REEL | Top 10 Films of the 21st Century So Far

"She turns and walks away."

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1) In the Mood for Love ¹ (dir. Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

2) Mulholland Drive (dir. David Lynch, 2001)

3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry, 2004)

4) Ghost World (dir. Terry Zwigoff, 2001)

5) The Social Network (dir. David Fincher, 2010)

6) Zodiac (dir. David Fincher, 2007)

7) The Handmaiden (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2016)

8) Parasite (dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2019)

9) Her (dir. Spike Jonze, 2013)

10) Frances Ha (dir. Noah Baumbauch, 2012)

Honourable mentions:

Before Sunset (dir. Richard Linklater, 2004)

The Prestige (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2006)

¹ It's the greatest film I have ever seen every time I see it. In the Mood for Love is sensational filmmaking in its classically universal telling of romantic longing and forbidden love. It's beautiful and heartbreaking in its melancholic hopefulness all the same.


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