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The A List - 100 Essential Films

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1155

7.9

8.4

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

7.5

7.8

2. 42nd Street (1933)

263

8.4

8.1

3. The 400 Blows (1959)

AFIoscar's rating:

267

8.2

8.5

4. All About Eve (1950)

602

8.1

8.2

5. Annie Hall (1977)

8.1

6. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

8.8

7. L'Atalante (1934)

7.5

8. The Bank Dick (1940)

196

9. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

6.7

7.1

10. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

254

7.8

7.6

11. Blow-Up (1966)

AFIoscar's rating:

393

7.7

8.1

12. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

255

8.2

13. Breathless (1960)

188

8.1

14. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

926

8.2

8.8

15. Casablanca (1942)

7.3

16. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

8.5

17. Children of Paradise (1945)

AFIoscar's rating:

555

8.1

8.5

18. Chinatown (1974)

734

8.1

8.6

19. Citizen Kane (1941)

AFIoscar's rating:

708

7.1

7.8

20. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

8.2

7.9

21. Closely Watched Trains (1966)

8.6

8.2

22. Close-Up (1990)

AFIoscar's rating:

6.7

23. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

AFIoscar's rating:

8.8

24. The Decalogue: One

AFIoscar's rating:

8.5

7.9

25. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

AFIoscar's rating:

6.7

7.1

26. Diner (1982)

241

7.6

7.9

27. Do the Right Thing (1989)

243

8.3

8.1

28. La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) (1960)

AFIoscar's rating:

242

8.4

8.6

29. Double Indemnity (1944)

199

7.8

8.1

30. Duck Soup (1933)

317

7.3

31. Easy Rider (1969)

293

7.4

7.6

32. Enter the Dragon (1973)

6.5

7.2

33. The Entertainer (1960)

AFIoscar's rating:

1122

7.3

8.1

34. The Exorcist (1973)

AFIoscar's rating:

7.7

35. Faces (1968)

AFIoscar's rating:

1015

7.8

8.3

36. Fargo (1996)

AFIoscar's rating:

220

7.5

8.1

37. Frankenstein (1931)

AFIoscar's rating:

160

7.7

38. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

AFIoscar's rating:

158

8.3

8.4

39. The General (1926)

1757

8.6

9.2

40. The Godfather (1972)

AFIoscar's rating:

1226

8.5

41. The Godfather Part II (1974)

AFIoscar's rating:

682

7.6

8.2

42. Gone with the Wind (1939)

AFIoscar's rating:

7.8

43. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)

632

7.6

8.2

44. The Graduate (1967)

9.2

45. Greed (1924)

159

7.7

7.6

46. Happy Together (1997)

AFIoscar's rating:

163

7.9

8.3

47. High Noon (1952)

158

7.3

48. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

AFIoscar's rating:

6.3

49. Jailhouse Rock (1957)

5.4

7.6

50. Red Sorghum (1987)

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The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films, by Jay Carr (editor), provided 100 insightful and provocative essays on 100 Esssential Films.

The National Society of Film Critics concluded that these were 100 "essential" films for viewing.

According to the book's blurb, "the Society has made its selections based on a film's intrinsic merits, its role in the development of the motion-picture art, and its impact on culture and society."


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