In the Mood for Love
Directed by Wong Kar-wai
2000
Longing has never been filmed better than this: Wong Kar-wai gets more out of a stairwell and one repeated waltz than most directors manage with an entire script.
★ 9.3
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2000
Showing 133 works across all media from 2000
Kid A
2000
Singer Thom Yorke pulled the lyrics out of a hat because he could not write, and the band released it with no singles and no interviews.
★ 8.8
Stan
2000 · From The Marshall Mathers LP
The 45 King looped Dido under four letters, and Eminem's fan character ended up in the Oxford dictionary.
★ 8.7
Ms. Jackson
2000 · From Stankonia
Andre 3000 apologizing to Erykah Badu's mother, who liked it enough to buy a Ms. Jackson license plate.
★ 8.7
Stankonia
2000
B.O.B. runs at a hundred and fifty-five beats a minute, which is drum and bass speed, with a gospel choir on top.
★ 8.5
Yi Yi
Directed by Edward Yang
2000
Nothing else captures an ordinary family like this: Yang holds three generations of a Taipei household in one frame, and the small boy photographing people's backs explains the whole method.
★ 8.4
The Marshall Mathers LP
2000
It sold nearly two million copies in a week. Elton John agreed to perform with him at the Grammys while the protests were loudest.
★ 8.4
One More Time
2000 · From Discovery
Romanthony's vocal pushed through auto-tune over a slowed Eddie Johns disco sample, filtered until the chorus explodes.
★ 8.3
B.O.B.
2000 · From Stankonia
Bombs Over Baghdad at 155 beats per minute, drum and bass colliding with a gospel choir and a guitar solo.
★ 8.2
Memento
Directed by Christopher Nolan
2000
Nolan told it backwards and the trick is not a trick: the reverse order strands you exactly where its amnesiac protagonist lives, knowing only the last five minutes.
★ 8.0
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Directed by Ang Lee
2000 · Hong Kong
It won four Academy Awards and remains the highest grossing foreign language film ever released in America: wire work so graceful that gravity stops being a consideration.
★ 7.8
Everything In Its Right Place
2000 · From Kid A
Radiohead opened Kid A with no guitars at all, just a Prophet-5 and Yorke's voice diced in Pro Tools.
★ 7.6
Gladiator
Directed by Ridley Scott
2000
It dragged the Roman epic back after thirty-five years of dormancy: Russell Crowe's fury is the whole engine, and the arena sequences still deliver everything they promise.
★ 7.5
Yellow
2000 · From Parachutes
Ken Nelson pointed at the stars outside Rockfield, and Martin sang the melody in his worst Neil Young impression.
★ 7.4
The Real Slim Shady
2000 · From The Marshall Mathers LP
Iovine wanted another "My Name Is," so Eminem wrote this hours before the album was due. It hit number four.
★ 7.3
Almost Famous
Directed by Cameron Crowe
2000
Cameron Crowe was writing for Rolling Stone at fifteen and on the road with the Allman Brothers at sixteen: the film gets every detail right, including the boredom.
★ 7.3
Gladiator · 2000
Traffic
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
2000
Soderbergh color-codes three separate drug-war stories so you always know which one you are in, then declines to let any of them resolve into a tidy lesson.
★ 6.9
Beautiful Day
2000 · From All That You Can't Leave Behind
Eno programmed the drum machine, Lanois played the Telecaster, and the Edge won the argument for his old delay-drenched sound.
★ 6.9
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Directed by Coen Brothers
2000
Homer's Odyssey rerouted through Depression-era Mississippi: the soundtrack of gospel and bluegrass sold eight million copies and sent a mass audience back to music first recorded in the 1920s.
★ 6.8
Amores Perros
Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
2000 · Mexico
Mexican cinema arrived on the world stage with this: Inarritu's first film braids three Mexico City lives around a single car crash and refuses to soften any of them.
★ 6.7
Requiem for a Dream
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
2000
Nobody who has seen the last twenty minutes forgets them: Aronofsky films four people chasing different highs around Coney Island in split screen and body-mounted cameras, with Clint Mansell's string theme underneath.
★ 6.6
Porcelain
2000
Moby nearly left it off Play; a reversed string sample from the Exodus score, cut in his Little Italy apartment.
★ 6.4
Interpreter of Maladies
2000 · 208 pages
Nine stories of Indians and Indian Americans living between two countries, told with a calm that makes the losses land late. A married couple confess things to each other during nightly power cuts.
★ 6.3
Killin' Them Softly · 2000
Independent Women
2000
Written for the Charlie's Angels soundtrack, eleven straight weeks at number one, and Michelle Williams's first single with the group.
★ 6.0
Down to the River to Pray
2000 · From O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack
Printed as "The Good Old Way" in an 1867 collection of slave songs, and Krauss makes it sound weightless.
★ 5.9
Me Gustas Tu
2000 · From Proxima Estacion: Esperanza
Three guitar chords, spoken city names saluting Havana's Radio Reloj, and a list of small pleasures that lands on you.
★ 5.8
Bye Bye Bye
2000
Andreas Carlsson reportedly wrote the lyric during a Stockholm driving test; Cheiron's producers built pop's most decisive exit.
★ 5.8
All That You Can't Leave Behind
2000
U2 dropped the irony and went back to anthems. A year later, after September 11th, the songs sounded like they had been written for it.
★ 5.8
Best in Show
Directed by Christopher Guest
2000
The mockumentary found its permanent subject here, the American hobbyist: five sets of owners take their dogs to a national championship, and each of them reveals far more than intended.
★ 5.7
O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack
Various artists
2000
T Bone Burnett recorded most of it before the film was shot, so the Coens built scenes around the music. It sold eight million.
★ 5.7
I'll Fly Away
2000 · From O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack
A 1932 hymn Brumley began while picking cotton, carried here by Krauss and Welch over mandolin and guitar.
★ 5.6
Teenage Dirtbag
2000
Number one in Australia, number two in Britain, built from Brown's memory of Long Island parents fearing metal records.
★ 5.5
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
2000 · 704 pages
Smuggled out of occupied Prague in a coffin with the Golem, Joe Kavalier lands in Brooklyn and invents a superhero with his cousin. Chabon makes comics their one weapon against Hitler.
★ 5.5
Trouble
2000 · From Parachutes
Recorded four times before Ken Nelson kept one, and Martin, by his account, apologizing for behaving badly toward his band.
★ 5.4
Cast Away
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
2000
Production shut down a year so Tom Hanks could lose fifty pounds: for an hour there is barely a word spoken, and a volleyball becomes a genuinely moving character.
★ 5.4
The Feast of the Goat
2000 · 416 pages
Assassins wait in a car for Trujillo's Chevrolet on his last night. Vargas Llosa moves between them, the dictator's failing body, and the woman who returns thirty-five years later to accuse her father.
★ 5.3
White Teeth
2000 · 464 pages
Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal met in a tank in 1945 and are still arguing in North London, while their children reject every inheritance on offer. Smith made multicultural Britain a comic epic.
★ 5.2
The Blind Assassin
2000 · 521 pages
Iris Chase, old and unforgiving, tells how her sister Laura drove off a bridge in 1945. Inside her account sits a scandalous novel, and inside that a pulp tale of blind child assassins.
★ 5.2
Snatch
Directed by Guy Ritchie
2000 · United Kingdom
Brad Pitt asked for a part and got one nobody can understand a word of: an unlicensed boxing promoter, a stolen diamond and several sets of London criminals converge at considerable speed.
★ 5.2
American III: Solitary Man
2000
Cash was too ill to work in a studio for long, so Rubin recorded him mostly at home, singing other people's songs.
★ 5.1
Kryptonite
2000
Fifteen years old and stuck in a math class when Arnold wrote it; he sang it from the drum stool.
★ 5.1
Figure 8
2000
Smith recorded much of it at Abbey Road with full arrangements, and titled it after the ice-skating figure, a loop that goes nowhere.
★ 5.1
Heartbreaker
2000
It opens with Adams and a friend arguing about which Morrissey record a song is on. The whole thing was recorded in fourteen days.
★ 5.0
Drive (Incubus)
2000
Boyd called it a song about fear, and Scott Litt's production pulls the band down to acoustic guitar.
★ 5.0
Country Grammar
2000
A children's clapping rhyme, "Down Down Baby," rebuilt into a hook by Jay E, and St. Louis had its record.
★ 5.0
Parachutes
2000
It cost a few thousand pounds to make. Chris Martin has said Yellow came from looking up at the stars outside a Welsh studio.
★ 5.0
One (Johnny Cash)
2000 · From American III: Solitary Man
Rick Rubin's arrangement leaves it bare, and Cash, his voice thinned by illness, turns U2's Berlin song into a reckoning.
★ 4.8
Last Resort
2000
Bassist Tobin Esperance wrote that riff on a piano, and Shaddix built a nu-metal standard about despair over it.
★ 4.8
Kitchen Confidential
2000 · 312 pages
Bourdain cooked for two decades, then told everything: the drugs, the immigrant crews who hold restaurants up, why you never order fish on Monday. He made the line cook a figure Americans envied.
★ 4.7
Me Talk Pretty One Day
2000 · 272 pages
Speech therapy for a lisp, a methamphetamine phase of conceptual art, then a Paris classroom where a French teacher reduces grown adults to stammering. Sedaris finds humiliation funny and never spares himself.
★ 4.6
I Hope You Dance
2000
Sanders and Sillers wrote it in 1999; five weeks at country number one, and every graduation since has borrowed it.
★ 4.6