“A.I.” Named Best 2000s Film In New Poll

In what’s bound to be a controversial ruling, a new poll at for the Best Movies of the 2000s has landed on Stephen Spielberg’s 2002 film “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence” as the best movie of the first decade of this millennium.

The film beat out Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi” in second and David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” in third for the top spot in the poll assembled by a group of writers and film critics with plenty of acclaimed titles in the mix that deserve to be there including “There Will Be Blood,” “Lost in Translation,” “Spirited Away,” “Zodiac,” “No Country For Old Men,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Michael Clayton,” “Children of Men,” “In the Mood for Love,” “Memories of Murder,” “Far from Heaven,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. There’s also some very welcome mainstream inclusions like “Casino Royale,” “Shaun of the Dead,” “The Prestige,” “Speed Racer,” “Miami Vice,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Wet Hot American Summer,” “Inglourious Basterds,” and “Wall-E” along with some truly baffling inclusions like “Funny People,” “Ocean’s Twelve” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”.

More egregious though are the notable absentees which didn’t make the Top 100 – Peter Weir’s “Master & Commander,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Fernando Meire.