2000

Film Decades: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• 101 Reykjavík – directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, & Hanna María Karlsdóttir – Iceland
• 102 Dalmatians – directed by Kevin Lima, starring Glenn Close, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Evans, Tim McInnerny, & Gérard Depardieu
• 28 Days – directed by Betty Thomas, starring Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi, & Diane Ladd.
• The 6th Day – directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker, Sarah Wynter, & Robert Duvall
• A Better Way to Die, directed by Scott Wiper, starring Andre Braugher, Scott Wiper, Jack Conley, and Carmen Argenziano
• Across the Line – directed by Martin Spottl, starring Brad Johnson, Sigal Erez, Brian Bloom, Adrienne Barbeau, & J.C. Quinn
• Adanggaman, directed by Roger Gnoan M’Bala, starring Rasmané Ouédraogo – Ivory Coast/Burkina Faso/Switzerland/Italy/France
• Adventures in Wild California, documentary film, directed by Greg MacGillivray, narrated by Jimmy Smits
• The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle – directed by Des McAnuff, starring June Foray, Keith Scott, Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Randy Quaid, Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Piper Perabo, Robert De Niro, John Goodman
• Ali Zaoua, directed by Nabil Ayouch, starring Saïd Taghmaoui – Morocco
• All the Pretty Horses – directed by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon & Penélope Cruz
• Almost Famous – directed by Cameron Crowe, starring Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit, Jason Lee, Anna Paquin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Frances McDormand
• American Psycho – directed by Mary Harron, starring Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, & Willem Dafoe
• Amores perros (Love’s a Bitch) – directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, starring Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, & Adriana Barraza – Mexico
• Animal Factory – directed by Steve Buscemi, starring Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Tom Arnold, & Mickey Rourke
• The Art of War, directed by Christian Duguay, starring Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Marie Matiko, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Biehn, and Donald Sutherland
• Autumn in New York – directed by Joan Chen, starring Richard Gere, & Winona Ryder
• Baise-moi, directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, starring Karen Lancaume, and Raffaëla Anderson – France
• Bait – directed by Antoine Fuqua, starring Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Doug Hutchinson, Kimberly Elise, David Paymer, Mike Epps, Robert Pastorelli, & Jamie Kennedy
• Baller Blockin’ – directed by Steven Esteb, starring B.G., Birdman, Jeanette Branch, Juvenile, Jerry Katz, Terence Rosemore, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Turk, Shawanna Washington, & Lil Wayne
• Bang Rajan – directed by Tanit Jitnukul, starring Winai Kraibutr, Jaran Ngamdee, & Bongkoj Khongmalai – Thailand
• Battle Royale – directed by Kinji Fukasaku, starring Takeshi Kitano – Japan
• Battlefield Earth – directed by Roger Christian, starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, Richard Tyson, & Sabine Karsenti
• The Beach – directed by Danny Boyle, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, & Robert Carlyle
• Beautiful – directed by Sally Field, starring Minnie Driver, Joey Lauren Adams, & Kathleen Turner
• Bedazzled* – directed by Harold Ramis, starring Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, & Frances O’Connor
• Before Night Falls, directed by Julian Schnabel, starring Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, & Sean Bean
• The Bench – directed by Per Fly, starring Jesper Christensen – Denmark
• Best in Show – directed by and starring Christopher Guest, with Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Jane Lynch & Parker Posey
• Big Momma’s House, directed by Raja Gosnell, starring Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Terrence Howard, & Paul Giamatti
• Billy Elliot – directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Jamie Bell & Julie Walters – UK
• Bless the Child – directed by Chuck Russell, starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Angela Bettis, Rufus Sewell, Christina Ricci, & Holliston Coleman
• Blue’s Big Musical Movie, directed by Todd Kessler, starring Steven Burns, Traci Paige Johnson, and Ray Charles
• Boiler Room, starring Vin Diesel and Giovanni Ribisi
• Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, directed by Joe Berlinger
• Bootmen, starring Adam Garcia and Sam Worthington
• Bounce – tarring Ben Affleck & Gwyneth Paltrow
• Boys and Girls
• Bring it On* – directed by Peyton Reed, starring Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union, & Eliza Dushku
• The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, starring Timothy Olyphant, Zach Braff, John Mahoney, Nia Long, & Mary McCormack
• Brother – directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano
• La Captive, directed by Chantal Akerman – France/Belgium
• Cast Away* – directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks & Helen Hunt
• Cecil B. Demented – directed by John Waters, starring Melanie Griffith & Stephen Dorff
• The Cell – directed by Tarsem Singh, starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D’Onofrio
• Center Stage – film debut of Zoe Saldana
• The Chaos Factor, starring Antonio Sabàto Jr., Fred Ward, Kelly Rutherford, R. Lee Ermey
• Charlie’s Angels – directed by McG starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, & Bill Murray
• Chicken Run* – directed by Peter Lord & Nick Park with the voices of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Timothy Spall, & Miranda Richardson
• Chocolat – directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench, Leslie Caron
• Chopper, starring Eric Bana
• The Circle – directed by Jafar Panahi – Iran/Italy/Switzerland
• Circus – starring John Hannah, Famke Janssen, Fred Ward, Peter Stormare, Tiny Lister, Amanda Donohoe, Eddie Izzard
• The Claim – directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Sarah Polley, Peter Mullan, & Nastassja Kinski
• Code Unknown, directed by Michael Haneke, starring Juliette Binoche – France/Germany/Romania
• Coming Out – directed by Kim Jee-woon – short – South Korea
• La comunidad, starring Carmen Maura – Spain
• The Contender – starring Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, & Christian Slater
• Coyote Ugly – starring Piper Perabo, Maria Bello, Tyra Banks, & John Goodman
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* – directed by Ang Lee – starring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, & Zhang Ziyi – Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/US
• The Crow: Salvation, starring Kirsten Dunst, Eric Mabius, Fred Ward
• Dancer in the Dark – directed by Lars von Trier, starring Björk, Peter Stormare, & David Morse
• The Day I Became a Woman – Iran
• Devils on the Doorstep – directed by Jiang Wen – China
• Digimon: The Movie – Japan
• Dinosaur, directed by Ralph Zondag & Eric Leighton, with the voices of D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, & Samuel E. Wright
• Ditto – South Korea
• Divided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat) Czech Republic
• Djomeh – Iran
• Down to You, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles
• Dr. T & the Women – directed by Robert Altman, starring Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Kate Hudson, & Liv Tyler
• Dracula 2000, starring Gerard Butler and Christopher Plummer
• Dude, Where’s My Car?* – starring Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, & Jennifer Garner
• Duets, directed by Bruce Paltrow, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Maria Bello, Paul Giamatti and Huey Lewis
• Dungeons & Dragons – starring Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch, Marlon Wayans
• Durian Durian – directed by Fruit Chan – Hong Kong
• El Bola (Pellet) – Spain
• The Emperor’s New Groove* – directed by Mark Dindal with the voices of David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton
• Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
• Erin Brockovich – directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Julia Roberts, Aaron Eckhart, & Albert Finney
• Escaflowne: The Movie – Japan
• VeggieTales: Esther, the Girl Who Would Be Queen
• An Everlasting Piece – directed by Barry Levinson, starring Barry McEvoy & Billy Connolly
• Faat Kiné – directed by Ousmane Sembène – Senegal
• Face – directed by Junji Sakamoto – Japan
• The Family Man – directed by Brett Ratner, starring Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, & Don Cheadle
• Final Destination, directed by James Wong, starring Devon Sawa, Ali Larter and Seann William Scott
• Finding Forrester- directed by Gus Van Sant – starring Sean Connery, Rob Brown, Anna Paquin, & F. Murray Abraham
• For All Time
• For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, starring Andy García
• Forbidden Fruit
• The Foul King – directed by Kim Jee-woon – South Korea
• Frequency, starring Dennis Quaid
• Gangster No. 1 – starring Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany, & David Thewlis
• Get Carter – directed by Stephen Kay, starring Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Mickey Rourke, & Michael Caine
• The Gift – directed by Sam Raimi, starring Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank, Greg Kinnear, & Keanu Reeves
• Ginger Snaps
• The Girl
• Girlfight, starring Michelle Rodriguez
• Gladiator – directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Harris, & Oliver Reed
• Godzilla vs. Megaguirus – Japan
• The Golden Bowl
• Gone in 60 Seconds – directed by Dominic Sena, starring Nicolas Cage, Christopher Eccleston, Robert Duvall, & Angelina Jolie
• Gossip, starring James Marsden
• Greenfingers, starring Clive Owen and Helen Mirren
• Gun Shy, starring Liam Neeson
• Hanging Up – directed by and starring Diane Keaton, with Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, & Walter Matthau
• Happy Accidents – directed by Brad Anderson – starring Marisa Tomei & Vincent D’Onofrio
• Happy Times – directed by Zhang Yimou – China
• Help! I’m a Fish
• Here on Earth, starring Chris Klein and Josh Hartnett
• High Fidelity – directed by Stephen Frears – starring John Cusack, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, Iben Hjejle, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lisa Bonet Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins
• Highlander: Endgame – starring Adrian Paul & Christopher Lambert
• Hollow Man, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, and Josh Brolin
• The House of Mirth – directed by Terence Davies, starring Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Laura Linney, & Dan Aykroyd
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas* – directed by Ron Howard, starring Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Molly Shannon, & Taylor Momsen
• How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog, starring Kenneth Branagh and Robin Wright
• Il Mare
• In the Mood for Love – directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung
• The Irrefutable Truth about Demons
• The Isle
• Italian for Beginners, directed by Lone Scherfig
• Ivans Xtc, directed by Bernard Rose, starring Danny Huston and Peter Weller
• Joint Security Area – directed by Park Chan-wook – South Korea
• Keeping the Faith – directed by and starring Edward Norton, with Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Eli Wallach, Miloš Forman
• The Kid, starring Bruce Willis, Lily Tomlin, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer
• King George and the Ducky
• The Last Producer – directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, with Rod Steiger, Ann-Margret, Sean Astin, Charles Durning
• The Legend of Bagger Vance – directed by Robert Redford, starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, & Jack Lemmon (uncredited)
• Little Nicky – directed by Steven Brill, starring Adam Sandler, Rhys Ifans, Harvey Keitel, Patricia Arquette, & Rodney Dangerfield
• The Little Vampire, starring Jonathan Lipnicki and Richard E. Grant
• Loser, directed by Amy Heckerling, starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Dan Aykroyd, & Greg Kinnear
• Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Alicia Silverstone, Emily Mortimer, Natascha McElhone, & Nathan Lane
• Love & Basketball, starring Omar Epps
• The Man Who Cried – directed by Sally Potter, starring Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton, & John Turturro
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• Me, Myself & Irene – directed by Bobby & Peter Farrelly, starring Jim Carrey & Renée Zellweger
• Meet the Parents – directed by Jay Roach, starring Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, & Owen Wilson
• Memento – directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, & Joe Pantoliano
• Men of Honor – starring Robert De Niro & Cuba Gooding Jr.
• Mercy Streets, starring Eric Roberts
• The Million Dollar Hotel – directed by Wim Wenders, starring Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Peter Stormare, & Mel Gibson
• Miss Congeniality – starring Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, & William Shatner
• Mission: Impossible 2 – directed by John Woo, starring Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, & Anthony Hopkins
• Mission to Mars – directed Brian De Palma, starring Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, & Gary Sinise
• Mr. Accident
• My Dog Skip, starring Diane Lane and Kevin Bacon
• The New Country
• The Next Best Thing, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Madonna, Rupert Everett and Neil Patrick Harris
• Next Friday, starring Ice Cube
• No Quarto da Vanda – Portugal
• Nothin’ 2 Lose
• Nurse Betty, directed by Neil LaBute, starring Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Greg Kinnear
• Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, starring Eddie Murphy and Janet Jackson
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? – directed by Joel & Ethan Coen, starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Holly Hunter, John Goodman
• The Original Kings of Comedy – directed by Spike Lee, starring Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, & Bernie Mac – documentary
• Our Song, starring Kerry Washington
• Panic – starring William H. Macy
• The Patriot – directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Tchéky Karyo, René Auberjonois, & Tom Wilkinson
• Pay It Forward, directed by Mimi Leder, starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment
• Peppermint Candy, directed by Lee Chang-dong
• The Perfect Storm – directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring George Clooney, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, & Mark Wahlberg
• Pitch Black – directed by David Twohy, starring Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, & Keith David
• Pokémon: The Movie 2000* – Japan
• Pollock, directed by and starring Ed Harris, with Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, & Val Kilmer
• The Price of Milk, starring Karl Urban
• Prince of Central Park – starring Kathleen Turner, Danny Aiello, Harvey Keitel
• The Princess and the Warrior (Der Krieger und die Kaiserin) – directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Franka Potente – Germany
• Princes et princesses
• Proof of Life – directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Russell Crowe & Meg Ryan
• Psycho Beach Party, starring Lauren Ambrose
• Purely Belter, directed by Mark Herman
• Quills – directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine, & Joaquin Phoenix
• Ready to Rumble – starring David Arquette, Scott Caan, Oliver Platt, Joe Pantoliano, Rose McGowan, & Martin Landau
• Red Planet, starring Val Kilmer and Carrie-Anne Moss
• Relative Values, starring Julie Andrews and Colin Firth
• Remember the Titans – starring Denzel Washington, Will Patton
• The Replacements* – directed by Howard Deutch, starring Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton, Orlando Jones, Rhys Ifans, Jon Favreau, & Jack Warden
• Requiem for a Dream – directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Jennifer Connelly, Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald, & Ellen Burstyn
• Return to Me, starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver
• The Road to El Dorado – directed by Bibo Bergeron & Don Paul, with the voices of Kenneth Branagh & Kevin Kline
• Road Trip, directed by Todd Phillips, starring Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Tom Green, Fred Ward and Seann William Scott
• Le Roi Danse (The King is Dancing)
• Romeo Must Die, starring Jet Li and Aaliyah
• Rugrats in Paris: The Movie*
• Rules of Engagement – directed by William Friedkin, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, & Ben Kingsley
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• Scary Movie, directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, starring Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans
• Scream 3 – directed by Wes Craven, starring Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Patrick Dempsey, & Courteney Cox
• Seventeen Again, starring Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry – TV movie
• Sexy Beast – directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, & Ben Kingsley – UK
• Shadow of the Vampire – starring John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Cary Elwes, & Eddie Izzard
• Shaft – directed by John Singleton, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christian Bale, Jeffrey Wright, & Richard Roundtree
• Shanghai Noon – starring Jackie Chan & Owen Wilson
• The Skulls
• Small Time Crooks – directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Tracey Ullman, Jon Lovitz, & Hugh Grant
• The Smokers
• Snatch – directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro, Jason Statham, & Dennis Farina
• Some Voices
• Songcatcher, starring Janet McTeer
• Souls Protest
• Space Cowboys – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, & James Garner
• The Specials – directed by Craig Mazin, starring Thomas Haden Church, James Gunn, Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy, Judy Greer, Sean Gunn, Paget Brewster, Jordan Ladd, Jim Zulevic, & Kelly Coffield
• State and Main – directed by David Mamet, starring William H. Macy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin, Julia Stiles, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rebecca Pidgeon, David Paymer, Patti LuPone, Clark Gregg, & Charles Durning
• Subconscious Cruelty
• Supernova, directed by Walter Hill, starring James Spader and Angela Bassett
• The Tao of Steve, starring Donal Logue
• Terror Tract
• Thirteen Days – starring Kevin Costner & Bruce Greenwood
• Thomas and the Magic Railroad – directed by Britt Allcroft, starring Alec Baldwin, Peter Fonda, Didi Conn, Mara Wilson
• The Three Stooges – TV movie
• Tigerland – directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Colin Farrell
• The Tigger Movie
• Timbrels and Torahs
• Time of Favor
• Timecode – directed by Mike Figgis, Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kyle MacLachlan, Saffron Burrows, & Holly Hunter
• Titan A.E.* – directed by Don Bluth & Gary Goldman with the voices of Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Nathan Lane, & Bill Pullman
• Traffic – directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle, Dennis Quaid, & Benicio del Toro
• Tripfall
• Turn It Up
• U-571 – directed by Jonathan Mostow, starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Jon Bon Jovi, & Harvey Keitel
• Unbreakable – directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, & Robin Wright
• Up at the Villa – starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne Bancroft, & Sean Penn
• Urban Legends: Final Cut
• Vatel – directed by Roland Joffé, starring Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, & Tim Roth
• Vertical Limit, directed by Martin Campbell, starring Chris O’Donnell, Bill Paxton and Robin Tunney
• The Virgin Suicides – directed by Sofia Coppola, starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, AJ Cook, Josh Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Michael Paré, & Danny DeVito
• The Visit
• The Watcher – directed by Joe Charbanic, starring James Spader, Marisa Tomei, Keanu Reeves, & Ernie Hudson
• The Way of the Gun, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, & James Caan
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• What Lies Beneath – directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michelle Pfeiffer & Harrison Ford
• What Planet Are You From? – directed by Mike Nichols, starring Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, John Goodman, Greg Kinnear, Linda Fiorentino, & Ben Kingsley
• What Women Want – directed by Nancy Meyers, starring Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, & Alan Alda
• Whipped, starring Amanda Peet
• The Whole Nine Yards – directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, & Michael Clarke Duncan
• Wonder Boys – directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Robert Downey Jr.
• X-Men* – directed by Bryan Singer – starring Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, & Ian McKellen
• Yi Yi, directed by Edward Yang

Film Decades: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009