We are in a golden age of acting — make that platinum — as we realized when we decided to select our favorite film performers of the past 20 years. There’s no formula for choosing the best (just squabbling), and this list is both necessarily subjective and possibly scandalous in its omissions.

Denzel Washington, Saoirse Ronan, Michael B Jordan: The 25 greatest actors of the 21st century

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Denzel Washington, Saoirse Ronan, Michael B Jordan: The 25 greatest actors of the 21st century