The New York Times 25 Best Movies of the Century

Wendy and Lucy isn't good. It's so fake.

(xp to Alfred) That Mr Lazarescu one looks like it might have been funny in a weird way, but unless those Clint Eastwood and Claire Denis films are very uncharacteristic, I doubt they are very amusing. I would have liked to see a lot more obvious comedy though - stuff like "Borat", "The Hangover", "Grand Budapest Hotel", "Napoleon Dynamite", "The Trip", "Shaun of the Dead" - as well as comedy-dramas like "The Squid and the Whale", "Happy Go Lucky", "Happy Christmas", "Rachel Getting Married", "Please Give", etc.. - any of which I would put on a list like this.

It's stupid that Mulholland Drive isn't on the List though.

For non-comedies I think should be here: "The Wrestler", "Grizzly Man", and "Tree of Life" come to mind.

35 shots of rum / 35 Rhums is so much better than The White 'Material though #Claire Denis Stan.

Tree of Life not being on there is stupid.

list is missing Synecdoche, New York and Mulholland Drive

let's keep an ongoing list of movies that are missing from this arbitrary list that david brooks tooted out his butt

1. Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

Zoolander

Spirited Away. Is bad and pointless and boring. I think Boyhood is the film I like most of these. I left the cinem halfway through Yiyi, I know that's terrible but I didn't care about it. I care a lot more about Museum Hours and Children of Men than I do with anything here.

― Heavy Doors (jed_)

now this, I gotta say, is an uncharacterizable opinion (a compliment).

a number of filmmakers rep'd by the rong film

anyone mention Josie and the Pussycats yet

Oh yeah, "Children of Men" and "The Lives Of Others" strange omissions

No Shattered Glass no cred, dad.

You Pixar haters are in good company with Armond White.

now there's a post

not a good one but

I (uncharacteristically, for me) saw Inside Out in the theater. I thought it was pretty good, but the idea that it was the 7th best film of the century so far did not occur to me.

I've seen 19 of these and maybe 3 would be on my own list. 40 Year-Old-Virgin is such a failed stab at populism. I guess they are trying to signal that they value comedy but that film's stature, such as it was, is rapidly shrinking for comedy nerds and general audiences alike.

I pick Mulholland Drive

josie and the pussycats def belongs on this list

No Shattered Glass no cred, dad.

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damn i havent thought about this movie since 2003 but it was great

Still Life>>>Touch of Sin

^^ agree

"Bad Santa" should have been the token comedy pick

40 Year-Old-Virgin is such a failed stab at populism

i would have gone w Superbad

Spirited Away

no Children of Men, no credibility

maybe for best videogame

Without Werckmeister Harmonies the whole thing is a sham.

Step Brothers would have been the braver (and better) comedy choice

Why not Bridesmaids in place of 40-y-o-V is the real question?

And yes, I too forgot about Shattered Glass and boy was that good

except the title

i'm sure Apichatpong Weerasethakul is properly chastened that his entire output in the last 16 years can't stand up to Apatow and George Miller.

Better luck next time!

The dumbest movies suggested for this list itt:

Zootopia
Marvel movies
The Hangover
The Wrestler
Zoolander
The Lives Of Others
Shattered Glass

Movie I honestly wish had been on this list:

Josie and the Pussycats

I like Shattered Glass but yeah it's absolutely not listworthy. And I agree with the chorus re: Inside Out. Up would be infinitely preferable as the Pixar entry. White Material is kinda a wtf pick as well

yeah, as smart people have been pointing out for years, The Lives Of Others is sentimental garbage.

Magic Mike 2 is better than at least 10 of the films listed.

agree that 35 Rhums should be the Denis choice.

I just kinda pulled Shattered Glass out of my ass (ouch!). But it is one of my personal favorites from this century. I'll swap it out with Être et avoir.

xxp it's XXL, actually, and yes ... maybe closer to 15

Trouble Every Day (2001)
Vendredi soir (2002)
L'intrus (2004)
35 rhums (2008)
White Material (2009)
Bastards (2013)

I hated L'intrus, but that's quite a run.

Nymphomaniac should be taking up the sex comedy slot

35 Rhums is the better film, but WM has Nicolas Duvauchelle.

Nymphomaniac should be taking up the sex comedy slot

I didn't hate L'intrus so much as was utterly baffled by it. Still haven't seen the vampire movie, gory-as-fuck not v appealing to me.

I'm hoping to direct Magic Mike: Magnum.

starring Tom Selleck as the crusty but benign strip club owner

Mr. Lazarescu is a didactic bore iirc

If there is one great American comedy of the century besides Eternal Sunshine it might be Fantastic Mr. Fox.

I'll add Frances Ha and Damsels in Distress.