2002

Film Decades: 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)

• 11’09″01 September 11 – directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Youssef Chahine, Danis Tanović, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Ken Loach, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Amos Gitai, Mira Nair, Sean Penn, & Shōhei Imamura – anthology
• 13 Moons – directed by Alexandre Rockwell, starring Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Beals, Peter Dinklage, Peter Stormare
• 24 Hour Party People – directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan – UK
• 25th Hour – directed by Spike Lee, starring Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, & Anna Paquin
• 28 Days Later – directed by Danny Boyle, starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, & Brendan Gleeson – UK
• 6 Angels – Japan
• 8 Mile* – directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer
• 8 Women – starring Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart – France
• Aankhen (Eyes), starring Amitabh Bachchan – (India)
• About a Boy – directed by Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz, starring Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, & Rachel Weisz
• Ada Apa dengan Cinta? (What’s Up with Love?) – (Indonesia)
• Adaptation – directed by Spike Jonze, written by Charlie Kaufman, starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, & Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Addicted (Jungdok), starring Lee Byung-hun – (South Korea)
• The Adversary (L’adversaire), starring Daniel Auteuil – (France)
• Alice
• Ali G Indahouse – starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Charles Dance, Michael Gambon, & Martin Freeman – UK
• All or Nothing, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, James Corden, Ruth Sheen, Marion Bailey, Paul Jessen, Sam Kelly, Kathryn Hunter, & Sally Hawkins – UK
• Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony – (South Africa/US)
• Amar te duele (Loving You Hurts) – (Mexico)
• Amen., directed by Costa-Gavras – (Germany/France/Romania)
• Analyze That – directed by Harold Ramis, starring Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow
• Angel on the Right (Farishtai kitfi rost) – (Tajikistan)
• Antwone Fisher, directed by and starring Denzel Washington
• Ararat, starring Charles Aznavour and Christopher Plummer – (Canada/France)
• Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (Aro Tolbukhin: in the Mind of a Killer) – (Spain)
• Australian Rules – (Australia)
• Auto Focus, starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe
• Avenging Angelo, starring Sylvester Stallone and Madeleine Stowe
• Baader – (Germany)
• Back to Babylon (العودة إلى بابل) – (Iraq)
• Bad Company – directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Anthony Hopkins, & Chris Rock
• Bad Guy (Nabbeun namja) – (South Korea)
• Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever – starring Antonio Banderas & Lucy Liu
• Balseros (Rafters) – (Spain)
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Xiao cai feng or Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise) – (China/France)
• Bang Bang You’re Dead
• The Banger Sisters* – starring Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon, & Geoffrey Rush
• Barbershop* – starring Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, & Eve
• Bend It Like Beckham – directed by Gurinder Chadha, starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers – UK
• Beneath Clouds – (Australia)
• The Best Day of My Life (Il più bel giorno della mia vita), starring Virna Lisi – (Italy)
• Better Luck Tomorrow
• Big Fat Liar* – starring Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes, Amanda Detmer, Donald Faison, Lee Majors, Russell Hornsby, & Kenan Thompson
• Big Trouble* – directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci, Dennis Farina, Ben Foster, Zooey Deschanel, Sofia Vergara, Jason Lee
• Biggie & Tupac
• Black and White – starring Robert Carlyle and Charles Dance – Australia
• Blade II – directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman
• Blissfully Yours (Sud sanaeha), directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul – (Thailand)
• The Blood Stained Route Map (Pimudun ryakpae) – (North Korea)
• Bloody Sunday – directed by Paul Greengrass, starring James Nesbitt – Ireland
• Blue Gate Crossing (Lan se da men) – (Taiwan)
• Boat Trip, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Roger Moore
• Bolívar Soy Yo (Bolivar is Me) – (Colombia)
• El Bonaerense (The Locksmith) – (Argentina/Chile/France/Netherlands)
• Book of Love – (US)
• The Box of Life (Sunduq al-dunyâ) – (Syria)
• Broken Wings (Knafayim Shvurot) – (Israel)
• Bubba Ho-Tep* – directed by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis
• The Burial Society – (US/Canada)
• Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) – (Brazil)
• Buying the Cow, starring Jerry O’Connell
• Callas Forever, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright – (Italy/France/Spain/UK/Romania)
• Carrie – TV movie
• The Cat Returns** – Japan
• Champion – (South Korea)
• Chance – directed by and starring Amber Benson
• Chat Room
• Chen Mo and Meiting (Chen Mo he Meiting) – (China)
• Chicago* – directed by Rob Marshall, starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly
• Chinese Odyssey 2002 – starring Tony Leung – Hong Kong
• City of Ghosts, directed by and starring Matt Dillon
• City of God (Cidade de Deus) – (Brazil)
• The Clay Bird (Matir Moina), the first Bangladeshi film to be nominated for an Oscar
• The Coast Guard (Haeanseon) – (South Korea)
• Collateral Damage – directed by Andrew Davis, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo, & John Turturro
• Common Places (Lugares comunes) – (Argentina)
• Company (कम्पनी) – (India)
• The Confession (Itiraf) – (Turkey)
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, directed by George Clooney, starring Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts
• The Courtesan (Ca-bau-kan) – (Indonesia)
• Crackerjack – (Australia)
• Crazy As Hell, starring Eriq LaSalle – (US)
• The Crime of Father Amaro (El crimen del padre Amaro), starring Gael García Bernal – (Mexico)
• Cry Woman (Ku qi de nü ren) – (China)
• The Cuckoo (Kukushka) – (Russia)
• Cypher, starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu – (US)
• The Dancer Upstairs – directed by John Malkovich, starring Javier Bardem – US/Spain
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys – starring Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Jenna Malone, Jodie Foster, Vincent D’Onofrio
• Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara), directed by Hideo Nakata – (Japan)
• Darkness – starring Anna Paquin and Lena Olin – US/Spain
• Dead in a Heartbeat. starring Judge Reinhold & Penelope Ann Miller – US/Canada
• Dead or Alive: Final – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Riki Takeuchi, Show Aikawa, Maria Chen, Richard Chen, Jason Chu, Josie Ho, & Terence Yin – Japan
• Deadly Outlaw: Rekka – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Riki Takeuchi, Sonny Chiba, Ken’ichi Endō, Rikiya Yasuoka, Kazuya Nakayama, Joe Yamanaka, Mika Katsumura, Renji Ishibashi, Yuya Uchida, Lily, & Tetsuro Tanba – Japan
• Death to Smoochy – directed by Danny DeVito, starring Robin Williams, Edward Norton, DeVito, Catherine Keener, & Jon Stewart
• Deathwatch, starring Jamie Bell – (UK/Germany)
• Dekada ’70 – (Philippines)
• Devdas – (India)
• Dirty Deeds – starring Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, John Goodman – (Australia)
• Dirty Pretty Things – directed by Stephen Frears, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi López, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong, & Zlatko Buric – UK
• Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya) – (Palestine/France/Morocco/Germany)
• Dog Soldiers – directed by Neil Jordan, starring Sean Pertwee & Kevin McKidd – UK
• Dolls – directed by Takeshi Kitano – Japan
• Doing Time (keimusho no naka) – (Japan)
• Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary – (Canada)
• Drunk on Women and Poetry (Chi-hwa-seon) – (South Korea)
• Durval Discos (Durval Records) – (Brazil)
• D-Tox, starring Sylvester Stallone and – (US)
• Elsewhere – (Austria)
• Emergency Act 19 (Gimgeubjochi 19ho) – (South Korea)
• Enlightenment Guaranteed (Erleuchtung garantiert) – (Germany)
• Equilibrium – directed Kurt Wimmer, starring Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs, Angus Macfadyen, Sean Bean, Matthew Harbour, & William Fichtner
• Evelyn – starring Pierce Brosnan – Ireland
• The Eye (Gin gwai), directed by the Pang brothers – (Hong Kong/Singapore)
• Facing the Truth (At kende sandheden) – (Denmark)
• Far from Heaven – directed by Todd Haynes, starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, & Patricia Clarkson
• Fat Choi Spirit (Lik goo lik goo san nin choi), starring Andy Lau – (Hong Kong)
• Fidel
• Fine Dead Girls (Fine mrtve djevojke) – (Croatia)
• The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, starring Adam Garcia and Rosario Dawson – (US)
• Flower & Garnet – (Canada)
• The Four Feathers – directed by Shekhar Kapur, starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou, & Kate Hudson
• Frida – directed by Julie Taymor, starring Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Valeria Golino, Mía Maestro, Roger Rees, Antonio Banderas, & Edward Norton – Mexico/US/Canada
• FUBAR – Canada
• Full Frontal – directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Catherine Keener, Blair Underwood, David Duchovny, Julia Roberts, Mary McCormack, Nicky Katt, Brad Pitt, & David Hyde Pierce
• Glowing Eyes (La chatte à deux têtes) – (France)
• God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen (Ne dao bog većeg zla) – (Croatia)
• Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (Gojira tai Mekagojira) – (Japan)
• Goebbels und Geduldig – (Germany)
• The Good Girl – directed by Miguel Arteta, starring Jennifer Aniston, John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tim Blake Nelson, Zooey Deschanel, & Mike White
• The Good Thief – directed by Neil Jordan, starring Nick Nolte – UK/France/Ireland
• Graveyard of Honor – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Goro Kishitani, Narimi Arimori, Yoshiyuki Daichi, Hirotaro Honda, Harumi Inoue, Renji Ishibashi, Ryōsuke Miki, Yasukaze Motomiya, Mikio Ōsawa, Daisuke Ryu, Harumi Sone, Shun Sugata, Tetsurō Tamba, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Shingo Yamashiro, Shinji Yamashita, Rikiya Yasuoka – Japan
• The Guru – starring Jimi Mistry, Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei – UK/France/US
• He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not – starring Audrey Tautou – France
• Hero* – directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung – (China/Hong Kong
• Highway – starring Jared Leto, Jake Gyllenhaal, Selma Blair
• Home Room – (US)
• The Hours – directed by Stephen Daldry, starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, & Miranda Richardson – UK/US
• House of Fools (Dom Durakov), directed by Andrei Konchalovsky – (Russia)
• Hollywood Ending – directed by and starring Woody Allen, with George Hamilton, Téa Leoni, Debra Messing, Mark Rydell, Treat Williams, Tiffani Thiessen
• Hukkle – (Hungary)
• I Am Dina (Jeg er Dina), starring Gérard Depardieu and Maria Bonnevie – (Norway/Sweden/France/Denmark)
• I Love You (Wo ai ni), directed by Zhang Yuan – (China)
• Ice Age* – starring the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, & Denis Leary
• Igby Goes Down – directed by Burr Steers, starring Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Susan Sarandon, Amanda Peet, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, & Jared Harris
• The Importance of Being Earnest – directed by Oliver Parker, starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O’Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Massey, & Edward Fox – UK
• In America – directed by Jim Sheridan, starring Samantha Morton & Djimon Hounsou – Ireland/UK
• In the City Without Limits (En la ciudad sin límites) – (Spain)
• In This World – directed by Michael Winterbottom – UK
• Infernal Affairs – starring Tony Leung & Andy Lau – Hong Kong
• Insomnia – directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan, Nicky Katt, & Paul Dooley
• Interstate 60 – directed by Bob Gale, starring James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Amy Smart, Christopher Lloyd, Chris Cooper, Kurt Russell, & Michael J. Fox
• Intimate Stories (Historias mínimas) – (Argentina)
• InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass – Japan
• Irréversible – starring Monica Bellucci & Vincent Cassel – France
• Jason X – starring Kane Hodder
• K-9: P.I. – starring James Belushi – TV movie
• Kamchatka – (Argentina)
• The Kid Stays in the Picture, documentary on Robert Evans
• A Kind of America (Valami Amerika) – (Hungary)
• Kiss the Bride
• Kruté radosti (Cruel Joys) – (Slovakia)
• Kumamoto Stories – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Mikijirō Hira, Tōru Emori, (as Tooru Emori), Renji Ishibashi, Jinpachi Nezu, Ren Osugi, Mihoko Abe
  Noriko Aota, Ayumi Asakura, Ken’ichi Endō, Yoshio Harada, Mie Hata, Kazuki Kitamura, Naoto Takenaka, & Yutaka Yokota – video anthology – Japan
• Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
• The Laramie Project – starring Nestor Carbonell, Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi
• Last Call – starring Jeremy Irons, Neve Campbell, Sissy Spacek – US/Canada
• L’Auberge espagnole (aka Pot Luck), starring Audrey Tautou – (France)
• Laurel Canyon – starring Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale
• The Legend of Bhagat Singh – (India)
• L’homme du train (The Man on the Train), directed by Patrice Leconte – (France)
• Life Show (Sheng huo ziu) – (China)
• Light Drops (O Gotejar da Luz) – (Mozambique)
• Lilya 4-ever – (Sweden/Denmark)
• Loonies (Loenatik – De moevie) – (Netherlands)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers* – directed by Peter Jackson, starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Christopher Lee, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Brad Dourif, Karl Urban, & Andy Serkis
• Lovers’ Concerto (Yeonae soseol) – (South Korea)
• Madame Satã – (Brazil/France)
• The Magdalene Sisters, directed by Peter Mullan – (Ireland/UK)
• The Man from Elysian Fields – starring Andy García & Mick Jagger
• The Man Who Saved Christmas – starring Jason Alexander – TV movie
• The Man Without a Past – directed by Aki Kaurismäki – Finland
• Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) – (France)
• Marooned in Iraq (Gomgashtei dar Aragh) – (Iran)
• Marriage is a Crazy Thing (Gyeolhoneun michinjishida) – (South Korea)
• Marrying the Mafia (Gamuneui yeonggwang) – (South Korea)
• Mekhong Full Moon Party (Sibha kham doan sib ed) – (Thailand)
• Melinda’s World
• Men with Brooms – directed by and starring Paul Gross, with Connor Price, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Outerbridge, Kari Matchett, Molly Parker, Polly Shannon – Canada
• Minority Report* – directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Peter Stormare, Tim Blake Nelson
• The Missing Gun (Xun Qiang) – (China)
• Mondays in the Sun – starring Javier Bardem – Spain
• Moonlight Mile – starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Susan Sarandon, & Dustin Hoffman
• Morvern Callar, starring Samantha Morton – (UK)
• Mr. and Mrs. Iyer – (India)
• Murder by Numbers – directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes Bruckner, Chris Penn, R.D. Call, & Ben Chaplin
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding – directed by Joel Zwick, written by and starring Nia Vardalos
• My Four Children – (Israel)
• My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Ngo joh aan gin diy gwai) – (Hong Kong)
• My Mother’s Smile (L’ora di religione) (Il sorriso di mia madre) – (Italy)
• Names in Marble (Nimed marmortahvlil) – (Estonia)
• Narc – directed by Joe Carnahan, starring Jason Patric & Ray Liotta
• New Best Friend, starring Mia Kirshner and Taye Diggs – (US)
• The New Guy* – starring DJ Qualls, Eliza Dushku, Eddie Griffin, Zooey Deschanel, Lyle Lovett, Jerod Mixon, Parry Shen, Illeana Douglas
• Nicholas Nickleby – directed by Douglas McGrath, starring Charlie Hunnam, Nathan Lane, Jim Broadbent, Christopher Plummer, Jamie Bell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Cumming, & Timothy Spall – UK/US
• No Such Thing – directed by Hal Hartley
• Noora (The Kiss of Life) – (Iran)
• Oasis (오아시스) – (South Korea)
• Occident – (Romania)
• Ogu and Mampato in Rapa Nui – (chile)
• Old Men in New Cars (Gamle Mænd i Nye Biler) – (Denmark)
• On Line – (US)
• On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Saenghwalui balgyeon) – (South Korea)
• Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) – (Denmark)
• Orange County – directed by Jake Kasdan, starring Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, Catharine O’Hara, Jon Lithgow, Lesley Mann, Lily Tomlin, Harold Ramis, & Kevin Kline
• Den osynlige (The Invisible) – (Sweden)
• Over the Rainbow (오버 더 레인보우) – (South Korea)
• Panic Room – directed by David Fincher, starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, & Dwight Yoakam
• Personal Velocity: Three Portraits – directed by Rebecca Miller, starring Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk, John Ventimiglia, Ron Liebman, Wallace Shawn
• People I Know – starring Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Téa Leoni, & Ryan O’Neal
• Philanthropy (Filantropica) – (Romania)
• The Pianist – directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody – France/Poland/Germany/UK
• Pokémon 4Ever – Japan
• Possession – directed by Neil LaBute, starring Aaron Eckhart & Gwyneth Paltrow – US/UK
• The Powerpuff Girls Movie*
• Public Enemy (Gonggongui Jeog) – (South Korea)
• Pumpkin – directed by Anthony Abrams & Adam Larson Broder, starring Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan, Harry J. Lennix, Niña Foch, Melissa McCarthy, & Amy Adams
• Punch-Drunk Love – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Luis Guzmán, Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Pure – starring Keira Knightley – UK
• The Quiet American – starring Brendan Fraser & Michael Caine – US/Germany
• RSVP – (US)
• Raaz (Secret) – (India)
• Rabbit-Proof Fence, directed by Phillip Noyce – (Australia)
• Rachida – (Algeria)
• Real Women Have Curves – (US)
• A Red Bear (Un oso rojo) – (Argentina)
• Reign of Fire
• Resident Evil – directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, starring Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Martin Crewes, & Colin Salmon
• Respiro – starring Valeria Golino – Italy
• Returner – directed by Takashi Yamazaki, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Anne Suzuki, Goro Kishitani, & Kirin Kiki – Japan
• Ripley’s Game – starring John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone – US/UK/Italy
• Road Movie – (South Korea)
• Rose Red, starring Nancy Travis – (US)
• Russian Ark (Russkij Kovcheg), directed by Alexander Sokurov – (Russia)
• Saathiya (Life Partner) – (India)
• Salomé, directed by Carlos Saura – (Spain)
• The Salton Sea – starring Val Kilmer & Vincent D’Onofrio
• Saving My Hubby (Gudseura Geum-suna) – (South Korea)
• The Scorpion King* – directed by Chuck Russell, starring Dwayne Johnson, Kelly Hu, Grant Heslov, & Michael Clarke Duncan
• The Sea (Hafið) – (Iceland/Norway)
• Second Name (El segundo nombre) – (Spain)
• Secretary – directed by Steven Shainberg, starring James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, & Lesley Ann Warren
• Secret Things (Choses secrètes) – (France)
• Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché) – (Canada)
• Sex Is Zero (Saekjeuk shigong) – (South Korea)
• Shangri-La – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Show Aikawa, Shirō Sano, Yu Tokui, Midoriko Kimura, Hoka Kinoshita, Kogan Ashiya, Akaji Maro, Shigeru Muroi, Takashi Ebata, Yojin Hino, & Toshiki Ayata – Japan
• Showboy – (US)
• Showtime – directed by Tom Dey, starring Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, William Shatner, Pedro Damian, & Drena De Niro
• The Singles Ward – (US)
• Skinwalkers, starring Wes Studi – (US)
• The Skywalk is Gone (Tian qiao bu jian le) – (Taiwan)
• The Slaughter Rule – directed by Alex Smith & Andrew J. Smith, starring Ryan Gosling, David Morse, Clea Duvall, Kelly Lynch, & Amy Adams
• The Son (Le fils) – (Belgium/France)
• Sonny – directed by Nicolas Cage, starring James Franco, Harry Dean Stanton, Brenda Blethyn, Mena Suvari, & Josie Davis
• Spider – directed by David Cronenberg, starring Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, & Gabriel Byrne – Canada/UK
• Spider-Man – directed by Sam Raimi, starring Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson, Rosemary Harris, Elizabeth Banks, J.K. Simmons, & Bruce Campbell
• Spirit of Korean Celadon (Chongjaui noks) – (North Korea)
• Spring Subway (Kaiwang Chuntian de Ditie) – (China)
• Springtime in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) – (China)
• Spun – directed by Jonas Åkerlund, starring Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Mena Suvari, Patrick Fugit, Peter Stormare, Alexis Arquette, Deborah Harry, Rob Halford, Eric Roberts, Chloe Hunter, Nicholas Gonzalez, Brittany Murphy, & Mickey Rourke
• The Star (Zvezda) – (Russia)
• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones* – directed by George Lucas, starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, & Frank Oz
• VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas
• Steal, starring Stephen Dorff and Natasha Henstridge – (Canada/UK/France)
• Stevie – (US)
• Stolen Summer, starring Aidan Quinn – (US)
• Stones (Piedras) – (Spain)
• Suicide Club (Jisatsu Sakuru) – (Japan)
• Sunshine State – directed by John Sayles, starring Edie Falco & Angela Bassett
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance – directed by Park Chan-wook – South Korea
• Tadpole, starring Sigourney Weaver and Bebe Neuwirth – (US)
• Talk to Her – directed by Pedro Almodóvar – Spain
• Ten (Dah), directed by Abbas Kiarostami – (Iran)
• Terra incognita – (Lebanon/France)
• Timequest – (US)
• Together (He ni zai yi qi), directed by Chen Kaige – (China)
• Tomorrow La Scala! – (UK)
• The Tracker, starring David Gulpilil – (Australia)
• The Trials of Henry Kissinger – (US)
• The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) – (Japan)
• Two Men Went to War – (UK)
• Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet (ウルトラマンコスモス2 THE BLUE PLANET) – (Japan)
• The Uncertainty Principle (O Princípio da Incerteza) – (Portugal)
• Undercover Brother* – directed by Malcolm D. Lee, starring Eddie Griffin, Chris Kattan, Dave Chappelle, Aunjanue Ellis, Neil Patrick Harris, Denise Richards, Chi McBride, Gary Anthony Williams, & Billy Dee Williams
• Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao) – (China)
• Uzak (Distant) – (Turkey)
• Valentín, starring Carmen Maura – (Argentina/France/Italy/Spain)
• Van Wilder – starring Ryan Reynolds
• The Visitor – (Australia)
• Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) – (Mauritania/France)
• Walking on Water – (Australia)
• War (Voyna) – (Russia)
• The Way Home (Jibeuro) – (South Korea)
• Welcome to Collinwood – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo, starring William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell, Michael Jeter, Luis Guzmán, Patricia Clarkson, Andrew Davoli, George Clooney, Jennifer Esposito, & Gabrielle Union
• Whale Rider – starring Keisha Castle-Hughes – New Zealand/Germany
• When Maryam Spoke Out (Lamma hikyit maryam) – (Lebanon)
• Where Eskimos Live (Tam, gdzie żyją Eskimosi) – (Poland/US/UK)
• Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself – (Denmark/UK)
• Windtalkers – directed by John Woo, starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Slater
• Women in the Mirror (Kagami no onnatachi) – (Japan)
• Year of the Devil (Rok ďábla) – (Czech Republic)

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