Holden Pike's Top 100 of the 2000s

2005

 1

  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

2000

 2

  Dancer in the Dark

2008

 3

  Revanche

2007

 4

  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

2004

 5

  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2007

 6

  Waltz with Bashir

2002

 7

  Talk to Her

2006

 8

  Children of Men

2001

 9

  Amélie

2006

 10

  The Lives of Others

2002

 11

  The Pianist

2000

 12

  Wonder Boys

2007

 13

  No Country for Old Men

2007

 14

  Zodiac

2008

 15

  Synecdoche, New York

2009

 16

  Moon

2009

 17

  Fantastic Mr. Fox

2007

 18

  There Will Be Blood

2007

 19

  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2009

 20

  A Serious Man

2002

 21

  Gangs of New York

2002

 22

  Adaptation.

2007

 23

  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2004

 24

  Downfall

2001

 25

  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2000

 26

  Memento

2001

 27

  The Royal Tenenbaums

2003

 28

  Lost in Translation

2001

 29

  Gosford Park

2009

 30

  Mother

2000

 31

  O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2006

 32

  Red Road

2003

 33

  Memories of Murder

2008

 34

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2006

 35

  Letters from Iwo Jima

2001

 36

  Trouble Every Day

2004

 37

  The Aviator

2003

 38

  Dogville

2009

 39

  Where the Wild Things Are

2002

 40

  City of God

2004

 41

  Shaun of the Dead

2004

 42

  A Very Long Engagement

2005

 43

  The New World

2000

 44

  Requiem for a Dream

2005

 45

  Grizzly Man

2002

 46

  25th Hour

2005

 47

  Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

2005

 48

  Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

2009

 49

  Dogtooth

2006

 50

  OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

2007

 51

  Away from Her

2003

 52

  House of Sand and Fog

2001

 53

  Monsters, Inc.

2002

 54

  Rabbit-Proof Fence

2007

 55

  The Counterfeiters

2000

 56

  Almost Famous

2002

 57

  Frida

2005

 58

  Munich

2002

 59

  Solaris

2003

 60

  The Station Agent

2005

 61

  The Secret Life of Words

2007

 62

  Lars and the Real Girl

2002

 63

  Dirty Pretty Things

2005

 64

  The Squid and the Whale

2002

 65

  The Twilight Samurai

2001

 66

  The Man Who Wasn't There

2003

 67

  American Splendor

2009

 68

  Antichrist

2007

 69

  The Visitor

2005

 70

  Sin City

2001

 71

  Ghost World

2006

 72

  Volver

2005

 73

  Thank You for Smoking

2002

 74

  Morvern Callar

2000

 75

  Shadow of the Vampire

2006

 76

  The Science of Sleep

2004

 77

  Million Dollar Baby

2004

 78

  The Incredibles

2005

 79

  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

2006

 80

  Stranger Than Fiction

2003

 81

  The Cooler

2006

 82

  Half Nelson

2002

 83

  Punch-Drunk Love

2005

 84

  The Child

2008

 85

  In Bruges

2008

 86

  Sugar

2003

 87

  School of Rock

2009

 88

  Inglourious Basterds

2007

 89

  Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

2003

 90

  I'm Not Scared

2009

 91

  The Missing Person

2002

 92

  Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

2000

 93

  Best in Show

2007

 94

  Chop Shop

2006

 95

  The Wind That Shakes The Barley

2005

 96

  Batman Begins

2003

 97

  The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

2001

 98

  The Pledge

2005

 99

  Junebug

2006

 100

  Tell No One