Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Critics’ Picks: Top 100 Movies

Critics’ Picks:

Top 100 Movies

These are the top 100 movies based on more than 20 lists from individuals in the movie industries, including critics such as Robert Ebert and Leonard Maltin, and directors such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. See links to sources at bottom of page.


1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Taxi Driver (1976)
5. Raging Bull (1980)
6. Vertigo (1958)
7. Apocalypse Now (1979)
8. Psycho (1960)
9. The Third Man (1949)
10. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

11. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
12. 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
13. Goodfellas (1990)
14. Schindler’s List (1993)
15. City Lights (1931)
16. The Wild Bunch (1969)
17. The Godfather Part II (1974)
18. Casablanca (1942)
19. Chinatown (1974)
20. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

21. Paths of Glory (1957)
22. Jaws (1975)
23. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25. North by Northwest (1959)
26. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
27. All About Eve (1950)
28. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
29. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
30. Rear Window (1954)

31. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
32. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
33. Fargo (1996)
34. Double Indemnity (1944)
35. Nashville (1975)
36. On the Waterfront (1954)
37. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
38. Pulp Fiction (1994)
39. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
40. The Apartment (1960)

41. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
42. Greed (1925)
43. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
44. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
45. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
46. The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957)
47. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
48. High Noon (1952)
49. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
50. The General (1927)

51. Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
52. Manhattan (1979)
53. The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) (1947)
54. The Shining (1980)
55. Duck Soup (1933)
56. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
57. Gone with the Wind (1939)
58. Annie Hall (1977)
59. American Beauty (1999)
60. Some Like It Hot (1959)

61. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
62. King Kong (1933)
63. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
64. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
65. Blue Velvet (1986)
66. Modern Times (1936)
67. Amadeus (1984)
68. Metropolis (1927)
69. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
70. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

71. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
72. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972)
73. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
74. Rashômon (1950)
75. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (1945)
76. Toy Story (1995)
77. The Searchers (1956)
78. The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita) (1960)
79. Persona (aka “Masks”) (1966)
80. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

81. Forrest Gump (1994)
82. Crumb (1994)
83. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
84. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
85. Stagecoach (1939)
86. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
87. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
88. Glory (1989)
89. Platoon (1986)
90. Pinocchio (1940)

91. M – Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder (1931)
92. The Lady Eve (1941)
93. Fantasia (1940)
94. Do the Right Thing (1989)
95. The Graduate (1967)
96. Blade Runner (1982)
97. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
98. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
99. Rocky (1976)
100. Se7en (1995)


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Originally posted 6/7/2023.

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