All in all, the past 22 years have been an excellent cinematic vintage that has yielded instantly-canonized masterpieces and a plethora of underrated movies that have slowly gained deeper resonance over time.
Having already surveyed the very best the horror genre had to offer, we thought we'd plug the gap by checking with his not-so-distant cousin, the thriller, and see how it has looked like since 2000. Serial killers, doppelgängers, cops, reporters, ex-cons, amnesiacs, and psychotic ballerinas—they're all here in our definitive canon of movies that have managed to keep us on the edge of our seats since the turn of the millennium. Let us know what we got right and what we missed in the comments, and here's to the next 22 years