| 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. |
| Taxi Driver | 1976 | 91 | 2 | - An unsettling character study that shows how fragile the boundaries of good and evil can be. |
| Exorcist, The | 1973 | 90 | 3 | - In my estimation, the greatest horror flick of all time. |
| Chinatown | 1974 | 89 | 4 | - 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 | 4 | - It takes the long way around getting to its point, but, once there, you're left awestruck. |
| All the Presidents Men | 1976 | 84 | 6 | - Successfully captures a terific story and throws it on film. |
| Deer Hunter, The | 1978 | 80 | 7 | - '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. |
| Star Wars IV: A New Hope | 1977 | 80 | 7 | - 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 | 9 | - 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 | 10 | - It's cookiness aside, Stanley Kubrick's futuristic allegory raises some interesting questions. |
| Godfather: Part II, The | 1974 | 72 | 11 | - 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. |
| The Towering Inferno | 1974 | 70 | 12 | - It's the kind of film that gives firefighters everywhere a hard one. |
| French Connection, The | 1971 | 69 | 13 | - After an hour or so of nothing more than people following people, The French Connection FINALLY gets going. |
| Rocky | 1976 | 69 | 13 | - A bit overrated if we're being completely honest. |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | 65 | 15 | - The first half is laughably condensing, the second half is akin to a bad acid trip. |
| American Graffiti | 1973 | 47 | 16 | - 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. |
