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Despite the fact that almost everything I see is recent, as I don't see much of anything most of the holes in my film knowledge are post-2000. Of those, one of the film aggregate sites says these are the best-thought-of movies I haven't seen:

Yi Yi, The Werckmeister Harmonies, A Russian Ark, Cache, A Tropical Malady, Blissfully Yours, Platform, The Gleaners and I, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Turin Horse, The Son, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, In Vanda's Room, Code Unknown, Songs from the Second Floor, Tie Xi Qu, Distant, Melancholia, La Cienega, Colossal Youth, Elephant, Ten, As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Glimpses of Great Beauty, Silent Light, Syndromes and a Century, Goodbye Dragon Inn, 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, Still Life, The Headless Woman

Some of those are really long and some others are by people I mostly hate, like Haneke and Von Trier, but the others I'll try to get to. Theoretically we could break up long ones, but when we do we tend to forget about them. It took us a couple weeks to get through The Wolf of Wall Street.

These other ones were listed:

In the Mood for Love - well made but so dull
Mulholland Drive - my choice for #1 of 2000s, and '90s too
Spirited Away - great movie, maybe among ten best I've seen for '00s
There Will Be Blood - hate it
The Tree of Life - half great, half hate; for great chunk still probably top ten
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - thoroughly amusing
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - disliked but brain was dehydrated
Punch Drunk Love - amusing, maybe the one Anderson movie worth a glance
Talk to Her - great movie, maybe top ten
City of God - great, probable top ten
Wall E - very fun
AI - completely worked on me, maybe top ten
Dogville - hate
Dancer in the Dark - Bjork was good, movie not
Requiem for a Dream - harrowing, good
The Lives of Others - good
The Royal Tenenbaums - often annoying, sometimes amusing, Hackman was good
Amelie - very fun
Brokeback Mountain - starts well but so boring
Inland Empire - no clue
The Piano Teacher - magnificent actor steals whole movie, cf Belly of an Architect
Zodiac - great, maybe top ten
The Fellowship of the Ring - maybe great as adaptation, probably not as movie
No Country for Old Men - amazing, probably top ten
Memento - great, maybe top ten
Oldboy - starts great, gets silly
A Separation - great
Pan's Labyrinth - great in flashes, as many disappointing elements
Donnie Darko - hate
Synecdoche New York - noble failure
Before Sunset - very good
Lost in Translation - well shot but pointless
2046 - fairly good
A History of Violence - very good, great in flashes