Best movies of 2000s

For Your Consideration(2006)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.



Agora(2009)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.



Black Sheep(2006)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.



Pride and Glory(2008)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.



The Ice Harvest(2005)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.



She's the Man(2006)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 59

When her brother decides to ditch for a couple weeks, Viola heads over to his elite boarding school, disguised as him, and proceeds to fall for one of his soccer teammates, and soon learns she's not the only one with romantic troubles.



I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry(2007)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 59

Two straight, single Brooklyn firefighters pretend to be a gay couple in order to receive domestic partner benefits.



A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints(2006)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs, or in prison. He comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by various so-called saints.



Boy A(2007)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 65

The story of a young Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a violent crime he committed as a child.



Step Up(2006)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with an up and coming dancer, Nora.



Speed Racer(2008)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A young driver, Speed Racer, aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile.



Halloween(2007)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution and immediately returns to Haddonfield to find his baby sister, Laurie.



The Sentinel(2006)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A Secret Service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the President. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a Secret Service Protective Intelligence Division agent.



Stop-Loss(2008)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.



Guess Who(2005)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A young woman, Theresa, brings her boyfriend, Simon, home to meet her parents and surprise them with the news of their engagement. Another surprise: Simon is white.



Firewall(2006)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A security specialist is forced into robbing the bank that he's protecting, as a bid to pay off his family's ransom.



Law Abiding Citizen(2009)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.



The Omen(2006)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 62

An American official realizes that his young son may literally be the Devil incarnate.



Next(2007)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.



Sex Drive(2008)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.




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