Introduction / Films 1,000-251 / Top 250 Films (alpha) / Top 250 Films (250-1) / Top 250 Films (1-250) / Top 250 Films (by year) / Top 1,000 Films (sortable table) / Top 1,000 Films (ranking history) / Alternative Titles / Analysis / Critics / Top 100 Directors / Starting List (sortable table) / Ex-1000 / Resources & Links
Introduction to THE 21st CENTURY'S MOST ACCLAIMED FILMS
Current Version: 2026 (19th edition)
Published on February 1, 2026 (Bill Georgaris)
Current Version: 2026 (19th edition)
Published on February 1, 2026 (Bill Georgaris)
"I've become a body of films; not a man, I am all those films." - Alfred Hitchcock
Dear film and list lovers, welcome to the 19th version of the 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films.
Another year, and yet another never-ending, love-hate battle with data entry, tables, queries, macros, formulas, endless trouble-shooting, spreadsheets, copying/pasting, importing/exporting, concocting somewhat-needless rankings, correcting silly mistakes (thank you Dmytro!), pillaging from notable film websites, and other imperative human endeavours has come to a temporary close. And, what do we have to show for it? This thing, I guess. A thing of wonder, or just another stupid list? I would be as happy as Larry if you thought it was something in between.
Not sure what to make of 2025, in terms of the recent cinema I experienced. It was a mixed bag, with still so much to catch up on (Sirât, for example). Like everybody else, I was pleasantly surprised by things I saw (The Apprentice), a little underwhelmed by films that were well received (The Shrouds), justly impressed by films that deserved their widespread acclaim (The Mastermind), and experienced exactly what I expected from others (The Phoenician Scheme). I guess this would pretty much sum up every year.
Anyway, let's not dilly-dally, please read on for the fruits of our 2025 labour. I say 'our', because I refer to and include everyone that contributed something/anything to this edition. Thank you.
The Regular Spill…
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. It contains, based on TSPDT's calculations, the 1,000 leading films (critically-speaking) from 2000 to 2025. It is compiled from the same lists/ballots that are also used for assembling the 1,000 Greatest Films. Additionally, 7,329 end-of-year ballots (an average of 282 per year) from 2000-2025 have also been factored in, from 2,025 critics/filmmakers (a nice little piece of numerical symmetry there).
In terms of notable movements this year, there are 43 changes (6 less than last year) to the top 1,000, with most of the incoming films hailing from 2025 (19 of them, to be exact). There are no changes to the top-10, however, there are 2 changes to the top-100 (Blue is the Warmest Colour and First Cow replace A History of Violence and Blissfully Yours). Additionally, there are 11 changes to the top-250 (5 more than last year).
The overall starting list now encompasses 13,420 films (up from 12,504), and can be viewed here.
The 10 Most Acclaimed Films of the 21st Century
1. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE Wong Kar-wai
2. MULHOLLAND DR. David Lynch
3. YI YI Edward Yang
4. SPIRITED AWAY Hayao Miyazaki
5. THERE WILL BE BLOOD Paul Thomas Anderson
6. TROPICAL MALADY Apichatpong Weerasethakul
7. PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Céline Sciamma
8. THE TREE OF LIFE Terrence Malick
9. THE GLEANERS & I Agnès Varda
10. MOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins
Top Climbers within the 1,000
827 to 240 - Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra, 2024)
764 to 266 - Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024)
711 to 330 - Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, 2024)
991 to 643 - Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund, 2022)
703 to 370 - The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
Highest Entrants into the 1,000
111 - One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)
196 - The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025)
199 - The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025)
225 - Sinners (Ryan Coogler, 2025)
280 - It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi, 2025)
Biggest Sliders within the 1,000
684 to 887 - Challengers (Luca Guadagnino, 2024)
578 to 773 - I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024)
393 to 573 - Dahomey (Mati Diop, 2024)
549 to 722 - The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)
446 to 602 - No Other Land (Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Balla & Rachel Szor, 2024)
Biggest Sliders from the 1,000
Previously ranked 766 - Janet Planet (Annie Baker, 2023)
Previously ranked 771 - Wasp (Andrea Arnold, 2003)
Previously ranked 808 - The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams, 2023)
Previously ranked 840 - L. Cohen (James Benning, 2018)
Previously ranked 867 - Stemple Pass (James Benning, 2012)
The Top 100 Directors only has 3 changes, but Ryan Coogler (thanks to the critical success of Sinners) is now included, and he becomes the youngest filmmaker to be listed.
Please note the new analysis page for the 21st Century's 1,000 Most Acclaimed Films. This mostly mirrors the analysis page for The 1,000 Greatest Films project. Also, the starting list page/table has been upgraded, and now loads up fairly snappily (certainly in comparison to the previous version).
TSPDT's 50 Most Critically-Acclaimed Films of 2025 (Based only on 2025 end-of-year ballots)
This year's end-of-year ballots were, primarily, sourced from Sight & Sound, Screen Slate, Film Comment, Con los Ojos Abiertos and Cahiers du Cinéma. So, thank you, for their efforts.
I have highlighted below the six films that also appeared on last year's version of this list.
1. ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Paul Thomas Anderson
2. THE MASTERMIND Kelly Reichardt
3. THE SECRET AGENT Kleber Mendonça Filho
4. SINNERS Ryan Coogler
5. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Jafar Panahi
6. SIRÂT Oliver Laxe
7. AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE Albert Serra (19th in 2024)
8. MISERICORDIA Alain Guiraudie (15th in 2024)
9. THE SHROUDS David Cronenberg
10. CAUGHT BY THE TIDES Jia Zhangke (13th in 2024)
11. IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU Mary Bronstein
12. BLUE MOON Richard Linklater
12. SENTIMENTAL VALUE Joachim Trier
14. WEAPONS Zach Cregger
15. SORRY, BABY Eva Victor
16. NOUVELLE VAGUE Richard Linklater
17. SOUND OF FALLING Mascha Schilinski
18. EDDINGTON Ari Aster
19. DRY LEAF Aleksandre Koberidze
20. CLOUD Kiyoshi Kurosawa
21. PETER HUJAR’S DAY Ira Sachs
21. RESURRECTION Bi Gan
23. NO OTHER CHOICE Park Chan-wook
24. MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW Julia Loktev
25. EEPHUS Carson Lund
25. MARTY SUPREME Josh Safdie
27. KONTINENTAL ’25 Radu Jude
27. MAGELLAN Lav Diaz
27. THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME Wes Anderson
27. YES Nadav Lapid
31. APRIL Dea Kulumbegashvili
31. THE ICE TOWER Lucile Hadzihalilovic
33. 7 WALKS WITH MARK BROWN Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré
34. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE Kathryn Bigelow
34. WITH HASAN IN GAZA Kamal Aljafari
36. GRAND TOUR Miguel Gomes (14th in 2024)
36. WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU Hong Sang-soo
38. BY THE STREAM Hong Sang-soo (37th in 2024)
39. BLACK BAG Steven Soderbergh
39. BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS Kahlil Joseph
41. HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT Alexander Horwath (32nd in 2024)
41. 28 YEARS LATER Danny Boyle
41. THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Kaouther Ben Hania
44. DRACULA Radu Jude
44. THE LOVE THAT REMAINS Hlynur Pálmason
46. FAMILIAR TOUCH Sarah Friedland
46. MIROIRS NO. 3 Christian Petzold
48. LANDMARKS Lucrecia Martel
49. INVENTION Courtney Stephens
49. THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE Mona Fastvold
A Personal Digression…
The best films I saw during the 2025 calendar year…
Released in the last three years: All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024), The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi, 2024), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023), Dahomey (Mati Diop, 2024), A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024), Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2023), Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, 2024), It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi, 2025), The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025), Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024), No Other Land (Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor, 2024), Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, 2025), One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025), One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin Macdonald, 2024), Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, 2024), Presence (Steven Soderbergh, 2024), The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024), Shifty (Adam Curtis, 2025), Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (John Grimonprez, 2024).
The best other films I saw (for the first time, or re-watched after a long period): Asparagus (Suzan Pitt, 1979), Autumn Fire (Herman G. Weinberg, 1930-33), Azor (Andreas Fontana, 2021), A Bad Son (Claude Sautet, 1980), Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980), The Big City (Satyjajit Ray, 1963), The Bitter Stems (Fernando Ayala, 1956), Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey, 1974), Broadway Melody of 1940 (Norman Taurog, 1940), The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose, 2021), Chess of the Wind (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976), The Competition (Claire Simon, 2016), The Constant Factor (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1980), Documenteur (Agnès Varda, 1981), Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967), Fantômas (Louis Feuillade, 1913-14), A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks, 1928), Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman, 1986), Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh, 1980), Hard Labour (Mike Leigh, 1973), L'Innocente (Luchino Visconti, 1976), Islands of Fire (Vittorio De Seta, 1955), Ladies of Leisure (Frank Capra, 1930), Let it Be (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970), Misère au Borinage (Joris Ivens & Henri Storck, 1933), MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard, 2020), The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956), Never Open That Door (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952), Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980), Polyester (John Waters, 1981), Queen of Diamonds (Nina Menkes, 1991), Scum (Alan Clarke, 1979), The Traveller (Abbas Kiarostami, 1974), What Price Hollywood? (George Cukor, 1932).
Plus, four more films I have enjoyed (and would recommend) from over the past month: Familiar Touch (2024, Sarah Friedland), The Secret Agent (2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho), Flow (2024, Gints Zilbalodis), and Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs, 2025).
For more of these types of 'viewing digressions' (that encompass the old and the new), I would highly recommended browsing through Screen Slate's Best Movies of 2025: First Viewings & Discoveries.
Note-: There is no intended correlation between the 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films and the 1,000 Greatest Films. The rankings for 21st Century films within the 1,000 Greatest Films do not align* with the rankings within this listing. The core difference is that this listing, as mentioned above, incorporates end-of-year critics' ballots, whereas the 1,000 Greatest Films does not.
*It should be noted, despite this, that the 16 highest-ranked 21st Century films on both lists do in fact align.
Thanks again to everyone who contributed to the compilation of this edition (and previous editions for that matter) and to everyone who has contacted me with their ongoing support. Please email your feedback (good, bad, or ugly) to bill@theyshootpictures.com.
Begin browsing the 2026 edition of The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films.
Dear film and list lovers, welcome to the 19th version of the 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films.
Another year, and yet another never-ending, love-hate battle with data entry, tables, queries, macros, formulas, endless trouble-shooting, spreadsheets, copying/pasting, importing/exporting, concocting somewhat-needless rankings, correcting silly mistakes (thank you Dmytro!), pillaging from notable film websites, and other imperative human endeavours has come to a temporary close. And, what do we have to show for it? This thing, I guess. A thing of wonder, or just another stupid list? I would be as happy as Larry if you thought it was something in between.
Not sure what to make of 2025, in terms of the recent cinema I experienced. It was a mixed bag, with still so much to catch up on (Sirât, for example). Like everybody else, I was pleasantly surprised by things I saw (The Apprentice), a little underwhelmed by films that were well received (The Shrouds), justly impressed by films that deserved their widespread acclaim (The Mastermind), and experienced exactly what I expected from others (The Phoenician Scheme). I guess this would pretty much sum up every year.
Anyway, let's not dilly-dally, please read on for the fruits of our 2025 labour. I say 'our', because I refer to and include everyone that contributed something/anything to this edition. Thank you.
The Regular Spill…
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. It contains, based on TSPDT's calculations, the 1,000 leading films (critically-speaking) from 2000 to 2025. It is compiled from the same lists/ballots that are also used for assembling the 1,000 Greatest Films. Additionally, 7,329 end-of-year ballots (an average of 282 per year) from 2000-2025 have also been factored in, from 2,025 critics/filmmakers (a nice little piece of numerical symmetry there).
In terms of notable movements this year, there are 43 changes (6 less than last year) to the top 1,000, with most of the incoming films hailing from 2025 (19 of them, to be exact). There are no changes to the top-10, however, there are 2 changes to the top-100 (Blue is the Warmest Colour and First Cow replace A History of Violence and Blissfully Yours). Additionally, there are 11 changes to the top-250 (5 more than last year).
The overall starting list now encompasses 13,420 films (up from 12,504), and can be viewed here.
The 10 Most Acclaimed Films of the 21st Century
1. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE Wong Kar-wai
2. MULHOLLAND DR. David Lynch
3. YI YI Edward Yang
4. SPIRITED AWAY Hayao Miyazaki
5. THERE WILL BE BLOOD Paul Thomas Anderson
6. TROPICAL MALADY Apichatpong Weerasethakul
7. PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Céline Sciamma
8. THE TREE OF LIFE Terrence Malick
9. THE GLEANERS & I Agnès Varda
10. MOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins
Top Climbers within the 1,000
827 to 240 - Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra, 2024)
764 to 266 - Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024)
711 to 330 - Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, 2024)
991 to 643 - Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund, 2022)
703 to 370 - The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
Highest Entrants into the 1,000
111 - One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)
196 - The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025)
199 - The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025)
225 - Sinners (Ryan Coogler, 2025)
280 - It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi, 2025)
Biggest Sliders within the 1,000
684 to 887 - Challengers (Luca Guadagnino, 2024)
578 to 773 - I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024)
393 to 573 - Dahomey (Mati Diop, 2024)
549 to 722 - The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)
446 to 602 - No Other Land (Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Balla & Rachel Szor, 2024)
Biggest Sliders from the 1,000
Previously ranked 766 - Janet Planet (Annie Baker, 2023)
Previously ranked 771 - Wasp (Andrea Arnold, 2003)
Previously ranked 808 - The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams, 2023)
Previously ranked 840 - L. Cohen (James Benning, 2018)
Previously ranked 867 - Stemple Pass (James Benning, 2012)
The Top 100 Directors only has 3 changes, but Ryan Coogler (thanks to the critical success of Sinners) is now included, and he becomes the youngest filmmaker to be listed.
Please note the new analysis page for the 21st Century's 1,000 Most Acclaimed Films. This mostly mirrors the analysis page for The 1,000 Greatest Films project. Also, the starting list page/table has been upgraded, and now loads up fairly snappily (certainly in comparison to the previous version).
TSPDT's 50 Most Critically-Acclaimed Films of 2025 (Based only on 2025 end-of-year ballots)
This year's end-of-year ballots were, primarily, sourced from Sight & Sound, Screen Slate, Film Comment, Con los Ojos Abiertos and Cahiers du Cinéma. So, thank you, for their efforts.
I have highlighted below the six films that also appeared on last year's version of this list.
1. ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Paul Thomas Anderson
2. THE MASTERMIND Kelly Reichardt
3. THE SECRET AGENT Kleber Mendonça Filho
4. SINNERS Ryan Coogler
5. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Jafar Panahi
6. SIRÂT Oliver Laxe
7. AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE Albert Serra (19th in 2024)
8. MISERICORDIA Alain Guiraudie (15th in 2024)
9. THE SHROUDS David Cronenberg
10. CAUGHT BY THE TIDES Jia Zhangke (13th in 2024)
11. IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU Mary Bronstein
12. BLUE MOON Richard Linklater
12. SENTIMENTAL VALUE Joachim Trier
14. WEAPONS Zach Cregger
15. SORRY, BABY Eva Victor
16. NOUVELLE VAGUE Richard Linklater
17. SOUND OF FALLING Mascha Schilinski
18. EDDINGTON Ari Aster
19. DRY LEAF Aleksandre Koberidze
20. CLOUD Kiyoshi Kurosawa
21. PETER HUJAR’S DAY Ira Sachs
21. RESURRECTION Bi Gan
23. NO OTHER CHOICE Park Chan-wook
24. MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW Julia Loktev
25. EEPHUS Carson Lund
25. MARTY SUPREME Josh Safdie
27. KONTINENTAL ’25 Radu Jude
27. MAGELLAN Lav Diaz
27. THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME Wes Anderson
27. YES Nadav Lapid
31. APRIL Dea Kulumbegashvili
31. THE ICE TOWER Lucile Hadzihalilovic
33. 7 WALKS WITH MARK BROWN Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré
34. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE Kathryn Bigelow
34. WITH HASAN IN GAZA Kamal Aljafari
36. GRAND TOUR Miguel Gomes (14th in 2024)
36. WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU Hong Sang-soo
38. BY THE STREAM Hong Sang-soo (37th in 2024)
39. BLACK BAG Steven Soderbergh
39. BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS Kahlil Joseph
41. HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT Alexander Horwath (32nd in 2024)
41. 28 YEARS LATER Danny Boyle
41. THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Kaouther Ben Hania
44. DRACULA Radu Jude
44. THE LOVE THAT REMAINS Hlynur Pálmason
46. FAMILIAR TOUCH Sarah Friedland
46. MIROIRS NO. 3 Christian Petzold
48. LANDMARKS Lucrecia Martel
49. INVENTION Courtney Stephens
49. THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE Mona Fastvold
A Personal Digression…
The best films I saw during the 2025 calendar year…
Released in the last three years: All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024), The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi, 2024), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023), Dahomey (Mati Diop, 2024), A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024), Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2023), Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, 2024), It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi, 2025), The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025), Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024), No Other Land (Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor, 2024), Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, 2025), One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025), One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin Macdonald, 2024), Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, 2024), Presence (Steven Soderbergh, 2024), The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024), Shifty (Adam Curtis, 2025), Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (John Grimonprez, 2024).
The best other films I saw (for the first time, or re-watched after a long period): Asparagus (Suzan Pitt, 1979), Autumn Fire (Herman G. Weinberg, 1930-33), Azor (Andreas Fontana, 2021), A Bad Son (Claude Sautet, 1980), Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980), The Big City (Satyjajit Ray, 1963), The Bitter Stems (Fernando Ayala, 1956), Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey, 1974), Broadway Melody of 1940 (Norman Taurog, 1940), The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose, 2021), Chess of the Wind (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976), The Competition (Claire Simon, 2016), The Constant Factor (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1980), Documenteur (Agnès Varda, 1981), Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967), Fantômas (Louis Feuillade, 1913-14), A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks, 1928), Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman, 1986), Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh, 1980), Hard Labour (Mike Leigh, 1973), L'Innocente (Luchino Visconti, 1976), Islands of Fire (Vittorio De Seta, 1955), Ladies of Leisure (Frank Capra, 1930), Let it Be (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970), Misère au Borinage (Joris Ivens & Henri Storck, 1933), MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard, 2020), The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956), Never Open That Door (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952), Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980), Polyester (John Waters, 1981), Queen of Diamonds (Nina Menkes, 1991), Scum (Alan Clarke, 1979), The Traveller (Abbas Kiarostami, 1974), What Price Hollywood? (George Cukor, 1932).
Plus, four more films I have enjoyed (and would recommend) from over the past month: Familiar Touch (2024, Sarah Friedland), The Secret Agent (2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho), Flow (2024, Gints Zilbalodis), and Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs, 2025).
For more of these types of 'viewing digressions' (that encompass the old and the new), I would highly recommended browsing through Screen Slate's Best Movies of 2025: First Viewings & Discoveries.
Note-: There is no intended correlation between the 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films and the 1,000 Greatest Films. The rankings for 21st Century films within the 1,000 Greatest Films do not align* with the rankings within this listing. The core difference is that this listing, as mentioned above, incorporates end-of-year critics' ballots, whereas the 1,000 Greatest Films does not.
*It should be noted, despite this, that the 16 highest-ranked 21st Century films on both lists do in fact align.
Thanks again to everyone who contributed to the compilation of this edition (and previous editions for that matter) and to everyone who has contacted me with their ongoing support. Please email your feedback (good, bad, or ugly) to bill@theyshootpictures.com.
Begin browsing the 2026 edition of The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films.
Introduction / Films 1,000-251 / Top 250 Films (alpha) / Top 250 Films (250-1) / Top 250 Films (1-250) / Top 250 Films (by year) / Top 1,000 Films (sortable table) / Top 1,000 Films (ranking history) / Alternative Titles / Analysis / Critics / Top 100 Directors / Starting List (sortable table) / Ex-1000 / Resources & Links