TROPICAL MALADY Apichatpong Weerasethakulġ0. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND Michel Gondryĩ. THERE WILL BE BLOOD Paul Thomas Andersonħ. The 10 Most Acclaimed Films of the 21st Centuryĥ. Wong Kar-wai still remains the most acclaimed director, though. Courtesy of Tenet, Christopher Nolan now has the most films in the top 1,000. The biggest climber within the Top-250 was Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The biggest climber within the Top-1000 was Pedro Costa's Vitalina Varela, which featured in many of the end-of-decade ballots added throughout 2020. The highest entrant was Kelly Reichardt's First Cow. In the Mood for Love is once again this year's number one, as it has been since the first listing in 2008, however, there is now only a small number of points separating it from David Lynch's second-placed Mulholland Dr. Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann was the biggest climber within the top-50, and is now in striking distance of the top-10. In summary, a total of 60 films came and went, including 36 entrants from 20. Despite this, there was some cracking films released, and many of those have made their way into this year's edition.

Well, it was certainly a challenging year for cinema in 2020, and 2021 doesn't appear to be any less so. It has been compiled from the multiple lists/ballots of 3,806 critics/sources. It contains, based on TSPDT's calculations, the 1,000 leading films (critically-speaking) from 2000 to 2020. The 21st Century’s Most Acclaimed Films is an annually updated amalgamation of critics' end-of-year, end-of-decade, all-time, and miscellaneous lists/ballots relating to films released from 2000 onwards. NEW The full starting list of 8,696 21st Century films can now be viewed online as a sortable table.

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