Best Cautionary Movies & TV Series of the 2000s

3eyedraven's 22 top-rated cautionary movies and TV series of the 2000s — ordered by how strongly audiences rate them and how many actually voted, so the ranking reflects real consensus. Full details on each.

The Wire 2002 ★ 8.6
Battlestar Galactica 2003 ★ 8.2
Hotel Rwanda 2004 ★ 7.7
Almost Famous 2000 ★ 7.5
The Reader 2008 ★ 7.5
Ray 2004 ★ 7.5
Blow 2001 ★ 7.4
Road to Perdition 2002 ★ 7.4
Gone Baby Gone 2007 ★ 7.3
Milk 2008 ★ 7.2
The Virgin Suicides 2000 ★ 7.1
Dawn of the Dead 2004 ★ 7.1
An Education 2009 ★ 6.9
Crazy Heart 2009 ★ 6.9
Intervention 2005 ★ 7.0
Things We Lost in the Fire 2007 ★ 6.6
The Girls Next Door 2005 ★ 6.6
Idiocracy 2006 ★ 6.4
The Missing 2003 ★ 6.3
Wonderland 2003 ★ 6.1
2012 2009 ★ 5.9
Perfect Stranger 2007 ★ 5.8