Earlier this summer, The New York Times released a big list of the best films of the 21st century so far (that’s 2000-2025, for all you numerically challenged folks), as chosen by writers, actors, filmmakers, and other industry folks. It featured a lot of the movies you’d expect to see in a big prestige-y list, including Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite in the number one spot.

The internet was immediately completely normal about this (obviously). Nobody had any problems with any of the picks, and if they did, they were totally justified and not weird and populist about it at all (just kidding, we’re all still arguing about it).

Of course, that list is only one sector’s opinion. Kansas City has a great, diverse community of filmmakers and artists with excellent movie taste, and we wanted to know w

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