MY VERY PERSONAL TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 00S: EVERYONE ELSE WAS DOING IT

1. Wet Hot American Summer
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Punch Drunk Love
6. George Washington
7. Ratatouille
8. The Royal Tenenbaums
9. Brokeback Mountain
10. DiG!

Notes:

I very nearly included "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," but I feel like "Wet Hot American Summer" covered what ATLORB did, if in a different way and a little earlier. They're both game-changers, and for the better. The Royal Tenenbaums gets in largely because Rushmore can't, by technicality. If the latter had been made a little later, I might not have included TRT.

"Most underrated"*
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Pineapple Express (the best, and possibly only good movie** Seth Rogan's ever made)
Children of Men
Junebug
Bamboozled
The Saddest Music in the World
Hot Rod

*I know, I know, grammar nerds. Please bear with me.
**I haven't seen "Observe and Report" yet.