School of Rock 2003

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/essential-comedy-movies/

UPDATED: 1/29/24

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Date: 2014-09-12

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Top 10 movies from the year 2003

Family movies and TV shows. Including Hidden Gems.

Movies

Films prominently mentioned in the podcast Films to Be Buried With

Adventure, action, comedy and fantasy for all the innocent souls who still dream of being heroes.

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Complete movies of the great directors. Starting with Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers.

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New millennium, new technology. Film cameras were the standard way to shoot a movie for over a century, and now they to had to make space for upstart digital. Without digital cameras, zombies would’ve stayed dead; 28 Days Later was only possible with how quick and easy it is to set up with them. Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) and Neill Blomkamp (District 9) certainly benefited from the new technology.

Movies were also used to absorb our collective trauma. We escaped into magic and wonder in the months after 9/11 with Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, while we celebrated the end of the Great Recession by getting the hell off this planet with Avatar. And speaking of those series, we didn’t want their installments taking up all the spots on this list, so one movie representing the whole franchise was chosen for those worthy.

And your vast comic-book trivia knowledge became a social asset, not a bullseye for beatings. Iron Man, The Dark Knight, and Spider-Man 2 opened up new ways of connected storytelling (and money making). And it wasn’t just superheroes making the leap to the mainstream. Fanboy culture, the internet, and sites like the one you’re reading now helped bring “genre” movies to the cultural forefront: zombies (28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead), sci-fi (Avatar, Serenity), horror (The Descent, Saw), and fantasy (Pan’s Labyrinth).

Meanwhile, under-served voices started to make some noise in the mainstream with films led by females (Mean Girls, Whale Rider, Bend It Like Beckham, Twilight), made African-American filmmakers (Love & Basketball, Barbershop), and featuring Asian-American stars (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Better Luck Tomorrow). And that’s not including the increasingly easy access to international material like City of God and Let the Right One In.

And we still haven’t touched upon Pixar’s golden age (WALL-E, Finding Nemo), Hollywood finding the formula for comedies perfectly balanced between smart and dumb (The Hangover, The 40-Year Old Virgin), or that the Fast & Furious series got its humble beginnings here. A lot happened in this decade: Discover it all with the 140 Essential Movies of the 2000s!

Source: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/essential-2000s-movies/

02/08/21-02/14/21: Django Unchained, Hamilton, Avatar
02/15/21-02/21/21: Cool Hand Luke, The Princess Bride, Train to Busan
02/22/21-02/28/21: Booksmart, V/H/S, Cars 3
03/01/21-03/07/21: American Pie 2, The Departed, Warrior
03/08/21-03/14/21: October Sky, The Truman Show, Cool Runnings
03/15/21-03/21/21: Jack, A Perfect Getaway, Knock Knock
03/22/21-03/28/21: This Is the End, Looper, Cloverfield
03/29/21-04/04/21: The Dig, Good Will Hunting, The Legend of Bagger Vance
04/05/21-04/11/21: The Nice Guys, Jojo Rabbit, Treasure Planet
04/12/21-04/18/21: What We Do in the Shadows, Mystery Men, Garden State
04/19/21-04/25/21: A Knight's Tale, Free Solo, Palm Springs
05/03/21-05/09/21: Osmosis Jones, The Big Sick, Arrival
05/10/21-05/16/21: The Place Beyond the Pines, The Kings of Summer, Seven Psychopaths
05/17/21-05/23/21: Role Models, Sorry to Bother You, Up
05/24/21-05/30/21: Wonder, The Good Liar, Rudderless
05/31/21-06/06/21: Reign of Fire, Shooter, Remember the Titans
06/07/21-06/13/21: Superbad, Sound of Metal, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
06/14/21-06/20/21: The Girl Next Door, Army of the Dead, (500) Days of Summer
06/21/21-06/27/21: The Green Mile, Moneyball, Beverly Hills Ninja
06/28/21-07/04/21: Fargo, Reign Over Me, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
07/05/21-07/11/21: American: The Motion Picture, Independence Day, The Sandlot
07/12/21-07/18/21: 22 Jump Street, Thor: Ragnarok, Back to the Future Part III
07/19/21-07/25/21: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Imitation Game, The Judge
07/26/21-08/01/21: Whiplash, WALL-E, The Patriot
08/02/21-08/08/21: A Silent Voice, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Onward
08/09/21-08/15/21: One Night in Miami..., My Uncle Frank, The Sweetest Thing
08/16/21-08/22/21: The Shape of Water, Safety, Boogie Nights
08/23/21-08/29/21: Buster's Mal Heart, Interstellar, Casino Royale
08/30/21-09/05/21: It Follows, Room, Vacation Friends
09/06/21-09/12/21: The Upside, Horrible Bosses, Spider-Man 2
09/13/21-09/19/21: The Intern, The Way Way Back, Sing Street
09/20/21-09/26/21: Edge of Tomorrow, There Will Be Blood, National Treasure
09/27/21-10/03/21: Pete's Dragon, Isle of Dogs, Minari
10/04/21-10/10/21: American Factory, The Final Girls, Our Idiot Brother
10/11/21-10/17/21: Zodiac, Schumacher, Holes
10/18/21-10/24/21: Birdman, The Founder, Jack Frost
10/25/21-10/31/21: Scary Movie, Trick 'r Treat, Halloweentown
11/01/21-11/07/21: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Chronicle, The Love Guru
11/08/21-11/14/21: Saving Mr. Banks, McFarland USA, Begin Again
11/15/21-11/21/21: Home Alone, I Robot, Johnny Tsunami
11/22/21-11/28/21: The Edge of Seventeen, About Time, Klaus
11/29/21-12/05/21: School of Rock, Office Space, Love and Monsters
12/06/21-12/12/21: Red Notice, We Were Soldiers, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
12/13/21-12/19/21: Pig, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Kicking & Screaming
12/20/21-12/26/21: The Matrix, The Night Before, Better Watch Out
12/27/21-01/02/22: tick, tick... BOOM!, Doctor Strange, Tommy Boy