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  1. IMDb's Music Top 50's icon

    IMDb's Music Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 105:7. Music films contain music performances by the cast, but necessarily not with a focus on a full-scale scores or song and dance routines (for which the musical genre exists). A music film may even be a concert recording.
  2. IMDb's Musical Top 50's icon

    IMDb's Musical Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 150:8. Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way (usually with a musical or dance performance integrated as part of the film narrative), or they are films that are centered on combinations of music, dance, song or choreography. Major subgenres include the musical comedy or the concert film.
  3. IMDb's Mystery Top 50's icon

    IMDb's Mystery Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 195:5. Detective-mystery films are usually considered a sub-type or sub-genre of crime/gangster films (or film noir), or suspense or thriller films that focus on the unsolved crime (usually the murder or disappearance of one or more of the characters, or a theft), and on the central character - the hard-boiled detective-hero, as he/she meets various adventures and challenges in the cold and methodical pursuit of the criminal or the solution to the crime.
  4. IMDb's Romance Top 50's icon

    IMDb's Romance Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 144:9. A sub-genre for the most part, this category shares some features with romantic dramas, romantic comedies, and sexual/erotic films. These are love stories, or affairs of the heart that center on passion, emotion, and the romantic, affectionate involvement of the main characters (usually a leading man and lady), and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story the main plot focus.
  5. IMDb's Sci-Fi Top 50's icon

    IMDb's Sci-Fi Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 460:17. Sci-fi films are often quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative - complete with heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology, unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary monsters. Science fiction often expresses the potential of technology to destroy humankind and easily overlaps with horror films, particularly when technology or alien life forms become malevolent, as in the "Atomic Age" of sci-fi films in the 1950s.
  6. IMDb's Shorts Top 50's icon

    IMDb's Shorts Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 228:13. Any title, specifically a "feature", with a running time of less than 45 minutes ie. 44 minutes or less. As such, shorts is not a genre category but a collection of films with a maximum specific length. Therefore, a short can be of any genre, although animation is one of the most prevalent.
  7. IMDb's Sport Top 50's icon

    IMDb's Sport Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 94:8. Films that have a sports setting (football or baseball stadium, arena, or the Olympics, etc.), event (the 'big game,' 'fight,' 'race,' or 'competition'), and/or athlete (boxer, racer, surfer, etc.) that are central and predominant in the story. Sports films may be fictional or non-fictional; and they are a hybrid sub-genre category, although they are often dramas or comedy films, and occasionally documentaries or biopics.
  8. IMDb's Thriller Top 50's icon

    IMDb's Thriller Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 260:8. Thrillers are often hybrids with other genres - there are action-thrillers, western-thrillers, film-noir thrillers, even romantic comedy-thrillers. Another closely-related genre is the horror film genre. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations. They are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. The acclaimed Master of Suspense is Alfred Hitchcock. Spy films may be considered a type of thriller/suspense film.
  9. IMDb's War Top 50's icon

    IMDb's War Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 161:2. War films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. War films are often paired with other genres, such as action, adventure, drama, romance, comedy (black), suspense, and even epics and westerns, and they often take a denunciatory approach toward warfare. They may include POW tales, stories of military operations, and training.
  10. IMDb's Western Top 50's icon

    IMDb's Western Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 183:5. Westerns are the major defining genre of the American film industry - a eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier. They are one of the oldest, most enduring genres with very recognizable plots, elements, and characters (six-guns, horses, dusty towns and trails, cowboys, Indians, etc.). Over time, westerns have been re-defined, re-invented and expanded, dismissed, re-discovered, and spoofed.
  11. Indian Cinema Board's Top 50 Bollywood Films's icon

    Indian Cinema Board's Top 50 Bollywood Films

    Favs/dislikes: 10:0. IMDb Indian Cinema Board's list of the greatest Bollywood films. Three ranking criteria were used: 1. Legacy. Which movies had the most influence on Indian cinema? 2. Quality. How well made was the film, from a technical and artistic standpoint? 3. Accolades. How many awards and recognitions did the movies win?
  12. Indiewire 2012 year-end critics poll best film's icon

    Indiewire 2012 year-end critics poll best film

    Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Indiewire's top 50 of the year. as voted by 204 critics
  13. Indiewire 2013 year-end critics poll best film's icon

    Indiewire 2013 year-end critics poll best film

    Favs/dislikes: 16:0. Indiewire's top 50 of the year. Very influential for the TSPDT 21st century list.
  14. Indiewire 2014 year-end critics poll best film's icon

    Indiewire 2014 year-end critics poll best film

    Favs/dislikes: 10:0. Indiewire's top 50 of the year. As always very influential for the TSPDT 21st century list.
  15. Indiewire 2016 year-end critics poll best film's icon

    Indiewire 2016 year-end critics poll best film

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. End of year critics' poll from Indiewire.
  16. Indiewire 2017 year-end critics poll best film's icon

    Indiewire 2017 year-end critics poll best film

    Favs/dislikes: 6:0. More than 200 critics and journalists from around the world participated in the 11th annual IndieWire Critics Poll, making it the largest international critics survey of its kind.
  17. Indiewire 2019 year-end critics poll best film's icon

    Indiewire 2019 year-end critics poll best film

    Favs/dislikes: 7:0. At the end of every year, IndieWire gathers together film critics from around the world and invites them to pick the best movies and performances of the last 12 months. This 2019 IndieWire Critics Poll included 304 movie critics, making it the largest year-end survey in the site’s history
  18. IndieWire 2020 Year End Critics Poll - Top 50's icon

    IndieWire 2020 Year End Critics Poll - Top 50

    Favs/dislikes: 9:0. The 2020 IndieWire Critics Poll included input from over 230 film reviewers from around the world. Critics from IndieWire, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and other major outlets voted for the year’s top films and performances alongside critics from local newspapers and websites, freelancers, and contributors on film from across Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The end results were published earlier this month, with “Nomadland” claiming best film and Riz Ahmed in “Sound of Metal” taking the title for best performer of the year. Participants in the 2020 critics poll were only allowed to vote for films and performances in films that received theatrical or VOD releases in North America over the past calendar year.
  19. Indiewire 2021 year-end critics poll best film's icon

    Indiewire 2021 year-end critics poll best film

    Favs/dislikes: 6:0. With 187 critics and journalists voting on the best films and performances in this year’s survey, Jane Campion’s Western character study “The Power of the Dog” was the landslide victor by a considerable margin. It’s the second time in the history of this poll, and the second consecutive year after “Nomadland,” that a film directed by a woman topped this list. “The Power of the Dog” also topped IndieWire’s own staff list of The Best Movies of 2021. Staffers from IndieWire, Variety, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Entertainment Weekly all voted, as well as freelance and staff writers for newspapers, websites, radio, and TV from across Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia — as well as all over the U.S. and Canada. However, all participants were required to vote only for films that received theatrical, streaming, or VOD releases in the U.S. over the past calendar year.
  20. Indiewire 2022 year-end critics' poll's icon

    Indiewire 2022 year-end critics' poll

    Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Online line filmsite indiewire's poll of best movies of 2022, as voted on by 165 critics worldwide
  21. Indiewire 2023 Year end Critics Poll list's icon

    Indiewire 2023 Year end Critics Poll list

    Favs/dislikes: 3:0. 2023 was a tumultuous year for the film industry, with lengthy writers and actors strikes bringing Hollywood productions to a grinding halt and forcing fall festivals to proceed without their typical red carpet star power. But amid all the chaos, it slowly emerged as one of the best years for cinema in recent memory. Just take a look at the 50 best movies of 2023, as determined by IndieWire’s annual critics survey.
  22. Indiewire's Best Films of 2018's icon

    Indiewire's Best Films of 2018

    Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Every year, IndieWire asks film critics from all over the world to vote in our annual Critics Poll. IndieWire published the results in every category earlier this month and can now debut the full ranking of the top 50 best films of 2018, as chosen by the 232 film critics who participated in this year’s poll.
  23. IndieWire's The 50 Best Movie Musicals of All Time, Ranked's icon

    IndieWire's The 50 Best Movie Musicals of All Time, Ranked

    Favs/dislikes: 2:0. From “Swing Time" to "In the Heights" and everywhere in between, these films represent the height and the incredible range of the genre. By David Ehrlich, Christian Blauvelt, Kate Erbland Jun 13, 2021 11:00 am The musical often feels like a relic of a long-dead Hollywood studio system, but it remains a genre that captures movies’ ability to create story worlds that move freely between reality and fantasy. The worst examples come from filmmakers who give license to music, color, and movement run amok; the best musicals transcend artifice and integrate songs that become expressions of pure character emotion. It offers endless possibilities, but success demands a complete mastery of the medium. Very few current stars could learn the choreography of Busby Berkeley, Jerome Robbins, or Bob Fosse, and adapting a medium developed and most suited for the stage requires innovative direction. In translating the joy of a live musical to the magic of cinema, some things are easily lost in the shuffle From “Swing Time” to “In the Heights” and everywhere in between, here are 50 musicals that represent the height and the incredible range of the genre. Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, Ryan Lattanzio, Jude Dry, Kristen Lopez, Jenna Marotta, Jamie Righetti, Michael Nordine, and Siddhant Adlakha contributed to this list.
  24. IndieWire's The 50 Greatest Romantic Comedies of All Time's icon

    IndieWire's The 50 Greatest Romantic Comedies of All Time

    Favs/dislikes: 2:0. There’s something uniquely cinematic about romantic comedies — something that makes them a natural fit for the movies, and vice-versa. There’s a special alchemy that allows us to believe in the magic of meet-cutes, happily ever afters, and all of the agonizing contrivances that tend to pop up between the two; that gives storytellers permission to transpose the stuff of operas and fables into the fabric of real life. On paper, a film like “Pretty Woman” might be a retrograde fairy tale about a hooker with a heart of gold and the rich businessman who can afford it, but the chemistry between Julia Roberts and Richard Gere is so explosive that you surrender to the sentiment of it all. It’s hard to imagine how the mismatched couple in “Something Wild” might possibly sustain a lasting relationship after the credits roll, but where that movie leaves you — and the journey it takes to get there — is so thrilling and alive that you can’t help but trust it. Literally nothing in “Love Actually” makes sense if you stop and think about it for even a few seconds, but love, actually, always seems to add up in the moment. Richard Curtis’ magnum opus was a British production (in case you couldn’t tell), but even some of its many storylines find something naggingly American about the aspirational nature of the rom-com genre. No other country is populated by such radically different strangers, nor so enriched by the unexpected collisions between them; from “Bringing Up Baby” to “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” Hollywood has always been eager to sell the idea that we’re all just one chance encounter away from happiness. That might help to explain — if only in part — why the rom-com canon is as white and heteronormative as the history of the American film business, and why that canon is ripe for re-evaluation now that Hollywood doesn’t see the same value in the genre that it once did. Of course, the romantic comedy is also something of a universal language, and other film industries (Bollywood most of all) have been churning these stories out for local audiences faster than we can hope to keep up. Fingers crossed that we find a way to disentangle “foreign cinema” from the arthouse, because there are so many mainstream hits from around the world that never make it to American screens. In that light, IndieWire’s list of the 50 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time is more of a start than a final statement; it’s a living document that we’ll change up and add to as time goes by. One thing that will stay the same, however, is that rom-coms have a recognizable grammar all their own; meet-cutes, montages, banter, a weird preponderance of journalists, sex scenes that always indicate a dark turn at the end of the second act… these aren’t just love stories that happen to be funny, they’re a sacred art unto themselves. And these are 50 of the masterpieces that prove it. By David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn, Kate Erbland, Anne Thompson, Chris O'Falt, Zack Sharf, Jude Dry, Ryan Lattanzio, Tambay Obenson, Tom Brueggemann Feb 14, 2020 10:00 am
  25. IndieWire's The Best Movie Musicals of All Time's icon

    IndieWire's The Best Movie Musicals of All Time

    Favs/dislikes: 4:0. From “Swing Time" to "In the Heights" and everywhere in between, these films represent the height and the incredible range of the genre.
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