Best movies of 2000s

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest(2006)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.



Monster House(2006)

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Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.



The Painted Veil(2006)

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Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.



The Wind That Shakes the Barley(2006)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.



Away from Her(2006)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.



Beowulf(2007)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing Denmark, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.



Shrek the Third(2007)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

When his new father-in-law, King Harold falls ill, Shrek is looked at as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to install the rebellious Artie as the new king. Princess Fiona, however, rallies a band of royal girlfriends to fend off a coup d'etat by the jilted Prince Charming.



Disturbia(2007)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer.



Dan in Real Life(2007)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brother's girlfriend.



Control(2007)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.



Body of Lies(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.



The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

High school student Nick O'Leary, member of the Queercore band The Jerk Offs, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg when she asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes.



The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.



Bright Star(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.



Duplicity(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Two ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product. However, they distract each other in more ways than one.



The Messenger(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 79

An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.



Machete(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.



Shrek Forever After(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpel rules supreme.



Robin Hood(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.




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