What new trends in British cinema has the 21st century thrown up so far?

"...the good news is, the decade nicknamed 'the noughties' has so far seen more hits than misses. (FOR THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY) We've had more international audiences than ever following the worldwide smashes of Love Actually and the Bridget Jones movies. And grand cultural exports in the shape of The Queen and Pride & Prejudice.

Industry old boys Mike Leigh (Vera Drake) and Ken Loach (Sweet Sixteen) continue to produce some of their finest and most challenging work, alongside a relatively new breed of vital UK directors like Shane Meadows (This Is England), Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People). There's also been some visionary work from a new wave of art-schooled filmmakers such as Steve McQueen (Hunger) and Duane Hopkins (Better Things).

We've seen storming comebacks by both James Bond and a couple of lumps of Plasticine (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit), while the British horror genre has also been rescued from flatlining, via the likes of 28 Days Later, The Descent, and Eden Lake.
Film4, of course, has really cleaned up this century, with recent hits including Happy-Go-Lucky and The Last King Of Scotland. In the wake of Film4's recent BAFTA haul - nine of 'em shared between Slumdog Millionaire, In Bruges and Hunger, we here present our list of the best British films since 2000: the mad, the bad, and the just plain brilliant. "

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