Scream 3 (2000)

Scream 3 (2000)

[5] The Scream franchise creaks and bows under the strain of an increasingly incredulous plot in the concluding chapter of the original trilogy. Yet another killer is donning the Ghost Face mask, this time preying on the cast and crew…
The Perfect Storm (2000)

The Perfect Storm (2000)

[6] Director Wolfgang Petersen (Air Force One, The Neverending Story) pits George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg against a killer storm at sea in The Perfect Storm, a true story based on a novel by Sebastian Junger. Clooney plays the captain…
Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

[8] Director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Mother!) delivers perhaps the most powerful anti-drug public service announcement in all of filmdom with Requiem for a Dream. Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans star as Coney Island residents whose…
Red Planet (2000)

Red Planet (2000)

[6] Val Kilmer headlines this serviceable sci-fi survival story of astronauts who become stranded on Mars. As their oxygen depletes and their damaged robot accidentally enters 'war mode' and hunts them down, their commander in orbit (The Matrix's Carrie-Anne Moss)…
Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Mission: Impossible II (2000)

[6] Well, at least it's better than the first one. Tom Cruise returns as secret agent Ethan Hunt, tasked with apprehending a fatal new virus called "Chimera" before the bad guys (led by Dougray Scott) unleash it upon the world.…
U-571 (2000)

U-571 (2000)

[8] Matthew McConaughey leads a U.S. submarine crew into hostile waters to board a stranded World War II German sub carrying an Enigma cipher machine, technology that the U.S. could use to decipher German communications. But once the Americans arrive…
The Patriot (2000)

The Patriot (2000)

[7] After his young son is murdered by a sadistic British officer, a peaceful colonial farmer forms a militia to exact vengeance during the American Revolution. Armed with a strong, emotionally potent screenplay by Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan, Fly…
American Psycho (2000)

American Psycho (2000)

[6] Christian Bale (Empire of the Sun) plays a homicidal Wall Street playboy in this Bret Easton Ellis adaptation directed by Mary Harron. By day, Bale's character, Patrick Bateman, engages in banal chit-chat with other yuppies. They compare dicks --…
Hollow Man (2000)

Hollow Man (2000)

[6] Elisabeth Shue (Adventures in Babysitting) stars as a scientist working on an invisibility experiment for the U.S. military in this thriller from director Paul Verhoeven (Spetters, RoboCop). Things are looking good until her brilliant cohort and ex-boyfriend, played by…
Meet the Parents (2000)

Meet the Parents (2000)

[7] Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro headline this 'comedy of errors' flick about a male nurse seeking permission from an ex-CIA agent to take his daughter's hand in marriage. Formula comedies usually fail or succeed on the strength of casting.…