la Iglesia), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box and Nick Park), Red Eye (Wes Craven), and Darwin’s Nightmare (Hubert Sauper)

2006:
1. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
2. L’Enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
3. Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas)
4. The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
6. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
7. Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
8. Romántico (Mark Becker)
9. Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau)
10. Two Drifters (João Pedro Rodrigues)

Honorable Mention: Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Lu Chuan), Mongolian Ping Pong (Ning Hao), Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Inside Man (Spike Lee), Fratricide (Yilmaz Arslan), Happy Feet (George Miller), Monster House (Gil Kenan), Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims (Kankurô Kudô), Don’t Come Knocking (Wim Wenders), and Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)

2007:
1. Offside (Jafar Panahi)
2. Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning)
3. Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese)
4. Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
5. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
6. Exiled (Johnnie To)
7. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
8. Forever (Heddy Honigmann)
9. The Life of Reilly (Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson)
10. Superbad (Greg Mottola)

Honorable Mention: The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman), Bug (William Friedkin), Beyond Hatred (Olivier Meyrou), Broken English (Zoe Cassavetes), Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (Jonathan Demme), Summer ’04 (Stefan Krohmer), Away from Her (Sarah Polley), The Decomposition of the Soul (Nina Toussaint and Massimo Iannetta), The Bubble (Eytan Fox), and Descent (Talia Lugacy)

2008:
1. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
2. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
3. The Witnesses (André Téchiné)
4. Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris)
5. Summer Palace (Ye Lou)
6. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
7. Mukhsin (Yasmin Ahmed)
8. My Father My Lord (David Volach)
9. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
10. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)

Honorable Mention: The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche), Man on Wire (James Marsh), Chris & Don: A Love Story (Tina Mascara and Guido Santi), Reprise (Joachim Trier), Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (Patricia Rozema), The Strangers (Bryan Bertino), Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke), Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood), Trouble the Water (Tia Lessin and Carl Deal), and Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang)

2009:
1. Two Lovers (James Gray)
2. Up (Pete Docter)
3. Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
4. Julia (Erick Zonca)
5. Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
6. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
7. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
8. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
9. Halloween 2 (Rob Zombie)
10. That Evening Sun (Scott Teems)

Honorable Mention: The Window (Carlos Sorin), Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie), Oblivion (Heddy Honigmann), Bright Star (Jane Campion), California Dreamin’ (Cristian Nemescu), Great Speeches from a Dying World (Linas Phillips), Fados (Carlos Saura), Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola), Taxidermia (György Pálfi), Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo), and The Sun (Aleksandr Sokurov)