Well, Cinematical has an article here, but this is the 10 they came up with for the purposes of saving the world:
Well, Yahoo Movies has compiled a list here for you to take a peek at (and believe it or not, I've seen all 100...and I'm not sure whether to be ashamed for proud of that fact), but I'd like to submit ten more films (in year order) that didn't make the list, just for fun:
Well, that's the question that Cinematical is asking. There are plenty of films that could be thought of as "The Graduate of the 2000's". The article can be found here, and it's a great read (one that mentions some of the best movies of the genre that deal with other time periods, like An Education or A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints), but here are some of the films that they mentioned:2. The Hurt Locker
3. Up in the Air
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Up
6. Pirate Radio
7. (500) Days of Summer
8. The Hangover
9. The Blind Side
10. Whip It
2. Invictus – Warner Bros.
Based on a true story, Invictus shows how Nelson Mandela used the power of camaraderie and patriotism by joining forces with the South Africa rugby team in an attempt to erase the racial barriers that were destroying the country.
3. The Horse Boy – Zeitgeist Films
An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy follows a couple and their autistic son through a courageous trek on horseback through outer Mongolia in a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing.
4. Up –Disney/Pixar
Up is a sentimental love story that takes us on a journey of discovery with a 78-year-old widower who leaves his life behind to fulfill the adventurous life he promised his wife. Up proves that even at age 78, there are lessons to be learned and shows viewers the true meaning of commitment.
5. The Cove – Lions Gate
A documentary on the treatment of dolphins of the coast of Japan, The Cove is a provocative mix of investigative journalism, eco-adventure and arresting imagery that adds up to an urgent plea for hope and a call for redemption and justice.
6. Herb & Dorothy – Fine Line Media
A film of pure selflessness and passion, Herb & Dorothy is a documentary of a couple’s commitment to and love for art that inspired them to build one of the most important, contemporary art collections in history with very modest means, only to then give it all away without taking a profit.
7. The Soloist – Paramount Pictures
The Soloist is based on an incredible true story of a disenchanted journalist’s transformative odyssey through the hidden streets of Los Angeles, where he discovers and builds a most unlikely friendship with a man from those same streets, bonding through the redemptive power of music.
8. The Boys Are Back – Miramax Films
Inspired by a true story, The Boys are Back is a deeply moving, wryly confessional tale of fatherhood that intimately evokes both the fragility and wonders of family life.
9. My Sister’s Keeper – Warner Bros.
My Sister’s Keeper is a powerful story of one child’s sacrifice for her sister, revealing surprising truths that challenge one’s perceptions of family, love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.
10. Amreeka – National Geographic Entertainment
Amreeka is a universal journey into the lives of a family of immigrants and first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new world in which they now live while they search for a place to call home.
Next Day Air > Up in the Air
Benny Boom disinfects The Wire’s pathology into an August Wilson-rich comedy about what greed does to the working class; it has truth and beauty where Jason Reitman told white-collar lies about labor, vocation and lack of community.
Crank 2: High Voltage and Gamer > Avatar
Neveldine/Taylor, avant-garde filmmakers consigned to B-movie obscurity, are sharp stylists who satirize the responsibilities of the digital era that James Cameron turns into insipid escapism.
Gentlemen Broncos >Inglourious Basterds
Jared Hess goes to the roots of the sci-fi genre for its pathos. Removed from exhibition, its day will come. It is the 2001 of 2009. But Q.T. traipses through the war movie genre without touching on anything remotely personal or amusing.
Ricky > Drag Me to Hell
François Ozon’s original parable finds hope in family life and unorthodox sexuality. It turns the divine into real-life, Emily Dickinson poetry. But Sam Raimi’s horror pastiche is lowbrow, low-down and unedifying.
Brothers > The Hurt Locker
Jim Sheridan finds the emotional substance of our Iraq War years while Kathryn Bigelow hides behind genre skill. By avoiding a moral or political stand, Bigelow’s movie says nothing to anyone—especially liberals.
A Serious Man > The White Ribbon
The Coen Brothers redefine Jewish paranoia as existential anxiety. It beats Haneke’s art-house Nazi fetishism any day.
Tyson > Invictus
James Toback’s monologue doc, a fallen angel’s confession, challenges our capacity to comprehend Mike Tyson (and ourselves) while Eastwood merely deifies sports fan Nelson Mandela.
Bandslam > Nine
Todd Graff’s high school musical understands pop and showbiz better than Rob Marshall’s Fellini-botch. Too bad mainstream Hollywood doesn’t know the difference.
Cherry Blossoms > Up
Doris Dorrie’s strange, sweet tale of a widower challenging the sexual mores
he grew up with is exactly what
Pixar’s corporate-formula widower’s
tale evades.
Where the Wild Things Are > District 9
Spike Jonze realizes the liberating, introspective possibilities in pop while Neil Blomkamp reclaims apartheid for geeks who don’t know what that was, yet enjoy the comforts of pop idiocy.
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