Annual Top Tens: 2000s (grouped by year of premiere; very much a work in progress)

2009

ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL (Manoel de Oliveira)
PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann)
THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (Steven Soderbergh)
SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
LOURDES (Jessica Hausner)
BLUEBEARD (Catherine Breillat)
THE LIMITS OF CONTROL (Jim Jarmusch)
THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (Radu Jude)
THE PORTUGUESE NUN (Eugene Green)
VINCERE (Marco Bellocchio)

The Taking of Pelham 123 (Tony Scott); Gamer (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor); They All Lie (Matias Pineiro); Vengeance (Johnnie To); Yatterman (Takashi Miike)

2008

TOKYO SONATA (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
GRAN TORINO (Clint Eastwood)
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (Steven Spielberg)
JERICHOW (Christian Petzold)
24 CITY (Jia Zhangke)
SPARROW (Johnnie To)
NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo)
35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis)
TWO LOVERS (James Gray)
LOVE EXPOSURE (Sion Sono)

Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt); Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda); Changeling (Clint Eastwood); Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso); Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh).

2007

ZODIAC (David Fincher)
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (Francis Ford Coppola)
DON'T TOUCH THE AXE! (Jacques Rivette)
FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
WE OWN THE NIGHT (James Gray)
SECRET SUNSHINE (Lee Chang-dong)
YELLA (Christian Petzold)
AFTERNOON (Angela Schanelec)
THE ROMANCE OF ASTREA AND CELADON (Eric Rohmer)
UNRELATED (Joanna Hogg)

Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg); Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas); The Walker (Paul Schrader); Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant); 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu).

2006

DEJA VU (Tony Scott)
MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann)
RETRIBUTION (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang)
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (Clint Eastwood)
STILL LIFE (Jia Zhang-ke)
EXILED (Johnnie To)
LADY IN THE WATER (M. Night Shyamalan)
SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
COLOSSAL YOUTH (Pedro Costa)

Election 2 (Johnnie To); Belle Toujours (Manoel de Oliviera); Fantasma (Lisandro Alonso); Paprika (Satoshi Kon); The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma).

2005

WAR OF THE WORLDS (Steven Spielberg)
LOFT (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
HAZE (Shinya Tsukamoto)
DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST (Paul Schrader)
LAND OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang)
ELECTION (Johnnie To)
THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick)
MORTUARY (Tobe Hooper)
BUBBLE (Steven Soderbergh)

Last Days (Gus Van Sant); Ghosts (Christian Petzold); Munich (Steven Spielberg); A History of Violence (David Cronenberg); Two Drifters (Joao Pedro Rodrigues).

2004

THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke)
TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
THE VILLAGE (M. Night Shyamalan)
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (Clint Eastwood)
VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh)
WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Hong Sang-soo)
THE AVIATOR (Martin Scorsese)
COLLATERAL (Michael Mann)
MARSEILLE (Angela Schanelec)
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry)

L'intrus (Claire Denis); Throw Down (Johnnie To); The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme); Breaking News (Johnnie To); Vital (Shinya Tsukamoto).

2003

GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
THE STORY OF MARIE AND JULIEN (Jacques Rivette)
THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (The Wachowskis)
MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho)
THAT DAY (Raul Ruiz)
BASIC (John McTiernan)
PTU (Johnnie To)
WOLFSBURG (Christian Petzold)
THE MATRIX RELOADED (The Wachowskis)
ELEPHANT (Gus Van Sant)

One Missed Call (Takashi Miike); Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola); Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano); Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa); The Magic Gloves (Martin Rejtman).

2002

SIGNS (M. Night Shyamalan)
BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma)
OASIS (Lee Chang-dong)
VENDREDI SOIR (Claire Denis)
SOLARIS (Steven Soderbergh)
MINORITY REPORT (Steven Spielberg)
ALL OR NOTHING (Mike Leigh)
THE SON (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke)

Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson); Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay); My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Johnnie To); Blood Work (Clint Eastwood); Waiting For Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako)

2001

PULSE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang)
SPIRITED AWAY (Hayao Miyazaki)
MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
ALI (Michael Mann)
GHOSTS OF MARS (John Carpenter)
SOMETHING TO REMIND ME (Christian Petzold)
'R XMAS (Abel Ferrara)
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (David Lynch)

The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti); La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso); Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon); Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota); Passing Summer (Angela Schanelec).

2000

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
YI YI (Edward Yang)
MISSION TO MARS (Brian De Palma)
THE STATE I AM IN (Christian Petzold)
MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT (Claude Chabrol)
BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee)
BROTHER (Takeshi Kitano)
UNBREAKABLE (M. Night Shyamalan)
MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Seance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa); Crocodile (Tobe Hooper); Bruiser (George A. Romero); Time and Tide (Tsui Hark); Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood); Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)