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2021 – 19 The Eyes of Tammy Faye – 4 Tiny Tim: King for a Day – 3 ¾ Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Television Event Stillwater – 3 ½ The Lost Leonardo Supernova – 3 ¼ The Courier Les Nôtres (Our Own) FL – 3 CODA – 2 ¾ Mandibules (Mandibles) FL Lily Topples the World ↑THUMBS ↓THUMBS DOWN Val – 2 ½ The Little Things – 2 ¼ Lorelei – 2 The Card Counter – 1 ¾ Old – 1 ½ The Catch – 1 ¼ Prisoners of the Ghostland – ½

2020 – 75 The Father – 4 ½ Minari FL – 4 ¼ Wanda, Mein Wunder (My Wonderful Wanda) FL – 4 The Trial of the 7 Waiting for the Barbarians Boys State Gunda – 3 ¾ Nomadland * The Way Back Some Kind of Heaven Desert One Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – 3 ½ The Quarry Sound of Metal Mogul Mowgli Ammonite Jimmy Carter: Rock ‘n’ Roll President Those Who Remained FL – 3 ¼ First Cow One Night in Miami News of the World Spaceship Earth The Invisible Man John Lewis: Good Trouble Summerland

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The Lodge I’m Your Woman The Last Vermeer (a.k.a. Lyrebird) – 3 The Midnight Sky The Perfect Candidate FL Asia FL The Trip to TV Relic Aulcie The Truffle Hunters FL Born Into the Gig Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly’s Big Picture Tesla – 2 ¾ The Crossing FL Hillbilly Elegy Fandango at the Wall FL Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles Over the Moon ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Nest – 2 ½ Blackbird Undine FL – 2 ¼ On the Rocks True History of the Kelly Gang The Dark and the Wicked Mulan Onward Possessor – 2 Tenet The Turning Wendy The Assistant I’m Thinking of Ending Things – 1 ¾ How to Build a Girl The Hunt Shiva Baby The Personal History of David Copperfield Greed – 1 ½ Palm Springs The Prom Unhinged The Wretched – 1 ¼ Shithouse Bad Hair – 1 Like a Boss – ½ The Climate of the Hunter Your Iron Lady FL Note: COVID-19 forced many films this year to cancel their theatrical and/or festival releases and opt instead for releases via (streaming), TV and/or DVD/Blu-. For those films, see my Television/Web list.

2019 – 119 Top 10 of the 2010s 1917 – 4 ¾ 1. Dunkirk Ad Astra – 4 ½ 2. Hugo (3-D version) 3. Anna Karenina 4. 4 5. 1917 63 Up TV – 4 ¼ 6. (3-D version)

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The Two Popes 7. The Artist SlWS * A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 8. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) * Apollo 11 9. FL Ford v Ferrari 10. FL IX: The Rise of Skywalker Gloria Bell – 4 Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) FL The Last Black Man in San Francisco FL Jojo Rabbit Rocketman J'ai Perdu Mon Corps (I Lost My Body) FL FL * – 3 ¾ Knives Out Midsommar The Farewell FL Is My Name Corpus Christi FL – 3 ½ Les Misérables FL Dolor y Gloria () FL Official Secrets Adam FL All Is True The Nightingale Tell Me Who I Am The Cave FL Bombshell – 3 ¼ Oliver Sacks: His Own Life The Aeronauts Tel Aviv on Fire FL Dark Waters : The Sound of My Voice Yesterday Wild Rose Hail Satan? Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – 3 Richard Jewell The Report The Good Liar Amigo FL The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot Wrinkles the Clown Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound Klaus Downton Abbey Judy & Punch Swallow Cats Varda par Agnès (Varda by Agnès) FL TV To Dust – 2 ¾ Who Will Write Our History Right to Harm The Biggest Little Farm Just Mercy Glass Avengers: Endgame (2-D version) Tolkien Judy Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

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Brian Banks A Rainy Day in New York Missing Link ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN (a.k.a. I Heard You Paint Houses) – 2 ½ Martin Eden FL Trial by Fire The Wedding Guest Motherless Brooklyn – 2 ¼ Gemini Man (2-D, 24fps version) Little Women American Woman Brittany Runs a Marathon – 2 The Current War Aladdin Frozen II (2-D version) The Goldfinch – 1 ¾ Doctor Sleep Leona FL Queen & Slim The Vast of Night Waves Blinded by the Light The Song of Names A Hidden Life Extra Ordinary Hustlers – 1 ½ Ode to Joy The Peanut Butter Falcon Alita: Battle (3-D version) The Souvenir The Laundromat The Spy Behind Home Plate The Lighthouse The Dalai Lama: Scientist Where’d You Go, Bernadette – 1 ¼ Us The Dead Don’t Die The Last Color FL The Curse of La Llorona Latter Day Jew – 1 Color Out of Space Pet Sematary Greta It Chapter Two American Hasi Cubby – ¾ Stuber The Beach Bum The Fanatic

2018 – 143 Ready Player One (2-D version) – 4 ½ Roma FL First Man Mary Poppins Returns They Shall Not Grow Old (3-D version) – 4 ¼

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First Reformed Hereditary The Guilty FL – 4 The Death of Stalin Ben is Back Of Fathers and Sons FL Eighth Grade Puzzle Stories Stan & Ollie Shoplifters FL The Little Stranger Green Book * Tully The Front Runner If Beale Street Could Talk Ralph Breaks the (2-D version) What Will People Say FL Peterloo – 3 ¾ Eating Animals Leave No Trace Mirai FL Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Border FL Love, Cecil The Kindergarten Teacher Pájaros de Verano (Birds of Passage) FL RBG Destroyer The Sentence Transit FL Capernaum (a.k.a. Chaos) FL Boy Erased – 3 ½ White Boy Rick They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead The Wife Three Identical Strangers The Old Man & the Gun A Star Is Born Quincy Web Christopher Dark Wind FL 22 July American Animals Welcome to Marwen – 3 ¼ What They Had The Interpreter FL Private Life Can You Ever Forgive Me? Todos lo Saben (Everybody Knows) FL Annihilation Disobedience Burning FL The Children Act Museo FL M.C. Escher – Journey to Infinity Laces (a.k.a. Shoelaces) FL Whitney Colette The Sweet Requiem FL

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On the Basis of Sex The Sisters Brothers Black Panther (2-D version) A Murder in Mansfield The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Isle of Dogs Incredibles 2 (2-D version) Wildlife – 3 Bohemian Rhapsody My Indiana Muse Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow TV Solo: A Star Wars Story Love, The Ghost of Thunder Road – 2 ¾ Science Fair Avengers: Infinity War (2-D version) Mid90s Juliet, Naked Every Act of Life Bird Box Web ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot – 2 ½ Amazing Grace – 2 ¼ Operation Finale The Miseducation of Cameron Post Beautiful Boy Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2-D version) – 2 Hearts Beat Loud I Think We’re Alone Now Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2-D version) The Happy Prince Love, Simon Clara Fahrenheit 11/9 Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story At ’s Gate – 1 ¾ Widows The Mule BlacKkKlansman Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché You Were Never Really Here Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2-D version) Cold War FL The House with a in its Walls The Other Side of the Wind Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. 1985 Samantha’s Amazing Acro-Cats Hold the Dark Web – 1 ½ Red Sparrow Woman Walks Ahead Ash Is Purest White FL The Man Who Killed Mary Queen of Scots Halloween Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel Lovesick

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Vice Sorry to Bother You La Noche de 12 Años (A Twelve-Year Night) FL Crazy Rich Asians – 1 ¼ Winchester Hale County This Morning, This Evening – 1 Replicas Dumplin’ Web High Life Her Smell The Meg Vox Lux Suspiria Death of a Nation – ½ Mandy Best F(r)iends, Volume 1

2017 –137 Dunkirk (IMAX and 70mm versions) – 5 Loving Vincent – 4 ¾ Darkest Hour The Post – 4 ½ Dawson City: Frozen Time Blade Runner 2049 (2-D version) – 4 ¼ 1945 FL Lady Bird Coco (2-D version) War for the Planet of the Apes (2-D version) – 4 Victoria and Abdul Beauty and the Beast (3-D version) Mother! Marjorie Prime Thread Brigsby Bear Winterjagd (Winter Hunt) FL TV Stronger Aus dem Nichts () FL Visages Villages (Faces Places) FL Detroit – 3 ¾ The Hero Brad’s Status Una Mujer Fantástica () FL Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi (2-D version) God’s Own Country Jane Life Downsizing – 3 ½ For Ahkeem Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri El Ultimo Traje (The Last Suit) FL Lean on Pete The Man Who Invented Christmas Battle of the Sexes All the Money in the World The Zookeeper’s Wife Unrest The Dinner Beatriz at Dinner Big Sonia Goodbye Christopher Robin

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Paddington 2 – 3 ¼ Columbus Zama FL The Breadwinner The Square FL The Insult FL Carpinteros (Woodpeckers) FL Mudbound Wonderstruck Colossal A Ghost Story Long Strange Trip Menashe FL * Viceroy’s House Circus Kid Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Hostiles – 3 Borg McEnroe The Florida Project The Rider Split Wind River The Promise The Good Mind 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene The Lovers Megan Leavey The Disaster Artist Breathe Bee Nation I Am Not a Witch FL Film Stars Don’t Die in Annabelle: Creation The Lost City of Z Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me The Killing of a Sacred Deer – 2 ¾ Wonder Wheel The Beguiled (2-D version) The Exception Shelter Roman J. Israel, Esq. Ce Qui Nous Lie (What Binds Us, a.k.a. Back to Burgundy) FL LBJ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN – 2 ½ The Ballad of Lefty Brown Murder on the Orient Express – 2 ¼ Ingrid Goes West Lucky The Trip to TV Call Me by – 2 Le Grand Méchant Renard et Autres Contes (The Big Bad and Other Tales) FL Suburbicon Risk (post-Cannes edit) Gifted Last Flag Flying Alien: Convenant

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Manifesto Landline Molly’s Game I, Tonya – 1 ¾ The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography The Only Living Boy in New York A Cure for Wellness Dave Made a Maze The Last Word Kong: Skull Island (2-D version) Woman on Fire Baby Driver – 1 ½ Wilson Okja Collide I Do … Until I Don’t Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House Churchill School Life (a.k.a. In Loco Parentis) Can Wait The Greatest Showman – 1 ¼ It It Comes at Night The Feels Bitter Harvest Strad Style Signature Move – 1 The Archer Rat Film CHIPS Lemon Treasure – ¾ Boo 2! A Madea Halloween – ½ Bad Black FL – 0

2016 – 128 Jackie – 4 ½ Manchester by the Sea Denial – 4 ¼ : A Star Wars Story (2-D and 3-D versions) Silence Arrival – 4 Elle FL The Jungle Book (3-D version) Snowden Sully Moonlight * Lion The Peacemaker Weiner Life, Animated Rules Don’t Apply (3-D version) The Commune FL Eye in the Sky Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Fences – 3 ¾ Frantz FL O.J.: Made in America

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A Monster Calls (2-D version) Midnight Special The BFG (2-D version) Hooligan Sparrow A Man Called Ove FL The Birth of a Nation Miss Sloane – 3 ½ Hacksaw Ridge Maudie The Neon Demon Deepwater Horizon Florence Foster Jenkins Maggie’s Plan Obit. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2-D version) – 3 ¼ Christine Loving Captain Fantastic Moana (2-D version) The Family Fang : Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years Unlocking the The Girl on the Train To Keep the Light Sing Street My Scientology Movie FL (2-D version) Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro Le Voyage de Fanny (Fanny’s Journey) FL Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (3-D version) Kedi (Cat) FL The Death of Louis XIV FL – 3 One Week and a Day FL Patriots Day Donald Cried FL Allied Aida’s Secrets The Meddler Blue Jay The Founder Collateral Beauty The Sea of Trees David Lynch: The Art Life Love & Friendship Little Sister – 2 ¾ Elvis & Nixon Genius The Women’s Balcony FL 10 Lane Wrestling Alligators Gleason The Loft According to W. Eugene Smith Mascots Web in TrumpLand ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Swiss Army Man – 2 ½

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Inferno – 2 ¼ or High Water Money Monster Finding Dory Hail, Caesar! – 2 20th Century Women Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe A Hologram for the King The Conjuring 2 Passengers Alice Through the Looking Glass (3-D version) Moos FL TV Hidden Figures – 1 ¾ Pete’s Dragon (2-D version) The Autopsy of Jane Doe The Secret Life of Pets The Hollars Race Hunky Dory In Search of Israeli Cuisine v (2-D version) Max Rose – 1 ½ Café Society A Stray Paterson The Ornithologist FL The Accountant Mad – 1 ¼ Hunt for the Wilderpeople Papa: Hemingway in Remittance FL Raw FL Deadpool Virtual Revolution The Comedian Thou Art: Dublin Girl Flu – 1 Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2-D, 24fps version) Occupants – ¾ Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Elbow Grease – ½

2015 – 123 Spotlight * – 4 ½ Bridge of Spies Among the Believers FL Everest (3-D IMAX version) – 4 ¼ FL Inside Out (3-D version) Beasts of No Nation The Danish Girl – 4 Room The End of the Tour Love & Mercy The Revenant Cinderella Youth

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Marguerite FL – 3 ¾ The Martian (3-D version) Remember Que Horas ela Volta? (The Second Mother) FL The Good Dinosaur (3-D version) The Walk (3-D version) Mr. Holmes Ex Machina The Babushkas of Chernobyl FL Tomorrowland Once Upon a Crime: the Borrelli-Davis Conspiracy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Best of Enemies Where to Invade Next – 3 ½ Tale of Tales Sicario Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens (2-D version) Brooklyn The Diplomat The Gift The Cult of JT Leroy Black Mass Jurassic World (3-D version) The Big Short – 3 ¼ Truth FL FL Carol The Man Who Knew Infinity Art of the Prank Finders Keepers Shaun the Sheep Movie Hitchcock/Truffaut Amy The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2-D version) The Age of Adaline 45 Years The People vs. Fritz Bauer FL Joy – 3 The Lady in the Van Janis: Little Girl Blue Concussion Our Little Sister FL Far from the Madding Crowd Ich Seh, Ich Seh (Goodnight Mommy) FL Francofonia FL Grandma Woman in Gold The Witch Suffragette Top Spin : Fury Road (2-D version) – 2 ¾ Legend Louder than Bombs Ant-Man (2-D version) Danny Collins The Peanuts Movie (2-D version) Black Sea Straight Outta Compton Bone Tomahawk Man vs. Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler

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Miss Sharon Jones! Mustang FL Aspie Seeks Love ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN – 2 ½ Our Brand Is Crisis – 2 ¼ Creed Lamb FL Sunshine Superman El Club (The Club) FL – 2 By the Sea After Circus My Life in China Irrational Man Southpaw The Hateful Eight A Walk in the Woods Rainbow (a.k.a. Dhanak) FL Trumbo Mordecai My Father’s Vietnam The Intern – 1 ¾ I Saw the Light The Desk The Visit Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church TV Green Room – 1 ½ Pan Welcome to Me Mistress America Across the Sea FL Lolo The Assassin FL Desde Allá (From Afar) FL Sisters – 1 ¼ High-Rise Driving While Black Aloha Body Tangerine – 1 A la Recherche de l'Ultra-Sex (In Search of the Ultra-Sex) FL Walt Before Mickey Hoovey – ¾ Vacation The Conspiracy Project – ½

2014 – 112 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) * – 4 ¾ Interstellar (70MM IMAX and conventional versions) – 4 ½ Calvary Predestination – 4 ¼ Mr. Turner FL The Double – 4 Nightcrawler Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter FL A Most Wanted Man

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Boyhood Mr. Kaplan FL – 3 ¾ Foxcatcher Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (3-D version) Paddington Finding Vivian Maier Locke Limited Partnership SlingShot Wild The Theory of Everything Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night) FL – 3 ½ 99 Homes (2-D version) American Sniper The Green Prince FL Life Itself The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 The One I Love St. Vincent – 3 ¼ A Most Violent Year Whiplash Margarita, with a Straw FL Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales) FL Selma Under the Skin Into the Woods Still Alice I Am a Knife with Legs The Babadook Noah The Sturgeon Queens Animals – 3 The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers 24 Jours (24 Days) FL Obvious Child Gemma Bovery FL The Homesman The Judge The Monuments Men Leviathan – 2 ¾ Magic in the Moonlight The Skeleton Twins Cake 1,000 Rupee Note FL A Walk Among the Tombstones Before I Disappear The Trip to Italy TV ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN It Follows – 2 ½ Annabelle – 2 ¼ God’s Pocket Laggies Pride Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Guardians of the Galaxy (2-D version) The Hundred-Foot Journey

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The Two Faces of January Divergent Chef – 2 Gabriel Big Hero 6 (3-D version) Love Is Strange The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them Nathan East: For the Record Kingsman: The Secret Service Cheatin’ Muppets Most Wanted Wish I Was Here Force Majeure FL Fading Gigolo The Fault in Our Stars Non-Stop The Editor The Interview What We Do in the Shadows – 1 ¾ Listen Up Philip My Last Year with the Nuns Son of God Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon To – 1 ½ Proud Citizen The Other Woman Inherent Vice Nymphomaniac: Volume 2 ♥ This is Where I Leave You – 1 ¼ John Wick The Tribe (rating does not apply for sign-language speakers) Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 ♥ Dear White People Meet the Patels – 1 I Believe in Unicorns Sharknado 2: The Second One TV – ¾ Left Behind – ½ God’s Not Dead – 0

2013 – 140 The Act of Killing FL – 4 ¾ – 4 ½ Saving Mr. Banks La Grande Bellezza () FL Mud – 4 ¼ Captain Phillips 12 Years a Slave * – 4 Philomena Her Le Passé (The Past) FL August: Osage County Monsters University (3-D version) Blackfish Dallas Buyers Club – 3 ¾ Jeune & Jolie (Young & Beautiful) FL Gravity (3-D version) Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp Tangerines FL

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Beyond All Boundaries Yellow Tim’s Vermeer Dirty Wars The Forgotten Kingdom FL Salma FL The Lone Ranger (2-D version) – 3 ½ Blue Jasmine Before Midnight All is Lost The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Good Ol’ Freda Twenty Feet from Stardom The Spectacular Now The Lunchbox FL For No Good Reason Siddharth FL – 3 ¼ Enough Said The Way, Way Back American Jesus The Broken Circle Breakdown FL Prisoners The Reluctant Fundamentalist This is Where We Live The Railway Man L’Image Manquante (The Missing Picture) FL Running from Crazy Hava Nagila (The Movie) (2-D version) Levitated Mass Kill Your Darlings The Conjuring – 3 Dom Hemingway Cutie and the Boxer FL TV Muscle Shoals Zaytoun FL Ich Fühl Mich Disco (I Feel Like Disco) FL The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (3-D version) The Book Thief Thanks for Sharing After Tiller Frozen (3-D version) The Great Gatsby (3-D version) This is Martin Bonner – 2 ¾ Gloria FL Now You See Me Lee Daniels’ The Butler When Comedy Went to School Kidon FL Omar FL Labor Day The Unknown Known ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Out of the Furnace – 2 ½ The Last of the Unjust FL The Grandmaster (American version) FL The Zero Theorem Blue is the Warmest Colour (a.k.a. d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2, or The Life of Adèle, Chapters 1 & 2) FL

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The Invisible Woman Ida FL Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Much Ado About Nothing – 2 ¼ The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared The East Year of the Living Dead Jobs Only Lovers Left Alive Los Amantes Pasajeros (I’m So Excited) FL – 2 World War Z (2-D version) Ender’s Game Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton Trance In a World … Presents: Bad Grandpa The Fifth Estate Don Jon Last I Heard Mama – 1 ¾ The Congress Stoker Snowpiercer Hank and Asha About Time Man of Steel Nebraska Putzel Oz the Great and Powerful I Am Brahmin Bulls Austenland – 1 ½ The Heat Diana The World’s End The Wolf of Wall Street Magical Universe Planes Arthur Newman A.C.O.D. Bad Words – 1 ¼ The Look of Love Pacific Rim (2-D version) Moebius SlWS – 1 This is the End Carrie We’re the Millers To the Wonder Forev Mistaken for Strangers Only God Forgives – ¾ Finding Neighbors The Canyons Wetlands FL Viola FL – ½ A Madea Christmas Sharknado TV Fateful Findings – 0 Birdemic 2: The Resurrection

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2012 – 123 Anna Karenina – 5 Holy Motors FL – 4 ¾ Life of Pi (3-D version) 56 Up TV – 4 ½ Frankenweenie (3-D version) – 4 ¼ Argo * Lincoln – 4 A Royal Affair FL Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story The Avengers (2-D version) Bernie The Impossible Aftermath FL Flight Wreck-It Ralph (3-D version) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3-D version) – 3 ¾ Prometheus (3-D version) The Hunt FL Kon-Tiki FL Renoir FL Dark Shadows Beasts of the Southern Wild Pietà FL Liberal Arts Ruby Sparks The Central Park Five The Final Member – 3 ½ This is 40 Men in Black 3 Robot & Frank No FL Game Change TV Brave (3-D version) A Late Quartet Les Miserables SlWS The Sessions The Attack FL The Woman in Black Promised Land – 3 ¼ Sleepwalk with Me The Hunger Games Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Room 237 ParaNorman (3-D version) Hyde Park on Hudson Sinister Compliance – 3 Quartet Safety Not Guaranteed Moonrise Kingdom The Master Amour (Love) FL Rebelle (War Witch) FL

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Liv and Ingmar Hitchcock The Pact Arbitrage Cloud Atlas The Company You Keep Lore FL Comme un Chef (Such is a Chef), a.k.a. Le Chef FL Unfit: Ward vs. Ward The Iran Job – 2 ¾ At Any Price To Rome with Love Rafea: Solar Mama FL Nancy, Please The The Dictator The History of Future Folk After Winter, Spring FL ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Looper – 2 ½ The Amazing Spider-Man Zwei Leben (Two Lives) FL The Iceman – 2 ¼ De Rouille et d'Os () FL The Perks of Being a Wallflower Thérèse Desqueyroux FL The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Portrait of Wally Unfinished Song Midnight’s Children – 2 Neighboring Sounds FL Total Recall The Dark Knight Rises Valley of Saints FL Ted Trouble with the Curve American Autumn: An Occudoc The Taiwan Oyster – 1 ¾ Foreign Letters FL The Possession Sightseers Mighty Fine God Bless America Killing Them Softly Come Out and Play – 1 ½ Bad Brains: A Band in DC First Comes Love Free Samples Stand Up Guys The Paperboy Frances Ha On the Road – 1 ¼ The Cabin in the Woods The Story of Luke The Campaign I Declare War – 1 John Dies at the End 4:44 Last Day on Earth – ¾

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2011 – 92 Hugo (3-D version) – 5 The Artist SlWS * – 4 ¾ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (3-D version) – 4 ½ Young Adult Margaret Monsieur Lazhar FL The Ides of March – 4 ¼ Take Shelter – 4 Rango FL The Adventures of Tintin (3-D version) Super 8 War Horse – 3 ¾ The Help We Need to Talk About Kevin Albert Nobbs Source Code Hitler’s Children FL TV Mabul (The Flood) FL Margin Call A Dangerous Method Incendiary: The Willingham Case Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – 3 ½ Starbuck FL Coriolanus Midnight in Paris Thin Ice (a.k.a. The Convincer) Kung Fu Panda 2 (2-D version) Water for Elephants My Week with Marilyn J. Edgar The Adjustment Bureau George Harrson: Living in the Material World Pirates of the Caribbean IV: On Stranger Tides (3-D version) Moneyball – 3 ¼ Footnote FL Martha Marcy May Marlene Abu, Son of Adam FL A Better Life Puss in Boots (2-D version) Beginners 50/50 Pina (2-D version) FL Winnie the Pooh Submarine Drive Rise of the Planet of the Apes These Amazing Shadows Shame – 3 Detachment : The First Avenger The Iron Lady Hell and Back Again The Muppets We Bought a Zoo

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The Awakening Crazy, Stupid, Love Jiro Dreams of Sushi The Conspirator – 2 ¾ Anonymous Carnage Page One: Inside Limitless The Beaver Nicky’s Family Killer Joe 2 Horrible Bosses ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – 2 ½ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Insidious – 2 ¼ David Andrew Bird: Fever Year Contagion – 2 In Time Silent House Hanna Terri Bridesmaids – 1 ¾ Dream House Big in Bollywood Un Amour de Jeunesse (Goodbye First Love) FL – 1 ½ The Tree of Life Melancholia (2-D version) The Rite Red State – 1 You’re Next – ¾ The Loneliest Planet Jack and Jill The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)

2010 – 80 Toy Story 3 (3-D version) – 4 ¾ Inception The King’s Speech * – 4 ½ Black Swan True Grit – 4 Alice in (3-D version) The American (a.k.a. The Revenge) FL Inside Job Four Lions The Debt Get Low The Town – 3 ¾ Hereafter Womb (a.k.a. Clone) West is West Tangled – 3 ½ The Kids Are All Right Another Year Biutiful FL

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Shutter Island Copie Conforme (Certified Copy) FL The Ghost Writer Robin Hood – 3 ¼ Buried The Way Back Conviction Tabloid Incendies (Scorched) FL Rabbit Hole Winter’s Bone TRON: Legacy (3-D version) Unstoppable The Fighter Peacock Howl – 3 Barney’s Version You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Potiche (Trophy Wife) FL Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 Marwencol Les Emotifs Anonymes (Romantics Anonymous) FL The Trip TV Dinner for Schmucks Exit Through the Gift Shop – 2 ¾ Secretariat It’s Kind of a Funny Story Splice Iron Man 2 The Wolfman Chico and Rita The Elephant in the Living Room ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN How to Train Your Dragon – 2 ½ 127 Hours – 2 ¼ The Last Exorcism The Company Men Carbon Nation Letters to Juliet Blue Valentine Skeletons – 2 The Tempest Rubber Last Night Machete Maidens Unleashed! Due Date Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale FL – 1 ¾ Leap Year Love and Other Drugs – 1 ½ Virginia (re-edit of What’s Wrong with Virginia?) The Illusionist Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives FL The Ward – 1 ¼ The Crazies Hot Tub Time Machine – 1 The Bounty Hunter A Serbian Film (99-minute version) FL ♥ My Soul to Take – ¾ A Nightmare on Elm Street

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2009 – 101 Top 5 of the El Secreto de Sus Ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes) FL – 4 ½ 1. Atonement 2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Up in the Air 3. The Prestige 4. Unbreakable The Last Station – 4 ¼ 5. Chicago * Capitalism: A Love Story Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (partial 3-D version) Moon Io Sono L’Amore (I Am Love) FL – 4 Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire Food, Inc. Up! (3-D version) – 3 ¾ An Education City Island Cold Souls Duplicity The Girl Who Played with Fire FL The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo FL Angels and Demons – 3 ½ Sherlock Holmes The Soloist A Single Man The Princess and the Frog Paranormal Activity Das Weisse Band () FL Crazy Heart Fantastic Mr. Fox The Messenger The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia – 3 ¼ Me and Orson Welles Julie & Julia Toys in the Attic (a.k.a. In the Attic or Who Has a Birthday Today?) FL The Informant! The Young Victoria * Leaves of Grass Everybody’s Fine Avatar (3-D version) – 3 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest FL Coraline (2-D version) The House of the Devil District 9 9 The Fourth Kind In the Loop Walt & El Grupo Best Worst Movie Waking Sleeping Beauty Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (3-D version) Taking Woodstock – 2 ¾ Star Trek Adventureland The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus The Men Who Stare at Goats Nine (500) Days of Summer Monsters vs. Aliens (3-D version) Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

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The Invention of Lying Whatever Works The Time Traveler’s Wife Hachi: A Dog’s Tale ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN From Time to Time – 2 ½ Where the Wild Things Are Antichrist ♥ Dogtooth ♥ FL The Road – 2 ¼ Chloe Public Enemies The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Case 39 For the Love of Movies: the Story of American Film Criticism The Lovely Bones The Box – 2 3 idiots FL I Love You Phillip Morris The Blind Side Nightmares in Red, White and Blue – 1 ¾ Pirate Radio Invictus – 1 ½ Away We Go My Sister’s Keeper The Proposal TiMER – 1 ¼ Zombieland Bruno Paul Blart: Mall Cop It’s Complicated He’s Just Not That Into You – 1 I Remember Better When I Paint Funny People The Unborn Enter the Void ♥ Old Dogs – ¾ Halloween II Drag Me to Hell – ½ Friday the 13th The Human Centipede (First Sequence) Dead Snow FL

2008 – 66 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – 5 WALL-E – 4 ½ Doubt – 4 ¼ – 4 The Duchess Ghost Town Frost/Nixon The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The Reader – 3 ¾ In Bruges Milk Departures FL Seven Pounds Sunshine Cleaning – 3 ½

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Valkyrie W. Is Anybody There? – 3 ¼ Il y a Longtemps que Je t'Aime (I’ve Loved You So Long) FL Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Goodbye Solo Iron Man Happy-Go-Lucky – 3 Revolutionary Road The Dark Knight X-Files: I Want to Believe Changeling of Genius The Wrestler * – 2 ¾ Leatherheads Gran Torino Defiance Last Chance Harvey Kung Fu Panda Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 2 Righteous Kill ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Vicky Christina – 2 ½ The Eye – 2 ¼ What She Said: The Art of – 2 Burn After Reading The Good, the Bad, the Ugly FL Synecdoche, New York – 1 ¾ Get Smart Vantage Point The Echo Medicine for Melancholy and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – 1 ½ Choke Mamma Mia! Baby Mama One Missed Call Baghead – 1 ¼ The House Bunny The Happening Twilight The Broken The Strangers – 1 Journey to the Center of the Earth (2-D version) – ¾ Mirrors Birdemic: Shock and Terror – 0

2007 – 93 Atonement – 5 – 4 ½ Michael Clayton American Gangster – 4 ¼ Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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Los Cronocrimines (Timecrimes) FL – 4 No Country for Old Men * El Orfanato (The Orphanage) FL 3:10 to Yuma The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Charlie Wilson's War Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead – 3 ¾ La Vie en Rose (Life in Pink, a.k.a. La Môme) FL In the Valley of Elah Lars and the Real Girl The Savages Ratatouille – 3 ½ The Fall The Kite Runner [Rec] FL Cassandra's Dream – 3 ¼ : A Fistful of Quarters Broken English Into the Wild Blade Runner (Final Cut) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – 3 A Mighty Heart Pirates of the Caribbean III: At World’s End Kabluey Lions for Lambs The Great Debaters The 1408 – 2 ¾ Fracture Meet the Robinsons (2-D version) Love in the Time of Cholera I Am Legend Bee Movie Spider-man 3 Death Proof Beowulf (3-D version) Death at a Funeral The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Eastern Promises – 2 ½ Juno Amazing Grace The Darjeeling Limited – 2 ¼ Elizabeth: The Zodiac The Bucket List Walk Hard The Golden Compass the Third Waitress Dead Silence Gone Baby Gone 2 Days in Paris – 2 Hot Fuzz Knocked Up I’m Not There

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August Rush – 1 ¾ 300 Reign Over Me Vantage Point P.S. I Love You Music and Lyrics Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story Disturbia – 1 ½ Heckler Chop Shop Margot at the Wedding – 1 ¼ Once Mr. Bean’s Holiday The Gray Man – 1 Halloween Dark Mirror Hannibal Rising Wild Hogs Balls of Fury Grindhouse: Planet Terror Good Luck Chuck – ¾ The Heartbreak Kid The Game Plan – ½ It is Fine! Everything is Fine. ♥ 30 Days of Night The of Gore I’m Through with White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks) – ¼

2006 – 78 The Prestige – 5 FL – 4 ¾ The Queen – 4 ¼ Flags of Our Fathers The Illusionist – 4 This is The Last King of Notes on a Scandal The DaVinci Code Little Miss Sunshine – 3 ¾ Perfume: The Story of a Murderer A Prairie Home Companion Death of a President – 3 ½ The Devil Wears Prada Lady in the Water The Hoax Night at the Museum * Babel United 93 Déjà vu Stranger than Fiction Cars – 3 ¼ Rescue Dawn Infamous Away from Her World Trade Center

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Happy Feet – 3 The Killing of Shut Up & Sing Superman Returns Bobby All the King’s Men Man of the Year The Fountain Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest – 2 ¾ The U.S. vs. John Lennon Running with Scissors Over the Hedge Children of Men Premonition Black Snake Moan Bug Who is Harry Nillson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?) Fast Food Nation ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Blood Diamond – 2 ½ El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) FL The Night Listener – 2 ¼ Glory Road For Your Consideration – 2 Cashback Hollywoodland – 1 ¾ The Grudge 2 Scoop – 1 ½ The Astronaut Farmer Click The Black Dahlia – 1 ¼ Idiocracy Shortbus ♥ The Wicker Man Apocalypto FL Snakes on a The Host FL – 1 Silent Hill The Pink Panther Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Inland Empire The Darwin Awards – ¾ Little Man – ½ Scary Movie IV

2005 – 69 Cinderella Man – 4 ½ Good Night, and Good Luck Capote – 4 ¼ Munich Pride & Prejudice The Exorcism of Emily Rose War of the Worlds – 4 Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride 49 Up TV

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Everything is Illuminated Colour Me Kubrick King Kong Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Junebug – 3 ¾ Walk the Line North Country : The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – 3 ½ The Skeleton Key Antibodies FL Proof The Interpreter : The Smartest Guys in the Room – 3 ¼ Match Point Kinky Boots Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – 3 Batman Begins The Producers Syriana The Weather Man The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Crash * Thank You for Smoking Transamerica Beyond the Sea An Unfinished Life Home Sweet Home (AKA The Monster) FL – 2 ¾ The Squid and the Whale McLibel The Island ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Constant Gardener – 2 ½ – 2 ¼ Me and You and Everyone We Know Dark Water – 2 The 40-Year-Old Virgin Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – 1 ¾ Wedding Crashers Flightplan Hitch A History of Violence Zizek! – 1 ½ Elizabethtown The Puffy Chair The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Lord of War The Ice Harvest – 1 ¼ Sin City The Wedding Date An American Haunting The Red Shoes FL – 1 Drop Dead Sexy The Descent – ¾ The Fog Feast – ½ Are We There Yet? Alone in the Dark Dangerous Men – 0

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2004 – 75 Finding Neverland – 4 ¾ Fahrenheit 9/11 The Aviator – 4 ½ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 4 ¼ * Downfall Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow – 4 Collateral Ray Hotel Rwanda – 3 ¾ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Assassination of Richard Nixon – 3 ½ The Grudge The Ladykillers We Don’t Live Here Anymore The Village Birth The Machinist The Terminal – 3 ¼ Turtles Can Fly FL Stage Beauty The Polar Express (2-D version) Kinsey Before Sunset – 3 The Phantom of the Opera The Manchurian Candidate The Brown Bunny (93-minute version) ♥ Spider-man 2 – 2 ¾ The Forgotten Hide and Seek In Good Company The Life and Death of Peter Sellers TV The Notebook Cellular ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Passion of the Christ – 2 ½ Garden State The Life Aquatic Shaun of the Dead – 2 ¼ Melinda and Melinda – 2 National Treasure A Home at the End of the World – 1 ¾ Primer Wimbledon I, Robot Exorcist: The Beginning Closer – 1 ½ Three … Extremes I ♥ Huckabees Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Spanglish Twisted – 1 ¼

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Saw The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Raising Helen Suspect Zero Garfield Mean Girls Starsky & Hutch – 1 The Stepford Wives DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story – ¾ Napoleon Dynamite Dawn of the Dead Team America: World Police C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle Seed of Chucky – ½ Tiptoes (producer’s cut)

2003 – 63 Mystic River – 4 ½ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Big Fish – 4 ¼ House of Sand and Fog – 4 The Last Samurai Open Range – 3 ¾ A la Folie … pas du tout (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not) FL Les Triplettes de Belleville FL Monster Lost in Translation Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King * Girl with a Pearl Earring Intolerable Cruelty A Mighty Wind American Splendor Ju-on: The Grudge FL Runaway Jury Matchstick Men – 3 ½ Seabiscuit Secret Window – 3 Open Water Dogville 28 Days Later – 2 ¾ Identity Down with Love Bad Santa Love Actually of the Abyss Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Bruce Almighty ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Brother Bear – 2 ¼ Once Upon a Time in Veronica Guerin Overnight Milwaukee, Minnesota Something’s Gotta Give Elephant

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Jeux d’Enfants (Children’s Games, a.k.a. Love Me If You Dare) FL – 2 Treasure Planet Under the Tuscan Sun – 1 ¾ X-Men II Secondhand Lions The School of Rock The In-laws Oldboy FL – 1 ½ Gods and Generals Kill Bill – 1 ¼ Cold Mountain Old School Anger Management Terminator III: Rise of the Machines The Core The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Cat in the Hat – 1 Freddy vs. Jason – ¾ View from the Top Charlie’s Angels 2: Full Throttle House of 1000 Corpses – ½ National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze – ¼ The Room – 0

2002 – 66 Chicago * – 4 ¾ The Pianist Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – 4 ¼ Hero FL Catch Me If You Can Minority Report The Road to Perdition Hable con Ella () FL – 4 About Schmidt Adaptation Secretary – 3 ¾ The Hours Solaris – 3 ½ Insomnia Frida Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Frailty S1m0ne Whale Rider One Hour Photo Spellbound – 3 ¼ Punch-Drunk Love The Bourne Identity – 3 Rabbit-Proof Fence Men in Black II The Sum of All Fears Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Hollywood Ending The Ring Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones – 2 ¾ May X-Men

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Red Dragon The Good Girl The Mothman Prophecies ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Spider-man – 2 ½ Equilibrium – 2 ¼ City of God FL – 2 Auto Focus Im Toten Winkel: Hitler’s Sekretärin (Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary) FL My Big Fat Greek Wedding Bubba Ho-Top – 1 ¾ Panic Room Signs John Q Decasia – 1 ½ Lilo and Stitch The Time Machine Russian Ark FL Gangs of New York Dragonfly – 1 ¼ Death to Smoochy Gerry Irréversible FL – 1 The Sweetest Thing Juwanna Mann Mr. Deeds Darkness – ¾ Halloween: Resurrection Funny Ha Ha National Lampoon’s Van Wilder ’s Eight Crazy Nights – ½

2001 – 72 The Others – 4 ¾ FL – 4 ½ The Man Who Wasn’t There A Beautiful Mind * Monsters, Inc. A.I. Memento – 4 ¼ Vanilla Sky In the Bedroom Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (a.k.a. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) – 4 Amelie FL Monster’s Ball – 3 ¾ Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Ghost World – 3 ½ Moulin Rouge El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil’s Backbone) FL Donnie Darko – 3 ¼ Hedwig and the Angry Inch Kate and Leopold Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures Black Hawk Down – 3 Bridget Jones’ Diary The Majestic Pay It Forward Mulholland Drive – 2 ¾ Life as a House

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Sexy Beast From Hell Southern Comfort Captain Corelli’s Mandolin America’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Ocean’s Eleven – 2 ½ Intimacy ♥ – 2 ¼ The Hole Crazy/Beautiful Hearts in Atlantis The Last Castle The Royal Tenenbaums – 2 Novocaine Serendipity The Curse of the Jade Scorpion Legally Blonde – 1 ¾ Rat Race Pearl Harbor Y tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too) FL – 1 ½ The Shipping News Don’t Say A Word – 1 ¼ Prozac Nation Scotland, P.A. Jurassic Park III Jeepers Creepers American Pie 2 – 1 Daddy & Them Saving Silverman Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Evolution – ¾ Corky Romano Joy Ride Not Another Teen Movie Thir13en Ghosts Glitter Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back – ½ Mutant Aliens Marco Polo: Return to Xanadu John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars How High Scary Movie 2

2000 – 52 Unbreakable – 5 Gladiator * – 4 ¾ Best in Show – 4 ¼ Being Fantasia 2000 Chocolat Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon FL Cast Away – 4 The Talented Mr. Ripley Thirteen Days O, Brother, Where Art Thou? – 3 ¾

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Dancer in the Dark Pollock Shadow of the Vampire High Fidelity Erin Brokovich – 3 ½ State and Main Traffic Requiem for a Dream – 3 ¼ A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake Happy Accidents The Contender – 3 American Psycho The Patriot – 2 ¾ Space Cowboys Men of Honor Miss Congeniality The Uncles The Watcher Heartbreakers ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN – 2 ¼ The Whole Nine Yards What Lies Beneath – 2 Together FL – 1 ¾ The Emperor’s New Groove Snatch Before Night Falls Shrek Small Time Crooks – 1 ½ Reindeer Games Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle – 1 ¼ Psycho Beach Party South of Heaven, West of Hell – 1 Final Destination Hollow Man – ¾ Scary Movie

1999 – 50 Top 5 of the 1990s The Sixth Sense – 5 1. The Truman Show American Beauty * – 4 ¾ 2. Toy Story Toy Story 2 3. The Straight Story – 4 ¼ 4. Sling Blade The Green Mile 5. Titanic * $6 Jesus’ Son – 4 Man on the Moon The Hurricane The Road Home FL The Matrix – 3 ¾ Election The Insider Liberty Heights – 3 ½ The Cider House Rules Eyes Wide Shut Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

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Notting Hill American Movie – 3 Fight Club The Virgin Suicides The Ninth Gate Audition FL Ride with the Devil Titus – 2 ¾ Tarzan The Thirteenth Floor ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Girl, Interrupted – 2 ½ Analyze This – 2 ¼ Magnolia – 2 The Mummy Todo Sobre Mi Madre () FL The Blair Witch Project The Muse – 1 ¾ Topsy-Turvy Molokai: The Story of Father Damien Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalow Never Been Kissed The Out-of-Towners – 1 ½ Sleepy Hollow Drop Dead Gorgeous – 1 ¼ Dogma Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Stir of Echoes American Pie Big Daddy Stigmata – ¾ House on Hill The Boondock Saints

1998 – 50 The Truman Show – 5 – 4 ¾ * Babe: Pig in the City – 4 ½ A Bug’s Life Little Voice The Thin Red Line – 4 Following – 3 ¾ A Simple Plan The Big Lebowski 42 Up TV Gods and Monsters American History X – 3 ½ City of Angles Déjà vu Meet Joe Black – 3 ¼ Waking Ned Devine The X-Files – 3 Sliding Doors Ringu FL Can’t Hardly Wait Great Expectations – 2 ¾ Pleasantville Rushmore

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Mulan You’ve Got Mail Buffalo 66 Primary Colors The Slums of Beverly Hills Patch Adams ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – 2 ¼ – 2 Armageddon – 1 ¾ The Opposite of Sex Happiness π Safe Men Simon Birch – 1 ½ There’s Something About Mary Psycho Mighty Joe Young – 1 ¼ The Wedding Singer Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later Cani arrabbiati (Rabid Dogs, a.k.a. Kidnapped) FL – 1 The Waterboy – ¾ An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn Half Baked – ½ Bride of Chucky L.E.T.H.A.L Ladies Bug Buster – ¼

1997 – 46 Titanic * $6 – 5 – 4 ¾ La Vita e Bella () FL Deconstructing Harry – 4 ½ Good Will Hunting L.A. Confidential The Full Monty – 4 ¼ Boogie Nights Contact Mrs. Brown Amistad – 4 Jackie Brown Funny Games FL Men in Black – 3 ¾ Wag the Dog Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – 3 ½ Conspiracy Theory – 3 Gattaca Perfect Blue FL Private Parts – 2 ¾ Breast Men TV I Know What You Did Last Summer Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion Father’s Day ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Lost Highway – 2 ½ Gummo – 2 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

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Hercules – 1 ¾ The Man Who Knew Too Little Batman & Robin – 1 ½ The Lost World: Jurassic Park Grosse Pointe Blank The Fifth Element Chasing Amy – 1 ¼ The House of Yes Anastasia Liar Liar /Off – 1 Vegas Vacation Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist – ¾ Anaconda Beverly Hills Ninja – ½ Horror Story – ¼

1996 – 56 Sling Blade – 5 Fargo – 4 ¾ The Hunchback of Notre Dame – 4 ½ The Birdcage – 4 ¼ Secrets and Lies Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills – 4 Citizen Ruth A Family Thing The English Patient * – 3 ¾ Ransom Emma – 3 ½ The People vs. Larry Flynt Phenomenon Trees Lounge Basquiat – 3 ¼ That Thing You Do! Jerry Maguire – 3 Big Night Marvin’s Room Michael A Time to Kill Tin Cup Swingers Mother – 2 ¾ Surviving James and the Giant Peach The Daytrippers The Nutty Professor 101 Dalmations The Truth about Cats and Dogs ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Mars Attacks – 2 ½ Box of Moonlight – 2 ¼ Trainspotting – 2 The Cable Guy – 1 ¾ The First Wives Club The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr Romeo + Juliet – 1 ½ Independence Day – 1 ¼

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Bottle Rocket Dragonheart Jingle All the Way Dead Man Happy Gilmore – 1 Scream The Island of Dr. Moreau Space Jam Barb Wire – ¾ The Pillow Book FL Black Sheep The Dentist Striptease Phat Beach – ½ South Beach Academy American Chinatown – ¼

1995 – 57 Toy Story – 5 Sense and Sensibility Bullets Over Broadway Babe Dead Man Walking – 4 ½ Apollo 13 Braveheart * – 4 ¼ Pocahontas Se7en Mighty Aphrodite – 4 Footsteps in the Fog French Kiss – 3 ¾ Forget Paris – 3 ½ Nixon Restoration Crimson Tide Before Sunrise Cold Comfort Farm – 3 ¼ The American President Smoke Sabrina Clueless Mr. Holland’s Opus – 3 Rob Roy 12 Monkeys While You Were Sleeping In the Mouth of Madness – 2 ¾ Nine Months Powder ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Copycat – 2 ¼ Outbreak Casino – 2 Heat Jumanji Dolores Claiborne Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead – 1 ¾ The Babysitter To Die For Kids

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Waterworld – 1 ½ Operation Dumbo Drop Spies Like Us Mallrats – 1 ¼ Grumpier Old Men The Brady Bunch Movie Tommy Boy – 1 Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers Billy Madison – ¾ Man of the House Tank Girl Jury Duty – ½ Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Compelling Evidence – ¼ Vicious Kiss

1994 – 42 Ed Wood – 5 Forrest Gump * Quiz Show – 4 ¾ The Lion King The Shawshank Redemption Crumb – 4 ¼ Trois Couleurs: Rouge (Three Colors: Red) FL Il Postino (The Postman) FL – 4 Muriel’s Wedding Immortal Beloved The Paper Trois Couleurs: Blanc (Three Colors: White) FL – 3 ¾ The Hudsucker Proxy City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold – 3 ½ Four Weddings and a Funeral Little Women The Usual Suspects – 3 ¼ Wolf Maverick I.Q. Nobody’s Fool – 3 Dumb and Dumber Reality Bites Swimming with Sharks – 2 ¾ Legends of the Fall The Road to Wellville Angels in the Outfield ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Backbeat – 2 Speed ’s – 1 ¾ The Santa Clause Léon: The Professional – 1 ½ The Ref True Lies The Flintstones – 1 ¼ Exit to Eden

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective – ¾

1993 – 53 The Remains of the Day – 5 Schindler’s List * – 4 ¾ Jurassic Park Short Cuts – 4 ½ The Nightmare Before Christmas What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Dave The Fugitive Groundhog Day – 4 ¼ Philadelphia Sleepless in Seattle Mrs. Doubtfire The Firm Searching for Bobby Fisher – 4 Shadowlands Benny and Joon – 3 ½ Six Degrees of Separation In the Name of the Father Lost in Yonkers Much Ado About Nothing – 3 ¼ Mad Dog and Glory The Age of Innocence Trois Couleurs: Bleu (Three Colors: Blue) FL Addams Family Values – 3 Sommersby Malice – 2 ¾ Cool Runnings A Far Off Place ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey – 2 ¼ The Three Musketeers True Romance – 2 In the Line of Fire Grumpy Old Men Hocus Pocus – 1 ¾ The Crush Hollywoodland It’s All True The Joy Luck Club – 1 ½ Dazed and Confused Coneheads The Beverly Hillbillies Boxing Helena – 1 ¼ Wayne’s World 2 Swing Kids Robin Hood: Men in Tights A House in the Hills So I Married an Axe Murderer – 1 Demolition Man Sliver – ¾ Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday – ½ Angelfist – ¼

1992 – 51

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Howards End – 5 – 4 ½ Scent of a Woman Glengarry Glen Ross * The Player Enchanted April – 4 ¼ Aladdin – 4 Toys Mr. Saturday Night – 3 ¾ Shadows and Fog Death Becomes Her Resevoir Dogs – 3 ½ A Few Good Men Husbands and Wives Hero A League of Their Own Prelude to a Kiss A Brief History of Time – 3 ¼ The Last of the Mohicans (director’s cut) – 3 Honeymoon in Vegas The Power of One The Hand that Rocks the Cradle The Muppet Christmas Carol Batman Returns – 2 ¾ Como Agua para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) FL Far and Away ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Porco Rosso (a.k.a. Crimson Pig) FL – 2 ½ School Ties – 2 ¼ Sneakers Chaplin At Play in the Fields of the Lord – 2 C'est Arrivé Près de Chez Vous (It Happened in Your Neighborhood, or Man Bites Dog) FL Army of Darkness Wayne’s World – 1 ¾ Beethoven Passenger 57 Under Siege – 1 ½ Bram Stoker’s Dracula Newsies (a.k.a. The News Boys) Buffy the Vampire Slayer – 1 ¼ Memoirs of an Invisible Man Poison Ivy Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me – 1 Encino Man – ¾ Cool World Basic Instinct Pet Sematary II The Lawnmower Man The Bikini Carwash Company – ½

1991 – 51 The Silence of the Lambs * – 5 JFK Beauty and the Beast – 4 ¾ Raise the Red Lantern FL – 4 ½ Defending Your Life

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Cape Fear – 4 ¼ L.A. Story – 3 ¾ Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (The Lovers on the Bridge) FL Frankie and Johnny The Addams Family The Rocketeer Bugsy – 3 ½ Kafka Hearts of Darkness Dead Again Fried Green Tomatoes La Double Vie de Veronique (The Double Life of Veronique) FL – 3 ¼ 35 Up TV Sleeping with the Enemy Billy Bathgate – 3 City Slickers – 2 ¾ The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear Europa (a.k.a. Zentropa) What About Bob? Backdraft Rambling Rose White Fang ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Hook – 2 ¼ Thelma and Louise Little Man Tate – 2 The Man in the Moon – 1 ¾ Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves – 1 ½ Twenty-One The Doors Doc Hollywood The Butcher’s Wife – 1 ¼ Dying Young Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead Point Break Dolly Dearest – 1 Drop Dead Fred – ¾ Hot Shots! Do or Die – ½ Bikini Summer Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky FL Dance with Death Alligator 2: The Mutation – ¼

1990 – 45 Jacob’s Ladder – 4 ¾ (New Paradise Cinema) FL Dick Tracy – 4 ½ Edward Scissorhands Dances with Wolves * Awakenings The Godfather, Part III – 4 ¼ Vincent and Theo American Dream – 4 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – 3 ¾ Back to the Future, Part III Dreams FL – 3 ½

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The Hunt for Red October Reversal of Fortune – 3 ¼ ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) FL Mo’ Better Blues – 3 Ghost – 2 ¾ Joe Versus the Volcano Misery Arachnophobia The Freshman Russia House ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Miller’s Crossing – 2 Cadillac Man – 1 ¾ Frankenhooker Home Alone Quick Change The Handmaid’s Tale Total Recall – 1 ½ The Two Jakes Days of Thunder – 1 ¼ Die Hard 2 Wild at Heart Bride of Re-animator – ¾ Marked for Death Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rocky V Darkman – ½ Basket Case 2 – ¼ Bedroom Eyes II Troll 2 – 0

1989 – 50 Top 5 of the 1980s – 5 1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit – 4 ¾ 2. Somewhere in Time Roger and Me 3. Zelig * – 4 ½ 4. Gandhi * Born on the Fourth of July 5. Amadeus * Glory – 4 ¼ sex, lies, and videotape – 4 : The Story of Christy Brown Crimes and Misdemeanors The Little Mermaid When Harry Met Sally Dead Calm Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – 3 ¾ Batman New York Stories Say Anything Shirley Valentine The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – 3 ½ The Fabulous Baker Boys – 3 ¼ The Burbs Always Parenthood Steel Magnolias – 2 ¾ Turner and Hooch

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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Communion – 2 ¼ National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Heathers – 2 Back to the Future, Part II Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure – 1 ¾ In Country Blaze The Abyss – 1 ½ Ghostbusters II All Dogs Go to Heaven – 1 ¼ Family Business Look Who’s Talking Pet Sematary – 1 UHF Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers Tetsuo: The Iron Man FL Earth Girls are Easy – ¾ Weekend at Bernie’s Summer Job – ½ Friday the 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan Savage Beach – ¼ Kickboxer Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins FL Exquisite Corpses

1988 – 43 Who Framed Roger Rabbit – 5 Rain Man * Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) FL – 4 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Thin Blue Line The Last Temptation of Christ – 3 ¾ The Vanishing FL The Accidental Tourist – 3 ½ The Naked Gun Imagine: John Lennon The Accused Buster Beetlejuice Bull Durham Oliver and Company – 3 ¼ A Cry in the Dark – 3 A Fish Called Wanda Big Midnight Run – 2 ¾ Die Hard Stealing Home ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Unbearable Lightness of Being – 2 ½ The Serpent and the Rainbow – 1 ¾ The Great Outdoors Twins Mystic Pizza – 1 ½

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Funny Farm Big Top Pee-Wee – 1 ¼ Arthur II: On the Rocks Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Hairspray Short Circuit 2 My Stepmother is an Alien They Live – 1 Child’s Play Ernest Saves Christmas – ¾ Waxwork Curse of Snakes Valley FL – ½ Killer Klowns from Outer Space – ¼ Hobgoblins

1987 – 42 Broadcast News – 5 Empire of the Sun – 4 ¾ Full Metal Jacket – 4 ½ The Untouchables – 4 ¼ Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll Moonstruck The Last Emperor * House of Games – 4 The Princess Bride – 3 ¾ Raising Arizona – 3 ½ Throw Momma from the Train Fatal Attraction Good Morning, Vietnam – 3 ¼ The Witches of Eastwick – 3 The Dead Der Himmel über () FL Dragnet – 2 ¾ Vincent Planes, Trains and Automobiles Roxanne Dirty Dancing ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN – 2 ¼ Hellraiser Innerspace Withnail & I – 2 Overboard Spaceballs – 1 ¾ Ironweed Some Kind of Wonderful Adventures in Babysitting Blind Date Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn – 1 ½ Predator Ishtar – 1 ¼ Summer School RoboCop Mannequin – ¾ Ernest Goes to Camp – ½ Takin’ It All Off Nekromantik FL – ¼ Miami Connection

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1986 – 41 A Room with a View – 5 Little Shop of Horrors – 4 ½ Platoon * – 4 ¼ Radio Days – 4 Brighton Beach Memoirs Salvador – 3 ¾ The Goodbye People – 3 ½ Hoosiers The Great Mouse Detective – 3 ¼ Peggy Sue Got Married The Color of Money – 3 The Money Pit Short Circuit – 2 ¾ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Labyrinth Castle in the Sky FL The Mosquito Coast Stand By Me Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Blue Velvet – 2 Down by Law An American Tail The Fly – 1 ¾ Pretty in Pink Three Amigos! 9 ½ Weeks Top Gun – 1 ¼ Clockwise Big Trouble in Little China Howard the Duck – 1 Troll She’s Gotta Have It – ¾ Back to School Psycho III – ½ Jason Lives: Friday the 13th, Part VI The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Chopping Mall (a.k.a. Killbots) Reform School Girls – ¼ Class of Nuke ‘Em High

1985 – 38 Come and See FL – 5 Ran FL – 4 ¾ Shoah FL (9 ½ hours: longest film on this site) Brazil – 4 ½ Back to the Future – 4 ¼ FL – 4 The Trip to Bountiful The Purple Rose of Cairo Kiss of the Spider Woman – 3 ¾ Out of Africa * The Color Purple Cocoon – 3 ½

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After Hours – 3 ¼ Prizzi’s Honor Tampopo FL – 3 Clue St. Elmo’s Fire Pee Wee’s Big Adventure The Black Cauldron – 2 ¾ White Knights Secret Honor Young Sherlock Holmes ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Breakfast Club – 2 National Lampoon’s European Vacation – 1 ¾ Fletch The Goonies Aliens Weird Science Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (a.k.a. Mad Max 3) – 1 ¼ Better Off Dead Rocky IV Private Resort – 1 Just One of the Guys – ¾ Commando Gymkata – ½ Cavegirl – ¼

1984 – 49 A Passage to India – 5 Amadeus * The Natural – 4 ¾ Ghostbusters – 4 ½ Once Upon a Time in America Places in the Heart 28 Up TV The Compleat Beatles – 4 This is Spinal Tap – 3 ¾ The Terminator – 3 ½ The Bounty 2010 Nineteen Eighty-Four Starman The Neverending Story The Lonely Guy – 3 ¼ The Muppets Take Manhattan – 3 Under the Volcano Splash Sixteen Candles Gremlins Paris, Texas Blame it on Rio – 2 ¾ Beverly Hills Cop Give My Regards to Broad Street Revenge of the Nerds ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Philadelphia Experiment – 2 ¼ The Karate Kid Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – 2 – 1 ¾

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A Nightmare on Elm Street – 1 ½ The River Rat Footloose Dune The Bachelor Party – 1 ¼ Brother from Another Planet Until September Children of the Corn – 1 Police Academy Nickel Mountain – ¾ The Ice Pirates Hardbodies Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo – ½ The Toxic Avenger – ¼ Hollywood Hot Tubs Hard Rock – 0

1983 – 32 Zelig – 5 Star Wars VI: * - 4 ½ Something Wicked This Way Comes I Am the Cheese – 4 ¼ The Right Stuff The Big Chill Tender Mercies – 4 Silkwood The King of Comedy – 3 ¾ Scarface ’s The Meaning of Life – 3 ½ The Day After TV The Man with Two Brains The Dark Crystal Yentl The Hunger – 3 Blood Simple The Dead Zone Psycho II Never Cry Wolf Twilight Zone: The Movie National Lampoon’s Vacation – 2 ¾ War Games ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Gorky Park – 2 ½ Risky Business – 2 ¼ – 1 ¾ Christine – 1 ½ Superman III – 1 ¼ Star 80 – ½ Private School Chained Heat – ¼

1982 – 38 Gandhi * – 5 – 4 ¾ Sophie’s Choice

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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial $4 Author! Author! – 4 ½ The Verdict The World According to Garp FL – 4 Diner – 3 ¾ The Thing Annie – 3 ½ Pink Floyd: The Wall My Favorite Year – 3 ¼ Blade Runner (original version) Deathtrap – 2 ¾ Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid The Secret of N.I.M.H. Poltergeist ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN TRON – 2 ½ Victor/Victoria An Officer and a Gentleman The Draughtman’s Contract – 2 ¼ First Blood – 2 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas – 1 ¾ Fast Times at Ridgemont High – 1 ½ The Pirate Movie – 1 ¼ It Came from Hollywood Rocky III The Trail of the Pink Panther Halloween 3: Season of the Witch – 1 The Toy Friday the 13th, Part 3 – ¾ Airplane II: The Sequel Amityville II: The Possession Creepshow Basket Case Ashes and Embers – ½ Goin’ All the Way

1981 – 39 Arthur – 5 – 4 ¾ Reds * – 4 ¼ My Dinner with Andre Body Heat – 4 Das Boot (The Boat) FL Mephisto FL – 3 ¾ Time Bandits Ragtime – 3 ½ The Great Muppet Caper On Golden Pond The Fox and the Hound – 3 ¼ Pennies from Heaven The Evil Dead – 3 (a.k.a. The Road Warrior) The Incredible Shrinking Woman An American Werewolf in Stripes – 2 ¾ The Cannonball Run Clash of the Titans ↑THUMBS UP

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↓THUMBS DOWN The Devil and Max Devlin – 2 ¼ Dragonslayer Halloween II Brooklyn Bridge TV – 2 Mommie Dearest History of the World: Part I Excalibur – 1 ¾ Vernon, Florida – 1 ½ Roar – 1 ¼ Southern Comfort Omen III: The Final Conflict Tarzan, the Ape Man Friday the 13th, Part 2 – 1 Porky’s La Guerre du Feu (Quest for Fire) FL Caveman Cheech and Chong’s Nice Dreams – ¾ Swamp Thing – ½

1980 – 35 Somewhere in Time – 5 Star Wars V: * – 4 ¾ The Shining The Elephant Man Popeye – 4 ¼ Stardust Memories – 4 Airplane! The Blues Brothers Raging Bull – 3 ½ Superman II The Gods Must Be Crazy The Changeling – 3 ¼ Oh! Heavenly Dog 9 to 5 Watcher in the Woods Stir Crazy – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Altered States – 2 ¼ The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark Caddyshack – 2 Heaven’s Gate – 1 ¾ Goes Bananas – 1 ½ Dressed to Kill The Blue Lagoon – 1 ¼ Xanadu Wholly Moses! Friday the 13th – 1 Cannibal Holocaust The Fog Midnight Madness – ¾ Salem’s Lot Alligator Galaxina – ½

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1979 – 38 Top 5 of the 1970s Kramer vs. Kramer * – 4 ¾ 1. The Sting * Being There 2. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest * The China Syndrome 3. The Godfather * 4. The Godfather, Part II * Hanover Street – 4 ½ 5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Muppet Movie Alien – 4 ¼ 1941 (premiere/extended version) – 4 Manhattan – 3 ¾ The Champ The Electric Horseman – 3 ½ The Jerk – 3 ¼ Monty Python’s Life of Brian All That Jazz Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night) FL Escape from Alcatraz – 3 Jesus Christ Superstar Hair … And Justice for All – 2 ¾ The Brood The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Frisco Kid – 2 ½ When a Stranger Calls – 2 ¼ The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again Time After Time – 2 Meatballs Rocky II – 1 ¾ The Amityville Horror The Black Hole More – 1 ½ Tourist Trap – 1 ¼ Mad Max – 1 Caligula ♥ Phantasm The Warriors (director’s cut) Crippled Masters FL – ¾ – ½ Autumn Born – ¼

1978 – 31 Heaven Can Wait – 4 ¾ Gates of Heaven – 4 ½ Superman – 4 ¼ * FL – 4 Interiors – 3 ¾ The Rutles – TV Opening Night Days of Heaven – 3 ½ Death on the Nile Straight Time Candleshoe Grease Magic – 3 ¼ The Water Babies Pretty Baby Halloween The Last Waltz

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Foul Play – 3 The Boys from Brazil – 2 ¾ Hot Lead and Cold Feet ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Watership Down – 2 ¼ Damien: Omen II National Lampoon’s Animal House Up in Smoke Jaws II – 2 The Revenge of the Pink Panther – 1 ¾ The Cat from Outer Space – 1 ½ Dawn of the Dead – 1 ¼ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – 1 The Swarm – ¾

1977 – 25 Close Encounters of the Third Kind – 5 Star Wars (a.k.a. Star Wars IV: A New Hope) $2 * – 4 ¾ The Goodbye Girl – 4 ¼ The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh The Rescuers – 4 21 Up TV Pete’s Dragon Oh, God! – 3 ½ Julia Eraserhead – 3 ¼ Saturday Night Fever – 2 ¾ Der Amerikanische Freund () FL ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Freaky Friday – 2 ¼ Slap Shot – 2 The Deep – 1 ¾ Exorcist II: The Heretic Rollercoaster Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo – 1 ½ – 1 ¼ Suspiria Wizards Shock Waves – ¾ Death Bed: The Bed That Eats – ¼

1976 – 32 All the President’s Men – 5 Harlan County U.S.A. Network – 4 ¾ The Omen – 4 ½ – 4 ¼ The Tenant – 4 Bound for Glory – 3 ¾ Nickelodeon Rocky * – 3 ½ Marathon Man The Outlaw Josey Wales – 3 The Missouri Breaks Who Can Kill a Child?

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Burnt Offerings – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Carrie – 2 Family Plot The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane The Shootist The Last Tycoon – 1 ¾ The Pink Panther Strikes Again Alice, Sweet Alice (a.k.a. Communion and Holy Terror) Gus A Star Is Born The Shaggy D.A. – 1 ½ King Kong – 1 ¼ In the Realm of the Senses FL The Man Who Fell to Earth – 1 The Song Remains the Same The Town that Dreaded Sundown – ½ Smile Orange Revenge of the Cheerleaders – ¼

1975 – 24 One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest * – 5 Dog Day Afternoon Monty Python and the Holy Grail Nashville Jaws $ 7 Barry Lyndon – 4 ¾ Three Days of the Condor – 4 ¼ Love and Death – 4 The Sunshine Boys – 3 ¾ Hard Times – 3 ½ The Stepford Wives The Man Who Would Be King – 3 Grey Gardens Escape to Witch Mountain The Return of the Pink Panther The Apple Dumpling Gang – 2 ¾ The Rocky Horror Picture Show ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Picnic at Hanging Rock – 2 ½ Night Moves – 2 Salò, o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom) FL Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties) FL – 1 ½ The Mirror FL Dolemite – ¼ The Giant Spider Invasion

1974 – 31 The Godfather, Part II * – 5 – 4 ¾ Hearts and Minds Chinatown – 4 ½ A Woman under the Influence Murder on the Orient Express – 4 ¼ FL TV The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – 4

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F for Fake Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore The Great Gatsby – 3 ¾ The Odessa File – 3 ½ Blazing Saddles – 3 The Towering Inferno The Sugarland Express The Taking of Pelham One Two Three – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Ali: Fear Eats the Soul – 2 ½ Death Wish – 2 ¼ Black Christmas (a.k.a. Silent Night, Evil Night) – 2 School of the Holy Beast FL Earthquake – 1 ¾ Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia – 1 ½ Dead of Night (a.k.a. Deathdream) – 1 ¼ It’s Alive – 1 The Swinging Cheerleaders – ½ – ¼ Emmanuelle Flesh Gordon ♥ Double Agent 73

1973 – 29 The Sting * – 5 The Exorcist $9 American Graffiti Don’t Look Now – 4 ¾ La Nuit Americaine (Day for Night) FL – 4 ½ Serpico Papillon – 4 ¼ Scarecrow – 4 Mean Streets The Long Goodbye – 3 ¾ Sleeper – 3 ½ Soylent Green The Wicker Man Robin Hood – 3 ¼ Save the Tiger The Way We Were Badlands – 3 The Paper Chase Theatre of Blood Charlotte’s Web – 2 ¾ Let the Good Times Roll Westworld ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Holy Mountain – 2 ¼ The Last Detail – 2 The Legend of Hell House Nothing But the Night – 1 ¾ Sisters – 1 ½ The Mackintosh Man – 1 ¼ The Sinful Dwarf ♥ – ¾

1972 – 38

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The Godfather * – 5 Sleuth – 4 ¾ Deliverance Straw Dogs FL Cabaret – 4 ½ Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) FL – 4 ¼ Solaris FL Slaughterhouse-Five The Candidate 1776 – 4 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God) FL Last Tango in Paris – 3 ¾ Play it Again, Sam – 3 ½ What’s Up, Doc? The Hot Rock – 3 ¼ Young Winston Fat City – 3 And Now For Something Completely Different – 2 ¾ The King of Marvin Gardens Napoleon and Samantha ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Rage – 2 ¼ The Other – 2 The Getaway – 1 ¾ The Poseidon Adventure Boxcar Bertha – 1 The Thing with Two Heads Fritz the Cat Deep Throat ♥ – ½ The Last House on the Left – ¼ The Twilight People Psyched by the 4-D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) ♥ – 0 Demented Death Farm Massacre (a.k.a. Honey Britches) Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (Thumbelina version) Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (Jack and the Beanstalk version)

1971 – 21 A Clockwork Orange – 5 Duel TV The Last Picture Show – 4 ¼ Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory The French Connection * – 4 Bananas Harold and Maude McCabe and Mrs. Miller – 3 ½ Bedknobs and Broomsticks Fiddler on the Roof Carnal Knowledge – 3 ¼ THX 1138 Klute A Fistful of Dynamite (a.k.a. Duck, You Sucker) Take the Money and Run – 3 The Hospital ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Walkabout – 2 ¼

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Dirty Harry – 1 ½ $1,000,000 Duck – 1 ¼ The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant – ½ Werewolves on Wheels – ¼

1970 – 28 – 5 Patton * – 4 ¾ Il Conformista (The Conformist) FL – 4 ¼ M.A.S.H. Let it Be – 4 The Aristocats Seven Plus 7 TV – 3 ¾ Catch-22 – 3 ½ Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) FL Woodstock The Out of Towners – 3 ¼ Gimme Shelter ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Little Big Man – 2 ½ Ryan’s Daughter L'Uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) FL (Italian and English versions) – 2 Le Boucher (The Butcher) FL – 1 ¾ Love Story Tropic of Cancer Joe El Topo (The Mole) FL – 1 ¼ Airport Watermelon Man Performance – 1 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls – ½ Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen (Even Dwarfs Started Small) FL Thumbelina – ¼ The Wizard of Gore Jack and the Beanstalk – 0

1969 – 24 Top 5 of the Once Upon a Time in the West (165-min version) – 5 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 2. Psycho FL 3. Once Upon a Time in the West (165-min version) – 4 ¾ 4. The Graduate Z FL 5. To Kill a Mockingbird Midnight Cowboy * – 4 ½ The – 4 ¼ The Arrangement – 4 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – 3 ½ True Grit Support Your Local Sheriff Downhill Racer – 3 ¼ Medium Cool – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Comic – 2 ½ Topaz – 2 A Boy Named Charlie Brown La Sirène du Mississippi (Mississippi Mermaid) FL – 1 ¾ On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes – 1 ½ Godzilla’s Revenge FL – ¼ The Mighty Gorga La Venganza del Sexo (The Curious Dr. Humpp) FL One Million AC/DC – 0

1968 – 30 2001: A Space Odyssey – 5 Rosemary’s Baby Oliver! * The Odd Couple – 4 ½ Romeo and Juliet Bullitt – 4 ¼ Targets – 3 ¾ Planet of the Apes – 3 ½ The Producers Yellow Submarine Monterey Pop – 3 ¼ The Party Night of the Living Dead – 3 Funny Girl ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Faces – 2 Who’s That Knocking at My Door (a.k.a. I Call First) Barbarella – 1 ¾ Blackbeard’s Ghost – 1 ½ The Devil Rides Out (a.k.a. The Devil’s Bride) – 1 ¼ Head – 1 Skidoo – ¾ The Story of a Three-Day Pass (a.k.a. La Permission) FL – ½ Spider Baby They Saved Hitler’s Brain – ¼ Finders, Keepers, Lovers, Weepers Destroy All Monsters FL Girl in Gold Boots Nymphs Anonymous – 0 She Mob

1967 – 33 The Graduate – 5 Bonnie and Clyde Cool Hand Luke In the Heat of the Night * The Jungle Book – 4 ¾ Belle de Jour (Daylight Beauty) FL The Dirty Dozen – 4 ¼ Le Samourai FL Bedazzled – 4 Far from the Madding Crowd Wait Until Dark Reflections in a Golden Eye – 3 ¼ Magical Mystery Tour TV In Cold Blood Weekend FL Barefoot in the Park – 3 Doctor Dolittle – 2 ¾ Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner ↑THUMBS UP

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↓THUMBS DOWN Point Blank – 2 ½ The Fearless Vampire Hunters (original director’s version) To Sir, with Love – 2 ¼ How I Won the War – 1 ¾ Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort) FL I Am Curious (Yellow) FL – 1 ½ The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin La Chinoise (The Chinese) FL A Countess from – 1 ¼ Mad Monster Party? Berserk – 1 The Monster From a Prehistoric Planet FL – ¼ Hillbillys in a Haunted House Something Weird She Freak – 0

1966 – 28 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – 4 ¾ Persona FL A Man for All Seasons * – 4 ½ The Professionals – 4 ¼ A Big Hand for the Little Lady La Bataille d’Alger (The Battle of Algiers) FL The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Seconds – 4 Alfie A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – 3 ¾ The Chase – 3 ½ Torn Curtain The Naked Prey – 3 ¼ Fahrenheit 451 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken – 3 The Face of Another FL Harper The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! What’s up, Tiger Lily? – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Quiller Memorandum – 2 ½ – 2 ¼ Our Man Flint – 2 Blowup – 1 ¾ The Ugly Dachshund – 1 ½ Dracula, Prince of Darkness – 1 ¼ The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini – ¾ Mondo Topless – ½ Manos: The Hands of Fate – 0

1965 – 28 Doctor Zhivago $8 – 5 Fail-Safe – 4 ½ The Sound of Music * $3 Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte – 4 ¼ The Collector Help! The Pawnbroker – 4 Repulsion The Cincinnati Kid – 3 ¾ Chimes at Midnight, a.k.a. Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight) – 3 ½

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Othello Bunny Lake Is Missing – 3 ¼ The Great Race – 2 ¾ What’s New, Pussycat? ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Family Jewels – 2 ½ For a Few Dollars More – 2 Thunderball Gertrud FL – 1 ¾ That Darn Cat! – 1 ¼ Beach Blanket Bingo The Monkey’s Uncle – ¾ Frankenstein vs. Baragon (a.k.a. Frankenstein Conquers the World) FL – ½ Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! – ¼ The Defilers Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster – 0 Monster A-Go-Go The Beast That Killed Women

1964 – 33 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – 5 A Hard Day’s Night – 4 ½ Mary Poppins Woman in the Dunes FL – 4 ¼ Seven Days in May The Best Man – 4 Becket – 3 ½ The Disorderly Orderly Goldfinger My Fair Lady * The Train – 3 ¼ I Am Cuba FL (version without Russian overdubbing) The Moon-spinners – 3 The Night of the Iguana The T.A.M.I. Show The Pink Panther – 2 ¾ A Shot in the Dark Devil Doll Marnie The Last Man on Earth ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) FL – 2 ¼ A Fistful of Dollars – 2 Strait-Jacket The Incredible Mr. Limpet – 1 ¾ Black Like Me The Misadventures of Merlin Jones – 1 ½ Viva Las Vegas – 1 Muscle Beach Party – ¾ The Monster of Camp Sunshine or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nature Two Thousand Maniacs! – ½ Lorna – ¼ Godzilla vs. the Thing FL Conquers the Martians

1963 – 29

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (original 35mm, general-release version) – 5 Hud – 4 ¾ The Birds – 4 ¼ Le Mepris (Contempt) FL – 4 America America – 3 ¾ Tom Jones * – 3 ½ The Haunting The Nutty Professor The Sword in the Stone – 3 ¼ 8 ½ FL Bye, Bye Birdie – 3 The Silence FL Summer Magic – 2 ¾ The Incredible Journey ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN – 2 ½ Dementia 13 – 2 Cleopatra (248-minute American-premiere version) Jason and the Argonauts X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes Sunday in New York Dr. No A New Kind of Love – 1 ¼ Under the Yum Yum Tree I Tre Volti della Paura ( of Fear, a.k.a. Black Sabbath) FL Promises! Promises ! – ¾ The Crawling Hand – ½ Blood Feast (a.k.a. Egyptian Blood Feast) – 0 Scum of the Earth Eegah!

1962 – 29 To Kill a Mockingbird – 5 Lawrence of Arabia (most-recent restoration) * Cape Fear – 4 ½ Requiem for a Heavyweight Lolita El Angel Exterminador (The Exterminating Angel) FL – 4 The Trial The Music Man The Longest Day Birdman of Alcatraz – 3 ¾ The Manchurian Candidate – 3 ½ Mutiny on the Bounty The Miracle Worker – 3 ¼ Jules et Jim FL The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance It’$ Only Money – 2 ¾ Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7) FL ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – 2 Mondo Cane (A Dog’s World) FL Ride the High Country – 1 ¾ L’Eclisse (The Eclipse) FL – 1 ½ Panic in the Year Zero! The Premature Burial – 1 ¼ Bon Voyage Carnival of Souls – 1 Knife in the Water FL

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Zotz! – ¾ that Wouldn’t Die – ¼ The Three Stooges in Orbit

1961 – 22 Splendor in the Grass – 5 Judgment at Nuremberg – 4 ¾ * – 4 ½ Through a Glass Darkly FL The Hustler 101 Dalmations – 4 ¼ L’Annee Derniere a Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) FL – 3 ¾ The Innocents – 3 ½ Pocketful of Miracles – 3 Breakfast at Tiffany’s – 2 ¾ The Absent-Minded Professor The Parent Trap ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Misfits – 2 ¼ The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone – 1 ¾ The Pit and the Pendulum – 1 ½ Homicidal Mothra FL – 1 Snow White and the Three Stooges – ¾ Gorgo Invasion of the Neptune Men – ¼ The Phantom Planet The Beast of Yucca Flats – 0

1960 –24 Psycho – 5 Wild River Inherit the Wind – 4 ¾ (The Good Life) FL Pollyana – 4 ½ Spartacus (1991 restoration, similar to original preview version) – 4 ¼ The Entertainer – 4 The Village of the Damned Les Yeux Sans Visage () FL – 3 ¾ Elmer Gantry – 3 ½ * Swiss Family Robinson Le Testament d'Orphée, ou ne me Demandez pas Pourquoi! (Testament of Orpheus) FL – 3 ¼ Tirez sur le Pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) FL – 3 The Time Machine – 2 ¾ Primary ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Magnificent Seven – 2 ½ À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) FL – 2 Exodus Peeping Tom – 1 ½ L’Avventura FL The Little Shop of Horrors – 1 The Lost World – ¾ The Sinister Urge – ¼

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1959 – 30 Top 5 of the 1950s Ben-Hur * – 4 ¾ 1. * North by Northwest 2. East of Eden Sleeping Beauty – 4 ¼ 3. Bridge on the River Kwai * Floating Weeds FL 4. A Streetcar Named Desire FL – 4 ¼ 5. Les Diaboliques (The Devils) FL (Hiroshima My Love) FL – 3 ½ Les Quatre Cents Coups () FL – 3 ¼ – 3 Our Man in Suddenly, Last Summer – 2 ¾ Odds Against Tomorrow The Shaggy Dog A Bucket of Blood Darby O’Gill and the Little People ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Pickpocket FL – 2 ½ Rio Bravo Pillow Talk – 2 ¼ No Name on the Bullet – 1 ¾ The Mouse That Roared The Mummy – 1 ¼ The Tingler The Bat – 1 Shadows – ¾ Invisible Invaders – ½ The Killer Shrews – ¼ Prince of Space – 0

1958 – 20 Vertigo – 5 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Ashes and Diamonds FL – 4 ¼ Touch of Evil (1998 director’s cut) The Magician FL – 4 A Night to Remember – 3 ½ Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) FL The Young Lions The Fly – 2 ¾ Dracula (a.k.a. The Horror of Dracula) Bell, Book and Candle No Time for Sergeants (My Uncle) FL ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN – 2 ¼ Gigi * – 1 ¾ Rock-a-Bye Baby South Pacific – 1 ½ From the Earth to the Moon – 1 I Married a Monster from Outer Space The Screaming Skull – ¼

1957 –28

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Bridge on the River Kwai * – 5 12 Angry Men A Face in the Crowd – 4 ¾ Paths of Glory – 4 ¼ Witness for the Prosecution Wild Strawberries FL – 4 The Seventh Seal FL Throne of Blood FL – 3 ¾ Edge of the City – 3 ½ Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) FL Tokyo Twilight FL – 3 ¼ Old Yeller An Affair to Remember – 3 The Incredible Shrinking Man – 2 ¾ A King in New York Perri ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Prince and the Showgirl – 2 ½ The Curse of Frankenstein – 1 ¾ Curse of the Demon (a.k.a. Night of the Demon) – 1 ¼ Pal Joey Jailhouse Rock The Black Scorpion – ½ From Hell It Came – ¼ The Brain from Planet Arous Zombies of Mora Tau

1956 – 21 Giant – 5 Baby Doll – 4 ½ Invasion of the Body Snatchers – 4 ¼ The Harder They Fall – 3 ¾ The Court Around the World in 80 Days * – 3 ½ Somebody Up There Likes Me The Searchers – 3 ¼ The Wrong Man Bigger Than Life – 3 Et Dieu … Crea la Femme (And God Created Woman) FL – 2 ¾ The Girl Can’t Help It Lust for Life The Ten Commandments $5 ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Killing – 2 ¼ Bus Stop – 2 The Man Who Knew Too Much The Rack – 1 ¾ Forbidden Planet – 1 ½ La Pointe Courte FL – 1 ¼ Back from Eternity – 1

1955 – 21 East of Eden – 5 Les Diaboliques (The Devils) FL

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Lady and the Tramp Marty * – 4 Three Cases of Murder FL – 3 ¾ Rebel Without a Cause – 3 ½ Mister Roberts – 3 ! – 2 ¾ The Blackboard Jungle The Ladykillers ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN To Catch a Thief – 2 ½ – 2 ¼ All That Heaven Allows Kiss Me Deadly – 2 Night of the Hunter Illegal – 1 ½ Killer’s Kiss – 1 ¼ The Trouble with Harry Creature with the Brain – ¾ – 0

1954 – 17 On the Waterfront * – 5 FL – 4 ¾ The FL Dial M for Murder (3-D version) (The Road) FL – 4 ¼ A Star Is Born (176-minute restored version) Rear Window – 4 Hobson’s Choice – 3 ½ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Brigadoon – 2 ¾ Them! ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Johnny Guitar – 1 ¾ White Christmas – 1 ½ Godzilla FL Creature from the Black Lagoon (3-D version) – ¾ Jail Bait – ¼

1953 – 22 Shane – 4 ¾ FL – 4 ½ Peter Pan Madame de … (The Earrings of Madame de …) FL – 4 ¼ FL – 4 Gate of Hell FL FL * – 3 ½ Young Bess I Confess The Band Wagon – 2 ¾ House of Wax War of the Worlds ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – 1 ¾ The Man in the Attic Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday) FL – 1 ½ The Hitch-hiker – 1 ¼ How to Marry a Millioniaire Fear and Desire – 1 Mesa of Lost Women – 0

1952 – 11 Singin’ in the Rain – 4 ½ Limelight – 4 ¼ The Magic Box – 4 – 4 Ikiru FL Viva Zapata! Casque d’Or (Golden Helmet) FL – 3 ½ Breaking Othello (American version) – 3 ¼ The Greatest Show on Earth * – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla – ¼

1951 – 15 A Streetcar Named Desire – 5 Alice in Wonderland The African Queen A Place in the Sun – 4 ½ Strangers on a Train An American in Paris * – 4 A Christmas Carol – 3 ½ – 3 ¼ Ace in the Hole ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The River – 2 ¼ The Day the Earth Stood Still – 2 ¼ The Thing from Another World – 1 ½ Jim Thorpe – All American – 1 ¼ Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man Bedtime for Bonzo

1950 – 17 * – 5 Cinderella – 4 ½ Sunset Boulevard – 4 Orphée (Orpheus) FL Father of the Bride Harvey – 3 ¾ The Asphalt Jungle So Long at the Fair Born Yesterday – 3 ½ Roshomon FL – 3 ¼ La Ronde (The Round) FL Treasure Island – 3 ↑THUMBS UP

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↓THUMBS DOWN Panic in the Streets – 2 ½ No Way Out – 2 ¼ Stage Fright – 1 ¾ The Black Rose – 1 ¼ The Jackie Robinson Story – ¾

1949 – 13 Top 5 of the 1940s – 5 1. The Third Man Kind Hearts and Coronets – 4 ¼ 2. Les Enfants du Paradis () FL The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad – 4 3. Pinocchio White Heat – 3 ½ 4. Dumbo All the King’s Men * – 3 ¼ 5. Casablanca Little Women The Heiress So Dear To My Heart Adam’s Rib – 3 The Inspector General – 2 ¾ Pinky On the Town ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Fountainhead – 1

1948 – 18 Hamlet * – 4 ¾ Ladri di Biciclette (The ) FL Oliver Twist Sorry, Wrong Number The Treasure of the Sierra Madre – 4 ½ The Red Shoes Red River – 4 Macbeth – 3 ½ Key Largo The Lady from Shanghai – 3 ¼ The Fallen Idol Rope – 2 ¾ Melody Time Anna Karenina ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Big Clock – 2 ¼ Portrait of Jennie – 2 Force of Evil Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein – 1 ¾

1947 – 13 Gentleman’s Agreement * – 3 ½ The Paradine Case – 3 ¼ Out of the Past Monsieur Verdoux Fun and Fancy Free The Sea of Grass – 2 ¾ Boomerang The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Miracle on 34th Street ↑THUMBS UP

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↓THUMBS DOWN Duel in the Sun – 1 ½ The Sin of Harold Diddlebock – 1 ¼ The Egg and I

1946 – 15 The Stranger – 5 It’s a Wonderful Life Great Expectations My Darling Clementine – 4 ¼ Sciuscià (Shoeshine) FL The Best Years of Our Lives * – 4 Make Mine Music – 3 ¾ Song of the South – 3 ½ Notorious Terror by Night Gilda – 3 ¼ The Big Sleep – 3 A Matter of Life and Death (a.k.a. Stairway to Heaven) La Belle et la Bete (Beauty and the Beast) FL – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Bedlam – 1

1945 – 15 Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) FL – 5 Dead of Night Roma Città Aperta (Rome, Open City) FL – 4 ¼ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – 3 ¾ – 3 ½ The Woman in Green – 3 The Picture of Dorian Gray The Lost Weekend * – 2 ¾ Spellbound ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Body Snatcher – 2 ¼ The Spiral Staircase – 2 The Lodger And Then There Were None (a.k.a. Ten Little Niggers) – 1 ½ Isle of the Dead – 1 ¼ Detour – 1

1944 – 16 Arsenic and Old Lace – 4 ¼ Jane Eyre – 4 Laura – 3 ½ * Cover Girl Gaslight – 3 ¼ The Woman in the Window – 3 – 2 ¾ Lifeboat ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Meet Me in St. Louis – 2 ¼ The Seventh Cross – 2 Ministry of Fear – 1 ¾

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The Uninvited – 1 ¼ The Curse of the Cat People – 1 The Mummy’s Ghost The Mummy’s Curse

1943 – 11 Casablanca * – 5 Day of Wrath FL – 4 ½ Le Corbeau (The Raven) FL Shadow of a Doubt – 3 ¼ Five Graves to Cairo – 2 ¾ Saludos Amigos ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Victory Through Air Power – 2 ½ The Leopard Man – 2 I Walked with a Zombie Girl Crazy The Ghost Ship – 1

1942 – 13 – 5 – 4 ¼ Yankee Doodle Dandy – 4 The Night Has Eyes – 3 ½ Saboteur Mrs. Miniver * – 3 Now, Voyager – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Magnificent Ambersons – 2 ¼ The Talk of the Town – 2 The Pride of the Yankees The Ghost of Frankenstein – 1 ½ Cat People – 1 ¼ Road to Morocco

1941 – 16 Dumbo – 5 The Maltese Falcon – 4 ¾ Sullivan’s Travels – 4 That Hamilton Woman – 3 ½ The Strawberry Blonde The Reluctant Dragon – 3 ¼ How Green Was My Valley * – 3 Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde – 2 ¾ The Lady Eve The Devil and Miss Jones ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Sergeant York – 1 ¾ Whistling in the Dark Suspicion The Wolf Man – 1 ½ High Sierra – 1 ¼

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1940 – 15 Pinocchio – 5 The Grapes of Wrath Fantasia Rebecca * – 4 ¾ The Great Dictator His Girl Friday Pride and Prejudice – 3 ½ Gaslight – 3 ¼ Black Friday – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Philadelphia Story – 2 ¼ The Thief of Bagdad – 1 ¾ Boom Town – 1 ½ Saps at Sea – 1 ¼ Go West – 1 The Mummy’s Hand

1939 – 20 Top 5 of the 1930s Gone with the Wind * $1 – 5 1. Gone with the Wind * $1 Wuthering Heights 2. Modern Times SlWS The Wizard of Oz 3. Wuthering Heights La Regle du Jeu 4. The Wizard of Oz () FL (106-minute version) – 4 ¾ 5. City Lights SlWS Goodbye, Mr. Chips – 4 ¼ The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Hound of the Baskervilles – 4 Of Mice and Men – 3 ¾ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – 3 ½ Stagecoach – 3 The Cat and the Canary The Roaring Twenties – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Jamaica Inn – 2 ¼ Gunga Din Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – 2 – 1 ½ Tower of London Dark Victory – 1

1938 – 10 Bringing Up Baby – 4 ½ You Can’t Take It with You * – 4 ¼ Jezebel – 4 Olympia (German version) FL The Adventures of Robin Hood – 3 ¾ St. Martin’s Lane (a.k.a. Sidewalks of London) – 3 ½ Pygmalion Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows) FL – 3 ¼ The Lady Vanishes – 2 ¾ Boys Town

1937 – 9 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs $10 – 5

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La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) FL – 4 ½ A Day at the Races – 4 ¼ A Star is Born – 3 ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Awful Truth – 2 Storm in a Teacup * – 1 ¾ Topper – 1 Wings of the Morning – ¾

1936 – 10 Modern Times SlWS – 5 The Devil-Doll – 2 ¾ The Great Ziegfeld * San Francisco ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Invisible Ray – 1 ¾ Libeled Lady Swing Time Things to Come – 1 ½ Strike Me Pink – 1 ¼ – ¼

1935 – 12 Mutiny on the Bounty * – 3 ½ David Copperfield (a.k.a. The Personal History, Adventures, Experience & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger) – 3 The A Midsummer Night’s Dream Anna Karenina – 2 ¾ Mad Love Mark of the Vampire The Raven A Night at the Opera The 39 Steps ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Scrooge – 1 ½ Top Hat

1934 – 7 It Happened One Night * – 4 ¾ The – 3 The Black Cat – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Babes in Toyland – 1 ¾ L’Atalante (89-minute restoration) FL – 1 ¼ The Man Who Knew Too Much – 1 ¼ Manhattan Melodrama – ½

1933 – 10 Footlight – 3 ¾ Duck Soup – 3 ½ The Private Life of Henry VIII * ↑THUMBS UP

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↓THUMBS DOWN King Kong – 2 ¼ Little Women Baby Face – 2 Cavalcade * – 1 ¾ 42nd Street – 1 ½ The Invisible Man – 1 ¼ Zéro de Conduite (Zero for Conduct) FL – 1

1932 – 16 Grand Hotel * – 4 ¾ Vampyr FL The Sign of the Cross – 3 ½ I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang The Mummy Horse Feathers – 3 The Old Dark House – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Scarface – 2 ¼ Le Sang d'un Poète (The Blood of the Poet) FL – 2 Boudu Sauvé des Eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning) FL – 1 ½ White Zombie A Farewell to Arms Island of Lost Souls – 1 ¼ Movie Crazy The Most Dangerous Game – 1 Murders in the Rue Morgue – ¾

1931 – 14 City Lights SlWS – 5 Frankenstein – 4 ¾ – 3 ¾ Little Caesar – 3 Cimarron * M FL – 2 ¾ The Miracle Woman ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Champ – 2 ½ Dracula – 2 Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde Monkey Business Freaks – 1 ½ Easy Money – 1 ¼ The Skin Game – 1

1930 – 6 Hell’s Angels – 3 ¾ All Quiet on the Western Front * Animal Crackers – 3 ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) FL – 1 ¾ Murder! – 1 ½ L’Age d’Or (The Golden Age) FL – 1

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1929 – 4 Top 5 of the 1920s Man with a Movie Camera Sl – 4 ¼ 1. The Circus Sl Pandora’s Box Sl – 3 ½ 2. La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) Sl ↑THUMBS UP 3. The Gold Rush Sl ↓THUMBS DOWN 4. The Kid Sl The Broadway Melody * – 1 ¼ 5. The General Sl The Great Gabbo – 1

1928 – 10 The Circus Sl – 5 La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) Sl The Last Command Sl – 4 ¼ The Man Who Laughs Sl – 4 Arsenal Sl – 3 ¾ Steamboat Bill, Jr. Sl – 3 ½ The Docks of New York Sl – 3 The Crowd Sl Laugh, Clown, Laugh Sl – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN October: Ten Days That Shook the World Sl – 2 ½

1927 – 10 The General Sl – 4 ¾ 7th Heaven SlWS – 4 ¼ The Unknown Sl Wings * Sl – 3 ½ Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans * SlWS – 3 ¼ It Sl – 3 The First Auto SlWS ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Cat and the Canary Sl – 2 ¼ The King of Kings Sl – 2

1926 – 3 Metropolis Sl – 4 ½ Mother Sl – 3 ½ The Black Pirate Sl – 2 ¾

1925 – 8 The Gold Rush Sl – 5 The Phantom of the Opera (1929 edit) Sl/SlWS – 4 ¼ Battleship Potemkin Sl – 4 Seven Chances Sl – 3 ¼ The Unholy Three Sl – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Strike Sl – 2 ¼ The Freshman Sl – 1 ¼ The Monster Sl – 1

1924 – 5 The Thief of Bagdad Sl – 4

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Sherlock Jr. Sl He Who Gets Slapped Sl – 3 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) Sl – 2 Waxworks Sl – 1 ¼

1923 – 7 Safety Last! Sl – 3 ½ The Ten Commandments Sl – 3 A Woman of Paris Sl Our Hospitality Sl La Roue (The Wheel, 273-minute version, longest narrative-fiction film on this list) Sl – 2 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Pilgrim Sl – 2 ¼ The Hunchback of Notre Dame Sl

1922 – 4 Nanook of the North – 3 ½ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Blood and Sand Sl – 2 ¼ Häxan (The Witch, or Witchcraft Through the Ages) Sl – 2 Nosferatu Sl – 1 ¾

1921 – 4 The Kid Sl – 4 ¾ The Phantom Carriage Sl – 3 ½ The Ace of Hearts Sl – 3 ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Sheik Sl – 1 ¼

1920 – 5 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Sl – 4 The Penalty Sl – 3 ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde Sl – 2 Way Down East Sl – 1 ¾ Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem: How He Came Into the World) Sl – 1 ¼

1919 – 1 Top 3 of the 1910s The Golden Sea (part 1 of Spiders) Sl – 1 1. Birth of a Nation Sl 2. Shoulder Arms Sl 3. Intolerance Sl 1918 – 4 Note: This top 3 consists just of films over 40 minutes. (Short films dominated this decade.) Shoulder Arms Sl – 3 ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Whispering Chorus Sl – 2 Old Wives for New Sl – ¾ Die Augen der Mumie Ma (The Eyes of the Mummy) Sl – ½

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1917 – 1 The Dying Swan Sl – 2

1916 – 1 Intolerance Sl – 2 ¾

1915 – 7 Birth of a Nation Sl – 3 ¾ ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Cheat Sl – 2 The Golden Chance Sl Hypocrites Sl – 1 After Death Sl Carmen Sl – ¾ The Raven Sl – ½

1914 – 4 Cabiria Sl – 1 ½ Tillie’s Punctured Romance Sl – 1 ¼ In the Land of the Headhunters (a.k.a. In the Land of the War Canoes) – ¾ The Patchwork Girl of Oz Sl – ½

1913 – 5 The Twilight of a Woman’s Soul Sl – 1 ¼ Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompeii ( of Pompeii) Sl – 1 L’Enfant de Paris (The Child of Paris) Sl Traffic in Souls Sl The Student of Prague Sl – ¾

1912 – 2 Le Mystère des Roches de Kador (The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador) Sl – 1 ½ From the Manger to the Cross Sl – 1 ¼

1911 – 1 L’Inferno (Dante’s Inferno, or The Inferno) Sl – 1 ¾

Note: From the Manger to the Cross was arguably the first feature-length American movie, in 1912. Older features exist, notably L’Inferno (referenced above) and a handful of other European films. But it was an Australian movie that claimed the title of first “feature film.” That movie, The Story of the Kelly Gang, was released in 1906 and is now largely lost. This website does list many movies older than 1911 (actually going back to 1888), but they are all short films. (See the “Short Lists” item on the site’s menu bar.)

My “thumbs-up” and “thumbs-down” designations represent my attempt to judge whether an audience should see a film. But film is immensely personal. So, based upon your own tastes, age and life experiences, you might want to give a 2 ½ or a 2 ¼-star film a try. Converely, films that I’ve given 2 ¾ or 3 stars to might not work for you. Interestingly, assigns all films below 60 percent (those that get less than 3 stars on a 5-star scale) a thumbs-down. So, essentially, my designation of 2 ¾ stars is equivalent to 3 in the context of Rotten Tomatoes.

Directors with the most best films of the year Charlie Chaplin – 6 Elia Kazan – 5 (creative producer, gets ½ point for each film) – 4

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Stanley Kubrick – 3 David Lean – 3 – 3

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