10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 2000-х по версии Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times):

2000.
01. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
02. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
03. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
04. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
05. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
06. The Cell (Tarsem Singh)
07. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
08. Pollock (Ed Harris)
09. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
10. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)

2001.
01. Monster's Ball (Marc Forster)
02. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
03. In The Bedroom (Todd Field)
04. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
05. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
06. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
07. Innocence (Paul Cox)
08. Wit (Mike Nichols)
09. A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
10. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)

2002.
01. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
02. City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
03. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
04. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
05. 13 Conversations About One Thing (Jill Sprecher)
06. Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuaron)
07. Invincible (Werner Herzog)
08. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
09. All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
10. The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce)

2003.
01. Monster (Patty Jenkins)
02. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
03. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)
04. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
05. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
06. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
07. Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski)
08. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
09. Whale Rider (Niki Caro)
10. In America (Jim Sheridan)

2004.
01. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
02. Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
03. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
04. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
05. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
06. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
07. Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles)
08. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
09. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
10. Undertow (David Gordon Green)

2005.
01. Crash (Paul Haggis)
02. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
03. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
04. Junebug (Phil Morrison)
05. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
06. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
07. Nine Lives (Rodrigo Garcia)
08. King Kong (Peter Jackson)
09. Yes (Sally Potter)
10. Millions (Danny Boyle)

2006.
Akeelah and the Bee (Doug Atchison)
Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Bubble (Stephen Soderbergh)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
49 Up (Michael Apted)
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Man Push Cart (Ramin Bahrani)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Overlord (1975, Stuart Cooper)
Perfume (Tom Tykwer)
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
The Queen (Stephen Frears)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Tristam Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
Tsoti (Gavin Hood)
United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
Volver (Pedro Almodovar)

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)