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The 500 greatest movies of all time 100-1 

100 Network (1976) Director: Sidney Lumet Lumet뭩 satire of television뭩 morals has grown more chillingly relevant with age. Peter Finch뭩 on-air breakdown, screaming at the cameras, entices the audience rather than repels them. Read Review 98 Cover Movie View Cover North By Northwest(1959) Director: Alfred Hitchcock A droll and debonair Cary Grant slaloms between spy rings, suspicious blondes, mother issues and a psychopathic cropduster.Read Review

99 Toy Story (1995) Director: John Lasseter A landmark in animation as beautiful and significant as Snow White. The point wasn뭪 just art-by-computer, but a storytelling of wit and humanity that translated to seemingly everyone alive.Read Review 97 Cover Movie View Cover Reservoir Dogs (1992) Director: Quentin Tarantino Tarantino mixed noir staples with spasms of ultraviolence and a whirr of meta-dialogue where everything was game, from Madonna to The Great Escape, to create the pop-cultural movie event of the '90s. Read Review

96 American Beauty (1999) Director: Sam Mendes An intricate, brilliantly acted dissection of dysfunctional family life, wunderkind Mendes� first movie was well-rewarded with a hatful of Oscars. Read Review

95 Yojimbo (1961) Director: Akira Kurosawa The finest example of Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune뭩 astonishing partnership, the title role giving the latter his most likably rugged rogue incarnation. Read Review

94 The Wild Bunch (1969) Director: Sam Peckinpah Peckinpah뭩 lament for the dying West plays on his favourite theme � men out of step with their time � and embroiders it with the most memorable bloodshed imaginable. John Woo owes his career to this. Read Review		93 Spirit Of The Beehive(1973) Director: V�tor Erice A story of a young Spanish girl, the aftermath of the civil war, Frankenstein뭩 Monster and a father뭩 obsession with bees, this is a triumph of dreamlike style. And one of Guillermo del Toro뭩 faves.Read Review		92 Once Upon A Time In America (1984) Director: Sergio Leone It took Leone years to realise this chronicle of the lives of Jewish ghetto youths, and he couldn뭪 quite let it go in the editing suite. Still, it뭩 a majestic drama that repays endless viewings. Read Review		91 Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi (1983) Director: Richard Marquand The weakest of the original trilogy, Marquand뭩 send-off still does more than enough to earn its place in movie history. The triple-stranded climax is masterful. Read Review		90 Cover Movie View Cover When Harry Met Sally(1989) Director: Rob Reiner Reiner뭩 rom-com is sweet-natured and old-fashioned, yet with a deliciously dirty streak and game performances from Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. Read Review
89 Magnolia (1999) Director: Paul Thomas Anderson An ensemble piece about the bonds that bring a disparate group of Los Angelinos together, it뭩 no coincidence that Anderson뭩 instant classic is loved by so many. Read Review		88 Cover Movie View Cover Ferris Bueller뭩 Day Off(1986) Director: John Hughes The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies and dickheads all adore him, and so do we. John Hughes� righteous dude is unquestionably too cool for school. Read Review		87 The King Of Comedy (1983) Director: Martin Scorsese De Niro뭩 Rupert Pupkin is the self-deluded ying to Travis Bickle뭩 sociopathic yang. Scorsese뭩 satirical and deeply discomfiting black comedy deserves its place in this list for its dangerously desperate protagonist alone. Read Review		86 Cover Movie View Cover Carrie (1976) Director: Brian De Palma Most horrors make their female lead the plucky, survivalist scream queen. Carrie stands out by making her meek, awkward and responsible for supernaturally charged mass-murder. Read Review		85 Blue Velvet (1986) Director: David Lynch Never have Lynch뭩 beautiful and bizarre visions been more unsettling than here, as he unearths the dirt that lies beneath a seemingly genteel American suburbia. At a stretch it뭩 a form of neo-noir. Then again, this is Lynch, and definitions never stick. Read Review

84 L. A. Confidential (1997) Director: Curtis Hanson James Ellroy � equally known as 뱓he demon dog of crime fiction� and the author of L. A. Confidential � once admitted that if he뭗 had his way, the movie of the third entry in his darkly magnificent LA Quartet (or the second entry in his Dudley Smith Trio, if you prefer) would have been shot in black-and-white and been four hours long. Which, as intriguing as that sounds, only goes to show that sometimes it뭩 a good thing creators maintain a (dis)respectful distance from adaptations of their output. After all, Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland뭩 well-oiled retool of Ellroy뭩 devilishly manifold tale of police corruption in �40s Hollywood should be held up as the very pinnacle of novel-to-script revisualisation: a robust reworking with an eye on the beats that give every good mainstream drama its pulse, while sensitively embracing the original뭩 bitter core. Read Review

83 Brazil (1985) Director: Terry Gilliam While the Orwellian influences are plain, the heart of this dystopian comedy is pure Gilliam. The desire to fly free of oppressive bureaucracy is the crux of this story � and who can뭪 empathise with that? Read Review 82 Cover Movie View Cover The Great Escape (1963) Director: John Sturges An all-star cast, a true-life tale and one of the most memorable theme tunes of all time, Sturges� beloved entertainment somehow combines Boy뭩 Own thrills with the harsh bite of wartime truths. Dig it. Read Review 81 Batman Begins (2005) Director: Christopher Nolan Nolan뭩 Year One rebirth of the caped crusader is a grown-up comic-book movie that placed the Dark Knight himself, rather than his gaudy foes, where he belonged... back in the spotlight. Read Review 80 The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943) Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Slated on its original release for being decidedly unpatriotic, Powell and Pressburger뭩 satire has now been rightfully re-assessed as a classic which couldn뭪 be more British if it tried. Read Review 79 The Thin Red Line (1998) Director: Terrence Malick Malick뭩 stunning return to filmmaking after a 20-year absence is beautiful, thoughtful and admirably uncommercial. And Hans Zimmer뭩 haunting theme has been used for a dozen trailers since � including, incongruously, that for Pearl Harbor. Read Review

78 Rosemary뭩 Baby (1996) Director: Roman Polanski Still creepy after all these years, Polanski뭩 efficiently cold and calculating tale of devil- worshipping, nasty neighbours and labour pains should be mandatory viewing for all sex education classes � that뭗 cut down on 몋he Juno effect�. Read Review 76 Manhattan (1979) Director: Woody Allen A black-and-white love letter to New York, Gershwin and the mess of relationships, this is Allen at his most poignant but funny. Read Review

77 Spartacus (1960) Director: Stanley Kubrick Kirk Douglas� failure to win the title role in William Wyler뭩 Ben-Hur spurred him on to make his own Roman epic. His influence in hiring Kubrick was rewarded with a rousing, action-packed and iconic sword 뭤� sandaller, now the unmatched emperor of the genre. Read Review 75 A Matter Of Life And Death(1946) Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger David Niven is wonderful as a young pilot who avoids death due to a celestial bureaucratic cock-up, while Powell and Pressburger뭩 vision of heaven is still cinema뭩 greatest.Read Review

74 The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948) Director: John Huston John Huston뭩 mano-a-mano thriller (loaded with stark Western overtones), starring Humphrey Bogart as the grizzled gold prospector who lets greed swerve his moral compass, is back in fashion thanks to Paul Thomas Anderson. He very publicly cited Huston뭩 gritty classic as an inspiration for his masterful There Will Be Blood. Thus it has now become open season on citing just how many films Treasure has influenced, from City Slickers to Trespass, from The Wages Of Fear to the work of Sam Peckinpah, and there뭩 plenty of Bogart뭩 cynical Dobbs in Indiana Jones. Not to forgo the pleasures of Huston뭩 powerful film in its own right � studio boss Jack Warner considered it the best film they had ever made. Read Review

73 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) Director: Michel Gondry Charlie Kaufman뭩 warmest script probably accounts for his highest chart position. Add Gondry뭩 skewed visuals, an affecting Jim Carrey and an adorable Kate Winslet, and this is Quirk Gold. Read Review		72 12 Angry Men (1957) Director: Sidney Lumet Where it all started for one of America뭩 most enduring directors, tapping his TV roots for a claustrophobic courtroom thriller with Henry Fonda standing up for the best of America. Read Review		71 The Night Of The Hunter(1955) Director: Charles Laughton The sole behind-the-camera gig of character actor Laughton, a psycho-thriller shrouded in spectral majesty, with a mesmerising act of evil from another underrated actor, Robert Mitchum. 밅hilll... dren?� Read Review		70 Stand By Me (1986) Director: Rob Reiner A coming-of-age classic crucial to the making of many of us, with one-time multi-genre master Reiner coaxing a wonderful performance from River Phoenix, and Stephen King providing the truthful source material. Read Review		69 Three Colours Red (1994) Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski Interlocking lives and loves, the nature of chance, the unlikelihood of happiness... Kieslowski retired � in his early 50s � after this final entry in his Colours trilogy; perhaps he knew he뭗 never equal it. Read Review
68 Annie Hall (1977) Director: Woody Allen A thriller named Anhedonia transformed into a rom-com where the antagonist is the lead뭩 own neurosis. More daring than Allen is usually given credit for. Its other alternative title? It Had To Be Jew. Read Review		67 Tokyo Story (1953) Director: Yasujiro Ozu Much more soulful and engaging than its arthouse rep suggests. A tender, tragic and transcendent picture of old age ignored. Watch it with someone you love. Read Review		66 Edward Scissorhands(1990) Director: Tim Burton After he busted blocks with Batman, Burton broke hearts with perhaps his most personal picture. The romance of a razor-fingered recluse is given irresistible internal strength by a breakout performance from Johnny Depp. Read Review		65 Harold And Maude (1971) Director: Hal Ashby Wonderful to see this bizarre, bittersweet love story in the top ton, with Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort soulmates separated by a mere, um, 60 years. The most unlikely romance you뭠l ever see.		64 Oldboy (2003) Director: Park Chan-wook Popular with readers, critics and the most unlikely of filmmakers � Cameron Crowe loves it � this ferocious thriller explores the appeal and futility of revenge. And how to eat a live octopus. Read Review

63 Sunset Boulevard (1950) Director: Billy Wilder The writer-director tears off the hand that feeds, attacking empty-headed and -hearted Hollywood with devastating satirical savagery. A beautiful turn, too, from the forgotten man of the Golden Age, William Holden. Read Review 61 Cover Movie View Cover The Usual Suspects (1995) Director: Bryan Singer Elegantly unspooling Christopher McQuarrie뭩 labyrinthine script, it뭩 a none-more-deft deconstruction of storytelling that somehow retains emotion. Read Review

62 Cover Movie View Cover The Graduate (1967) Director: Mike Nichols Captured an age of simultaneously emerging and demolished ideals, as Dustin Hoffman뭩 lovelorn outsider discovers the discontent and sexual simmer in suburbia. Read Review 60 Come And See (1985) Director: Elem Klimov Under-seen but riding high on critics� and filmmakers� lists, this is the Russian Apocalypse Now, a dizzying, terrifying portrayal of brutality and genocide during the Nazis� scorched-earth campaign through Belorussia.

59 Cover Movie View Cover Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) Director: Steven Spielberg The mashed-potato masterpiece, with Richard Dreyfuss� Roy Neary one of Spielberg뭩 most complicated creations � a family man whose selfishness is out of this world. Love it? You are not alone. Read Review

58 His Girl Friday (1940) Director: Howard Hawks Rat-a-tat-tat romance as Cary Gary and Rosalind Russell trade come-ons and put-downs at an extraordinary screwball pace, for a film as fresh now as it was � wow � 68 years agoRead Review 56 Casino Royale (2006) Director: Martin Campbell The ballsiest make-over any saga has ever undergone, this goes back to Bond뭩 beginnings, finding previously skimped Ian Fleming elements, and fits the hero into a modern, post-Jason Bourne world. Read Review

57 Cover Movie View Cover Lawrence Of Arabia(1962) Director: David Lean Lean뭩 monumental epic remains a triumph of repeated discovery. Its dark, complicated heart will confound and inspire you everytime. Read Review 55 Cover Movie View Cover La Dolce Vita (1960) Director: Federico Fellini Marcello Mastroianni looks better in sunglasses than anyone else ever and Anita Ekberg wades in a fountain in a spectacular evening dress, embodying the decadence Fellini so enjoys condemning.Read Review

54 The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Director: Peter Jackson The tricky middle one, this carries forward the story briskly towards the rousing battle of Helm뭩 Deep, and brings on the mo-capped Andy Serkis Gollum, a major advance in CG characters (bye-bye Jar Jar). Read Review

53 Cover Movie View Cover Donnie Darko (2001) Director: Richard Kelly An '80s-nostalgia high-school movie with Lynchian atmospherics and a time-travel twist. A film to constantly revisit because it makes you think and feel while you try to figure out the nutty narrative. Read Review 51 8 1/2 (1963) Director: Federico Fellini A film about a director who can't make a film, this mixes childhood flashbacks, doomed relationships between Marcello Mastroianni and gorgeous women, and Fellini's love of circus-style bizarros.

52 Cover Movie View Cover The Shining (1980) Director: Stanley Kubrick Stephen King is largely ignored, as Jack Nicholson descends into a visceral hell of his own making, and, with astonishing visual power, Kubrick redefines the horror genre as he did with sci-fi and 2001. Read Review 50 Cover Movie View Cover Seven Samurai (1954) Director: Akira Kurosawa Kurosawa borrowed from Japanese history and John Ford Westerns to create this epic, amazingly influential picture. A long, complex build-up pays off with one of the movies' greatest battle scenes. Read Review

49 Cover Movie View Cover Evil Dead 2 (1987) Director: Sam Raimi How did this happen? How did a low-budget schlocker that made bugger-all when it opened in 1987 finally get its own Empire cover? Here are just ten reasons why Evil Dead 2 is the 49th greatest film of all time占� 1. Sam Raimi: young, brilliant and bursting at the seams with ideas for virtuoso camera moves and demented montages. 2. Star Bruce Campbell's Ash: half-Stooge, half-Rambo. 3. The chainsaw/shotgun combo... "Groovy." 4. There's a gleeful disregard for convention throughout: the breakneck first five minutes remake the original movie. 5. High gore factor: walls spurt blood, eyeballs land in mouths. 6. The bit where Ash's hair turns grey. Genius. 7. It's hugely influential (ask Edgar Wright and Louis Leterrier). 8. It's goofily hilarious - the possessed demon hand is a hoot. 9. Its ending is perverse and Planet Of The Apes-perfect. 10. Oh, and it has a laughing moose head. Every movie should have a laughing moose head. Read Review

48 Cover Movie View Cover This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Director: Rob Reiner This - if you will - rockumentary founded a new mode of American screen comedy, and added more quotable soundbites to the culture than 20 seasons of The Simpsons. Read Review		47 Cover Movie View Cover E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Director: Steven Spielberg Spielberg turns his parents' divorce into a magical slice of sci-fi as autobiography. Subtle kid performances (especially Henry Thomas) make a great animatronic creation even more affecting.Read Review		46 On The Waterfront (1954) Director: Elia Kazan Brando's Terry Malloy maybe a landmark in screen acting, but Elia Kazan's still stunning hymn to individualism set new levels of realism, finding enough gritty atmosphere and street poetry to power 1,000 episodes of The Wire. Read Review		45 Psycho (1960) Director: Alfred Hitchcock "We all go a little mad sometimes." Hitchcock claimed this was a comedy - it does make cruel fun of everything Americans were supposed to take seriously in 1960: psychology, cleanliness, money and mothers. Read Review		44 Schindler's List (1993) Director: Steven Spielberg Spielberg's Oscar breakthrough strives hard for its masterpiece status, with masterful work from Liam Neeson and extraordinarily complex villainy from Ralph Fiennes. If it had subtitles, you'd swear it were a Polanski or Andrzej Wajda film. Read Review
43 Cover Movie View Cover The Big Lebowski (1998) Director: Joel and Ethan Coen The Coens' colourful take on Raymond Chandler's LA noir is the shaggiest of shaggy dog stories, and evidently Joel and Ethan's most enduring by a long shot. Jeff Bridges' White Russian-downing 'Dude' is an iconic hero.Read Review		42 Kind Hearts And Coronets(1949) Director: Robert Hamer Ealing at its most entertainingly contradictory �� a film of style, charm and Victorian literary elegance about (frankly) a social-climbing serial killer. An exemplar of British good taste built on corpses, snobbery and sex. Read Review		41 The 400 Blows (1959) Director: Fran챌ois Truffaut Jean-Pierre Leaud is Truffaut stand-in Antoine Doinel, here an unhappy child taking refuge in the freedom of the cinema and the bleakness of petty crime. Thematically grim, but joyous moviemaking. Read Review		40 Cover Movie View Cover Vertigo (1958) Director: Alfred Hitchcock A mystery which takes such a sidetrack that the unmasking of the villain is an irrelevance. Beautiful Kim Novak is mysteriously haunted, while neurotic 'tec James Stewart turns worryingly obsessive. Read Review		39 Cover Movie View Cover The Matrix (1999) Director: Andy and Larry Wachowski Mind-wipe the sequels from your brain, and recall the most significant science-fiction blockbuster of the turn of the millennium - even Keanu Reeves was cool, and the Wachowski brothers pioneered bullet-time. Read Review

38 Heat (1995) Director: Michael Mann Mann directs one of the best shoot-outs in the history of cinema and guides an outstanding supporting cast (remember when Val Kilmer was this good?) through an intricate crime plot. But the showstopper is simply two major screen actors � Al Pacino, Robert De Niro � facing off over a coffee. Read Review 37 Cover Movie View Cover A Clockwork Orange(1971) Director: Stanley Kubrick Kubrick뭩 dystopia of bowler-hatted glam yobbos is as scarily relevant in an era of ASBOs and no-go council estates as in the time it was made. Read Review

36 Andrei Rublev (1969) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky This Soviet-era Russian epic, which made Andrei Tarkovsky뭩 international reputation, dramatises episodes in the life and times of a medieval monk with a gift for painting icons. Uniquely among artist biopics, there are no scenes of the hero at the easel and we don뭪 see his work � in radiant colour after three hours of black-and-white � until the very end of the film. Indeed, Rublev (Anatoli Solonitsyn) tends to fade into the bearded, weatherbeaten crowd (for much of the running time he뭩 under a vow of silence) as various holy fools command attention. If Tarkovsky뭩 intense argument about God, talent and the human condition is as chilly as the steppes, the pre-CGI widescreen spectacle, depicting crowds of people and animals, is often breathtaking: the screen fills with Kurosawa-like action as Tartars sack a cathedral or a mad waif bosses a more experienced crew as they forge a church bell.Read Review

35 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Director: James Cameron If Terminator was suspense, T2 is spectacle � Arnie뭩 killer cyborg becoming the best-ever combination surrogate dad and bodyguard, while CGI comes of age in his morphing metal nemesis. Read Review 34 Cover Movie View Cover The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King(2003) Director: Peter Jackson Yes, it has too many endings, but it fully pays off everything anyone could have wanted of a final act.Read Review

33 Alien (1979) Director: Ridley Scott A sci-fi slasher film. A B idea, made great by Scott뭩 grimily industrial space programme, H. R. Giger뭩 obscenely biomechanical monster and Sigourney Weaver뭩 sweaty feminism. Read Review 32 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969) Director: George Roy Hill The cuddliest downbeat Western succeeds on canny miscasting. Newman and Robert are dead wrong as ageing outlaws, but perfect as 1969 defiant youth. Read Review 31 Cover Movie View Cover Gone With The Wind (1939) Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood Exhausting at least three directors, stars Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, megalomaniac producer David O. Selznick delivered the epic of Hollywood뭩 golden age. Read Review 30 Cover Movie View Cover Aliens (1986) Director: James Cameron Where Ridley Scott was all about slow-building tension, James Cameron creates a whirlwind of pure panic and violence. Probably the most exciting film ever made. Read Review 29 Cover Movie View Cover Die Hard (1988) Director: John McTiernan Is it yippee-kay-yay or yippy-kay-yay or yippy-ki-aye? The argument rages on and on. Motherfuckers. Read Review

28 Cover Movie View Cover Citizen Kane (1941) Director: Orson Welles It may come as a jolt to film historians that Welles� hallowed classic, so embalmed as the 멒reatest Film Ever Made�, has only just squeezed into the top 30. Has time finally caught up with it? While Welles� achievement is never in doubt, it remains a film that appeals more to the academic and critic than the film fan, partly because of its reputation. Talked of with hushed voices and nodding heads by wise arbiters of film, for the non-acolyte it can feel like an enigma � a whopping cathedral of a movie, awe-inspiring, but too vast and ornate to love. If the list embodies only technical prowess and thematic power then its demotion is a shock, but is it a friend for life? A comfort? On current showing, perhaps not. Read Review

27 Cover Movie View Cover Some Like It Hot (1959) Director: Billy Wilder Tony Curtis in a dress. Is this the original gross-out comedy? Hardly, though the Curtis/Jack Lemmon drag-act has its share of goofball gags. Only number 27? Well, nobody뭩 perfect. Read Review		26 Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) Director: Stanley Kubrick Intended as a serious exploration of the Cold War, but the super-powers� MAD policy (Mutually Assured Destruction) was so absurd, it had to be a comedy. Read Review		25 Cover Movie View Cover The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1967) Director: Sergio Leone The West is brutal, war is hell and Clint Eastwood is an icon. Laconic and perhaps plain irritated by clashes with his wild, genius director, the TV star came of age as The Man With No Name. Read Review		24 The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring(2001) Director: Peter Jackson  The fear was tangible at the premiere for Fellowship, as Rings-readers worried if Jackson was up to it. 묬ourse he was. And how. A dashing, hugely skilful adaptation.Read Review		23 Back To The Future (1985) Director: Robert Zemeckis Unlike the poodle-perm or your dad, this �80s classic has aged remarkably well. Weird science and teenage dreams combine in a wish-fulfilment sci-fi lent heart by the fantastic Mr. Michael J. Fox.Read Review
22 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) Director: George Lucas It뭩 a surprise to see the saga-starter that arguably birthed modern blockbusters outside the Top 10. Eclipsed by Empire, then � though we shouldn뭪 forget how Lucas bravely battled naysayers to create a galaxy far, far away.Read Review		21 Cover Movie View Cover The Third Man (1949) Director: Carol Reed Unjustly overshadowed by Orson Welles� showboating, Reed constructs a claustrophobic, thoughtful thriller from Graham Greene뭩 trawl through occupied territory and moral murk.Read Review		20 Cover Movie View Cover Blade Runner (1982) Director: Ridley Scott Drenched in neon and endless rain, Scott뭩 striking private-eye picture endures due to the script뭩 struggle with what makes us human. Can we stop arguing whether Deckard is a replicant now?Read Review		19 The Godfather Part II(1974) Director: Francis Ford Coppola Even cash-ins were high quality during the �70s. Coppola reluctantly returned, yet delivered a damning picture in which Pacino뭩 mobster gains the world but loses his soul. Read Review		18 Cover Movie View Cover Casablanca (1942) Director: Michael Curtiz Bogey and Bergman뭩 wartime dalliance somehow emerged as one of Hollywood뭩 most loved and misquoted movies � aided considerably by Claude Rains� wonderfully cynical humour.Read Review

17 Cover Movie View Cover Taxi Driver (1976) Director: Martin Scorsese Played � no, lived � by De Niro, Travis Bickle remains a frighteningly identifiable outsider icon stalking Scorsese뭩 slick, sick NYC. Read Review 16 Cover Movie View Cover 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Director: Stanley Kubrick Brilliant, befuddling: a sci-why movie as intelligent as it is pristine. Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick conjure an endlessly debatable epic. An effects landmark, too: no HAL, no Star Wars. Read Review 15 Cover Movie View Cover The Dark Knight (2007) Director: Christopher Nolan Ledger뭩 performance is monumental. Best comic-book movie ever? Certainly the most talked-about... Read Review 14 Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) Director: Sergio Leone The greatest Western of them all, according to this poll. And a worthy victor it is too, relocating Leone뭩 counter-cultural Spaghetti vision to the old-school grandeur of the West. Read Review 13 Chinatown (1974) Director: Roman Polanski Fiendish, perplexing noir with a killer, bitter twist. Somehow both a product of the Movie Brat �70s and also strangely timeless, feeling like it belongs in the genre뭩 heyday. Read Review

12 The Apartment (1960) Director: Billy Wilder One of the fascinating quirks of the list is the higher placing for this darker-veined comedy than the bewigged flamboyance of so-called 멹unniest film of all time� Some Like It Hot. To argue between them rather misses the point (both are excellent and must be seen) � what stands out is how The Apartment has grown in stature as one of the diminutive Hungarian �igr�s finest films. On the surface, it뭩 the straight downtrodden-boy-meets-indifferent-girl formula, but Wilder, who skipped Berlin as the Nazis took power, came possessed of a more savage view of the world뭩 workings. Jack Lemmon뭩 hypochondriac Baxter is a friendless corporate climber; the object of his affection, Shirley MacLaine, an unstable lift girl having an affair with the CEO. Their meandering path to romance twists between notions of prostitution (corporate and real) and even suicide. Meet-cute it is not. Yet, somehow, the film remains optimistic about their chances. Read Review

11 Cover Movie View Cover Raging Bull (1980) Director: Martin Scorsese Bruising, beautiful and a never-bettered showcase for De Niro뭩 once-legendary physical immersion into a role. We뭨e not just talking about the weight gain: look into those eyes and try telling us they뭨e anyone else뭩 but Jake LaMotta뭩... Read Review

10 Cover Movie View Cover Fight Club (1999) Director: David Fincher It could have just been pre-millennial angst, but Fincher뭩 grimly ironic epic of maladjusted masculinity shows no sign of fading. Read Review 9 Cover Movie View Cover Pulp Fiction (1994) Director: Quentin Tarantino Perfectly encapsulating the absolute-zero cool of the 멗ndiewood� scene. QT has yet to better its excessive appeal. Read Review 8 Cover Movie View Cover Singin� In The Rain (1952) Director: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly Appropriately, the highest scoring Hollywood musical is a musical about Hollywood � an admirably self-mocking one at that. Read Review 7 Cover Movie View Cover Apocalypse Now (1979) Director: Francis Ford Coppola A movie so lauded and debated it has a 몀aking of� story as well-known as the film itself. Brando and Coppola are surely cinema뭩 ultimate teaming. Read Review 6 Cover Movie View Cover GoodFellas (1990) Director: Martin Scorsese Where The Godfather positioned itself in the dark corridors of Mafiosi management, GoodFellas rolls around in blood and sawdust on the shopfloor. Read Review

5 Cover Movie View Cover Jaws (1975) Director: Steven Spielberg Ah, the big one. Jaws� influence still bites deep (consider that 멙aws on a...� pitch gag), its melding of populist shriek-baiting with finely nuanced, character-driven drama ensuring popularity with punter, filmmaker and critic alike. Read Review

4 Cover Movie View Cover The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Director: Frank Darabont A perennial readers� fave, Shawshank has clearly maintained its resounding emotional throb. It뭩 a rare one, alright: a bloke뭩 weepie. And also the movie that spawned a thousand Morgan Freeman voiceovers. Read Review

3 Cover Movie View Cover Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Director: Irvin Kershner The modern movie clich� is that a sequel should be 멶arker�. Blame The Empire Strikes Back, a crowdpleaser that dared to end with a devastating double-whammy (밒 am your father�; 밒 love you�/ 밒 know�). Yet don뭪 forget it뭩 also the funniest entry, basing its finest action sequences on a spaceship that keeps breaking down... Read Review

2 Cover Movie View Cover Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) Director: Steven Spielberg Of the Spielbergs, Jaws and Schindler뭩 List traditionally score more highly, but it appears this year뭩 final jaunt for the man in the hat has re-whetted appetites for the pre-gopher Indy. Quite right, too; no adventure movie is quite so efficiently entertaining as Steve 뭤� George뭩 B-inspired blockbuster. Read Review

1 Cover Movie View Cover The Godfather (1972) Director: Francis Ford Coppola A wedding. A horse뭩 head. A gun in a restaurant toilet. Sicily. Another wedding. A car bomb. A toll-booth. Orange peel. A baptism. A closed door. Read Review