What Did Rolling Stone Rank As The Best Movies of the 21st Century?

I have been having such a enjoyable time going by these start-of-the-century film lists, just like the one from the New York Occasions. It actually exhibits you ways cool it’s to be alive whereas this artwork is being made, and offers you such anticipation for what’s to return.

Properly, Rolling Stone has entered the ring with their picks for the most effective films of the twenty first Century.

Here is how they defined their listing:

“The next 100 films symbolize what a handful of Rolling Stone contributors who nonetheless consider within the films, nonetheless obsess over them, nonetheless discover thrills and chills and salvation in them, have dubbed the most effective of this comparatively still-young century. It’s a residing doc, to make sure; we’ll undoubtedly return and add to this listing because the years go by. However each single entry right here has reminded us of the way in which that the flicks can mirror our humanity again at us, spark our imaginations, encourage us to giggle or cry or gasp or take motion, and why we fell in love with the shifting footage within the first place. From comedies to tragedies, biopics to superhero epics, stop-motion foxes to milkshake-drinking tycoons — our picks for the excessive factors of this moviegoing century to this point.”

So let’s dive in and see what they picked.

The Finest Films of the twenty first Century In keeping with Rolling Stone

‘Boyhood’Credit score: IFC Movies

1. There Will Be Blood (2007)
2. In The Temper for Love (2000)
3. Moonlight (2016)
4. Parasite (2019)
5. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007)
7. Mad Max: Fury Street (2015)
8. Yi Yi (2000)
9. Mulholland Drive (2001)
10. Boyhood (2014)
11. OJ: Made in America (2016)
12. A Separation (2011)
13. The Social Community (2010)
14. Carol (2015)
15. Spirited Away (2001)
16. As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
17. Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts (2004)
18. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
19. Zodiac (2007)
20. The Act of Killing (2012)
21. Roma (2018)
22. Get Out (2017)
23. Faces Locations
24. The twenty fifth Hour (2002)
25. The Grand Budapest Lodge (2014)
26. Earlier than Sundown (2004)
27. Kids of Males (2006)
28. Drive My Automobile (2021)
29. Woman Fowl (2017)
30. The Irishman (2019)
31. No Nation for Previous Males (2007)
32. Uncle Boonmee who Can Recall His Previous Lives (2010)
33. A Historical past of Violence (2005)
34. The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)
35. Phantom Thread (2017)
36. Manchester by the Sea (2016)
37. Ache and Glory (2019)
38. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
39. First Reformed (2017)
40. Burning (2018)
41. Spring Breakers (2012)
42. The Darkish Knight (2008)
43. Tar (2022)
44. The Grasp (2012)
45. Beneath the Pores and skin (2013)
46. Selma (2014)
47. Wall-E (2008)
48. Nickel Boys (2024)
49. Anchorman (2004)
50. Starvation (2008)
51. Meek’s Cutoff (2010)
52. Black Panther (2018)
53. 28 Days Later (2002)
54. Memento (2000)
55. Previous Lives (2023)
56. Name Me By Your Title (2017)
57. A Prophet (2009)
58. The Tree of Life (2011)
59. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
60. Dogville (2003)
61. A.I. (2001)
62. The 40 12 months Previous Virgin (2004)
63. The Florida Venture (2017)
64. I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
65. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
66. Leviathan (2012)
67. Her (2013)
68. The Memento (2019)
69. Grizzly Man (2005)
70. Misplaced in Translation (2003)
71. The Host (2006)
72. Gosford Park (2001)
73. Michael Clayton (2007)
74. John Wick (2014)
75. Uncut Gems (2019)
76. 35 Pictures of Rum (2008)
77. The Zone of Curiosity (2023)
78. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
79. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
80. Finest in Present (2000)
81. The White Ribbon (2009)
82. Portrait of a Woman on Hearth (2019)
83. Hereditary (2018)
84. Dogtooth (2009)
85. Lincoln (2012)
86. Oppenheimer (2023)
87. The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
88. Unbelievable Mr. Fox (2009)
89. Determination to Go away (2022)
90. La Commune (Paris 1871) (2000)
91. Licensed Copy (2010)
92. Offside (2006)
93. Lingui, the Sacred Bonds (2021)
94. The Damage Locker (2008)
95. Toni Erdmann (2016)
96. Metropolis of God (2002)
97. No (2012)
98. Norte, the Finish of Historical past (2013)
99. Winter’s Bone (2010)
100. Margaret (2011)

Analyzing the Checklist

‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’Credit score: Warner Bros.

One of many large causes I like lists like these is that they’ve a lot selection. This one spans the globe and has ,films from plenty of completely different international locations.

Whereas there’s a ton of overlap from the New York Timers, there’s additionally a variety of new titles on right here that I believe are equally enjoyable to rejoice.

None of those had been on the NYT listing:

• The twenty fifth Hour (2002)
• 28 Days Later (2002)
• 35 Pictures of Rum (2008)
• 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007)
• 40 12 months Previous Virgin, The (2004)
• A.I. (2001)
• The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
• Burning (2018)
• Licensed Copy (2010)
• Determination to Go away (2022)
• Dogtooth (2009)
• Dogville (2003)
• Drive My Automobile (2021)
• Faces Locations
• Unbelievable Mr. Fox (2009)
• First Reformed (2017)
• Gosford Park (2001)
• Hereditary (2018)
• A Historical past of Violence (2005)
• Host, The (2006)
• Starvation (2008)
• I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
• Irishman, The (2019)
• John Wick (2014)
• La Commune (Paris 1871) (2000)
• Leviathan (2012)
• Lincoln (2012)
• Lingui, the Sacred Bonds (2021)
• Lord of the Rings, The (2001-2003)
• Manchester by the Sea (2016)
• Margaret (2011)
• Meek’s Cutoff (2010)
• Nickel Boys (2024)
• No (2012)
• Norte, the Finish of Historical past (2013)
• Offside (2006)
• OJ: Made in America (2016)
• Ache and Glory (2019)
• Selma (2014)
• The Memento (2019)
• Spring Breakers (2012)
• Uncle Boonmee who Can Recall His Previous Lives (2010)
• White Ribbon, The (2009)
• Winter’s Bone (2010)

I do assume the OJ inclusion is tough for me, as a result of I’ve solely ever seen it on TV and separated into like a 5 episode collection, I all the time have an issue with individuals calling it a film, though it is probably the most necessary docs ever made.

The remainder of these are films I actually like and I do assume should be heralded. It gave me loads to consider once we make our listing right here, or if we do.

Summing All of it Up

these are actually enjoyable to select aside and to make independently. I might like to know which films aren’t on this that you just assume needs to be or what your lists are at residence.

Let me know what you assume within the feedback.