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The Observer's best films of the 21st century
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In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2010)
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma, 2014)
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2016)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017)
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018)
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019)
Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho, 2019)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, 2023)
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024)