This week, the New York Times published its ranking of the top 100 films of the twenty-first century. The book, which included more than 500 prominent actors, directors, and other well-known figures from Hollywood and beyond, took a really lengthy procedure to choose the movies. The final product was a ranking of 100, which was released at regular intervals. The top 10 were revealed at the conclusion of June. Against all odds, an independent Korean movie triumphed over popular Hollywood movies and well-known works by renegade filmmakers such as Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, and the Coen Brothers.

The top movie of the 21st century, according to The New York Times

The New York Times' Best 100 list named Bong Joon Ho's Oscar-winning 2019 film Parasite as the greatest movie of the 21st century. The readers' vote in the magazine also gave the movie the top spot. NYT's citation states that "Bong, a master of genre unbound by convention, fluidly shifts between broad comedy and blistering social satire throughout, then lights it all on fire with a paroxysm of tragic violence that's as stunning as it is inevitable."

In the Korean black comedy Parasite, a poor family breaks into the lives of a wealthy family. The film had a larger distribution in South Korea following its debut at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It gained international distribution as a result of winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes. The picture, which was produced independently for only $11 million, was able to earn $258 million globally as a result of this. It won praise from all over the world and was the first foreign movie to ever win in significant categories at the BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Parasite received four Oscars at the 92nd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. As a result, it became the first non-English movie to ever win the Best Picture Oscar.

The films that Parasite beat

With Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood coming in at number three, David Lynch's 2001 thriller Mulholland Drive had to compete for the second spot, which Parasite ultimately defeated. Well-known Hollywood movies that were included in the top 10 were Moonlight (#5), No Country for Old Men (#6), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (#7), Get Out (#8), and The Social Network (#10), along with well-known foreign movies In the Mood for Love (#4) and Spirited Away (#9). The majority of these movies also made the readers' top 10.

Interestingly, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar found a place at number 5 in the readers' poll, but was relegated to number 89 in the Best 100 list.

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