Cast your mind back to the year 2000. To set the mood, crank up NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye,” put on your finest trucker hat, and begin panicking about the Y2K virus.

Everyone there? Great. Now we are ready to look back at the best movies of the decade, the finest films release from 2000-2009. (Keep the trucker hat on, by the way, it looks great on you.)

The 2000s were an incredible period for movies. (Especially the year 2007. Half the movies released in 2007 were classics. Was there something in the water in 2007? What happened there?) Christopher Nolan and the Marvel Cinematic Universe were on the rise. Pixar was in the midst of an unprecedented creative hot streak. And Hollywood regularly made these incredible things called “comedies,” where the whole purpose was to make audiences laugh.

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