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  • These are the creme de la creme.

  • Welcome to watch Mojo.

  • And today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 best movies of the century.

  • So far, let's go.

  • Good joke is still going for this list.

  • We're ranking the most impressive and memorable movies released from 2000 to 2019 from Rahm coms to martial arts epics to affecting dramas.

  • Oh, and before any Disney fans start rage quitting halfway through, we just want to be clear.

  • Animated films are not included.

  • Oh, this would be a good time to turn invisible.

  • Yep.

  • Okay, Not gonna turn invisible, selecting a Bago number 20 The wolf of Wall Street.

  • Although mainly said in the eighties and nineties, the story of Jordan Belfort feels all too relevant In today's world, we live in an era where big business reigns supreme.

  • One thing I can promise you even in this mark, is that I never ask my clients to judge me on my winners.

  • I asked them to judge me on my losers because I have so few in Belfort sized.

  • The little guy is so insignificant we never even see the countless people he scammed over the years.

  • Instead, Martin Score says he's electrifying biopic as powerful as his Oscar winning The Departed focuses on how Wall Street mogul sold his soul in exchange for the American dream of fancy mansion, Luxury vehicles and loads of cash sail on a boat fit for a bond villain.

  • Sometimes you need to play the part right.

  • In other words, greed and the American dream have become one and the same.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Belford as a con artist who's beyond despicable yet so charming that we'd still probably by his pen.

  • You could sell anything so that Number 19 parasite Hyung Joon Ho's much anticipated satire propelled South Korean cinema to greater world prominence in 2019.

  • The OCA creator pulls out all the stops for the smash hit with Parasite being as sidesplitting Lee, hilarious as it is hauntingly realistic and relatable, you're lying.

  • Following two very different families from two very different social classes, the film is a beautifully shot masterpiece with an awesome musical score to match, took home best foreign language film at the Golden Globes and was nominated for six Academy Awards.

  • If you like your movies jam packed with the sharp cleverness of a comedy yet brimming with the relentlessly dark themes of a thriller than parasite may just burrow its way into you.

  • Number 18.

  • The Wrestler.

  • This caught everyone off guard back in 2008 a movie about an aging professional wrestler played by Mickey Rourke, directed by the same guy who brought us Requiem for a Dream.

  • But it just so happens to be a deeply touching drama about growing old and plucking up the courage to start a new life for yourself, just introducing you all right, as well as giving us tons of realistic backstage insights into the world of wrestling.

  • It also offers up to Academy Award nominated performances from Rourke and Marisa Tomei.

  • Bear With Me.

  • It may be mostly a somber story, but as is the case with other Darren Aronofsky movies, you can't help but want to rewatch it multiple times for the opportunity to enjoy something new.

  • You I don't love you, I don't even like you.

  • And it was stupid to think that you could change Number 17 City of God.

  • Every once in a while, a movie will come along and offer up such unrelenting realism that movie goers need to stop to catch their breath when leaving the cinema.

  • Theo, City of God is one of those movies.

  • Following the very different life paths of two kids from the slums of Rio, we learned how violence and crime convey an almost inescapable way of life.

  • And if you don't find a way to veer in a different direction, it will completely consume you, serving up some unbelievably good believable performances, many by unknown actors.

  • City of God has a searing message to convey, and it doesn't pull any punches along the way.

  • A lot of stuff that I bet on the game with that number.

  • 16 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the movie that put the cool back into martial arts spectaculars, kicked off the millennium in great style.

  • Combining gorgeous and stunning action courtesy of acclaimed choreographer Yuen Woo Ping.

  • With the revenge fueled drama of a Western and simply wondrous and surreal special effects, Crouching Tiger manages to take thes, somewhat aging martial arts template and make it even more relevant and entertaining than ever before.

  • Featuring huge international stars like Chow Yung Fat and Michelle Yeoh and directed with enormous verve by Ang Lee, it's larger than life in all the best ways.

  • Take that Laws of physics.

  • Number 15.

  • Kill Bill.

  • We go from one Western inspired thrill ride to another with the Kill Bill Siri's showing us that there is still a place in cinema for cheesy over the top, ridiculously violent action movies, Theo Kill Bill Movies offer up a smorgasbord of Quentin Tarantino trademarks with iconic characters, weapons, sound effects, monologues and close ups everywhere.

  • Essentially, it's one big revenge plot with a Siri's of satisfyingly savage, arterial spray filled moments littered throughout.

  • Yes, we know we've included both volumes one and two in the Sentry, but as far as we're concerned, each one is Justus, important as the other, and both unite to create one of Tarantino's finest works.

  • Little did quick draw Kiddo know that Little B B was only playing possum due to the fact that she was impervious to bullets and previous to bullets.

  • Mommy number 14 Pan's Labyrinth.

  • As with pretty much every Guillermo del Toro movie, Pan's Labyrinth is Justus, beautiful as it is heavy, provocative and unsettling.

  • Also, in essence, it's a story about a little girl who wants to prove her worthiness of being a princess, but it's the eclectic characters and subplots the route that make this a true spectacle.

  • Picture Alice in Wonderland but R rated the themes air so vast in this movie that it really needs to be watched multiple times to fully appreciate it and its various characters, be it the vicious Captain Videl, the mysterious Fund or the nightmarish Pale Man.

  • I feel as though they could have movies of their very own number.

  • 13.

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel.

  • If you're after a vibrant color palette and endlessly quotable four dimensional characters, then Wes Anderson is usually a pretty safe bet.

  • Oh, how the good Die Young.

  • With any luck, she's left a few clue Becks for your old friend, but one never knows until the ink is dry on the festive.

  • She was dynamite in the sack, by the way, Case in Point, the Grand Budapest Hotel.

  • On the surface, it's about a concierge running a hotel, but on an emotional level, it's so much more than that.

  • Not to mention it's effortlessly hilarious.

  • Never been jealous in this life.

  • Zero, not even for an instant is flirting with you.

  • Yes, I approve of this union, Wes Anderson has the ability to create surreal worlds in his movies.

  • That, as a viewer you could easily get Lost in and Grand Budapest is a perfect example of that.

  • Plus, it's cast is simply superb.

  • We're talking Ray Fines.

  • Adrien Brody, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Gold Bloom, Bill Murray, Own Wilson, Tilda Swinton.

  • The list of talents just goes on and on.

  • I knew there was something fishy.

  • We never got the cause of death.

  • She's been murdered and you think I did it.

  • Number 12.

  • Get out.

  • I would have voted for Obama for 1/3 term if I could.

  • Best President.

  • My lifetime handstand.

  • It's by no means the first movie to blend horror with dark comedy and satire, but it makes us think about current racial and social tensions in ways we never anticipated.

  • And in doing so, it attains heights rarely seen within the Shara.

  • And this all comes from the mind of a former mad TV cast member.

  • No well, writer director Jordan Peele has always been a great talent.

  • The 2010 saw him emerges, one of the decades defining voices seamlessly mixing homage with original concepts.

  • Peel should remain every bit is prominent in the 2000 twenties and beyond, but for now his debut feature is his magnum opus.

  • My Boy Chris has been missing for two days.

  • Your son is missing.

  • Oh no, no, no, Not my son, My friend.

  • 26.

  • Number 11.

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Mixing science fiction and romance, this Michelle Gondry film is a departure for Funny Man Jim Carey, whose performance was widely hailed as one of the best of its time alongside Kate Winslet.

  • Another accomplished, thus being taking on a challenging role.

  • You know, I'm a stalker or anything, right?

  • Stalker?

  • You're the one that talked to me.

  • Remember, that is the oldest trick in the stalker book.

  • The movie is a refreshing delight that naps the Oscar for best original screenplay after discovering his former love has deleted him from her memory through a new an advanced procedure.

  • Protagonist Joel Barish sets out to do the same, but he soon has second thoughts.

  • You're racing for May.

  • You're raising a doctor's attempt to chase down all memories of jewels love we enter the frightened labyrinth of his mind.

  • Oh, this is number 10.

  • No country for old men picking up on the themes of their previous films.

  • The Coen brothers faithfully adapt this Cormack McCarthy novel.

  • I Got It Under Control.

  • When a man finds a mother lode of cash after a drug deal goes sour, he becomes the target of a compassion lis assassin.

  • We watches this monosyllabic hitman plows through all that gets in his way as he hunts the money down with you going and I don't have the money.

  • You can't touch me, but I can sure touch you.

  • It's an Academy Award winning case of Cat and Mouse, masterfully executed at the hands of the Coen brothers, which they later followed, with the also astonishing but quite different inside Llewyn Davis number nine, Hereditary this decade was, Ah, horror Renaissance.

  • But no other movie disturbed us to the core, quite like hereditary.

  • A supernatural horror drama such as this easily could have come out in the late sixties or seventies, drawing parallels to classics like Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen.

  • I wish I could shield you from the knowledge that you did what you did, but your sister is dead at the same time.

  • Hereditary still feels like a product of the 2000 ten's.

  • Touching upon mental health and trauma with a modern sensibility, Toni Collette dominates the screen as a woman who's either being torn apart by an evil presence or the madness within.

  • Whereas so many other horror films literally jump out at the audience, director Ari Astor lures us in with a tense foreshadowing and subtle scares, leaving as completely unprepared when insanity takes over.

  • Number eight Mulholland Drive.

  • I hope that I never see that face ever outside of a dream.

  • Another filmmaker you can always guarantee, is going to serve up something unique.

  • Is David Lynch being mind behind so many provocative, interesting and bizarre offerings like a razor head?

  • Many might have expected his movie about a car crash.

  • Victims suffering from amnesia to be a little, well, weird.

  • There was an accident.

  • Wouldn't tell me anything else.

  • But that was your accident.

  • Rita.

  • I just know it.

  • Waas and Mulholland Drive delivers in the best possible way.

  • There are time shifts, character shifts, dream sequences, weird psychological hallucinations, you name it.

  • And as with so much of his of Mulholland Drive, is something to be experienced rather than fully understood.

  • And if you do fully understand it?

  • Well, maybe you can explain it to the rest of us.

  • Number seven Lost in Translation.

  • One of the most layered in subtle movies on our list, this Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson Drama de definitely explores themes of loneliness and cultural isolation as their characters Bob in Charlotte decades apart in age meet cute as they both visit Tokyo.

  • What did you study?

  • Philosophy.

  • It was a good fucking that.

  • And as each of them is tackling their own existential confusion, they help each other understand what they each want from life.

  • The more you know you are and what you want, the less they like.

  • Not only is Sofia Coppola's work beautiful to look at, it's also an example of intricate filmmaking that prioritizes the emotional journey over flashiness, a quality and films that can be difficult to find.

  • Plus, it gets bonus points, for it's ambiguous and intriguing.

  • Ending Number six Moonlight Moonlight signified a major shift in Hollywood, both for indie filmmaking and representation.

  • The word diversity has been thrown around a lot during the early 21st century, and for good reason.

  • Some point you gotta decide for yourself where as many movies are obvious and how they address race, gender and sexuality, though nothing has ever spelled out in Moonlight.

  • How much?

  • Little Right to Row, That's it.

  • You know what you're gonna do.

  • This best picture winning drama requires its audience toe look closer, making them see that there are multiple sides to every human being.

  • A drug dealer can actually be an affectionate father figure.

  • A juvenile delinquent can actually be a scared little boy trying to survive in a nun accepting world.

  • Everyone is forced to fit the mold they were born into.

  • Through love and understanding.

  • However, our protagonist may come to embrace his true identity.

  • Number five.

  • The Lord of the Rings.

  • The Return of the King Completing the Iconic trilogy initiated back in 2001 Peter Jackson's opus.

  • The Return of the King splits its epically long run time between Aragorn and his men.

  • Battling surrounds Army and photos Journey to Mount Doom to destroy the one ring.

  • Don't wait.

  • Thanks to these two running plots, we get a heady mix of heavy violence and delicate storytelling that's been called one of cinema's great achievements by closely mirroring J.

  • R R.

  • Tolkien's stirring and beloved novel, This movie gives Fanboys and fan girls something to shout about.

  • The academy was equally impressed, awarding the picture a record tying 11 Oscars.

  • My Friends Number four, Mad Max Fury Road.

  • In today's blockbuster landscape audiences, they're used to seeing movies with excessive CG I overly complicated plots and repetitive action fury.

  • Road is the complete opposite, emphasising practical effects and stunts.

  • Keeping the story is simple.

  • It's possible, and putting so much thought into the composition of the action that individual stills could hang in a museum.

  • While not exactly a sequel or a reboot, Fury Road takes the best aspects from George Miller's previous Mad Max films and pushes them into overdrive.

  • The best way to describe the film is the climactic chase of the Road Warrior, sustained for two hours.

  • Although that sounds incredibly straightforward, the film's emotive characters, inventive production values and high octane directions set a new standard for the genre.

  • If you can't fix what's broken you, you go and say number three.

  • There will be Blood brought to us by Paul Thomas Anderson.

  • This drama follows prospector Daniel Plainview as he builds his empire during the Southern California oil boom.

  • If we decide to drill for oil and if the well begins to produce, I'll give your church of $5000 signing 10,000.

  • You want to find someone else that's gonna come up here and drill Eli, make the investment.

  • It'll the hard work that goes into it well, he's met with many speed bumps along the way.

  • It's watching Daniel Day Lewis portray the characters descent into greed and madness at the cost of all else that makes it a truly gripping watch.

  • And for another stunningly gripping psychological drama, check out Anderson's 2012 The Master with Joaquin Phoenix.

  • Both the character and Anderson's films are unyielding and ambitious, and both helped win Day Lewis, his second Oscar for best actor.

  • I Drink Your milkshake, I drink It up.

  • Number two.

  • The Dark Knight I believe whatever doesn't kill you.

  • Proving that superhero movies don't need to be filled with spandex and cheesy send off lines, Christopher Nolan's second Batman film redefined the Jarrah and impressed both comic book fans and the general public alike Life to chance.

  • Not exactly a dark, twisted and deeper than the franchises previous entry and as dark twisted and deepest, Nolan's later epic inception.

  • The story follows the Caped Crusader as he faces off against the infamous Joker, played by an electric Heath Ledger.

  • You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense off self righteousness.

  • The Ledger passed away before the film's release.

  • He was awarded a posthumous Oscar for his work, which helps give Batman Story a gritty and realistic spin.

  • I don't want to kill you.

  • What would I do without you?

  • So has your favorite movie of the 21st century so far made our list yet?

  • If not, it could be a number one.

  • I'll give you a clue.

  • It's based on a true story.

  • It's written by a very talented screenwriter.

  • It's directed by a popular director, and the casting is top notch.

  • Think you've got it all figured out?

  • Let's see the honorable mentions and then we'll find out if you're right.

  • Ron, where are you?

  • I'm in a glass gaze of emotion.

  • Now might be a really good time for you to get angry.

  • That's my secret.

  • I'm always in.

  • You continue to find you interrupted me.

  • I wasn't done yet.

  • Finished.

  • Do you believe in time travel?

  • Who were you talking to?

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  • Number one.

  • The Social Network.

  • When the Social Network hit theaters, Facebook was still a relatively new phenomenon jumped 10 years later, and it is impossible to imagine the world without the social media platform.

  • Cameron.

  • I'm still a little skeptical.

  • We have enough functionality in the site to really draw the attention and gain the critical mass necessary to get a site like this to run together.

  • Director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin shape the story of Mark Zuckerberg into a modern Shakespearean drama.

  • You have part of my attention.

  • You have the minimum amount.

  • The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually creatively capable of doing.

  • The question is whether this is a story of triumph for tragedy.

  • It's hard to say, since Facebook story is far from over, but this film depicts a legendary origin story that was relevant in 2010 and remains very much a part of the zeitgeist.

  • After a decade drop, the the Just Facebook expertly crafted, brilliantly written, flawlessly acted in timely while also being timeless.

  • We can't think of a better film to represent the past decade of cinema.

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