Best movies of after 2000

The Legend of Zorro(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Alejandro de la Vega (Banderas) -- and his wife, Elena (Zeta-Jones) -- to take action.



Spartan(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The investigation into a kidnapping of the daughter of a high-ranking US government official.



House of Wax(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.



Paradise Now(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.



Thumbsucker(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.



The History Boys(2006)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 72

An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.



Lady in the Water(2006)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.



Melinda and Melinda(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.



Failure to Launch(2006)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A thirty-something, is still living at home until his parents hire an interventionist to help him graduate out of the house. That's when the fun begins.



We Are Marshall(2006)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 64

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.



Alfie(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.



The Assassination of Richard Nixon(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Based on real life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who decides to take extreme measures to achieve his American dream.



Prime(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.



Wolf Creek(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are befriended by a local who turns out to be a sadistic psychopath and will plunge them into a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture.



Mrs Henderson Presents(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Laura Henderson buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, among other things, its all-nude revues.



A Good Year(2006)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A British investment broker inherits his uncle's chateau and vineyard in Provence, where he spent much of his childhood. He discovers a new laid-back lifestyle as he tries to renovate the estate to be sold.



Wristcutters: A Love Story(2006)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.



Accepted(2006)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.



Harsh Times(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A tough-minded drama about two friends in South Central Los Angeles and the violence that comes between them.



Last Days(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent to those of Kurt Cobain.




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