Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / List - Top 100 Movies of 21st Century from January 6th, 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: So I was looking at this list of the top
- 0:04Speaker 1: one hundred movies of the twenty first century, of the
- 0:07Speaker 1: twenty first century. Now, this was in the New York Times,
- 0:11Speaker 1: and it was put together. They talked to five hundred
- 0:14Speaker 1: influential directors, actors, and other people in Hollywood, all of
- 0:19Speaker 1: them voting, and they managed to put together this list.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Some of the people that they included were people directors
- 0:27Speaker 1: like Pedro El Motovar, Sofia Coppola, Guillelmo del Toro, and
- 0:34Speaker 1: actors like John Taturo, Julianne Moore. So, all of this,
- 0:38Speaker 1: then they put together, we think this is the best.
- 0:40Speaker 1: These are the best one hundred films of the twenty
- 0:42Speaker 1: first century. We'll try and run through as many as
- 0:45Speaker 1: we can. We'll just kind of go fast. If you
- 0:47Speaker 1: feel like we need to stop, let's stop. Do you
- 0:50Speaker 1: shure you want to do all one hundred? All right, Well,
- 0:52Speaker 1: we'll just see how far we can get number one.
- 0:55Speaker 2: The phones might be not working for days, Bill, we might.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Need to number one, number one hundred, Super Bad, Okay.
- 1:04Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So it's a good that's a good movie.
- 1:08Speaker 3: Very influential.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Julianne Moore voted for that one she did along with
- 1:11Speaker 1: a bunch of other people. Number ninety nine a movie
- 1:14Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with. I believe it's a Korean movie
- 1:16Speaker 1: called Memories of a Murder. Number ninety eight. Grizzly Man documentary.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's I've seen it. Werner Herzog and it's
- 1:27Speaker 1: about this is Eat Simon, this guy who's decided he
- 1:32Speaker 1: was going to defend a friend the Grizzly Bears and
- 1:34Speaker 1: then they ate him. Number ninety seven. I thought this
- 1:38Speaker 1: was quite a good movie. Gravity, Yes, very good, Alfonso
- 1:41Speaker 1: Coron what's her name?
- 1:46Speaker 3: And Bullock? Yeah.
- 1:47Speaker 1: And George Clooney, I believe right, Yeah, he's in there
- 1:51Speaker 1: for a bit. Yeah. Number ninety six, Black Panther, Number
- 1:56Speaker 1: ninety five, The Worst Person in the World, Foreign film.
- 2:02Speaker 1: I believe Jauquine Triolet's number ninety four. This is a
- 2:07Speaker 1: good movie and it's often overlooked. Minority report. Yeah, very good,
- 2:11Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg movie number ninety three. Michael Clayton
- 2:16Speaker 1: speaking of George Clooney. Number ninety two.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Gladiator nearly killed her? Are you not entertained? That was good.
- 2:26Speaker 3: It was a good spectacle, very well done, and it
- 2:30Speaker 3: holds up.
- 2:31Speaker 2: I've rewatched him recently.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Ninety one. I'm not familiar with this movie. Fish Tank.
- 2:38Speaker 1: No idea, no idea. Let's see Number ninety This is
- 2:42Speaker 1: a Noah Burnbach movie. Francis Haw with Greta Gerwig. They wife, Yeah,
- 2:49Speaker 1: they became husband and wife. I don't think they were
- 2:52Speaker 1: a husband and wife at the time. But I've seen
- 2:55Speaker 1: that movie and it's good. Number eighty nine. Interstellar I love.
- 3:00Speaker 1: I didn't care for it much, but I've told you
- 3:02Speaker 1: the I've told you the story that my wife and
- 3:05Speaker 1: I went to see Interstellar and we were running late,
- 3:08Speaker 1: and so we walked into the theater and the movie
- 3:10Speaker 1: had already started.
- 3:11Speaker 3: We thought, okay, we'll.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Catch up, and we watched it and I could not
- 3:14Speaker 1: figure it out. Realized we'd walked into the wrong theater
- 3:17Speaker 1: and it was already halfway through.
- 3:19Speaker 2: Well have you ever gone back?
- 3:20Speaker 3: No, it pissed me off. You haven't seen it. I've
- 3:25Speaker 3: seen half of it. You haven't seen it.
- 3:27Speaker 1: It's really good, but I don't like Matthew McConaughey too much.
- 3:31Speaker 3: Number eighty eight. This is a good movie.
- 3:33Speaker 1: It's a foreign movie, The Gleaners and I that's it's
- 3:37Speaker 1: really quite good if you get a chance to see it.
- 3:39Speaker 1: Then eighty seven The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship
- 3:42Speaker 1: of the Ring in particular, influentially. Number eighty six, don't
- 3:46Speaker 1: know this one, past lives.
- 3:50Speaker 4: That's a fairly recent less year or two. And it's
- 3:53Speaker 4: Chloe Zell. Oh yeah, who's directed him?
- 3:58Speaker 3: No, mad Land. Oh yeah, it's called It's.
- 4:03Speaker 4: Like, Oh my Love when I was in my teens
- 4:07Speaker 4: and now I'm an adult and what if we got
- 4:10Speaker 4: together and tried it again?
- 4:12Speaker 1: And oh okay. Number eighty five, This is an interesting choice. Anchorman,
- 4:19Speaker 1: The Legend of Ron Berginy.
- 4:20Speaker 3: Good, very funny, very influential.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Number eighty four Melancholia, Laura's von Trier. Kirsten Dunst I
- 4:30Speaker 1: believe is in that. Number eighty three inside Llewellyn Davis.
- 4:36Speaker 3: I never saw that one.
- 4:37Speaker 2: It's Oscar.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a Coen Brothers movie. Number eighty two
- 4:43Speaker 1: The Act of Killing a movie I keep wanting to
- 4:47Speaker 1: see ever since Sean Means reviewed it for us. It's
- 4:51Speaker 1: a documentary and it's so this guy goes and talks
- 4:57Speaker 1: to these ruthless Indonesian mass murderers. They were the military
- 5:03Speaker 1: leaders who were perpetrators of mass murder in Indonesia, and
- 5:07Speaker 1: the way he gets them to talk about it is
- 5:09Speaker 1: he has them act out scenes from musicals. It's supposed
- 5:14Speaker 1: to be just incredibly good. Number eighty one Black Swan,
- 5:18Speaker 1: Darren Aronofsky, Natalie Portman. Number eighty Volver, that's a mold
- 5:23Speaker 1: of our movie. Number seventy nine, The Tree of Life Parents, Malik,
- 5:29Speaker 1: I saw it, I don't.
- 5:34Speaker 2: You didn't get it?
- 5:34Speaker 3: Well, I.
- 5:36Speaker 2: Haven't seen it.
- 5:37Speaker 3: I didn't get it.
- 5:38Speaker 2: Isn't Brad Pitt in there?
- 5:40Speaker 3: I think?
- 5:40Speaker 4: So?
- 5:40Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, let's see number seventy eight movie I don't
- 5:47Speaker 1: know after Sun.
- 5:49Speaker 2: Well, that's Paul Muskel. He's like a it's a sad
- 5:54Speaker 2: dad movie.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Oh okay.
- 5:57Speaker 1: He was nominated for a Best Actor for that. Number
- 6:00Speaker 1: seventy seven Everything Everywhere, all at once, very good, Yes, incredible.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Oh and the little scene clip their show. They show
- 6:06Speaker 1: a little clip from every one of them. It's where
- 6:08Speaker 1: her fingers are like rubber everything.
- 6:12Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Number seventy six, Oh brother, where art thou influentially? Yeah?
- 6:17Speaker 1: First time I saw it, didn't care for it that much.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Same same with The Big Lebowski. I didn't care for
- 6:22Speaker 1: it that much. And then I went and watched it
- 6:23Speaker 1: again and get it.
- 6:24Speaker 3: Oh. Oh, I don't know. I don't know if I
- 6:26Speaker 3: didn't get it.
- 6:27Speaker 2: I just I think you're just tired a lot when you.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Watch a movie that could be number seventy five, not
- 6:32Speaker 1: when I'm familiar with amour Florida Project number seventy four,
- 6:39Speaker 1: that's really good, Willem Dafoe, manager of a sleazy apartment
- 6:46Speaker 1: building in Florida. Just with it, you can just see
- 6:50Speaker 1: Disney World. Well, it's for Disney employees, isn't it.
- 6:53Speaker 3: Isn't it who its for them?
- 6:55Speaker 1: But there there are some Disney people who stay there.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Let's see Rata Tue Number seventy three, excellent, Yeah, very good.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Number seventy two Carol Todd Haines movie.
- 7:10Speaker 2: That's a lesbian movie.
- 7:11Speaker 1: I've seen some of his movies which I've liked, but
- 7:14Speaker 1: I didn't see that one.
- 7:16Speaker 3: Number seventy one, Ocean's eleven.
- 7:18Speaker 2: Yay, I love the Oceans.
- 7:20Speaker 3: Julia Roberts brad and making.
- 7:21Speaker 1: A new one another one, number seventy very scary movie,
- 7:27Speaker 1: not the American version but the original. I think it's Norwegian.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Let the right one in Vampire movie. Yeah, very very
- 7:37Speaker 1: scary movie. Number sixty nine. I never the way it
- 7:42Speaker 1: was described. I didn't want to see.
- 7:43Speaker 3: It, even though I like Scarlett Johansson. Under the skin.
- 7:49Speaker 3: Is this an alien? Right? No, she's a computer her. No,
- 7:54Speaker 3: she's that's her.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Okay, she's an a Scarlett Johanson plays an alien with
- 7:58Speaker 1: a come hither stare that makes men shed their clothes
- 8:01Speaker 1: and follow her into a liquid void. Number sixty eight,
- 8:09Speaker 1: very good movie. The hurt Locker. Yeah, number sixty seven
- 8:14Speaker 1: Tar it was really good.
- 8:16Speaker 3: Kate ate Lynch has I can want her to do anything.
- 8:19Speaker 1: So sixty seven is spotlight or sixty six Spotlight that's
- 8:24Speaker 1: the the Boston.
- 8:26Speaker 3: That was really good.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Yeah, Scandal, number sixty five great, I thought it was great.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Oppenheimer.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Yeah, sixty four, Gone Girl, that's a great movie. I
- 8:38Speaker 1: was surprised how much I liked that movie. Sixty three
- 8:42Speaker 1: Little Miss Sunshine, sun Dance movie. Yeah, very kind of
- 8:46Speaker 1: came out of nowhere, very small independent movie. And what's
- 8:51Speaker 1: his name won an Academy Award for it. Arkin, Yeah,
- 8:54Speaker 1: Adam Alan Arkin.
- 8:56Speaker 2: If you want to stop there at eight fifteen.
- 8:58Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good place.
- 9:00Speaker 1: Well sixty two great movie. And I just listened to
- 9:03Speaker 1: a podcast about this movie yesterday. Memento another Christopher Nolan
- 9:08Speaker 1: movie with a guy Pierce.
- 9:11Speaker 3: What a really great movie. And Joey Pants. All right,
- 9:15Speaker 3: there you go. I want to see the Scarlet Johansson movie. Now.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Remember we stopped at sixty two sixty two write it down.
- 9:22Speaker 4: Okay, We've hoped you'd enjoyed. Another list with Radio from
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