Filmcritic.com's "Top 101 Films of the Millennium"

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A feature story by Christopher Null; Bradley Null; James Brundage; Max Messier; Athan Bezaitis; David Bezanson; Ben Jones; Robert Marley – Copyright © 1999 Filmcritic.com

So we’re cheating. For all practical purposes, this is our top 101 of the century. But we buy that millennium hype just like everyone else, so why not just make this yet another millennium list, we thought. Hell, it’s the top 101 of all time!

When you think about it that way, it’s pretty hard to come up with the definitive list of the best movies ever made. Put together, the 11 film critics at filmcritic.com haven’t even seen every film ever made. We haven’t even seen a fraction of them.

The hushed truth is that no one who puts together lists like these, not even the American Film Institute has seen them all. And as one of our staffers puts it, most critics lie, anyway. They say their favorite film is L’ Age d’or when it’s really Caddyshack.

We’ve tried not to lie. But telling it like it is is easy. The real challenge in lists like this is comparing the merits of films like Doctor Zhivago and Young Frankenstein. Which is a better film? Who are we to say?

Still, some caveats. For better or worse, we are all young guys, and the list is top-heavy toward the latter half of the century. That said, the top 101 list doesn’t crack the ‘90s until #9. I think you’ll find some surprises herein, but nothing too shocking. After all, every film on this list is a classic.

So without further ado, we are extremely proud to present the definitive Top 101 Films of the Millennium, courtesy of filmcritic.com.

—Christopher Null
—Editor-in-Chief, filmcritic.com

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  1. 2.
    A Clockwork Orange (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  2. 3.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  3. 4.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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  4. 6.
    Annie Hall

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  5. 7.
    Blade Runner (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Ridley Scott

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  6. 10.
    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  7. 11.
    House of Games

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  8. 12.
    JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Oliver Stone

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  9. 14.
    Star Wars (1977)
    by George Lucas

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  10. 15.
    Fargo (Special Edition)
    by Joel Coen

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  11. 16.
    Heavenly Creatures

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  12. 18.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  13. 19.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  14. 21.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Milos Forman

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  15. 22.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

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  16. 23.
    Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  17. 24.
    Manhattan
    by Woody Allen

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  18. 25.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

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  19. 26.
    His Girl Friday [Remastered] (1940)
    by Howard Hawks

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  20. 27.
    Shallow Grave
    by Danny Boyle

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  21. 28.
    Gone With the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Cukor

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  22. 30.
    Dead Poets Society (Special Edition)
    by Peter Weir

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  23. 31.
    The Graduate (40th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    by Mike Nichols

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  24. 32.
    Wall Street (20th Anniversary Edition)
    by Oliver Stone

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  25. 33.
    Real Genius
    by Martha Coolidge

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  26. 34.
    Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Sidney Lumet

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  27. 35.
    A Fish Called Wanda
    by John Cleese

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  28. 36.
    The Crying Game (Collector's Edition)
    by Neil Jordan

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  29. 37.
    Happiness
    by Todd Solondz

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  31. 39.
    The African Queen
    by John Huston

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  32. 40.
    The Piano
    by Jane Campion

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  33. 42.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  34. 43.
    War Games
    by John Badham

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  35. 44.
    American Beauty

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  36. 45.
    Blood Simple (Director's Cut)
    by Joel Coen

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  37. 46.
    In the Company of Men
    by Neil LaBute

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  38. 47.
    Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Milos Forman

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  39. 48.
    Rope
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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  40. 49.
    Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Roman Polanski

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  41. 50.
    Rashomon - Criterion Collection

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Comments

Untitled — 1 year ago

plenty of naff films here and they obviously don’t know world cinema, but then they’re not intending to give themselves airs and graces (except for the grand list title)