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Best Movies of 2001, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
56 films from 2001 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ('2001), at 8.9 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.1. Biggest split between audiences and critics: I Am Sam, 7.6 on IMDb against 28 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring '2001 | Fantasy / Action | 8.9 | 91% | 92 | 8.4 | Peter Jackson |
| 2 | Spirited Away '2001 | Animation / Fantasy | 8.6 | 96% | 96 | 8.5 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 3 | A Beautiful Mind '2001 | Drama / Romance | 8.2 | 74% | 72 | 7.9 | Ron Howard |
| 4 | Amélie '2001 | Comedy / Romance | 8.2 | 90% | 70 | 7.9 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 5 | Monsters, Inc. '2001 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 8.1 | 96% | 79 | 7.9 | Pete Docter |
| 6 | Donnie Darko '2001 | Fantasy / Drama / Mystery | 8.0 | 88% | 88 | 7.8 | Richard Kelly |
| 7 | Shrek '2001 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.9 | 89% | 84 | 7.8 | Andrew Adamson |
| 8 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone '2001 | Fantasy | 7.7 | 80% | 65 | 7.9 | Chris Columbus |
| 9 | Mulholland Drive '2001 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 7.9 | 83% | 87 | 7.8 | David Lynch |
| 10 | Training Day '2001 | Action / Crime / Drama | 7.8 | 74% | 71 | 7.5 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 11 | Ocean's Eleven '2001 | Thriller / Crime | 7.7 | 83% | 74 | 7.5 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 12 | Black Hawk Down '2001 | Action / War | 7.7 | 77% | 74 | 7.4 | Ridley Scott |
| 13 | The Others '2001 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 85% | 74 | 7.6 | Alejandro Amenábar |
| 14 | The Royal Tenenbaums '2001 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 81% | 76 | 7.5 | Wes Anderson |
| 15 | Moulin Rouge! '2001 | Drama / Romance / Musical | 7.5 | 75% | 66 | 7.5 | Baz Luhrmann |
| 16 | Enemy at the Gates '2001 | War | 7.5 | 53% | 53 | 7.4 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| 17 | Blow '2001 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 56% | 52 | 7.4 | Ted Demme |
| 18 | Y Tu Mamá También '2001 | Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 90% | 89 | 7.4 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 19 | I Am Sam '2001 | Drama | 7.6 | 35% | 28 | 7.6 | Jessie Nelson |
| 20 | K-PAX '2001 | Sci-Fi / Drama / Mystery | 7.4 | 41% | 49 | 7.2 | Iain Softley |
| 21 | The Man Who Wasn't There '2001 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 81% | 73 | 7.5 | Joel Coen |
| 22 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence '2001 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 76% | 65 | 7.1 | Steven Spielberg |
| 23 | Shaolin Soccer '2001 | Action / Comedy | 7.3 | 89% | 68 | 7.2 | Stephen Chow |
| 24 | Spy Game '2001 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.1 | 64% | 63 | 6.9 | Tony Scott |
| 25 | A Knight's Tale '2001 | Drama / Romance / Action | 7.0 | 60% | 56 | 6.9 | Brian Helgeland |
| 26 | Atlantis: The Lost Empire '2001 | Animation / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 48% | 52 | 7.1 | Gary Trousdale |
| 27 | Vanilla Sky '2001 | Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 41% | 45 | 6.8 | Cameron Crowe |
| 28 | Serendipity '2001 | Comedy / Romance | 6.8 | 58% | 52 | 7.0 | Peter Chelsom |
| 29 | The Score '2001 | Action / Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 6.8 | 74% | 71 | 6.7 | Frank Oz |
| 30 | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back '2001 | Comedy / Action | 6.8 | 52% | 51 | 6.4 | Kevin Smith |
| 31 | Ali '2001 | Drama | 6.7 | 69% | 65 | 6.7 | Michael Mann |
| 32 | Bridget Jones's Diary '2001 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 6.8 | 80% | 66 | 6.7 | Sharon Maguire |
| 33 | Hannibal '2001 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.8 | 39% | 57 | 6.8 | Ridley Scott |
| 34 | From Hell '2001 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.7 | 57% | 54 | 6.7 | Albert Hughes |
| 35 | The Fast and the Furious '2001 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 6.8 | 56% | 58 | 7.0 | Rob Cohen |
| 36 | Rush Hour 2 '2001 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 6.7 | 50% | 48 | 6.8 | Brett Ratner |
| 37 | Rat Race '2001 | Comedy | 6.5 | 44% | 52 | 6.3 | Jerry Zucker |
| 38 | Along Came a Spider '2001 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Action | 6.4 | 32% | 42 | 6.4 | Lee Tamahori |
| 39 | Swordfish '2001 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 6.5 | 27% | 32 | 6.3 | Dominic Sena |
| 40 | The Princess Diaries '2001 | Comedy / Romance | 6.4 | 50% | 52 | 7.0 | Garry Marshall |
| 41 | American Pie 2 '2001 | Comedy / Romance | 6.5 | 51% | 43 | 6.3 | J.B. Rogers |
| 42 | Legally Blonde '2001 | Comedy | 6.5 | 75% | 59 | 6.8 | Robert Luketic |
| 43 | Jeepers Creepers '2001 | Horror / Mystery | 6.3 | 47% | 49 | 6.5 | Victor Salva |
| 44 | Zoolander '2001 | Comedy | 6.5 | 64% | 61 | 6.2 | Ben Stiller |
| 45 | Evolution '2001 | Comedy / Sci-Fi / Action | 6.1 | 44% | 40 | 6.1 | Ivan Reitman |
| 46 | The Mummy Returns '2001 | Action / Fantasy | 6.4 | 46% | 48 | 6.4 | Stephen Sommers |
| 47 | Thir13en Ghosts '2001 | Horror / Thriller | 5.7 | 19% | 30 | 6.3 | Steve Beck |
| 48 | Shallow Hal '2001 | Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 6.0 | 49% | 48 | 6.2 | Peter Farrelly |
| 49 | Not Another Teen Movie '2001 | Comedy | 5.8 | 32% | 32 | 5.8 | Joel Gallen |
| 50 | Pearl Harbor '2001 | Drama / War | 6.3 | 24% | 44 | 6.9 | Michael Bay |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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