Top 25 of 21st Century Critics' Poll

>'Boyhood' in top anything
>'Inside Llewyn Davis' places higher than 'No Country for Old Men'
>'Inside Llewyn Davis' in top 25 at all
>'Zodiac' not in top 5
>'Meme Max' in any list other than SFX
>Wes Anderson
>No 'Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' -- it should be no. 1, and is the best Western released in the last 40 years.

I could add lots that were missing, but I'd be here for hours.

However, it is nice to see a few Haneke films, Cristian Mungiu's '4 Months...', Children of Men, The Act of KIlling, In the Mood for Love, and nice to see something at the top spot that wasn't shit Oscar-bait.

theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/23/mulholland-drive-david-lynch-21st-century-top-films-bbc-poll

Full list, for the lazy.

1 Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
2 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
3 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
4 Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
5 Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
7 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
8 Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
9 A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
10 Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
10 No Country For Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
12 Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
12 Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
14 The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
15 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
16 Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
17 Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
18 The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
19 Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
20 Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
21 The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
22 Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
22 Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
24 The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
25 Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2001)

DUDE LESBIANS LMAO

I hate Mulholland Drive. Twin Peaks and Eraserhead are the only good things Lynch ever made. Elephant Man and Straight Story are alright I guess.

>tfw there will never be a published list you 100% agree with

Why do I even bother looking through these

Where's Batman vs Superman?

Lesbians or no lesbians it's fucking kino.

>Boyhood is top 5

>hates lesbians
>likes straight story
What did he mean by this?

>5 Boyhood
>6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
>21 The Grand Budapest Hotel

I thought I smelled a filthy unwashed pleb. can someone get this homeless man out of here, please?

Boyhood was good, what the fuck is this meme of hating it. Not top 25 of the century, but still good.

Wes Anderson is great, what the fuck is this meme of hating him?

But yes, Assassination of Jesse James is incredible

>2 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

What the fuck? That movie was fucking boring. Nothing happened. The dialogue was superficial. The visuals were boring as it all took place in few sets.

Inside Llewyn Davis really is that good though; sorry you're a pleb

Blue Velvet ranks up there with Eraserhead and Twin Peaks. Eraserhead is the best thing he ever did.

Also, I don't know why lesbians trigger you. You're probably a repressed Yank.

Kentucky is not the west

Whats wrong with any of those 3?

>The Tree of Life
>Good
>Let alone in a 'best of' list


List goes in the bin.

>Mad Max
Jesus fucking Christ.

Also, Spirited Away is garbage that critics pretend is deep. Blue is the Warmest Color is also the superior lesbian kino. And finally, the omission of LOTR is unacceptable.

Lesbians don't trigger me. Its people who think a movie is art because lesbians that triggers me.

It was a subtle film of the ilk of 'Brief Encounter' by David Lean. It's about lust and passion within conservative societies.
It's a wonderfully tender and sensual film.

>16 Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)

What a pretentious hack movie

>Boyhood was good, what the fuck is this meme of hating it.

B-but muh zero Oscars for 12 years in the making bro...

No Return of the KIng?

>'Inside Llewyn Davis' places higher than 'No Country for Old Men'
Not to nitpick, but it appears to be tied with, not higher than.

>Spirited Away is garbage that critics pretend is deep. Blue is the Warmest Color is also the superior lesbian kino. And finally, the omission of LOTR is unacceptable.
Three back-to-back pleb statements.

I agree that Mad Max is dross, though.

Blue is the warmest colour is really underrated.

>No LotR

Sorry, m8, but only a pleb would think Memeholland Dr is better than BITWC.

>4 Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
>5 Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
>10 Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
>10 No Country For Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
>16 Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
>19 Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
>20 Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
>22 Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)

I want off of this ride. I don't fucking care about your "tradition", Mr. Bones. Shut it down. NOW.

dykin' is a art

Must be a typo.
Regardless, No Country is miles better than Llewyn Davis.
Llewyn Davis is one of the poorer Coen bothers films. Feels like a pastiche by a director trying to be the Coens.

Holy fuck this again

Nobody on Sup Forums can think of any argument against it besides "HAHAH LETS HATE IT BECAUSE THE DIRECTOR MADE IT OVER 12 YEARS"

Nobody fucking likes it purely because it was made over 12 years, thats literally just a cool thing about it

I didn't notice until I read about that after watching it

Formulate a real fucking thought instead of sticking to what all the cool Sup Forums kids say

>It's a shit opinions in the OP episode

BITWC is just a typical French lust film. There's dozens of them and loads that are way better. I don't know how it got so much attention when it feels like a hundreds of other films I've seen late at night.
Did Weinstein pick it up or something? What on earth explains its success?

It's an artsy chickflick without any payoff.
It's like watching softcore porn with all of the juicy stuff cut out of it.
I can maybe see why someone would like it if they were a young adult woman trying to rid herself of that genre in order to go explore more interesting things, but beyond that I feel as if people who put it on this pedestal are pseuds.
Far from Wong Kar-wai's best.

>that token animated film
You just know the critics were thinking, "Oh, goodness, we need a cartoon in here, but not one that's for children. I know! How about that one weebshit flick that people are always saying is dark and mature? Yes, that'll do fine!"

Lost in translation was excellent

You're entitled to your opinion but I disagree boldly with your statement.

It's a great, poignant movie, man.

>is the best Western released in the last 40 years
>most of the film takes place in Missouri

Yeah, no. It's a great film, but it's not a "Western."

Just because it's not set in the West doesn't mean it's not a Western.

The Proposition is a Western as it conforms to the tropes of the genre.

>>'Zodiac' not in top 5

>He fell for the Fincher is good meme.

How does it feel to still be 15?

>Says I'm 15
>Uses Pen Gillette memes
Stop projecting, buddy. It reeks of insecurity.

Amazing

This list is the ultimate pleb filter and Sup Forums is pleb central.

> poignant movie

Maybe if you're some kind of fruit lord

I think you meant

>Zodiac
>on the list at all

Jesus Christ, what a complete shit list.

>I didn't notice until I read about that after
Well memed

TAOJJBTCRF isn't a western. There's no gunfights. There's no bad guys taking a town hostage. Not one person gets gunned down off a moving horse. I didn't see a single water tower get poisoned. Fuck out of my face with that "It conforms to the tropes" bullshit.

I can see how you wouldn't relate, Sup Forumsirgin.

I liked Mulholland Drive, but isn't it possible Lynch filmed a bunch of random shit and put it in the movie surrounding two chicks?
I'm not as crazy about it as most people, but it deserves to be on the list way more than some of these.

Will no one point out that the 21st century hasn't even past its1/4's span ?

No one cares for the next 86 years or does that means WW3 confirmed ?

This is actually a really good list. Assassination of Jesse James is great and a good western but when magnificent seven comes out it will go to that.

>Zodiac
Can someone explain the hype of it please? Watched it and can't remember anything sans the picnic scene and maybe thr last 3 minutes

Nice argument

What's wrong with Penn Jillette?

Wow if Boyhood took one more year to make, it wouldn't have made this list!

Whew, that was a close call!

Mike and Jay didn't like it so people here have to hate it too

There's like 5 animated films there buddy.

Ok, well Cormac McCarthy never writes Westerns then.

It's based around one of the fucking archetypal anti-heroes of the Old West, you moron.

>There's no gunfights.
>Muh Gunfights
Jesus Christ. There's a gunfight in the house when Jeremy Renner's character arrives home, if that's what you need to tick off your list.
>There's no bad guys taking a town hostage.
Because all Westerns have this. They rob an entire train, idiot.
>Not one person gets gunned down off a moving horse.
This reads like autism. There actually is a killing on a moving horse, of Garret Dillahunt's character.

Jesus, you sound like a child.

>I didn't notice until I read about that after watching it

How can you be this stupid?

He's the epitome of "I'm 12 and this is edgy" attitudes.

Sorry it didn't have even men in spandex for you.

Oh so you didn't notice the kid getting older every few scenes? Kek

Having never known a movie to do something like that I didn't expect the director to do it that way

it's boring as shit, take literally any child and film his life for 12 years and you have a more interesting movie

>le dyke degenerate love story
>#1

This is why critics suck. Ebert was a hack that Didn't even understand the kino masterpiece that was Joe Dirt

Spirited Away is literally the only animated film there, dickhead.

To be fair Boyhood did take twelve years to make, it's automaticaly deserving of the accolade based on that fact alone. No other movie has taken twelve years to make

WHO

FUCKING

GIVES

A

SHIT

>love story
Anyone remember when people on this board actually watched and understood movies?

Love how you undermine yourself by replying -- moreover, by replying in such an attention-seeking way.

Why do people think Haneké is good

I guess Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, and Wall-E aren't animated.

Memento is more of a travesty than Boyhood. At least with Boyhood I get how hype and accessibility won over critics, Memento seems like shit only teenage boys love because they confuse plot structure with intellect. Where does the praise come from?

Because he is.

>The Tree of Life
powerful, but not for everyone

>No Country For Old Men
ending monologue about his dream was amazing

>Mad Max: Fury Road
please

rest are meh

Please, explain the lack of poisoned water towers. This is fun for me.

See? This is what I mean.

We're talking about the top 25, faggo.

And Spotlight at 88, who the fuck loved that movie? I watched it last night and forgot that I did until seeing it on this list

I have never seen that in any movie

Wall-E is 29, so it's not like they're not evenly spread out.
I'm sorry you can't at least check the full list.

>Spotlight
I so desperately wanted it to be another All the President's Men, but it really wasn't.
Zodiac is the closest another film has come to All the President's Men.

>boyhood is 5th
i admit im a little mad

I actually really like this list. Surely Boyhood slides in the coming years though?

Why would it?

Did you not find it to be an exercise in cliche?
It was mindbogglingly corny.

Mulholland Dr. is fucking great.

For me it's how bland the direction was, and how low the stakes were.

In All The President's Men they're implicating the president in a felony, who knows what shit will rain on them once they publish. In Spotlight they argue about a deadline, and all the issues about public documents fall neatly into place as the plot requires. That's it, what the fuck is the catholic church going to do to a newspaper?

Nah, I enjoyed it a lot, felt very real

And Ethan Hawke did a great performance, I liked his redemption from a seemingly sleazy guy to a humble family man

To see how retarded other people are.

The Dark Knight should be there in place of Boyhood.

Boyhood was shit.

Did any of these win an Oscar?

Fat Sersh getting curried.

Boyhood was awful.

It was an experimental project of boring nothingness.

TWELVE
YEARS

I agree

Just had a look at the top 100. Only commenting on stuff outside the top 25 in this post.
>Criminally low:
94. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
92. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
76. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
64. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
63. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
56. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, director; Ágnes Hranitzky, co-director, 2000)
54. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
47. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
32. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)

So The Dark Knight is better than all but one of these films?!?! All these critics should be sacked.
Werckmeister Harmonies not in the top 5 is just laughable. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia so low is ridiculous.

>Why were these even in the top 1000000?
79. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
78. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
68. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
62. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
33. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)

Woody alludes to it in Toy Story. He was in a Western show. I assumed it was a common occurrence in Westerns. I apologize.

It's clear Sup Forums is your home board.

I feel it's current placement is reflective of it being fresh in critics minds. I feel that as time passes it probably won't age as well as many of the films behind it on the list and in subsequent years will drop in people's opinions.