Our Comprehensive Movie List,  2000-present.

Movies we've seen, made in 2000 or 2001 or 2002.  Movies are listed by year, and following
each table is a list of our highly recommended movies from that year.

* denotes movies seen in the theater.
(+)  is essentially a "thumbs up"
(-)  is essentially a "thumbs down"
(0)  is somewhere in the middle

 

Movies from 2002.
  Beth Josh
* About a Boy (C. Weitz, P. Weitz) + +
* Austin Powers in Goldmember (Jay Roach) 0 0
* Big Trouble (Barry Sonnenfeld) 0 0
* Blue Crush (John Stockwell) + 0
* The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman) 0 +
* The Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Reynolds) + +
* Crossroads (Tamra Davis) - -
* Hart's War (Gregory Hoblit) +  
* High Crimes (Carl Franklin) + +
* Hollywood Ending (Woody Allen) + +
* Ice Age (Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha) + 0
* Insomnia (Christpher Nolan) + +
* Lilo and Stitch (D. DeBlois, C. Sanders) 0 +
* Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) + +
* Orange County (Jake Kasdan) 0 0
* The Rookie (John Lee Hancock) + +
* Scooby-Doo (Raja Gosnell) 0 +
* Signs (M. Night Shyamalan) + +
* Spider-Man (Sam Raimi) + +
* Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas) 0 0
* A Walk to Remember (Adam Shankman) -  

Highly recommended movies from 2002:
      The Count of Monte Cristo

 

Movies from 2001.
 

Beth

 Josh
* A.I.: Artificial Intelligence  (Steven Spielberg) 0 0
* Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) + +
* America's Sweethearts  (Joe Roth) - 0
   Angel Eyes (Luis Mandoki) + +
* Atlantis: The Lost Empire  (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise) + +
* Bandits  (Barry Levinson) + +
* A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard) + +
* Bridget Jones's Diary  (Sharon Maguire) + 0
* The Curse of the Jade Scorpion  (Woody Allen) 0 0
   The Dish  (Rob Sitch) + +
   Evolution (Ivan Reitman) 0 -
* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Chris Columbus) 0 0
* Head Over Heels (Mark S. Waters) - -
 Heartbreakers (David Mirkin) 0 0
   Hearts in Atlantis (Scott Hicks) 0 0
* Heist (David Mamet) 0 0
* I Am Sam (Jessie Nelson) + +
* Josie and the Pussycats  (Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan) + +
* Jurassic Park III  (Joe Johnston) 0 -
* Kate & Leopold (James Mangold) + 0
* A Knight's Tale  (Brian Helgeland) + +
* K-PAX  (Iain Softley) + +
* Lara Croft: Tomb Raider  (Simon West) 0 +
* Legally Blonde  (Robert Luketic) + +
   Life as a House (Irwin Winkler) +  
* Memento  (Christopher Nolan) + +
* The Mexican  (Gore Verbinski) + 0
* Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter) + +
* Moulin Rouge  (Baz Luhrmann) + +
* Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) + +
* Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh) + +
* Pearl Harbor  (Michael Bay) + +
* The Princess Diaries  (Garry Marshall) + 0
* The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) + +
* Serendipity  (Peter Chelsom) 0  
* Shrek  (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson) + +
   Someone Like You  (Tony Goldwyn) - -
* Spy Game (Tony Scott) + +
   Sugar & Spice (Francine McDougall) 0 0
   Super Troopers (Jay Chandrasekhar) - -
* Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe) 0 0
* The Wedding Planner  (Adam Shankman) - -
* Zoolander (Ben Stiller) 0 0 

Highly recommended movies from 2001:
      The Dish
      Memento
      Moulin Rouge
      Amelie
Movies from 2000.
 

Beth

 Josh
   28 Days (Betty Thomas) - 0
   Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe) 0 +
* Autumn in New York (Joan Chen) - -
* Best in Show (Christopher Guest) + +
* The Big Kahuna (John Swanbeck) + +
* Bounce (Don Roos) + +
* Cast Away  (Robert Zemeckis) + 0
* Charlie's Angels (McG) + 0
* Chicken Run (Peter Lord, Nick Park) + +
* Dinosaur (Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag) - -
* Disney's The Kid (Jon Turteltaub) 0 0
   The Emperor's New Groove (Mark Dindal) 0 +
   Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh) + +
   An Everlasting Piece  (Barry Levinson) 0 0
* The Family Man  (Brett Ratner) - 0
* Finding Forrester  (Gus Van Sant) + +
* Frequency (Gregory Hoblit) + +
* High Fidelity (Stephen Frears) + +
* How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Ron Howard) + +
* Keeping the Faith (Edward Norton) 0 +
* The Legend of Bagger Vance  (Robert Redford) + +
* Meet the Parents (Jay Roach) 0 0
* Miss Congeniality  (Donald Petrie) 0 0
* Mission: Impossible II (John Woo) 0 0
   Nurse Betty  (Neil LaBute) + +
   O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen) +  
* The Patriot (Roland Emmerich) +  
* Pay It Forward (Mimi Leder) 0 0
* Remember the Titans (Boaz Yakin) + +
* Return to Me (Bonnie Hunt) + +
* Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood) + +
* Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen) 0 +
* State and Main (David Mamet) + +
* Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan) + +
  What Planet Are You From? (Mike Nichols) - -
* What Women Want (Nancy Meyers) + +
* Where the Heart Is (Matt Williams) 0 -
  Where the Money Is (Marek Kanievska) 0 0
* The Whole Nine Yards (Jonathan Lynn) - -
  Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson) 0 0
   Yi Yi (Edward Yang) + +
   You Can Count On Me  (Kenneth Lonergan) + +

Highly recommended movies from 2000:
      Frequency
      High Fidelity
      Return to Me
      State and Main
      You Can Count On Me