Best movies of after 2000

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada(2005)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Ranch hand Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.



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.



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.



Madagascar(2005)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Spoiled by their upbringing and unaware of what wildlife really is, four animals from the New York Central Zoo escape, unwittingly assisted by four absconding penguins, and find themselves in Madagascar.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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 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.



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.



300(2006)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.



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.



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.



Zathura: A Space Adventure(2005)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Two young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is hurled through the depths of space by the magical board game they are playing.



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.



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.



The Interpreter(2005)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot.



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.



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.




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