Twenty-four years ago, Wesley Morris and the film curator Eric Hynes were just a couple of “cooler-than-you” cinephiles working at Kim’s Video, the beloved New York City video store. They recently got together to dissect the trends, snubs and outliers on the Times’s 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list and to shed a few tears over their own top 10s, which we've shared below.
FROM WESLEY MORRIS:
- Norte, The End of History
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Piano Teacher
- O.J.: Made in America
- Wall-E
- Moonlight
- The Holy Girl
- Inherent Vice
- Love and Diane
- Magic Mike XXL
FROM ERIC HYNES:
- In the Mood for Love
- The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence (tie)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- The New World
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening
- Synecdoche, New York
- Cameraperson
- 35 Shots of Rum
- Inside Llewyn Davis and A Serious Man (tie)
- Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
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