Lawrence of Arabia (1962) If the movie were any more hard-boiled, you’d crack your teeth on it.—Phil de Semlyen, Exploding drummers, amps that go to 11, tiny Stonehenges, “Dobly”: This spoof rock documentary—rockumentary, if you must—is monumentally influential on cinema, cringe comedy and, possibly, the music industry itself. It’s since come to represent the most concentrated blast of Kubrick’s total command; he’s the god of the film, Steadicam-ing around corners and making the audience notice that he was born to redefine horror. Even if we can’t roll with the crackpot fan theories about how Kubrick allegedly faked the Apollo moon landing, we’ll readily admit that this film contains cosmic multitudes.—Joshua Rothkopf, The one that got Pixar’s (Luxo) ball rolling and still an absolute high-water mark for CG animation, Toy Story reinvented what a family movie could be. Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama are dignified and moving as parents who visit their children and grandchildren, only to be neglected. 2. Stars: avg. “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.”—Phil de Semlyen, Hypnotic, bewitching, thought-provoking, disturbing, horrifying: However you react to it, you won't forget Jonathan Glazer's startling adaptation of Michel Faber's woman-who-fell-to-earth novel. Carrie Fisher, Parents will love the nostalgia throwback (baby-faced Drew Barrymore) and little ones will love the adorable E.T. $44.91M, Oscars: 7 It’s a surreal moment that encapsulates this strange and mighty river movie, about a man so lost in his own obsession, he can no longer process the world around him.—Phil de Semlyen, Political thrillers still owe a debt to Gillo Pontecorvo’s ever-timely tour de force. The movie takes us back to the 1930s during the legendary crime spree of lovers Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty), careening around Depression-era America and robbing it blind. | Gross: | score: 41 of 100 (41%) required scores: 1, 20, 36, 48, 63 list stats leaders vote Vote print comments. Biography, Crime, Drama. Stacker presents the 100 best movies of all time, as determined by weighted IMDb ratings and Metascores. | Gross: 60 Best Adventure Movies of All Time << Rotten Tomatoes – Movie and TV News But for our money—and that of superfan Martin Scorsese—this dazzling ballet-set romance is first among equals. Director: 1,112,563 Golden Globes: 3 Stars: | Golden Globes: 2 Honorable Mentions: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Blood Diamond (2006) O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000) Cast Away (2000) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1998) Back To The Future (1985) Aguirre: The Wrath Of God (1972) The Dirty … gag. Steven Spielberg Geoffrey Rush, Stars: Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. Billy Dee Williams, Votes: The artistic greatness of films (and other works of art) can never be rated or quantified, although critics, reviewers, and fans still make ten best lists, hundred best lists, all-time greatest lists, favorites lists, awards lists, and generate results of polls. But respect must be paid to the performer, too: In a decade of brilliant acting, no turn was quite as galvanizing as the one given by Gena Rowlands in this stunning peek into a fraying mind. Adrien Brody, Anyone who watched In The Mood for Love when it was released in 2000 may have said yes. A canon, as we critics like to call it, updated with today's game changers, that would glance upon all tastes, all genres, all countries, all eras, balancing impact with importance, brains with heart? Perhaps that’s because Fellini films everything with so much cinematic verve and wit that it’s often hard not to get caught up in the delirious happenings onscreen. While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. Kate Capshaw, | Gross: With its shifting, unreliable narrative structure—in which four people give differing accounts of a murder—the film is remarkably daring and serves as a reminder of how form itself can beguile us. 1. It’s pulp fiction, but alchemically profound.—Stephen Garrett, So much of Stanley Kubrick’s genius was conceptual, and this one asks his most audacious question: What if the world came to an end—and it was hilarious? 228 min And when those cameras were rolling, they captured a self-made icon with a global audience. Golden Globes: 0 Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. Action, Adventure, Fantasy. 1,010,246 | The Matrix. There’s a reason why superhero movies are taken so seriously nowadays—even by the Oscars—and this is basically it.—Bilge Ebiri, Charlie Chaplin’s total vision remains awe-inspiring: He wrote, directed, produced, edited and starred in his own movies, which he also scored with an orchestra. Action, Adventure, Fantasy. BAFTA Nominations: 6 Wayne’s bitterly wayward ex–Confederate soldier heads a five-year hunt for niece Debbie, captured at age nine by the Comanche. Toshiro Mifune is superb as the half-crazed self-styled samurai, but it’s Takashi Shimura’s Yoda-like leader who gives the film its emotional center. Many have tried to imitate the film’s uncanny vibe, but these rain-slicked streets and seedy vistas possess a singular menace.—Abbey Bender, The creative fecundity of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, dead from an overdose at age 37 after completing more than 40 features, deserves enshrinement by a new generation. The first film made by an African-American woman to receive theatrical distribution, Daughters of the Dust is permeated with pride, history and matriarchal wisdom. The ultimate cult film, Leone’s spaghetti Western is set in a civilizing America—though mostly shot in Rome and Spain—but the real location is an abstract frontier of old versus new, of larger-than-life heroes fading into memory. 172 min You're gonna need a bigger bowl of popcorn. Ke Huy Quan, The 100 best movies of all time 2001: A Space Odyssey Silent classics, noir, space operas and everything in between: Somehow we managed to rank the best movies of all time Aug 26, 2020 Everett. Golden Globe Nominations: 7, Passed Adventure, Drama, Western. Stars: Murnau’s haunting images of a crepuscular world set the chilling standard for generations of cinematic nightmares.—Stephen Garrett, With about 6,500 zingers to choose from, everyone has their favorite Airplane! This film is arguably his sharpest and most psychologically complex; inarguably, it’s his bitchiest. This one, her celebrated breakout, is something of a spin on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd—but that’s like calling Jaws something of a spin on Moby-Dick. But the intense close-ups give free reign to Maria Falconetti’s marvelously expressive turn as the doomed Maid of Orleans. Stars: His Spanish soldier, Don Lope de Aguirre, finds himself with only these furry friends for company, his dreams of finding the mythical El Dorado in tatters. Frank Capra’s hilarious hate-at-first-sight love story is still one of the fastest movies ever made. TV series have never been as popular as they are right now. Giger’s strangely elegant double-jawed creature, a nightmarish vision of hostility—and one of cinema’s most unforgettable pieces of pure craft.—Tomris Laffly, Simply spun, Yasujiro Ozu’s domestic drama is small but perfectly formed. Don Gordon, Votes: Follow me on instagram https://www.instagram.com/doktor_trax/Comment bellow video you top 10 list.Thanks for watching and dont forget to subscribe. BAFTA Nominations: 11 Golden Globe Nominations: 1, G Oscar Nominations: 11 A monumental opening line (“I believe in America”) sets the operatic Mario Puzo adaptation in motion, before Coppola’s epic morphs into a chilling dismantling of the American dream. | Gross: | Gross: Ian McKellen, Many films emerge from Sundance with a deafening buzz; how do you explain a $250 million global box-office gross? | Nuclear annihilation was a subject in which Kubrick immersed himself, reading virtually every unclassified text. Intricately designed as a tribute to the craft, Steven Spielberg’s funnest blockbuster has it all: rolling boulders, a barroom brawl, a sparky heroine (Karen Allen) who can hold her liquor and lose her temper, a treacherous monkey, a champagne-drinking villain (Paul Freeman), snakes (“Why did it have to be snakes?”), cinema’s greatest truck chase and a barnstorming supernatural finale where heads explode. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are comic royalty, and we can only genuflect in their presence; shortly after this film, Guest kicked off his own directorial brand of humor, directly inspired by Rob Reiner’s heavy-metal satire.—Phil de Semlyen, If only Hollywood made ’em like they used to: crackling romantic comedies that conquered the Oscars. Robert Rossellini was responsible for a few of them, including Germany Year Zero and this earlier drama of repression and resistance, which boasts not one but two of the most memorable death scenes in all of cinema.—Phil de Semlyen, Brace for the land of phantoms and the call of the Bird of Death: One of the earliest (though unauthorized) adaptations of Dracula is still the most terrifying. Raging Bull (1980) 5. 1,149,024 100 Best War Movies of All Time. Action, Adventure, Drama. The director shows restraint with setting and scope; the film focuses largely on the back-and-forth between Joan and her inquisitors. 98%: Zootopia (2016) 293: 9. My lists are not based on my own personal favorites; they are based on the true greatness and/or success of the person, place or thing being ranked. Set in 1902, it follows the Gullah, descendents of slaves living off the coast of South Carolina, who painfully reckon with their fading traditions. Director: Daniel Plainview is, in the final analysis, an ultra-scary Daniel Day-Lewis who will drink your milkshake. 2019, Ridley Scott’s vision of a dystopian future is one of the most stylish sci-fi films of all time. And let’s not forget the movie itself, which kicked off the “found-footage” trend. A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives. Sean Bean, Votes: Stars: Stars: Scored by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood (himself emerging as a major composer), Anderson’s mournful epic is the true heir to Chinatown’s bone-deep cynicism. Its tranquil strength later found an echo in Beyoncé’s Lemonade.—Tomris Laffly, Back in 1975, Stanley Kubrick’s somber adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel about a young Irishman’s journey from lovestruck exile to cynical grifter in 18th-century Europe seemed out of step with the gritty, intense output of contemporary cinema. BAFTA Nominations: 3 In 1935, Indiana Jones arrives in India, still part of the British Empire, and is asked to find a mystical stone. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) But Roeg’s real genius was for inhabiting his films with guttural emotions. | Gross: Golden Globes: 0 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), 67. The adventure movies on this list are ranked according to their success (awards & nominations), their popularity, and their cinematic greatness from a directing/writing perspective. Golden Globes: 0 An unyielding critique of capitalism through the story of an everyman’s losing battle to safeguard a hard-earned job and preserve his dignity in the eyes of his son, Bicycle Thieves continues to inform the most humanist works of our time, from Winter’s Bone to Shoplifters.—Tomris Laffly, Christopher Nolan’s brooding, expansive Batman sequel fuses the comic-book flick with the crime epic, and delivers something truly special: a pop spectacle with passages of surprisingly potent despair.