역대 위대한 영화500 (500-401) - 엠파이어선정

The 500 greatest movies of all time 500-401

500 Ocean's Eleven (2001) Director: Steven Soderbergh Slick, suave and cooler than a penguin's knackers, Soderbergh's starry update of the Rat Pack crime caper not only outshines its predecessor, but all the lights of The Strip combined. Read Review		499 Saw (2004) Director: James Wan The never-ending stream of sequels may have diminished its impact, but there's no denying the shock we got when we first entered the puzzle-loving psycho Jigsaw's fiendish, deathtrapped world.Read Review		498 Back To The Future Part II(1989) Director: Robert Zemeckis From the past to the present to the future and back again, Zemeckis hits his time-travelling stride with this chronology-screwing popcorner - only seven years to go until we discover if his vision of 2015 was on the money. Read Review		497 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Director: Ang Lee Lee exceeded all expectations with this wushu masterpiece set in ancient China. A martial-arts opus packed with emotion, beauty and plenty of elegant ass-kickery, it's the ultimate fusion of action and art. Read Review		496 Superman Returns (2006) Director: Bryan Singer It may have been a slighter return than some people had hoped for, but Singer's vision of the Man Of Steel is an heroic effort. Plenty of spectacle and a lot of heart helps Kal-El soar.Read Review
495 Cover Movie View Cover Jailhouse Rock (1957) Director: Richard Thorpe Elvis plays up to his rock 'n' roll bad-boy image as a former lag who gets into the music biz, becomes famous and grows a hell of an ego. Featuring a bunch of classic tunes, it's The King's best movie.		494 Sideways (2004) Director: Alexander Payne Wine, women and a right old ding-dong are the driving forces behind this excellent midlife-crisis road movie, so impactful it put millions off Merlot forever. Read Review		493 In The Company Of Men(1997) Director: Neil LaBute Squirmy satire abounds in LaBute's all-too-recognisable tale of two corporate men's bullying of a deaf female colleague. Read Review		492 Amores Perros (2000) Director: Alejandro Gonz�ez I畯rritu It's a dog-eat-dog world in this superb, multi-stranded drama. Man's best friend (and one car crash) may provide the connection between three disparate people, but it's the director's assured control that keeps it all together. Read  Review		491 Ben-Hur (1959) Director: William Wyler Wyler's version of Lew Wallace's novel may have been the third adaptation to hit the big screen but, boy, was it the biggest. A huge budget and an exhausting shoot were rewarded with 11 Oscars and an epic for the ages. Read Review

490 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007) Director: Tim Burton The Gothic sensibilities of Tim Burton meet the musical mastery of Stephen Sondheim for a demented Grand Guignol spectacular, which finds Johnny Depp in bloody fine singing voice. Read Review

489 Brick (2005) Director: Rian Johnson Johnson's impressive debut finds Hammett-style P. I. stories re-staged in a high school as the superb Joseph Gordon-Levitt sets about investigating the suspicious death of a former girlfriend. Read Review

488 Princess Mononoke (1997) Director: Hayao Miyazaki The Studio Ghibli head honcho weaves a tale of swords and sorcery with his trademark stunning style. He intended this to be his swansong; thankfully, it wasn't. Read Review 487 Superbad (2007) Director: Greg Mottola This coming-of-age tale from the Judd Apatow school of comedy succeeds by genuinely caring for its lovable loser heroes - doesn't stop it from hilariously putting the pair through the wringer, though. Read Review 486 Cover Movie View Cover Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) Director: Blake Edwards While it has its flaws, there's no denying that Audrey Hepburn still looks ravishing and Henry Mancini's score still makes us swing. Read Review 485 The Wicker Man (1973) Director: Robin Hardy A movie about the evil that men (and women) do in the name of religion, Hardy's horror gets closer than most to exposing our own dark nature, all while creeping us out with a bunch of freaky folkies, led by Christopher Lee. Read Review 484 The Fountain (2001) Director: Darren Aronofsky Despite splitting audiences right down the middle, there's no mistaking the conviction that drives this deceptively simple fable about love and death. Read Review

483 The Big Red One (1980) Director: Samuel Fuller Sam Fuller had brought leather-tough visions of war to the big screen before, but The Big Red One is his hard-nosed masterpiece, based largely on the former crime reporter's own experiences battling across North Africa and Europe during World War II, and the project he'd held close to his heart for most of his filmmaking career. Legend has it that one studio wanted Fuller to cast John Wayne as the growling, indurate sergeant who, along with four privates (ultimately to include Mark Hamill), is one of the division's few survivors. Fuller opted not to make the movie rather than have the Duke headline it - which sums up exactly what kind of war movie this is. When, eventually, he rolled, the part went to Lee Marvin, who carries the movie to its devastating concentration-camp-liberation conclusion without breaking a sweat. One suspects, also, that Steven Spielberg took notes during the gut-wrenching Omaha beach sequence. Read Review

482 Scream (1996) Director: Wes Craven The self-referential irony may have become less hip in the aftermath of countless pretenders, but the brutal effectiveness of Craven's slasher - and his ghost-faced killer creation - remain a genuine genre highpoint.Read Review 480 The Son's Room (2001) Director: Nanni Moretti A heartbreaking look at a father's grief after the death of his son, Moretti's Palme d'Or winner is lifted from the maudlin by his thoughtful and tender treatment. Read Review

481 Topsy-Turvy (1999) Director: Mike Leigh Stepping away from the kitchen sink, Leigh gave us this fabulous study of theatrical types as they create the first-ever production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Read Review 479 The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (1947) Director: Norman Z. McLeod The story of a mild-mannered accountant and the imaginary fantasy world he visits every time reality gets too tough, this Danny Kaye vehicle plays like a Technicolor version of Billy Liar. Read Review

478 Flesh (1968) Director: Paul Morrissey Produced by Andy Warhol and taking place in a New York awash with free love and free-flowing drugs, this tale of hustlers, dealers and sexual adventurers is frank, absorbing and surprisingly amusing. 477 Cover Movie View Cover Rebel Without A Cause (1955) Director: Nicholas Ray As a teenage loner who involves himself in knife fights and road races, James Dean created an icon for a generation adrift, while Ray's direction created a timeless tale of teenage disaffection.Read Review 476 Santa Sangre (1989) Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Sick, twisted and very, very bloody, Jodorowsky's tale of madness, revenge and hacked-off limbs draws from a variety of inspirations, culminating in an influential freakshow of a movie. Read Review 475 Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest(2006) Director: Gore Verbinski While it's confused and bloated, the first Pirates sequel pleased crowds by giving them exactly what they wanted: more Captain Jack. Read Review 474 Cover Movie View Cover Enter The Dragon (1973) Director: Robert Clouse The movie that introduced the wider world to the bone-cracking kung fu icon that was Bruce Lee, Clouse's martial-arts funhouse - hall of mirrors and all - still sets the benchmark for all chopsocky actioners. Read Review

473 Into The Wild (2007) Director: Sean Penn Penn's fourth feature takes him into previously uncharted territory with a true-life tale about a young hobo explorer and his quest to truly escape modern life in America. Using the entire country as his backdrop, this is Penn's most ambitious movie yet. Read Review

472 Le Doulos (1962) Director: Jean-Pierre Melville French director Melville did for gangsters exactly what the Italian Sergio Leone did for cowboys, creating a distinctively European take on a predominantly American form by focusing on details of props and costume in hyper-realist manner, spinning familiar B-plotlines into fable-like miniature epics of betrayal and revenge, and stressing brutally professional violence to an almost existential degree (albeit with a distancing Gallic shrug rather than Italianate close-up leering). In Le Doulos - slang for accuser, as in police informant, but also vengeance-seeker - Jean-Paul Belmondo is the underworld icon in fedora and collar-upturned trenchcoat, donning white editor's gloves whenever he shoots anyone and, in an astonishing sequence, tying a woman to a radiator to batter information out of her. His middleman, Silien, is presented as the rat who squealed on jewel thief Maurice (Serge Reggiani), but, of course, things are far from being that simple. Read Review

471 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004) Director: Alfonso Cuar� The point at which the books started to take a darker turn - the arrival of the soul-sucking Dementors, a troubled werewolf, death sentences for hippogriffs. Cuar�'s tenure as Hogwarts caretaker has yet to be outdone. Read Review 469 Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1998) Director: Terry Gilliam Johnny Depp channels Hunter S. Thompson and consumes inhuman amounts of drugs, while Gilliam shows that the straight, Nixon-voting world outside Thompson's head - represented by Vegas at its most hideous - is scarcely less insane. Read Review

470 Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Director: James Foley David Mamet's pungent chronicle of real-estate hustling is a modern Death Of A Salesman and makes one of the great ensemble films. Pacino, Lemmon, Spacey, Baldwin, Harris, Arkin - 'nuff said. Read Review 468 The Crow (1994) Director: Alex Proyas Dripping with stormcloud-moody teen-Goth cool, Proyas' Hollywood debut brought glumster J. O'Barr's culty comic book to action-packed life. Infamous, of course, for the tragic death of star Brandon Lee. Read Review

467 The Deer Hunter (1978) Director: Michael Cimino Cimino's bold, powerful 'Nam epic goes from blue-collar macho rituals to a fiery, South?East Asian hell and back to a ragged singalong of America The Beautiful. De Niro holds it together, but Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and John Savage are unforgettable. Read Review 466 Snatch (2000) Director: Guy Ritchie Surprising that this should make the 500 when Lock, Stock hasn't. Still, this is the more proficient film, and particularly laudable for having both Brad Pitt and Frank Butcher from EastEnders on the same cast list. Read Review

465 12 Monkeys (1995) Director: Terry Gilliam Here's a crazy theory for you - maverick genius Terry Gilliam, untameable and outspoken, a thorn in Hollywood's precious derri�e since the last days of Python - is a director who works best beneath studio colours. Take 12 Monkeys, with its weird-fangled, time-tripping script from David 'Blade Runner' Peoples. Here, with a strong producer, big stars (Bruce Willis and a potty Brad Pitt) and a medium budget, was a film delivered on time, on budget, and which became a sizeable hit. Yet, it lost none of its necessary Gilliamness - its dystopian Philadelphia underworld glistens with his classic Hieronymus Bosch-meets-Heath Robinson fabulation. It's worth thinking about just picking up those studio offers once in a while, Terry... Read Review

464 Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954) Director: Stanley Donen A rip-roarin' CinemaScope Western musical, which needs its widescreen to encompass all 14 leads. The dubious storyline is redeemed by Michael Kidd's astounding choreography.Read Review 463 Juno (2007) Director: Jason Reitman This year's pleasant Oscar-nom surprise, with the nods well deserved, especially due to writer Diablo Cody and star Ellen Page's efforts to depict the modern teen with keen veracity. Read Review

462 Dead Man's Shoes (2004) Director: Shane Meadows Meadows' small-town vigilante movie restages Get Carter with pathetic rural crooks harried by Paddy Considine's vigilante in a gas mask. "What are you looking at?" "You, you cunt!"Read Review		461 Halloween (1978) Director: John Carpenter The Elvis of slasher movies - still imitated, never equalled. And even after all the sequels, rip-offs and remakes, its power to make you shiver and jump remains undiminished. Read Review		460 Crash (2004) Director: Paul Haggis A multi-stranded LA story about the challenges of multiculturalism and the woes of miscommunication. Haggis' debut lays the message on thick, but boy, does he know how to pack an emotional punch. Read Review		459 Ikiru (1952) Director: Akira Kurosawa A dying man tries to get a playground built, and Akira Kurosawa demonstrates his range by segueing from acidic dissection of Japanese office workaholism to understated, uplifting tragedy. If you don't cry at the end, you need a new heart. Read Review		458 Batman (1989) Director: Tim Burton Burton's noir nightmare re-established the franchise for the '90s. Nicholson and Keaton are a star turn as freak villain and Gothic hero. Full of imaginative violence, clever rethinkings of familiar characters, astonishing sets and witty lines. Read Review
457 Full Metal Jacket (1987) Director: Stanley Kubrick After 50 minutes of R. Lee Ermey shouting at Marine recruits during basic training, the Vietnam scenes of Stanley Kubrick's brutal war film are almost a relief. Read Review		456 28 Days Later (2002) Director: Danny Boyle A revival of the zombie apocalypse movie, shot fast and cheap and digital, this instantly established a new style for low-budget horror, but has room for eerily depopulated cityscapes and character horror as well as ferocious monster attacks.Read Review		455 Cover Movie View Cover Top Gun (1986) Director: Tony Scott A combination US Navy recruiting film, closet gay porno movie, Reaganite flag-waver and love letter to big, shiny jet fighters. Tony Scott still manages to get fluttering doves and shafts of light through dust into it. Read Review		454 The Bourne Supremacy(2004) Director: Paul Greengrass A sequel which upshifts thanks to director Paul Greengrass applying what might well be the definitive 2000s thriller style to an edgy, paranoid chase format - Matt Damon brings life to a zombie-like hero, and a Moscow car chase ranks with the great stunt scenes. Read Review		453 Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008) Director: Steven Spielberg CG gophers, nuked fridges and extra-dimensional beings aside, enough of you loved it to get it on to this list... Those who've grown craggy with Ford and Allen go teary-eyed on the line, "They weren't you," and everyone can cheer hordes of ants. Read Review

452 Unbreakable (2000) Director: M. Night Shyamalan Shyamalan's understated, creepy-affecting, powerful take on the superhero story has arguably Bruce Willis' best screen performance, and a twist which is cleverer than the end of The Sixth Sense. "It was the children... they called me Mr. Glass." Read Review

450 King Kong (2005) Director: Peter Jackson Most remakes are exercises in money-grubbing cynicism, but Peter Jackson's King Kong is all about love - for a film, a monster, a style of cinema and a child's instant bonding with a screen icon. Read Review 448 A History Of Violence(2005) Director: David Cronenberg Family man Viggo Mortensen reveals his inner psychopath, and creepily his wife and children like him even more. David Cronenberg twists minds rather than flesh in this spare, classic modern Western.Read Review

447 Ten (2002) Director: Abbas Kiarostami A kind of Iranian Marion And Geoff, Abbas Kiarostami's Ten is as minimalist as it is thrilling. The conceit is simple: ten conversations between Mania Akbari, a twice-married Iranian woman taxi driver, and her passengers over 48 hours, captured in long static shots from a digital camera secured to the dashboard. As Akbari traverses the city streets, she converses with, among others, her wilful son, a jilted bride, a local prostitute and a woman travelling to prayer. What emerges is a fascinating mosaic of the role of women within a repressive regime. Yet, through the accumulation of telling details, a rounded backstory for Akbari slowly starts to coalesce. Brilliantly performed, the effect is as direct and intimate as a confession, a halfway house between fiction and documentary. However you label it, it remains leagues ahead of Dudley Moore perving over Bo Derek. Read Review

446 High Fidelity (2000) Director: Stephen Frears Nick Hornby's North London discomaniac memoir makes as much sense in Chicago, thanks to John Cusack's unique mix of geekiness and appeal. Read Review

445 Dumb And Dumber (1994) Directors: Peter and Bobby Farrelly A high (or low) watermark in the history of gross-out, scrambling the frenzied talents of Jim Carrey and the Farrelly brothers, with Jeff Daniels gamely pitching in. Read Review 444 Hairspray (1988) Director: John Waters Waters delivers a garish but affectionate Baltimore flashback with "pleasantly plump" teen Ricki Lake doing a mean twist and ending racial segregation on local TV as well. Read Review 443 Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Director: Sidney Lumet A riveting character study (Pacino makes his bank robber fuck-up extraordinarily moving), a penetrating expos� of a media feeding frenzy, or just a great heist-gone-wrong flick. Any way, it's brilliant. Read Review 442 Atonement (2007) Director: Joe Wright Ian McEwan's devastating war romance is masterfully conveyed to screen by Joe Wright, whose taut stylistics, from the telling typewriter-clack of the soundtrack to that one-take, Steadicam Dunkirk shot, can't fail to impress.Read Review 441 Being John Malkovich (1973) Director: Spike Jonze A weird premise, courtesy of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, is spun into the archetypal 'quirky' indie hit, with major stars geeking out, accessible in-jokes and a plot that surprisingly makes sense. Malkovich won major points for caricaturing himself as 'John Horatio Malkovich'. Read Review

440 Cover Movie View Cover Akira (1988) Director: Katsuhiro �omo Hyperviolent. Apocalyptic. Kinetic. Lurid. Akira is the definitive anime classic. Read Review

439 Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) Directors: George Armitage A disappointingly low showing for one of the best comedy thrillers of the '90s. Great cast (John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd as a professional hitman!), great script, killer soundtrack. Read Review 438 The Lost Boys (1987) Director: Joel Schumacher Vampires, mullets and the Frog Brothers in '80s California, this was the Buffy of its time, a guiltily pleasurable blend of comedy and horror. If you're in your 30s and remotely cool, this was a big part of your adolescence. Read Review 437 Spider-Man (2002) Director: Sam Raimi A home run for Raimi, proving that a director of bonkers, low-budget horrors could helm a gargantuan summer blockbuster apparently effortlessly, and still manage to crowbar in a role for Bruce Campbell. Read Review 436 Beauty And The Beast (1991) Directors: Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise Disney's 30th animated feature well and truly announced that the studio's doldrum years of the '80s were now over, and that The Little Mermaid was no fluke. Read Review 435 American Psycho (2000) Director: Mary Harron The appalling violence of Bret Easton Ellis' supposedly unfilmable early '90s novel was understandably toned down, but Christian Bale's Bateman (his arrival as a grown-up star) remains terrifying, and the critique of '80s avarice remains undiluted. Read Review

434 The Cat Concerto (1947) Directors: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera The 29th Tom And Jerry one-reeler is one of only three shorts to make the 500, and it's easy to see why. Eschewing the domestic setting of most T&J efforts, The Cat Concerto takes a simple, daft premise - Tom is a concert pianist trying to play Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2; Jerry, attempting to sleep in the piano, stops him - and milks it for every last drop of comedy and invention. As ever, the violence is mouth-wateringly brutal, but there is a real playfulness here, too; watch Tom's pinkie elastically elongate to reach a top note. The key to its greatness, though, is the exquisiteness of the animation, be it realising the snobbishness in Tom's maestro or perfectly matching the mayhem to music. The funniest, most beautifully realised seven minutes and 49 seconds you could ever have the good fortune to see. Bravo!

433 Good Will Hunting (1997) Director: Gus Van Sant A rare mainstream outing for Van Sant, it was Oscars all round for surprise screenwriters Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and supporting actor Robin Williams in his best performance since Dead Poets Society. Read Review 431 Electra Glide In Blue (1973) Director: James William Guercio The other great bike movie alongside Easy Rider, this mini-epic of counterculture Arizona cops on a murder investigation is gradually accumulating the reputation it deserves.

432 Cover Movie View Cover X-Men 2 (2003) Director: Bryan Singer Easily the cleverest of the current wave of comic-book blockbusters until a certain Caped Crusader was re-invented, Singer's visionary follow-up to his less-than-stellar original defied all expectations. Read Review 430 Big Trouble In Little China(1986) Director: John Carpenter Dismal box office sent a disillusioned Carpenter back to indie filmmaking, but this colourful action-fantasy remains a fan favourite. Kurt Russell is hilarious as one of cinema's least heroic heroes.Read Review

429 Danger: Diabolik (1968) Director: Mario Bava Meet Diabolik (John Phillip Law), masked super-criminal, high-living sensualist and unmatchable pop-art icon. An archly eyebrowed, unrepentant thief, Diabolik is equally opposed to a bureaucratic government (on a whim, he destroys a country's tax records) and the Mafia, and addicted to risk when it comes to stealing fabulously valuable items (eg a 20-ton gold ingot) which are also useless. Director Bava, a cult hero on the strength of Gothic horror films (The Mask Of Satan, Black Sabbath), was persuaded by Dino de Laurentiis to step away from the crypt for this one psychedelic masterpiece. It's as thin as a poster, but still amazing cinema - a succession of striking, kinetic, sexy, absurd images accompanied by a one-of-a-kind Ennio Morricone score that revels in its casual anarchy. Imagine if The Dark Knight were The Joker.

428 The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Director: Werner Herzog The haunting story of a foundling - apparently raised alone in a cellar and released in adulthood only to then be murdered - is an enigma indeed. Don't expect any answers from Herzog. Read Review		427 Spring In A Small Town(1948) Director: Mu Fei This tale of a woman's emotional journey in re-encountering an old flame languished in Communist archives - deemed reactionary - for decades, and was only rescued for re-appraisal during the 1980s. Read Review		426 Enduring Love (2004) Director: Roger Michell Rhys Ifans is beyond creepy as a disturbed stalker harassing Daniel Craig following a chance meeting. It differs substantially from Ian McEwan's novel but is almost unbearably tense. Read Review		425 Wonder Boys (2000) Director: Curtis Hanson A failure at the box office despite being released twice, Hanson's adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel found acclaim in later life, with Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. on top form. Read Review		424 To Have And Have Not(1944) Director: Howard Hawks Simply an impeccable pedigree: Hawks directing a Hemingway novel, the screenplay written in part by William Faulkner, and the birth of the onscreen chemistry between Bogart and Bacall. Read Review
423 Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) Director: Quentin Tarantino Talkier and calmer than the berserk Vol. 1, Vol. 2 is very much a Western to the first film's Eastern. Still violent as all hell, though. Read Review		422 A Man Escaped (1956) Director: Robert Bresson A magnificent prisoner-of-war drama, directed with spare economy by a director who was himself an ex-POW. Tense and un-schmaltzy, Shawshank fans would do well to seek it out. Read Review		421 Cover Movie View Cover Lethal Weapon (1987) Director: Richard Donner The high watermark of '80s cop movies, Lethal Weapon is harder-edged than its sequels, which upped the humour quotient at the expense of the 'lethality'.Read Review		420 Jerry Maguire (1996) Director: Cameron Crowe Crowe's feel-good hit took his easygoing romantic indie sensibilities to the mainstream with dazzling effect, making a star of Ren� Zellweger and giving Cruise one of his best roles. Read Review		419 Days Of Heaven (1978) Director: Terrence Malick Malick's astonishing tone poem is a jewel of minimal dialogue and astonishing cinematography. Two years in the editing, the film exhausted Malick to the extent that he didn't direct again for 20 years. Read Review

418 V For Vendetta (2005) Director: James McTeigue This Wachowski-produced adaptation of Alan Moore's hefty graphic novel may be a bit adolescent in its politics, but it delivers on the pyrotechnics. Read Review

417 Lords Of Dogtown (2005) Director: Catherine Hardwicke The fictionalised companion-piece to the documentary Dogtown And Z-Boys makes a surprise appearance here. Clearly the sk8er boi community got its act together. Read Review		416 Bad Taste (1987) Director: Peter Jackson Filmed during four years' worth of weekends by Jackson and his mates, this cheerfully psychotic tale of human-eating aliens had its micro-budget funded in part by a New Zealand government grant.Read Review		415 Dawn Of The Dead (1978) Director: George A. Romero Inventive splatter and a savage political message make Romero's zombies-in-a-shopping-mall epic the most extraordinary of his initial trilogy. Watch out for FX genius Tom Savini as one of the bikers. Read Review		414 The Double Life Of V�onique (1991) Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski Post-Dekalog and pre-Three Colours, Kieslowski turned in this fantastical stand-alone doppelg�ger tale. Ir�e Jacob is stunning in the dual role of Weronika/V�onique, and Zbigniew Preisner's haunting score is simply breathtaking.Read Review		413 Finding Nemo (2003) Director: Andrew Stanton Pixar's fifth feature is remarkable for being both cute and, at times, surprisingly harsh. Also, it's time to reconsider Ellen DeGeneres' memory-loss-plagued Dory as one of the studio's finest creations. Read Review
412 Heathers (1989) Director: Michael Lehmann Dark-as-you-like high school comedy with Christian Slater and Winona Ryder, pre their respective meltdowns, giving the performances of their careers. Bullying and murder were never so much fun. Read Review		411 Spider-Man 2 (2004) Director: Sam Raimi Bigger and better than its predecessor, with a superior villain in Alfred Molina's Doc Ock, and a more confident Raimi sneaking in some of his own trademarks. Read Review		410 Cover Movie View Cover A Hard Day's Night (1964) Director: Richard Lester A life in the day of the Fab Four. Mixing documentary stylings, Fellini-esque fantasy, Dal�-esque surrealism and Nouvelle Vague. Read Review		409 Cover Movie View Cover Men In Black (1997) Director: Barry Sonnenfeld A comedy hit that slyly spoofs that X-Files mix of government conspiracy, secret agents and E. T.s on Earth. Read Review		408 Zelig (1983) Director: Woody Allen Woody's human chameleon meets the great, the good and Hitler. As much as it is a technical triumph (pre-Forrest Gump), it is also a celebration of wit, satire, great conceits and human nature. Read Review

407 Cover Movie View Cover The Jungle Book (1967) Director: Wolfgang Reitherman The last film personally supervised by Uncle Walt, this has a strong shout for being Disney's most gloriously entertaining film. Great characters, genius songs and rich animation.Read Review 406 Iron Man (2008) Director: Jon Favreau Robert Downey Jr. takes the Marvel fave to a whole new level and audience. Favreau mounts efficient action, but it's the acting that sticks - how rare is that for a summer blockbuster? Read Review 405 Cover Movie View Cover Dirty Dancing (1987) Director: Emile Ardolino Let's see if we can get through this without any mention of "Baby" and "corner". Oh, bollocks. Great tunes, romantic wish-fulfilment and a '60s innocence make this an evergreen populist classic. Read Review 404 Cover Movie View Cover RoboCop (1987) Director: Paul Verhoeven Part man. Part machine. All brilliance. Verhoeven's Hollywood debut balances futuristic cop action with a skewed sense of subversive satire. We'll buy this for a dollar. Read Review 403 Do The Right Thing (1989) Director: Spike Lee A Molotov cocktail of a movie, this long hot summer's day in Brooklyn has it all: energy, comedy, great tunes and a simmering sense of anger that boils over. Still Spike's best joint. Read Review

402 Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Directors: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris So indie it hurts - dysfunctional characters, mainstream actors (Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear) doing quirky, Best Original Screenplay awards - this transcends the easy labelling with a real sense of the pangs and pathos of family life. Read Review

401 Cover Movie View Cover Batman Returns (1992) Director: Tim Burton Easily the better of the two Burton Batmans, Returns was most notable for a certain feline, figure-hugging costume...Read Review