2000s

2009

1. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)

2. BRIGHT STAR (Jane Campion)

3. ADVENTURELAND (Greg Mottola)
4. GAMER (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor) 
5. VALHALLA RISING (Nicholas Winding Refn)

6. THE WHITE RIBBON (Michael Haneke)

7. PHANTOMS OF NABUA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 

8. BLUEBEARD (Catherine Breillat)

9. CORALINE (Henry Selick)

10. A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen) 
11. IN THE LOOP (Armando Iannucci)

12. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (Spike Jonze)

13. BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (Werner Herzog)

14. THE HURT LOCKER (Kathryn Bigelow)

15. THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (Terry Gilliam)

16. THE LIMITS OF CONTROL (Jim Jarmusch)

17. WILD GRASS (Alain Resnais)

18. PAPER BAG (Ramin Bahrani)

2008

1. LOVE EXPOSURE (Sion Sono)

2. SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK (Charlie Kaufman)
3. TOKYO SONATA (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

4. TWO LOVERS (James Gray)
5. THE FALL (Tarsem Singh)

6. SUMMER HOURS (Oliver Assayas)

7. OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST (Miguel Gomes)
8. THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel)

9. WALL•E (Andrew Stanton)

10. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Tomas Alfredson)

11. SHIRIN (Abbas Kiarostami)

12. GOODBYE SOLO (Ramin Bahrani)

13. RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (Jonathan Demme)

14. CHE (Steven Soderbergh)
15. 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis)

16. FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (Nicholas Stoller)

17. THE WRESTLER (Darren Aronofsky)

18. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (David Fincher)

19. DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-ALONG BLOG (Joss Whedon)

20. BURN AFTER READING (Joel & Ethan Coen)

21. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (Mike Leigh)

22. A CHRISTMAS TALE (Arnaud Desplechin)

23. IN BRUGES (Martin McDonagh)

2007

1. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Joel & Ethan Coen)

2. ZODIAC (David Fincher)

3. SECRET SUNSHINE (Lee Chang-dong)

4. EASTERN PROMISES (David Cronenberg)

5. YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson)

7. RATATOUILLE (Brad Bird)

8. SILENT LIGHT (Carlos Reygadas)

9. HOT FUZZ (Edgar Wright)

10. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson)

11. MAD DETECTIVE (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)

12. GRINDHOUSE (Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino)

13. BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (Sidney Lumet)

14. SNOW ANGELS (David Gordon Green)

2006

1. MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann)

2. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. EXILED (Johnnie To)

4. THE PRESTIGE (Christopher Nolan)

5. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)

6. PAN'S LABYRINTH (Guillermo Del Toro)

7. HALF NELSON (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck)

8. DÉJÀ VU (Tony Scott)

9. BLACK BOOK (Paul Verhoeven)

10. LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (Clint Eastwood)

11. CLERKS 2 (Kevin Smith)

12. CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso Cuarón)

2005

1. THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick)

2. CACHÉ (Michael Haneke)

3. MUNICH (Steven Spielberg)

4. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN [director's cut] (Ridley Scott)

5. SIN CITY (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller)

6. WAR OF THE WORLDS (Steven Spielberg)

7. THE CONSTANT GARDENER (Fernando Meirelles)

8. SERENITY (Joss Whedon)

9. DOMINO (Tony Scott)

10. THE PROPOSITION (John Hillcoat)

11. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (David Cronenberg)

2004

1. THE INTRUDER (Claire Denis)
2. MOOLAADÉ (Ousmane Sembène)

3. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry)

4. THE WORLD (Jia Zhang-ke)

5. SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Edgar Wright)

6. CRIMSON GOLD (Jafar Panahi)

7. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

8. THE INCREDIBLES (Brad Bird)

9. KILL BILL VOL. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)

10. COLLATERAL (Michael Mann)

11. HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (Alfonso Cuarón)

2003

1. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook)

2. KILL BILL VOL. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)

3. HULK (Ang Lee)

2002

1. GANGS OF NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese)

2. 25TH HOUR (Spike Lee)

3. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson)4

5. THE PIANIST (Roman Polanski)

6. TALK TO HER (Pedro Almodóvar)

7. MINORITY REPORT (Steven Spielberg)
8. RUSSIAN ARK (Alexander Sokurov)

9. ADAPTATION (Spike Jonze)

10. FAR FROM HEAVEN (Todd Haynes)

11. CITY OF GOD (Fernando Meirelles)

12. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (Steven Spielberg)

2001

1. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)

2. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)

3. SPIRITED AWAY (Hayao Miyazaki)

4. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. MOULIN ROUGE! (Baz Luhrmann)

6. AMÉLIE (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

7. THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (Joel & Ethan Coen)

2000

1. YI YI (Edward Yang)

2. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-Wai)
3. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin)

4. WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (Béla Tarr)

5. PLATFORM (Jia Zhang-ke)

6. SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR (Roy Andersson)
7. ALMOST FAMOUS ["Untitled" cut] (Cameron Crowe)

8.  GEORGE WASHINGTON (David Gordon Green)

9. O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? (Joel & Ethan Coen)

2000s

A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
THE INTRUDER (Claire Denis)
LOVE EXPOSURE (Sion Sono)
MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann)
MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Joel & Ethan Coen)
SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK (Charlie Kaufman)
YI YI (Edward Yang)