Old Blues Chapter and Verse | The Best 21st Century Films I’ve Seen: 90-81 @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
I've long believed that the first two decades of this century have been two of the weakest decades for cinema. It occurred to me not long ago to wonder what, then, might be the best films from these 20 years -- the gems in the dross, if you will. So during the pandemic, I started filling in gaps in my viewing and assembling a ranked list of the 21st century films I -- as a student of film, as an unabashed film fan and as a former Film Studies instructor -- considered the best.

Here is the link to the introductory video in this project of mine:
youtube.com/watch?v=f-zhCGB601g

Here is the link to my video covering films ranked 100-91:
youtube.com/watch?v=ooBy95-33jY&t=120s

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Booktubers mentioned herein:

Steve Donoghue:
youtube.com/user/saintdonoghue

Kelly at Books I'm Not Reading:
youtube.com/channel/UCVKWtZJ7Rl6WitFb2jcnlnQ

Lukas at A Cruel Reader's Thesis:
youtube.com/channel/UCUboZP1VriVO2aYVBexY5rw

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Link to my video on Patrice Leconte's The Widow of Saint-Pierre:
youtube.com/watch?v=CLbknq6ku9E&t=1s

Link to an article discussing the plagiarism scandal surrounding The Shape of Water:
time.com/5170613/shape-of-water-plagiarism-controversy

Films discussed in this video:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (dir: Steven Spielberg)
Apocalypto (dir: Mel Gibson)
Batman Begins (dir: Christopher Nolan)
Blood Diamond (dir: Ed Zwick)
Drive (dir: Nicolas Winding Refn)
Gravity (dir: Alfonso Cuaron)
Heaven (dir: Tom Tykwer)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (dirs: Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Shape of Water (dir: Guillermo del Toro)
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (dir: Patrice Leconte)