| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| Godfather, The | 1972 | 96 | 1 | - An incredible crime saga told with so much detail and conviction, you question just how fictional it really is. |
| Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | 96 | 1 | - The greatest World War II film of all time. End of story. |
| It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | 95 | 3 | - It's not just a great Christmas film but a fantastic movie. This, plain and simple, was Jimmy Stewart at his best. |
| Goodfellas | 1990 | 94 | 4 | - This is Scorcese's best work, hands down. Easily one of the greatest movies of all time. |
| Forrest Gump | 1994 | 93 | 5 | - There's no other movie like it, and I'm not sure there ever will be. |
| Taxi Driver | 1976 | 91 | 6 | - An unsettling character study that shows how fragile the boundaries of good and evil can be. |
| Titanic | 1997 | 90 | 7 | |
| Chinatown | 1974 | 89 | 8 | - The more you look back and the more you cut away al the bells and whistles of modern cinema, the more you realize just how much Nicholson's charisma bursts right through the screen. |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | 89 | 8 | - It takes the long way around getting to its point, but, once there, you're left awestruck. |
| Shawshank Redemption, The | 1994 | 89 | 8 | - It's a powerful tale about friendship, but the life-is-what-you-make-it story is heavily sugarcoated for a film that takes place primarily in a cruel prison. |
| Silence of the Lambs, The | 1991 | 87 | 11 | - It's rare that a thriller is, at the same time, both genuinely creepy and compelling. Ultimately, that's what makes The Silence of the Lambs special. |
| Sixth Sense, The | 1999 | 85 | 12 | - The final plot twist (you KNOW the one I'm talking about) goes right up there with Vader telling Luke who his father is. |
| All the Presidents Men | 1976 | 84 | 13 | - Successfully captures a terific story and throws it on film. |
| North By Northwest | 1959 | 84 | 13 | - It serves as the blueprint for every successful blockbuster thriller. It shouldn't surprise you that Hitchcock pulled it off first. |
| Schindlers List | 1993 | 84 | 13 | - Very good, but, a tid bit overrated if we're being perfectly honest. |
| E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | 82 | 16 | - One of those films I will forever be impartial to because I grew up with it. |
| Citizen Kane | 1941 | 81 | 17 | - The sensational story about the world's biggest sensationalist is, well, pretty sensational. |
| Double Indemnity | 1944 | 81 | 17 | - Take it from me, someone who doesn't buy the notion that films are necessarily better just because their old: this one is worth your time. |
| Gone with the Wind | 1939 | 81 | 17 | - After watching it, you'll wonder if anything truly good and pure can ever exist. |
| Deer Hunter, The | 1978 | 80 | 20 | - 'The Deer Hunter' is a tough one to figure out because while it is undeniably good, it also feels like it could've been so much better. |
| King Kong (1933) | 1933 | 80 | 20 | - For it's time, it's nothing short of wonderous. |
| Platoon | 1986 | 80 | 20 | - This is THE Vietnam War movie. All others are just fighting for second. |
| Pulp Fiction | 1994 | 80 | 20 | - An instant cult classic, but be warned: it's trendier to pretend to like this movie than it is to actually like it. |
| Raging Bull | 1980 | 80 | 20 | - In some ways, it's one of the saddest stories ever put on the big screen. |
| Star Wars IV: A New Hope | 1977 | 80 | 20 | - It initially had to set up the story for three movies, which explains the long, somewhat slow beginning. The end is the stuff of film legend, though. |
| Jaws | 1975 | 79 | 26 | - It depends on how you view it, quite frankly. A thriller? A compelling one, to be sure. But a true horror? Well, let's just say it's not as big of a fish as it thinks it is. |
| A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | 78 | 27 | - It's cookiness aside, Stanley Kubrick's futuristic allegory raises some interesting questions. |
| 12 Angry Men (original) | 1957 | 77 | 28 | - A classic everyone needs to see. A landmark film with a powerful message that still rings true today. |
| It Happened One Night | 1934 | 77 | 28 | - It's sort of the original rom-com. |
| Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | 77 | 28 | - The visuals in Peter Jackson's first installment of this epic are breathtaking, but the film could've shed 30-60 minutes and been just as good or better. |
| Psycho | 1960 | 77 | 28 | - It's value isn't necessarily what is on the screen so much as what it has inspired since. |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | 73 | 32 | - "Epic" does not have to be shorthand for "slow-moving drama" as it is here for most of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. |
| Godfather: Part II, The | 1974 | 72 | 33 | - Like the chronological order of the story, this film is all over the place. The first one should just how much a crime family could control. The sequel shows just how much it can't. |
| French Connection, The | 1971 | 69 | 34 | - After an hour or so of nothing more than people following people, The French Connection FINALLY gets going. |
| Rocky | 1976 | 69 | 34 | - A bit overrated if we're being completely honest. |
| To Kill A Mockingbird | 1962 | 69 | 34 | - One of the first and most notable films to be adapted from a book. And, like so many that have followed, the book is much better. Still, though, Mr. Peck is im-peck-able. |
| Unforgiven | 1992 | 69 | 34 | - Neither terrible nor amazing. But the second half is worth the price of admission. |
| Rear Window | 1954 | 68 | 38 | - Hitchcock did better in his career. |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | 65 | 39 | - The first half is laughably condensing, the second half is akin to a bad acid trip. |
| Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | 65 | 39 | - I like biopics as much as anyone, but 'Lawrence of Arabia' is and always will be overrated. There, I said it. |
| Toy Story | 1995 | 63 | 41 | - As a child, this film is a staple of life. After puberty, it doesn't offer you much. |
| Vertigo | 1958 | 50 | 42 | - Alfred Hitchcock's thriller piques your interest, but fails to keep it. |
| American Graffiti | 1973 | 47 | 43 | - Like 'Apocalypse Now' for Coppola, 'American Graffiti' is a forgettable creation by a director whose greatest work is and will forever be a certain trilogy. |
| Sunset Blvd | 1950 | 42 | 44 | - An admittedly enticing premise dive-bombs into one incredibly slow movie. |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | 31 | 45 | - Typical Kubrick: he can't just tell a story. Everything has to be commentary on humanity. |
