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. 3.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  2. 4.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  3. 6.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  4. 7.
    Blade Runner (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Ridley Scott

  5. 9.
    Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Quentin Tarantino

  6. 10.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  7. 11.
    House of Games (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Mamet

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

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

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

  11. 16.
    Heavenly Creatures
    by Peter Jackson

  12. 17.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Stanley Kubrick

  13. 18.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

  14. 19.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  15. 21.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Milos Forman

  16. 22.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  17. 23.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  18. 24.
    Manhattan
    by Woody Allen

  19. 25.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  20. 26.
    His Girl Friday (1940) [Remastered Edition]
    by Howard Hawks

  21. 27.
    Shallow Grave

  22. 28.
    Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc Edition)
    by George Cukor

  23. 29.
    Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Special Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  24. 30.
    Dead Poets Society (Special Edition)
    by Peter Weir

  25. 31.
    The Graduate (40th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    by Mike Nichols

  26. 32.
    Wall Street (20th Anniversary Edition)
    by Oliver Stone

  27. 33.
    Real Genius
    by Martha Coolidge

  28. 34.
    ?
    Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Sidney Lumet

  29. 35.
    A Fish Called Wanda

  30. 36.
    The Crying Game (Collector's Edition)
    by Neil Jordan

  31. 37.
    Happiness
    by Todd Solondz

  32. 39.
    ?
    The African Queen
    by John Huston

  33. 40.
    The Piano
    by Jane Campion

  34. 42.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  35. 43.
    War Games
    by John Badham

  36. 44.
    American Beauty (Widescreen Edition)
    by Sam Mendes

  37. 45.
    Blood Simple
    by Joel Coen

  38. 46.
    In the Company of Men
    by Neil LaBute

  39. 47.
    Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Milos Forman

  40. 48.
    Rope
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  41. 49.
    Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Roman Polanski

  42. 50.
    Rashomon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

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Untitled — 3 years 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)




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