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FilmCritic.com's "Top 50 Movie Endings"

"I’ve seen Chinatown a dozen times, and while it’s a great movie, two specific things about it stick in my mind: Jack Nicholson’s bandaged nose and the final line of dialogue. Acting, directing, a great script… these are essential to any film. But a classic ending, now that can really make a movie."

(found at: http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/95a45e26914c25ff862562bb006a85f2/394a496e465c4f38882571b900114dc5)
1. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
  
2. Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by David Fincher
  
3. Chinatown  
4. Casablanca
by Michael Curtiz
  
5. Bonnie and Clyde
by Arthur Penn
  
6. Boogie Nights
by Paul Thomas Anderson
  
7. Night of the Living Dead
by Tom Savini
  
8. Big Night
by Campbell Scott
  
9. Don't Look Now
by Nicolas Roeg
  
10. Some Like It Hot (Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
  
11. The Graduate
by Mike Nichols
  
12. The Birds (Collector's Edition)  
13. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
  
14. The Tenant
by Roman Polanski
  
15. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
16. Star Wars, Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back (Widescreen Edition)
by Irvin Kershner
  
17. Planet of the Apes
by Franklin J. Schaffner
  
18. The Wizard of Oz
by Victor Fleming
  
19. Memento  
20. Before Sunset
by Richard Linklater
  
21. The Usual Suspects
by Bryan Singer
  
22. Brazil  
23. House of Games
by David Mamet
  
24. The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection
by Edward F. Cline
  
25. Real Genius
by Martha Coolidge
  
26. Rushmore
by Wes Anderson
  
27. The Searchers
by John Ford
  
28. Hannah and Her Sisters  
29. Wait Until Dark
by Terence Young
  
30. Pickpocket - Criterion Collection  
31. Magnolia
by Paul Thomas Anderson
  
32. Being There  
33. A Clockwork Orange
by Stanley Kubrick
  
34. King of New York
by Abel Ferrara
  
35.
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 Back to the Future
by Robert Zemeckis
  
36. Jacob's Ladder
by Adrian Lyne
  
37. Rocky  
38. 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection  
39. The Silence of the Lambs
by Jonathan Demme
  
40. The Thing (Collector's Edition)  
41. Say Anything  
42. The Terminator
by James Cameron
  
43. Shane  
44. Fargo
by Joel Coen
  
45. Pulp Fiction  
46. Dead Again  
47. All That Jazz  
48. Batman Begins (Full Screen Edition)
by Christopher Nolan
  
49. A History of Violence (New Line Platinum Series)
by David Cronenberg
  
50. The Blair Witch Project
by Daniel Myrick
  
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Created by jkinsman21 on Jul 28, 2006.