http://www.listsofbests.com/list/111 Jonathan Rosenbaum says "Just about everyone I've spoken to about the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American movies, presented on a stultifyingly vacuous three-hour CBS special last week, has been depressed about it--partly because the list was so lackluster and partly because the show failed to offer an interesting justification for any of the titles... Let me hasten to add that if I were drawing up my own list of the 100 greatest American movies, roughly a quarter of the AFI's list would be on it. But it seems more useful to offer an alternative list of 100 features rather than an unwieldy composite of the 25 or so AFI titles I can live with and 75 others. I've also decided to list my choices alphabetically rather than impose an order based on merit, since that would be tantamount to ranking oranges over apples or declaring cherries superior to grapes." 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