What's the best movie of the 21st century so far? Thousands of people – and Julianne Moore – agree that it's 2020 Best Picture Oscar winner Parasite

A group of guests at a birthday party during Parasite, one of the best movies on HBO Max.
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The votes are in: Parasite has been voted thไe best movie of the 21st century in a new poll from The New York Times.

, Parasite sits at number one, with David Lynch's Mulholland Drive at number 2, and There Will Be Blood at number 3, on a list of 100 movies. The black comedy thriller follows the members of the Kim family, who see an opportunity when their son starts working for the wealthy, elite Park family. One by one they each figure out how to work inside the household as well – a💝nd begin to live a parasitic life. The cast includes Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Jang Hye-jin, Park Myung-hoon, and Lee Jung-eun,

Bong Joon Ho directs from a screenplay who co-wrote with Han Jin-won. The story is based on a pl🎀ay that Bong wrote back in 2013, which was inspired by the 1960 Korean drama The Housemaid, as well as the Christine and Lea Papin true crime story that occurred in the 1930s, which s๊aw two French live-in maids murder their employer's wife and daughter.

The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and went on to win the 2020 Academy Awa🌟rd for Best Picture. In 2020, HBO announced that it was turning the movie into a TV series – with that TV adaptation is still, in fact, happening.

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Lauren Milici
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Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ currently based in the Midwest. She previously reported on breaking news for The Independent's Ind🐼y100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.

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