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The Best Films of the 21st Century (Part One)

The Best Films of the 21st Century (Part One)

Update: 2025-08-06
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When The New York Times released its full list of “The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century,” we quickly realized that this cinephile’s feast deserved an entire episode. Then, once we recorded for a little over three hours, we realized that we needed to split up our conversation into two episodes. So in this episode you’ll find our general discussion of the NYT list, how we put our individual top 10 lists together, and the on-air reveal of picks #7-10. (Picks #1-6 will be revealed in next week’s episode, Part Two.) Can you predict what we each chose? And what would you put on your top ten?

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The Best Films of the 21st Century (Part One)

The Best Films of the 21st Century (Part One)

Jen Sopchockchai Bankard, P.T. McNiff, Antonio Elefano, and Greg