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Top 10 - 2000
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2000 wasn't my favorite movie year, yet it still managed to provide me with some of my very favorite films of the decade: Stephen Daldry's irrepressible, ebullient live-your-dream childhood drama; Steven Soderbergh's sprawling, breathtakingly kaleidoscopic character epic; the charming warmth and humor of Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand, Billy Crudup, and more in a brilliant music-focused semi-autobiography; and the dazzling balletic wuxia martial arts of Ang Lee's blockbuster Taiwenese crossover. And I still haven't gotten to a scorching Mexican film or a certain thrilling - yet bloated - gladiatorial action film. Here's how the year played out for me:
The Best Films of 2000
01. Billy Elliot
02. Traffic
03. Almost Famous
04. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
05. Amores Perros
06. Code Unknown
07. Quills
08. Gladiator
09. In the Mood for Love
10. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Overrated Award of the Year: WONDER BOYS. I appreciated Michael Douglas's graceful, understated work and the drolly humorous script, not to mention Bob Dylan's Oscar-winning tune, but the film simply failed to draw me in on any significant emotional or intellectual level.
Categories: Yearly Top 10s
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Jonathan Leithold-Patt is a 21-year-old film student at Columbia College Chicago. Besides watching lots and lots of films and writing about them, he is an avid painter.
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