In case anyone wants to add their two cents, the New York Times is conducting a poll where readers can vote for their ten best films of the 21st Century...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ntury.html

No paywall either!

Here are mine, alphabetized (poll listings aren't numerical)...

Best of Enemies: Buckey Vs. Vidal
Casino Royale
Harriet
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Hotel Rwanda
The King's Speech
Match Point
Oppenheimer
Samurai Marathon -- which I had to add because it wasn't on their list.
Top Gun: Maverick

My votes were for...

In the Mood for Love (2000)
The New World (2005)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Zodiac (2007)
Atonement (2007)
Never Let Me Go (2010)
About Time (2013)
45 Years (2015)
20th Century Women (2016)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

I have to confess -- it wasn't hard to compile a list, and I admit not all the films on my list what I'd call truly "great".

I'd have a much-harder time compiling a Top Ten list of 1980s movies (and that would consist entirely of films I do consider truly great).

Agree Paul, this is a tough assignment because I've had to look through lists to come up with 10...and I'm probably STILL missing some here also!

These are just in alphabetical order and I purposefully avoided the usual trendy picks like MAD MAX FURY ROAD, GLADIATOR, anything by Paul WS Anderson which I usually find overrated too.

I also like genre movies but instead of BLACK PANTHER my list would go like this, offering a few different genres and not just (what used to be called) "Oscar fare".

1917
Nolan's Batman Trilogy (as a collective whole)
Captain Phillips
Conjuring 2
Gravity
The Patriot
Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl
Oppenheimer
Spider-Man 2
Top Gun Maverick

Oh blast!

I forgot The Patriot!

That may well be the film I most admire from the past 25 years!

I wonder if I can go back and change it.