Joanna Hogg also has a lot to be proud of, as her latest film – released only a couple of months ago – featured on a lot of our critics list, as The Souvenir Part II stole the hearts of so many. And this is telling of what can be so encouraging about British cinema: the ability to look beyond the island, to reach out and tell stories of people and places so much bigger than any of us individually. Like Ramsay, Arnold is deeply beloved by our critics – her name pops up four times in the top 100, with her 2006 debut feature Red Road, Brontë adaptation Wuthering Heights, and her US road trip odyssey American Honey, which won the filmmaker her third Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s also telling that joining Glazer and Ramsay in the top five are Paddington 2 director Paul King and then Andrea Arnold and Joanna Hogg, with their immense stories of growing pains and female youth in Fish Tank and The Souvenir. Lynne Ramsay, who, like Glazer, still has under five features to her name as a director, has three of those in the top 15, and two in the top 10, with 2002’s Morvern Callar just missing out on the top spot and You Were Never Really Here sitting at #9. If the MASSIVE poll is anything to go by, we’re living through a spiriting time for female filmmakers in the UK. There have been no new Glazer features since, but then it’s hard to top something with the chilling originality of our #1 title, which also gave Scarlett Johansson undoubtedly one of her most singular and haunting roles to date, even nine years and a whole lot more Marvel later. Sexy Beast was released in 2000 (and was ranked 15th best UK film of the century by our critics) and Birth came after that in 2004 – which also cracks the top 100. The news you’ve all been waiting for, of course, is that Jonathan Glazer’s unsettling thriller Under the Skin came out on top, but a number of other trends emerged giving us an insight into the most impactful stories and storytellers to come out of the UK in the last 22 years.īack in 2013, Glazer had only made two features before Under the Skin – and what a two they were. The goal was simple – streamlining all the greatest films both made and released in the UK since the year 2000, with, as is always our aim at Massive, the intention of championing British filmmaking talent in front of and behind the camera.Ī total of 60 critics named almost 180 films in total in all of their respective top 10s. It’s finally here: after months of voting, collating, debating and confirming, the best British film of the 21st century has been decided by many of the finest film critics working today.
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