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  1. 1In the Mood for Love (2000)In the Mood for Love (2000) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 29 Sept 2000Sight and Sound's 2022 critics' poll placed it fifth among the greatest films ever made, higher than anything else from its decade, and it earns that by leaving almost everything unsaid. In 1962 Hong Kong, two neighbours discover that their spouses are having an affair with each other. Tony Leung…0
  2. 2Yi Yi (2000)Yi Yi (2000) 8.1/10 on IMDbReleased 20 Sept 2000Nearly three hours with one Taipei family, and few films make ordinary life feel this full. Edward Yang follows the household from a wedding through the months after it: a father who has just run into his first love, a teenage daughter, a grandmother lying in a coma, and eight-year-old Yang-Yang,…0
  3. 3Memento (2000)Memento (2000) 8.4/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Oct 2000The year's cleverest thriller, and one that rewards a second viewing. Leonard Shelby cannot form new memories, so he hunts the man he believes killed his wife with Polaroids, notes and tattoos. Christopher Nolan plays the colour scenes in reverse order and intercuts black-and-white ones that run…0
  4. 4Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)Werckmeister Harmonies (2001) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 1 Feb 2001Choose this when you can give a film your full attention. Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky tell their story of a frozen Hungarian town in 39 long black-and-white shots across 145 minutes, and the first is among the great openings in cinema: at closing time, a gentle newspaper deliverer arranges the…0
  5. 5The Gleaners and I (2000)The Gleaners and I (2000) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 7 Jul 2000The kindest film of the year is an 82-minute documentary. Agnès Varda took a small Sony camcorder, her first digital camera, into French fields, vineyards and city markets to meet people who live on what others throw away: a Michelin-starred chef who gleans, a field of heart-shaped potatoes, and…0
  6. 6Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 6 Jul 2000Ang Lee's martial-arts romance became the first film not in English to pass $100 million in American cinemas, and won four Oscars, Best Foreign Language Film among them. The theft of a legendary sword, the Green Destiny, sets it going, but the pleasure is Yuen Woo-ping's fights, performed mostly by…0
  7. 7Amores Perros (2000)Amores Perros (2000) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 16 Jun 2000Alejandro González Iñárritu's debut opens mid chase, with a shot dog bleeding on the back seat, and the crash that ends it ties together three Mexico City lives that would never otherwise touch: a young man who fights his brother's dog for money, a Spanish model, and a scruffy hitman who lives with…0
  8. 8Code Unknown (2000)Code Unknown (2000) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 15 Nov 2000Michael Haneke's Paris mosaic is built from unbroken long takes, and the opening one plays like a complete short story. On a busy boulevard a young man tosses the remains of his pastry at a Romanian woman who is begging, another young man objects, and the scuffle ends in an arrest and a…0
  9. 9Requiem for a Dream (2000)Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased 6 Oct 2000Ellen Burstyn's Oscar-nominated performance is the reason to brave it. She plays Sara, a lonely Brooklyn widow who is told she might appear on her favourite game show and starts on diet pills to fit back into an old red dress, while her son and his friends deal heroin to fund their plans. An…0
  10. 10Traffic (2000)Traffic (2000) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 27 Dec 2000The drug trade from three directions: a Tijuana cop caught in a cartel feud, a conservative Ohio judge appointed the President's drug czar, and a San Diego wife who learns what her husband really does for a living. Steven Soderbergh shot it himself and gave each thread its own look, Mexico bleached…0