Tarantino Names Black Hawk Down Best 21st-Century Film

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has named Ridley Scott's 2001 war epic Black Hawk Down as the best film of the 21st century, topping his newly revealed list of 20 favorite movies from the past two decades during a recent appearance on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast.

Tarantino, known for his eclectic tastes and influential body of work including Pulp Fiction and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, shared the rankings while promoting the rerelease of his Kill Bill films as a single presentation titled Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. The list, drawn from films released since 2000, adheres to a personal rule of one entry per director and emphasizes movies that left a lasting, memorable impact on him rather than critical consensus. He described the selections as driven by "what is iconic to me, what is memorable to me," focusing on aggressive filmmaking and entertaining experiences pulled straight from memory without external research.

Black Hawk Down, which depicts the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu and stars Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor and Eric Bana, earned Tarantino's highest praise for its unrelenting intensity. "I liked it when I first saw it, but I actually think it was so intense that it...