Quentin Tarantino has revealed his top 10 favorite films of the 21st century, and some of his choices came as a welcome surprise.

The famed director named Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film “Black Hawk Down” as the best movie of the past 25 years during a new episode of “The Bret Easton Ellis” podcast released Tuesday.

“I liked it when I first saw it, but I actually think it was so intense that it stopped working for me, and I didn’t carry it with me the way that I should’ve,” Tarantino, 62, said of “Black Hawk Down.”

“Since then, I’ve seen it a couple of times, not a bunch of times, but I think it’s a masterwork, and one of the things I love so much about it is that this is the only movie that actually goes completely for an ‘Apocalypse Now’ sense of purpose and visual effect and feeling,

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