Best movies of 2001
We dissect the cinema of 2001. Here is our top ranking from best to worst based strictly on our editorial autopsies.
HBO served us a feast of family dysfunction, pitch-black sarcasm, and metaphorical corpses. Alan Ball dug a grave so deep we still haven’t climbed out.
Isabelle Huppert in a role that burns. Haneke turns the conservatory into an emotional slaughterhouse. Pain, silence, and a mother worse than hell itself.
Alejandro Amenábar turns a gothic manor into a labyrinth of curtains and whispers. Nicole Kidman shines, but the script reeks of mothballs. A scalpel-sharp critique.
Richard Kelly sold us a $4 million puzzle that he himself didn't know how to solve. Jake Gyllenhaal shines, but the script drowns in its own ambition. Cult classic by accident.
