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My Personal Ranking of All Movies Released in 2001...


So I keep getting messages that say: “Scott, your top ten list for the year is all well and good, but what about people like me, who are more interested in paying to see the eleventh through twentieth best films of the year?” Okay, I’ve never actually received a message like that, but sometimes I just like to find out how gullible you people really are. Anyway, in the interest of completeness, I have decided to rank all the films I have seen which were released in 2001. As always, I will continue to revise this list until I finally stop seeing movies that were released in 2001. Needless to say, movies I have not yet seen are not included in the ranking.

Note: I included the film Memento in my 2000 Top Ten List, since my understanding is that it had its first screening in that year, even though I further understand that it somehow qualifies for the 2001 Academy Awards.

Now, without further ado, here is my ranking every single film I have seen to date that was released in the year 2001...


Great

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring


Very Good

2. Black Hawk Down

3. The Tailor of Panama

4. Bridget Jones’s Diary

5. Enemy at the Gates

6. A Beautiful Mind

7. The Royal Tenenbaums

8. Gosford Park

9. Lantana

10. In the Bedroom

11. Julie Walking Home

12. El Hijo de la novia (Son of the Bride)

13. Lost and Delirious

14. Buffalo Soldiers

15. Startup.com

16. Lift

17. O

18. Shrek

19. The Others

20. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

21. Planet of the Apes

22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)

23. Ocean’s Eleven


Good to Okay

24. L.I.E.

25. Y tu mamá también (And Your Mother Too)

26. Donnie Darko

27. Le Fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulain (Amelie de Montmartre) (Amelie)

28. A ma soeur! (Fat Girl)

29. Mulholland Drive

30. Spy Game

31. Le Pacte des loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf)

32. A Knight’s Tale

33. Sexy Beast

34. Almost Salinas

35. Moulin Rouge!

36. Scotland, Pa.

37. How Harry Became a Tree

38. Pearl Harbor

39. Second Coming

40. Heist

41. On the Nose

42. High Heels and Low Lifes

43. Blow

44. Evolution

45. Waking Life

46. Intacto (Intact)

47. Le Souffle (Deep Breath)

48. Photos to Send: People to Go Back To

49. No Man’s Land

50. Shallow Hal

51. Zoolander

52. Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucia)

53. Behind Enemy Lines

54. AntiTrust

55. F*@k the Disabled (Keeping It Real: The Adventures of Greg Walloch)

56. The Majestic

57. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

58. One Night at McCool’s

59. Will Full

60. Lovely & Amazing

61. Freedom Highway: Songs of Resistance and Liberation

62. Silent Grace

63. If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story

64. H3

65. My Kingdom

66. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

67. Teenage Kicks: The Undertones


Disappointing


68. Kate & Leopold

69. Town & Country

70. The Crooked Mile