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Jul 26, 2023 · After compiling and annotating my own list of the 100 best movies of the past century—broken down by decade, 10 pictures in each—I’m here to reassure you that there’s no such thing as the ...
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Welcome to the 300 highest-rated best movies of all time, as reviewed and selected by Tomatometer-approved critics and Rotten Tomatoes users. How did we select and rank the movies? First,...
The 100 best movies of all time to watch right now. Silent classics, noirs, space operas and everything in between: Somehow we managed to rank the best movies of all time....
- The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols’ indelible comedy of alienation is that rare thing, a movie that really does define a generation. That’s because there has never been another movie like it (and no, “Rushmore” doesn’t count).
- 12 Angry Men (1957) How elemental — and riveting — is this: an entire courtroom drama set inside the jury room, where Henry Fonda, as the only member of the jury who suspects that a teenage defendant might not be guilty of murder, questions, cajoles and gradually convinces his fellow jurors to look more closely at the evidence.
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) You never forget your first. That may be how many American art-house habituésthink of Pedro Almodóvar’s riotous comedy.
- Alien (1979) A smothering tentacled thingy attaches itself to an astronaut’s face. Several scenes later, an alien fetus erupts right out of his belly, and the cinema would never be the same.
- 'Lord of The Rings: Return of The King'
- 'Chimes at Midnight'
- 'Lady Bird'
- 'We Were Here'
- 'The Gunfighter'
- 'Apocalypse Now'
- 'The Apartment'
- 'Meet Me in St. Louis'
- 'Schindler's List'
- 'Sideways'
- Director: Peter Jackson - Metascore: 94 - Runtime: 201 minutes The last film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy won 11 Academy Awards, the third movie ever to do so, along with Titanic and Ben-Hur. It is the most Oscar-nominated movie in history to win in every single one of its nomination categories.
- Director: Orson Welles - Metascore: 94 - Runtime: 119 minutes Orson Welles not only directs but stars as the Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, drawing from the plays Henry IV,Henry V,Richard II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. It was based on a play Welles wrote called Five Kings, which flopped on its opening night in New York City in 19...
- Director: Greta Gerwig - Metascore: 94 - Runtime: 94 minutes After starring in a string of popular indie films, actress Greta Gerwig wrote and directed this comedy-drama about a teenage girl who comes of age in Sacramento, California, in the early 2000s. Featuring powerhouse performances from actresses Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf, the movie ...
- Directors: Bill Weber, David Weissman - Metascore: 94 - Runtime: 90 minutes In the early 1980s, San Francisco's flourishing gay community was devastated by the AIDS epidemic, which delivered unfathomable amounts of suffering and loss. Revisiting those early days by way of interviews and footage, this 2011 documentary chronicles the immediate impa...
- Director: Henry King - Metascore: 94 - Runtime: 85 minutes The premise of a gunslinger coming out of retirement might be cliché by today's standards, but it was quite fresh when this Western debuted in 1950, making The Gunfighter a trailblazer of sorts. Furthermore, the movie's reflective and psychological approach helped pave the way for similar...
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola - Metascore: 94 - Runtime: 153 minutes When making his iconic Vietnam War movie, 1979's Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola endured many psychological and physical setbacks. Over two decades passed before he revisited the film, releasing this unabridged, digitally restored version in 2001, which included a...
- Director: Billy Wilder - Metascore: 94 - Runtime: 125 minutes The comedy stars Jack Lemmon as an insurance company employee who lets the firm's bigwigs use his Manhattan apartment for their trysts in hopes of getting a promotion. Fred MacMurray plays his boss, who is having an affair with an elevator operator played by Shirley MacLaine. During a ...
- Director: Vincente Minnelli - Metascore: 94 - Runtime: 113 minutes Judy Garland leads the cast of the popular family musical. Margaret O'Brien, who was 7, plays her little sister and was given a special Academy Award for outstanding child actress. Director Vincente Minnelli and Garland met while making the movie and later were married.
- Director: Steven Spielberg - Metascore: 94 - Runtime: 195 minutes In the early 1990s, Steven Spielberg released one of his most personal and sophisticated films to date, about German industrialist Oskar Schindler (played by Liam Neeson) who became an unlikely savior to over 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust. Critics noted how the film represented a...
- Director: Alexander Payne - Metascore: 94 - Runtime: 126 minutes Despite its understated premise, this 2004 comedy-drama from Alexander Payne was a veritable phenomenon upon its release and had a discernible effect on the wine industry at large. Based on a novel, the film follows two close friends (Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church) as they t...
May 14, 2024 · To celebrate the very best of the most popular and influential modern entertainment medium and art form, we've rounded up and ranked the best movies ever made. Whether you're a highly...
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