Best movies of after 2000

Reign Over Me(2007)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.



North Country(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.



Across the Universe(2007)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

The music of the Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.



In Good Company(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A middle-aged ad exec is faced with a new boss who's nearly half his age... and who also happens to be sleeping with his daughter.



A Prairie Home Companion(2006)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.



The World's Fastest Indian(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.



Music and Lyrics(2007)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.



Constantine(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Supernatural detective John Constantine helps a policewoman prove her sister's death was not a suicide, but something more.



The Mist(2007)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.



The Proposition(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.



Step Brothers(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Two aimless middle-aged losers still living at home are forced against their will to become roommates when their parents marry.



Mysterious Skin(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.



The Fountain(2006)

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Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.



The Kingdom(2007)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.



Hancock(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Hancock is a superhero whose ill considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image.



The Island(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.



Australia(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.



The Kite Runner(2007)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.



Starsky & Hutch(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red-and-white Ford Torino with the help of police snitch called Huggy Bear.



Snakes on a Plane(2006)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss.




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