The New York Times compiled a list of the 100 greatest movies of the 21st century. More than 500 filmmakers, stars and influential film fans were asked to vote for the 10 best movies (however they chose to define that) released since Jan. 1, 2000. Perusing some of the individual ballots reveals a wide variety of choices and tastes and often precious little overlap. Still, from all that data a ranked list of 100 was compiled.

And I am pleased to note I have seen 95 of the chosen 100 (and am pleased with most of those being singled out this way).

At the bottom of this post you can find all 95 of those films listed in a more legible fashion than in the above screenshot.

The five films below are the ones on the list I have yet to see but now especially feel I should. Four of them are films I am wary or even scared to watch… but I will get to them … sometime.

Readers can also create their own ballot of 10 (in no ranking order). With only 10 slots it was wrenching to leave certain films off, but I will refrain from saying which or go into any further rationalizations and explanations.

For what it’s worth, six of my top ten are also in the NYT top 100.

I think being part of the 100 is more important than what exact ranking a film received. Still this list of the 95 I’ve seen does indicate the ranking order, except for missing the five films I have not seen …

UPDATE: The NYTimes later compiled a readers Top 100 list from 200 000 submitted ballots. I’ve see 97 of those films.