Top 500 Films

The filmsgraded 500: these are the best films I have graded over the years.

(99) Red River (1948) review
(99) Casablanca (1942) review
(99) The Thin Red Line (1998) review
(98) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) review
(98) Strangers on a Train (1951) review
(97) Schindler's List (1993) review
(97) Citizen Kane (1941) review
(97) Rebecca (1940) review
(97) Room at the Top (1959) review
(97) Ordinary People (1980) review
(97) Chinatown (1974) review
(97) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) review
(96) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) review
(96) The Godfather, Part II (1974) review
(96) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988) review
(96) A Star Is Born (1954) review
(96) Dumbo (1941) review
(95) Hamlet (1948) review
(95) Reservoir Dogs (1992) review
(95) Singin' in the Rain (1952) review
(95) A Night to Remember (1958) review
(95) The Godfather (1972) review
(94) The Heiress (1949) review
(94) Over the Edge (1979) review
(94) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) review
(94) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) review
(94) Barry Lyndon (1975) review
(94) Five Easy Pieces (1970) review
(94) Ikiru (1952) review
(93) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) review
(93) Gone with the Wind (1939) review
(93) Days of Heaven (1978) review
(93) Toy Story 2 (1999) review
(93) Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters (2004) review
(93) To Be or Not to Be (1942) review
(93) Modern Times (1936) review
(92) Rear Window (1954) review
(92) The Pawnbroker (1964)
(92) Fargo (1996) review
(92) The Gold Rush (1925) review
(92) The Life of Emile Zola (1937) review
(92) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) review
(92) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) review
(91) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) review
(91) The Lost Weekend (1945) review
(91) The Song of Bernadette (1943) review
(91) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) review
(91) A Hard Day's Night (1964) review
(91) Children of Paradise (1945) review
(91) Stagecoach (1939) review
(91) Night of the Living Dead (1968) review
(91) High Noon (1952) review
(90) Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) review
(90) Psycho (1960) review
(90) Sense and Sensibility (1995) review
(90) Babe (1995) review
(90) Suspicion (1941) review
(90) Paper Moon (1973) review
(90) O Lucky Man! (1973) review
(90) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) review
(90) Alive (1993) review
(90) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) review
(90) Star Wars (1977) review
(90) Unforgiven (1992) review
(90) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) review
(90) Double Indemnity (1944) review
(90) Alfie (1966) review
(90) All About Eve (1950) review
(90) Throne of Blood (1957) review
(90) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) review
(90) Manhattan (1979) review
(90) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) review
(89) The Wanderers (1979) review
(89) Little Big Man (1970) review
(89) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) review
(89) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) review
(89) Bringing Up Baby (1938) review
(89) In This Our Life (1942) review
(89) Patton (1970) review
(89) Papillon (1973) review
(89) The Tin Drum (1979) review
(89) The Innocents (1961) review
(89) The Third Man (1949) review
(89) Apollo 11 (2019) review
(88) Toy Story (1995) review
(88) His Girl Friday (1940) review
(88) Goodfellas (1990) review
(88) Mildred Pierce (1945) review
(88) The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) review
(88) Hud (1963) review
(88) American Madness (1932) review
(88) A Room with a View (1985) review
(88) Jackie Brown (1997) review
(88) In the Mood for Love (2000) review
(88) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) review
(88) Hallelujah (1929) review
(88) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) review
(87) Kolya (1996) review
(87) Mean Streets (1973) review
(87) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) review
(87) Network (1976) review
(87) Always Outnumbered (1998) review
(87) And the Band Played On (1993) review
(87) Quiz Show (1994) review
(87) Midnight Cowboy (1969) review
(87) Gentleman's Agreement (1947) review
(87) Back to the Future (1985) review
(87) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) review
(86) To Live (1994) review
(86) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) review
(86) Stray Dog (1949) review
(86) Spellbound (2002) review
(86) Ran (1985) review
(86) The Betty Ford Story (1987) review
(86) In the Name of the Father (1993) review
(86) A Clockwork Orange (1971) review
(86) Full Metal Jacket (1987) review
(86) Raising Arizona (1987) review
(86) On the Waterfront (1954) review
(86) Monkey Business (1952) review
(86) The Hustler (1961) review
(86) The Fault in Our Stars (2014) review
(86) Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) review
(85) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) review
(85) Jaws (1975) review
(85) The Maltese Falcon (1941) review
(85) White Heat (1949) review
(85) Eight Men Out (1988) review
(85) Dead End (1937) review
(85) Touch of Evil (1958) review
(85) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) review
(85) The Unknown (1927) review
(85) Army of Shadows (1969) review
(85) The Battle of Algiers (1966) review
(85) Toy Story 3 (2010) review
(85) The Basketball Diaries (1995) review
(84) The Seven Samurai (1954) review
(84) The Little Princess (1939) review
(84) The Wrong Box (1966) review
(84) Tom Jones (1963) review
(84) Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) review
(84) Raging Bull (1980) review
(84) Help! (1965) review
(84) My Left Foot (1989) review
(84) Captains Courageous (1937) review
(84) Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008) review
(84) The Fugitive (1947) review
(84) The Road Warrior (1981) review
(84) Garage (2007) review
(84) Easy Rider (1969) review
(84) Glory (1989) review
(84) Carrie (1952) review
(84) Pulp Fiction (1994) review
(84) Laura (1944) review
(84) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) review
(84) Trading Places (1983) review
(84) Advise & Consent (1962) review
(84) Thank You for Smoking (2005) review
(84) District 9 (2009) review
(84) The Young Lions (1958) review
(84) A Christmas Story (1983) review
(84) Don King: Only in America (1997) review
(84) Dodsworth (1936) review
(83) Jane Eyre (1944) review
(83) The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) review
(83) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) review
(83) Monster (2003) review
(83) Au revoir, les enfants (1987) review
(83) Mon Oncle (1958) review
(83) The Piano (1993) review
(83) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) review
(83) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) review
(83) My Darling Clementine (1946) review
(83) Odd Man Out (1947) review
(83) The Freshman (1925) review
(83) Dersu Uzala (1975) review
(83) Wee Willie Winkie (1937) review
(83) Pinocchio (1940) review
(83) The Front (1976) review
(83) America, America (1963) review
(83) The General (1926) review
(83) Andrei Rublev (1966) review
(83) Incendies (2010) review
(83) Play It Again, Sam (1972) review
(83) The Crowd (1928) review
(83) The Longest Day (1962) review
(83) All the President's Men (1976) review
(83) The Quiet Man (1952) review
(83) Morning Glory (1933) review
(83) Agnelli (2019) review
(83) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) review
(82) Bullets Over Broadway (1994) review
(82) The Grifters (1968) review
(82) Notorious (1946) review
(82) Winchester '73 (1950) review
(82) Spanking the Monkey (1994) review
(82) 'Breaker' Morant (1980) review
(82) The Last Mogul (2005) review
(82) A Little Princess (1995) review
(82) The Merry Widow (1925) review
(82) Das Experiment (2001) review
(82) Paths of Glory (1957) review
(82) Champion (1949) review
(82) Ship of Fools (1965) review
(82) The Servant (1963) review
(82) Heavenly Creatures (1994) review
(82) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) review
(82) Tokyo Olympiad (1965) review
(82) Julius Caesar (1953) review
(82) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) review
(82) The Full Monty (1997) review
(82) Clueless (1995) review
(82) A Christmas Carol (1951) review
(82) 48 Hrs. (1982) review
(82) Sweet Land (2005) review
(81) Ministry of Fear (1944) review
(81) Mortal Thoughts (1991) review
(81) Mousey (1974) review
(81) Roger & Me (1989) review
(81) The Battleship Potemkin (1925) review
(81) Dance With a Stranger (1985) review
(81) Conspiracy (2001) review
(81) The Insider (1999) review
(81) Elephant Walk (1954) review
(81) This Is England (2006) review
(81) They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) review
(81) Les Miserables (1935) review
(81) East of Eden (1955) review
(81) California Dreamin' (2007) review
(81) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) review
(81) The Return of the Jedi (1983) review
(81) I Was a Male War Bride (1949) review
(81) MASH (1970) review
(81) Frankenstein (1931) review
(80) The Killing (1956) review
(80) Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) review
(80) Romeo and Juliet (1968) review
(80) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) review
(80) Sleuth (1972) review
(80) Helter Skelter (1976) review
(80) King of the Hill (1993) review
(80) Aliens (1986) review
(80) Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) review
(80) The Cranes are Flying (1957) review
(80) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) review
(80) Braveheart (1995) review
(80) Little Shop of Horrors (1986) review
(80) Blue Valentine (2010) review
(80) The Station Agent (2003) review
(80) David Copperfield (1935) review
(80) The Hidden Fortress (1958)
(79) Annie Hall (1977) review
(79) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) review
(79) Sounder (1972) review
(79) The Searchers (1956) review
(79) Claudine (1974) review
(79) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) review
(78) Gallipoli (1981) review
(79) Freaks (1932) review
(79) War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967) review
(79) Anna Karenina (1935) review
(78) Ponette (1996) review
(78) Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker (1986) review
(78) The Nutty Professor (1996) review
(78) Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) review
(78) Oliver Twist (1948) review
(78) The 39 Steps (1935) review
(78) Apocalypto (2006) review
(78) High Fidelity (2000) review
(78) What Price Hollywood? (1932) review
(78) The Unholy Three (1978) review
(78) Splendor in the Grass (1961) review
(78) Pan's Labyrinth (2006) review
(78) The Snapper (1993) review
(78) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) review
(78) Sergeant York (1941) review
(78) Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) review
(78) Carousel (1956) review
(78) Where East Is East (1929) review
(78) The Killing Fields (1984) review
(78) Bird (1988) review
(78) Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) review
(77) Breaking Away (1979) review
(77) The Parallax View (1974) review
(77) Das Boot (1981) review
(77) Ride the Pink Horse (1947) review
(77) Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) review
(77) The Enchanted Cottage (1945) review
(77) I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968) review
(77) The Human Comedy (1943) review
(77) H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) review
(77) One True Thing (1998) review
(77) Rachel, Rachel (1968) review
(77) Black Book (2006) review
(77) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) review
(77) That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) review
(77) Danton (1983) review
(77) Trouble in Paradise (1932) review
(77) Lili (1953) review
(77) This Is It (2009) review
(77) The Visitor (2007) review
(77) Hotel Rwanda (2004) review
(77) One-Eyed Jacks (1961) review
(77) To Have and Have Not (1944) review
(77) The Dresser (1983) review
(77) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) review
(77) Rashomon (1950) review
(77) The Grand Illusion (1937) review
(77) South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999) review
(77) Deliverance (1972) review
(77) The Big Lebowski (1998) review
(77) For a Few Dollars More (1965) review
(77) The White Ribbon (2009) review
(77) This Land Is Mine (1943) review
(77) The Champ (1931) review
(77) Rosemary's Baby (1968) review
(77) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) review
(77) The Gunfighter (1950) review
(77) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) review
(77) War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966) review
(77) Tales from Earthsea (2006) review
(77) The Tenant (1976) review
(77) Nightmare Alley (2021) review
(76) Operation Crossbow (1965) review
(76) THX 1138 (1971) review
(76) Welcome Stranger (1947) review
(76) Wuthering Heights (1939) review
(76) Straw Dogs (1971) review
(76) Princess Mononoke (1997) review
(76) Bugsy (1991)
(76) Theodora Goes Wild (1936) review
(76) The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) review
(76) High Plains Drifter (1973) review
(76) Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) review
(76) Julia (1977) review
(76) The Four Musketeers (1974) review
(76) The Panic in Needle Park (1971) review
(76) The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) review
(76) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) review
(76) M (1931) review
(76) The French Connection (1971) review
(76) Run Lola Run (1998) review
(76) Libeled Lady (1936) review
(76) The Last Command (1928) review
(76) The Goodbye Girl (1977) review
(76) Tess (1979) review
(75) Safety Last (1923) review
(75) The Stone Boy (1984) review
(75) Jezebel (1938) review
(75) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) review
(75) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) review
(75) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) review
(75) Avalon (1990) review
(75) Village of the Damned (1960) review
(75) The Circus (1928) review
(75) Dead of Night (1945) review
(75) The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) review
(75) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) review
(75) Seconds (1966) review
(75) Fantasia (1940) review
(75) The Littlest Rebel (1935) review
(75) The Day of the Locust (1975) review
(75) The House on 92nd Street (1945) review
(75) Angel and the Badman (1947) review
(75) The Fall (2006) review
(75) Billy Budd (1962) review
(75) The Deer Hunter (1978) review
(75) Nashville (1975) review
(75) Rocco and His Brothers (1960) review
(75) Blow-Up (1966) review
(75) I Never Sang for My Father (1970) review
(75) Suspiria (1977) review
(75) Harry and Tonto (1974) review
(75) Island of Lost Souls (1932) review
(75) The Danish Girl (2015) review
(75) The Bank Job (2008) review
(75) War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1965) review
(75) Great Expectations (1946) review
(75) The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) review
(75) Daybreak (1931) review
(75) November 22nd and the Warren Report (1964) review
(75) Come from Away (2021) review
(74) Of Human Bondage (1934) review
(74) Sorcerer (1977) review
(74) Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) review
(74) The Mark of Zorro (1940) review
(74) Look Who's Talking (1989) review
(74) Holiday Inn (1942) review
(74) Kagemusha (1980) review
(74) The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) review
(74) Smile (1975)
(74) The Thin Blue Line (1988)
(74) Phantom Lady (1944) review
(74) Coming Home (1978) review
(74) The Entertainer (1960) review
(74) Jules and Jim (1962) review
(74) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) review
(74) Ace in the Hole (1951) review
(74) Mad Max (1979) review
(74) Hester Street (1975) review
(74) An Unmarried Woman (1978) review
(74) Nurse Betty (2000) review
(74) À Nous la Liberté (1931) review
(74) The Wicker Man (1973) review
(74) A Face in the Crowd (1957) review
(74) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) review
(74) In the Mood (1987) review
(74) Persepolis (2007) review
(74) Days of Wine and Roses (1962) review
(74) The Browning Version (1951) review
(74) Serpico (1973) review
(74) The Blue Angel (1930) review
(74) Brazil (1985) review
(74) Cry Freedom (1987) review
(74) Brainstorm (1983) review
(74) The Others (2001) review
(74) Alien (1979) review
(74) Little Children (2006) review
(74) The Bicycle Thief (1948) review
(74) The Rules of the Game (1939) review
(74) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) review
(74) Cat People (1942) review
(74) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) review
(74) Anastasia (1956) review
(74) Cinderella (1950) review
(74) The Merry Widow (1934) review
(74) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) review
(74) The Three Musketeers (1973) review
(74) Prisoners (2013) review
(74) Cat Ballou (1965) review
(74) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) review
(74) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) review
(74) The Fighting Seabees (1944) review
(74) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) review
(74) The Two of Us (1967) review
(74) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) review
(74) The Dark Tower (2019) review
(74) Defending Your Life (1991) review
(74) Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) review
(74) The Atomic Cafe (1982) review
(74) Black Dynamite (2009) review
(74) War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967) review
(74) Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat (2022) review
(73) Bat*21 (1988) review
(73) She (1935) review
(73) North by Northwest (1959) review
(73) Death in Venice (1971) review
(73) The Big Sky (1952) review
(73) Like Water for Chocolate (1992) review
(73) Zeppelin (1971) review
(73) Drunken Angel (1948)
(73) 'Round Midnight (1986)
(73) Leaving Las Vegas (1995) review
(73) The Great Ziegfeld (1936) review
(73) The Wizard of Oz (1939) review
(73) Tender Mercies (1983) review
(73) A Tale of Two Cities (1958) review
(73) Army of Darkness (1992) review
(73) High and Low (1963) review
(73) A Place in the Sun (1951) review
(73) The Ninth Gate (1999) review
(73) Shane (1953) review
(73) Bridge to the Sun (1961) review
(73) Sanjuro (1962) review
(73) Tokyo Story (1953) review
(73) Pygmalion (1938) review
(73) The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) review
(73) The Last Picture Show (1971) review
(73) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) review
(73) Cleopatra (1934) review
(73) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) review
(73) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) review
(73) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) review
(73) Il Posto (1961) review
(73) Apollo 13 (1995) review
(73) Louie Bluie (1985) review
(73) The Haunting (1963) review
(73) Kameradschaft (1931) review
(73) Repulsion (1965) review
(73) Yi Yi (2000) review
(73) Diary of a Country Priest (1951) review
(73) The Raven (1943) review
(73) This Is Elvis (1981) review
(73) The Man with Two Brains (1983) review
(73) Angel Heart (1987) review
(73) How Green Was My Valley (1941) review
(73) Jailhouse Rock (1957) review
(73) The Exterminating Angel (1962) review
(73) Love & Mercy (2014) review
(73) The Big Short (2015) review
(73) Dracula (1931) review
(73) Destry Rides Again (1939) review
(73) Fido (2006) review
(73) Alice in Wonderland (1951) review
(73) Now, Voyager (1942) review
(73) Sully (2016) review
(73) Under Fire (1983) review
(73) The Kite Runner (2007) review
(73) Bloody Sunday (2002) review
(73) Day for Night (1973) review