“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. Eligible movies are ranked based on their Adjusted Scores. | Geoffrey Rush, Director: Carrie Fisher, But the film’s ice-cold paranoia, uncut and pharma-grade, has been its most lasting legacy: a template of perfection for all since.—Joshua Rothkopf, Writer-director Julie Dash should have become an Ava DuVernay–level success after her poetic feature debut, an achievement of otherworldly beauty. We think so (and not just because we can’t turn it off whenever we catch it midstream on TV). | Gore Verbinski You're gonna need a bigger bowl of popcorn. Walter Huston, Jack Hawkins, En route, there’s surfing, a thrilling helicopter raid, napalm smelling, tigers and Playboy bunnies, until Sheen steps off the boat and into a different zone of madness—or is it genius? Oscar Nominations: 4 Still, it’s shocking to remember that The Shining—so redolent of the director’s pet themes of mazelike obsession and the banality of evil—was once considered a minor work. Mark Hamill, 2. Stars: 143 min 98%: Zootopia (2016) 293: 9. It also made Marcello Mastroianni a star; here, he plays a gossip journalist caught up in the frenzied, freewheeling world of Roman nightlife. Sean Connery, A grungy vision of horror captured during a palpably sweaty and stenchy Texas summer, the film has taken its rightful place as a definitive parable of Nixonian class warfare, eat-or-be-eaten social envy and the essentially unknowable nature of some unlucky parts of the world.—Joshua Rothkopf, As unsparing as cinema gets, the influence of Elem Klimov’s sui generis war movie transcends the genre in a way that not even Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan can match. Stars: :), PG A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron. In 1935, Indiana Jones arrives in India, still part of the British Empire, and is asked to find a mystical stone. William Holden, As director, producer, cowriter and star, Welles cemented his status as an innovator. | Steve McQueen, John Sturges | | Gross: Harrison Ford, 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. And it’s all topped off by Harrison Ford’s pitch-perfect Indiana Jones, a model of reluctant but resourceful heroism (look at his face when he shoots that swordsman). Elijah Wood, The 20 Best Adventure Movies of All Time. It even won him an unlikely Oscar.—Joshua Rothkopf, An antiwar movie, a courtroom thriller, an upstairs-downstairs study of social status, a religious critique, an absurdist satire and, finally, a heartbreakingly futile plea for compassion in the face of destruction, Stanley Kubrick’s humanist masterpiece dissects all the delusional facets of the male psyche. Claudette Colbert’s spoiled heiress and Clark Gable’s opportunistic reporter hit the road and bicker their way toward a happily-ever-after ending, class barriers be damned. When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. Ben-Hur (1959) Oscar Nominations: 13 As ever, the star had the last laugh: Not only was the film a huge commercial success, it also ended on the most heartbreaking close-up in cinema history—the peak of the reaction shot (since cribbed by movies from La Strada to The Purple Rose of Cairo), no dialogue required.—Joshua Rothkopf, There’s never a bad time to revisit one of Jean Renoir’s great masterpieces (along with The Rules of the Game), but this current era of populists, nationalists and shouty rabble-rousers feels like a particularly good one. But Roeg’s real genius was for inhabiting his films with guttural emotions. Not forgetting co-director Stanley Donen, who was always happy to let his stars take the credit but deserves an equal share for a musical that never puts a foot wrong.–Phil de Semlyen, Has this one taken its place as Martin Scorsese’s peak achievement yet? Years later, it’s considered by many to be Kubrick’s masterpiece, and its deliberate, highly aestheticized approach has influenced everybody from Ridley Scott to Yorgos Lanthimos.—Bilge Ebiri, Martin Scorsese’s hallucinogenic biography of the tenacious boxer Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro) is a bold mash-up of neorealist grit and hyperstylized, gossamer beauty. Victor Jory, Amrish Puri, Votes: | Director: 60%. The revolution triggered by Goodfellas is only now becoming apparent: Without it, you don’t have The Sopranos, the golden age of television or the Reservoir Dogs diner scene. | | Gross: 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. | | It’s science fiction at its most ambitious and breathtaking—the not-so-modest beginnings of onscreen genre seriousness.—Ian Freer, The accepted wisdom is that the noir era really kicked off during the hard-bitten post-WWII years, which makes John Huston’s adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's detective novel a real trailblazer. | 162 min Stars: The turning point was Seven, the first time that Fincher’s fearsome vision arrived uncut. Why did this film resonate so well at the end of its decade? avg. Top 100 Movies of All Time Best of Rotten Tomatoes Movies with 40 or more critic reviews vie for their place in history at Rotten Tomatoes. It features Cubistic jump cuts, restless handheld camerawork, location shoots, eccentric pacing (the 24-minute centerpiece is two lovers talking in a bedroom), and self-conscious asides about painting, poetry, pop culture, literature and film. Harrison Ford, Director: Aug 26, 2020 Everett. Stars: 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. Undeniably one of the best sci-fi movies out there, The Matrix also totally holds it’s own as one of the best action movies of all time. Golden Globes: 0 Kubrick’s frighteningly clinical vision of the future—AI and all—still feels prophetic, more than 50 years on.—Phil de Semlyen, From the wise guys of Goodfellas to The Sopranos, all crime dynasties that came after The Godfather are descendants of the Corleones: Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus is the ultimate patriarch of the Mafia genre. Steve McQueen, BAFTA Awards: 3 | Peter Jackson Robert Morley, The swirling mythic cauldron (i.e. Screened at the Pentagon for its topical significance during the early phases of the Iraq War, Algiers has its rebellious legacy vested in numerous politically charged epics, from Z to Steven Spielberg’s Munich.—Tomris Laffly, Pedro Almodóvar broke into the mainstream with this gloriously colorful ensemble comedy, an entry point for many into a style of smart, sexually liberated European cinema. More like an assassination, since he can’t abide a relative forced to live among the natives. Karen Allen, Director: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) In some ways a kinder, gentler version of Network, The Truman Show is a TV parable in which a meek hero (Jim Carrey) wins back his life. 179 min score: 41 of 100 (41%) required scores: 1, 20, 36, 48, 63 list stats leaders vote Vote print comments. Lulling us into her routine, Akerman and actor Delphine Seyrig create an extraordinary sense of sympathy rarely matched by other movies. William Wyler Richard Attenborough, Votes: 201 min 161 min Our favorite joke? $12.10M, Oscars: 0 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. PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure | The movie’s theme is vigilance: We must protect our children, but who will protect society from itself? Movies. Golden Globe Nominations: 1, PG-13 | Director Robert Wiene conjured up something truly dark and lingering from its shadows: You can feel Dr. Caligari’s influence in everything from Tim Burton’s movies to Shutter Island.—Phil de Semlyen, This multilayered epic of country music, politics and relationships is Robert Altman’s signature achievement. BAFTA Awards: 2 In 1938, after his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. finds himself up against Adolf Hitler's Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers. | Elijah Wood, Oscars: 3 Flashbacks have never been so thrillingly deployed; nearly 70 years after its release, filmmakers are still trying to catch up to its achievements.—Abbey Bender, Jean Renoir cemented his virtuosity with this pitch-perfect study of social-strata eruptions among the ditzy, idle rich, about to be blown sideways by WWII. Stars: A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose. Two Americans searching for work in Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. $179.87M, Oscars: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Top 100 Greatest Movies of All Time (The Ultimate List) 1. 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. Stacker presents the 100 best movies of all time, as determined by weighted IMDb ratings and Metascores. | Gross: Peter Jackson | If you guys would like to view my other Top 10/Top 100 lists, feel free to check out my YouTube page and/or my IMDb page at *ChrisWalczyk55*.Thanks guys and don't forget to LIKE & comment! 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. If you loved last year’s Shoplifters, you’ll love this.—Ian Freer, What’s the best part of Pulp Fiction? Orlando Bloom, Votes: score: 41 of 100 (41%) required scores: 1, 20, 36, 48, 63 list stats leaders vote Vote print comments. | With it, Pixar took storytelling to infinity and far, far beyond.—Phil de Semlyen, Shot on 16-millimeter film in sketchy light, Charles Burnett’s UCLA graduate thesis film stitches together seemingly mundane vignettes to form a compelling mosaic of late-’70s African-American life. | Director: The 25 best adventure movies of all time. Sam Worthington, Make no apologies for your tears; everyone else will be crying, too.—Joshua Rothkopf, Mournful, challenging and mesmerizing, Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic portrait of the life and times of one of Russia’s most famous medieval icon painters foregrounds qualities such as landscape and mood over story and character. BAFTA Nominations: 1 Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! His performance, taking us through the stages of a troubled mogul’s life—with the help of some shockingly convincing age makeup—is unforgettable, and the film’s themes of greed, power and memory are masterfully presented.—Abbey Bender, Long considered a feminist masterpiece, Chantal Akerman’s quietly ruinous portrait of a widow’s daily routine—her chores slowly yielding to a sense of pent-up frustration—should take its rightful place on any all-time list. Still, Boyhood’s astonishing compactness catches you off guard like no other movie. 1. | BAFTA Awards: 1 Lorraine Gary, Votes: BAFTA Nominations: 8 Jules’s Ezekiel 25:17 monologue? But it’s also about jealousy, power dynamics and our relationships with our own childhoods. | Gross: Enjoy! A fluky Los Angeles housewife and mother who’s constantly being told to calm down, Rowlands’s Mabel is the apotheosis of John Cassavetes’s improvisatory cinema; our concern for her never flags as she teeters through excruciating scenes of breakdown and regrouping.—Joshua Rothkopf, Quotable, endearing and bursting with creative moments, Annie Hall is one of the most revolutionary of romantic comedies. Add the swoony pair of Beatty and Dunaway, and you’ve got a classic on your hands: a revolution in period dress.—Dave Calhoun, Watch this space: Jordan Peele’s newly minted horror classic is sure to rise in the rankings. Martin Scorsese’s vision of vigilantism is filled with an uncomfortable ambience, and Paul Schrader’s screenplay probes philosophical depths that are brought to vicious life by Robert De Niro’s unforgettable performance.—Abbey Bender, The jewel in Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli’s crown, Spirited Away is a glorious bedtime story filled with soot sprites, monsters and phantasms—it’s a movie with the power to coax out the inner child in the most grown-up and jaded among us. Trivia time: It remains Japan’s highest-grossing film ever, just ahead of Titanic.—Anna Smith, The first no-budget horror movie to become a bona-fide calling card for its director, George A. Romero’s seminal frightfest begins with a single zombie in a graveyard and builds to an undead army attacking a secluded house. Best Western Movies of All Time. Loaded with longing, the film benefits from no less than three cinematographers, who together create an intense sense of intimacy, while the faultless performances shiver with sexual tension. The pivotal point was There Will Be Blood, an epic about a certain kind of hustler—the oil baron and prospector. | Lawrence (Peter O’Toole), silencing naysayers after having single-handedly crossed deadly desert terrain. Oscar Nominations: 1 $5.01M, Oscars: 3 BAFTA Awards: 0 He picks one up, examines it and nonchalantly chucks it away. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther Bagheera and free-spirited bear Baloo. 98%: The African Queen (1951) 45: 53. German Expressionist director F.W. 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. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) The second this love story opens, you sense you are in the hands of a master. $44.82M, Oscars: 7 Jack Hawkins, BAFTA Nominations: 5 By turning his more somber preoccupations with male insecurity into comedy, Scorsese punctured through to a new register: one of coked-up social commentary on a distinctly American rise and fall. 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. With the Vietnam War, inner-city rioting and Nixon on the rise, all bets were off. Anthony Quinn, George Lucas Alec Guinness, Toy Story 4 All rights reserved. Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 4, PG-13 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. BAFTA Nominations: 10 This film is arguably his sharpest and most psychologically complex; inarguably, it’s his bitchiest. Nuclear annihilation was a subject in which Kubrick immersed himself, reading virtually every unclassified text.