Best movies of after 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

The Affair of the Necklace(2001)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 49

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.



12(2007)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.



The Lovely Bones(2009)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.



The Wolfman(2010)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.



The Time Machine(2002)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.



The Contender(2000)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for US Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to de-rail her confirmation.



Elizabeth: The Golden Age(2007)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.



Vatel(2000)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 41

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the ...



Living(2022)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s.



Les Misérables(2019)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.



Cyrano(2021)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.



El crimen del Padre Amaro(2002)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.



Close(2022)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 59

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.



Aftersun(2022)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.



Empire of Light(2022)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.



Triangle of Sadness(2022)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.



To Leslie(2022)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Inspired by true events. A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.



EO(2022)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.



Vice(2018)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

VICE explores how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways still felt today.



Mary Poppins Returns(2018)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.




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