A stunning return to form by Ridley Scott, who revived the swords-and-sandals movie in the 2000s.
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Gladiator (2000)
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Tag / 2000
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Under the Sand (2000)
A woman’s husband disappears in Ozon’s psychological drama about grief and denial, starring Charlotte Rampling in one of her finest performances.
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Maelstrom (2000)
A talking fish on the chopping board partly narrates this interesting if weird non-linearly-structured sophomore feature by Villeneuve that is tonally all over the place, as it explores how cosmic connections mediate between actions and consequences.
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Suzhou River (2000)
Lou Ye’s breakthrough is a risqué-lite affair, shot in a gritty, disjointed style that pays homage to Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
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State I Am In, The (2000)
A teenage girl and her parents who are far-left terrorists on the run are the focus of this promising and largely riveting feature debut that combines coming-of-age tropes with crime and politics, while at the same time turning some of these conventions upside-down.
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Code Unknown (2000)
This is Haneke in peak form—made up of more than forty vignettes shot in long takes that combine to give us a fragmentary sense of what it feels like to live in a multi-racial yet racist, technological yet incommunicable post-2000s world.
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
Arguably Wong Kar Wai’s finest hour, the film is gorgeous yet restrained… like an alluring yet yearnful waltz.
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Joint Security Area (2000)
Park’s breakthrough success feels like a cinematic page-turner, set in the context of an investigation on a shootout incident at the border separating North and South Korea.
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
This wholly inventive and constantly surprising first film of Andersson’s ‘Living’ trilogy is one of the finest contemporary examples of absurdist cinema.
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Memento (2000)
One of the most complex and innovative original screenplays of the 2000s decade, Nolan’s early masterwork is a terrific mystery-thriller told in reverse-chronological order.
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