Best movies of 2000s

The Magdalene Sisters(2002)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.



Vera Drake(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.



The Last Samurai(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.



Bend It Like Beckham(2002)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism and joins a football team.



Ocean's Twelve(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's 11.



Holes(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.



A Mighty Wind(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.



Thirteen(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.



Hitch(2005)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

While helping his latest client woo the fine lady of his dreams, a professional "date doctor" finds that his game doesn't quite work on the gossip columnist with whom he's smitten.



Ice Age(2002)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.



Hulk(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers an accident that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.



Love Actually(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.



Dawn of the Dead(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.



Mr. & Mrs. Smith(2005)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.



Open Range(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.



Confessions of a Dangerous Mind(2002)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.



Friday Night Lights(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.



2046(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 76

The women who enter a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.



Dirty Pretty Things(2002)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 78

An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life.



Matchstick Men(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.




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