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Paste's The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Since its coining in 1946 by French critic Nino Frank, the term “film noir” has been debated endlessly: Is it a genre? A subgenre? A movement? A trend? A commentary? A style? For the purposes of this introduction, let’s call it a response. We think of noirs as urban stories, but that’s not always the case—for every L.A. and N.Y.C.-set saga, there’s a small, heartland tragedy. We think of a never-ending, rain-soaked night—sunlight replaced with neon and nocturnal reflections, the optical trickery of mirrors and shadows—but in contrast, the days of noir scorched its characters. We admire its heavily stylized approach—exaggerated camera angles, tension-crafting mise-en-scène, flashbacks, deep focus and trademark shadows—but also its neo-realist and documentary-like experiments. However (un)conscious a reaction, noir resonates to this day, with several neo-noir cycles beginning with the Cold War era through Gen X and the millennials. And while a healthy share of neo-noirs make our list, the classic period remains the most telling—context is critical. Then there are the sub-classifications within the subgenre: proto-noirs, foreign noirs (like the British “Spiv” cycle), neon noirs, and, of course, neo-noirs. We’ll start with the following 100 titles. Some 70 years after the term “film noir” was first uttered, take a trip through the screwed-up terrain of the mid-century psyche, with all its sex, lies, and crime scene tape. Let’s get going—don’t say we didn’t warn you. -
Slant Magazine's The 100 Best Westerns of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. -
SOMOS Magazine's 100 Greatest Films of Mexican Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 44:0. In 1994, SOMOS Magazine asked 25 specialists to vote for the 100 greatest Mexican films. -
TES Magazine Top 100 Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. From weighty dramas such as The Shawshank Redemption to escapist romcoms such as Love Actually, your responses to a TES survey of teachers’ favourite films reveal plenty about the profession, Richard Vaughan finds -
Empire's 33 Greatest Movie Trilogies
Favs/dislikes: 34:0. Empire’s 2010 reader-selected list of their favorite “film trios”. -
Nickel Odeon - Best Comedies in Spanish Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Results of a poll conducted by Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon for its Winter 1996 issue. -
Nickel Odeon - Best Screenplays in Spanish Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Results of a poll conducted by Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon for its Winter 2000 issue. -
Total Film Magazine's The 67 Most Influential Films Ever Made
Favs/dislikes: 34:0. "From 1895-1999. The flicks that taught Hollywood its tricks..." -
Entertainment Weekly’s Top 50 Cult Movies
Favs/dislikes: 30:0. Published in 2003, Entertainment Weekly Magazine described their Top 50 Cult Movies thusly: "most died at the box office, some of them horribly. Mangled and despised, they were re-animated on video. And now they compose our cultural Esperanto, a subliminal vocabulary of vaguely subversive images, ideas, and phrases that we continue to obsess over and dissect at parties, around water coolers, in bars, over the blaring banalities of the mainstream media din. They are Cult Movies...So if you take your dead evil and your buckaroos banzai-ed, pour yourself a tall glass of Kool-Aid and peruse this list…" Note: Reader response to the original list was so great, that EW subsequently annexed their list with 11 “readers’ choice” picks. Why 11? Well, it's one longer, isn't it …? -
Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)
Favs/dislikes: 6:1. If comparing music from Gillian Welch and Outkast in our 50 Best Albums of the Decade is like apples and oranges, ranking films like Amélie, The Dark Knight and Mulholland Drive is more like apples, ice cream and foie gras. But despite the wild variety among our 50 Best Movies from 2000-2009, each is an exquisitely made, exceptionally satisfying piece of cinema that we believe will endure well after the decade has ended. There are masters like Martin Scorcese and Lars Von Trier, and relative newcomers like Fernando Meirelles and Anna Boden. There are documentaries, comedies and dramas, as well as animated films and even a super-hero flick. Mirroring a decade of globalism, the filmmakers are from the United States, New Zealand, Taiwan, Germany, Ireland, France, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Romania, Thailand, Brazil, and nearly every part of the U.K. Let these be our recommendations for your Netflix queue. Personally, after reading the loving descriptions in these pages, I’ve already got films I missed the first time around—like Syndromes and a Century and Beau Travail—on the way. —Josh Jackson, Paste editor-in-chief -
The Spectator Magazine's 50 Essential Films
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. The Spectator magazine's official 50 essential films as chosen by Peter Hoskin and Matthew D'Ancona (NOTE: The original list groups "Parts 1 & 2" of the Godfather, hence 51 titles where there should be 50) -
Cinemaya's Greatest Asian Films
Favs/dislikes: 28:0. In 1998, Cinemaya asked 34 critics (mostly Asian critics) to list their 10 favorite Asian films. Cinemaya published all of these lists in issue #41 of the magazine. #1 Tokyo Story appeared on 20 of the lists. This is a list of films that appeared on at least 2 lists. See [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AhCbA3xledPhdGNGLXJ5VmtlZl94R015NDNwWEgxbnc]this spreadsheet[/url] for vote counts. 6 of the critics listed "The Apu Trilogy" without specifying an individual film, so I counted each trilogy vote as a vote for all 3 films. You can see some of the top 10 lists in this [url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lZZ-mxaqP6IC&pg=PT416]Google book preview[/url]. -
Empire's 50 Funniest Comedies Ever
Favs/dislikes: 11:0. Voted on by Empire magazine readers. -
Empire's 50 Greatest Sports Movies
Favs/dislikes: 17:0. "Ah, sport. Small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts, a desperate last shot on target as the seconds tick down on the clock – or some combination of such ingredients, anyway. The sports movie is the perfect vehicle for tales of competition, triumph, desire and despair – and what could be more film friendly than that? Ahead of this summer's biggest sporting event, we took a look at the best sports films ever made..." -
Empire's 50 Remakes That Worked
Favs/dislikes: 21:1. Remakes get a bad rep -- but the fact is that some of your favorite films are secretly remakes, twists on existing films that turned out better than they had any right to. Here Empire has assembled their best of the best. -
Film Comment - Extended Readers' Poll Results: Best of the Decade
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Like many decade-gazers, readers were in the mood for David Lynch (Mulholland Drive #1) and Wong Kar Wai (#2). The Oscar-winning surveillance drama The Lives of Others (#15) infiltrated the Top 25, along with Lost in Translation (#14). P.T. Anderson got a second nod (#17), as other early-decade favorites City of God (#18) and the Hobbits (#21, #23, #27) ganged up anew. In the March/April 2010 issue, we printed the Top 25; here are the Top 50. The numbers in parentheses indicate the films’ rankings in our 2009 Critics’ Poll and Decade Critics' Poll. Check out this year’s selection of readers’ comments, rants, and raves as well as those from the decade. (Film Comment) -
Film Comment’s End of Year Critics’ Poll 2003
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Filmcomment magazine asked many important American film critics to compiled "Best Films of 2003". -
Out Magazine's 50 Essential Gay Films
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. "Which gay movies deserve a bigger audience? We asked our favorite directors, entertainers, and artists to help us compile a hit list." Published February 2011. Listed here in chronological order. -
Cahiers du Cinéma's Twenty Years of French Cinema: the Best French Films since the Liberation
Favs/dislikes: 16:0. Cahiers du Cinéma ran a poll and published this list in the March 1965 issue of the magazine. This list covers a 20-year period from 1945-1964. -
Empire's The Greatest Superhero Movies Of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 6:2. Empire readers pick their 30 top super flicks. -
Entertainment Weekly: The Best Movies of 1990-2015
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. A look back at the year’s top flicks chosen by Entertainment Weekly’s movie critics -
ShortList - The 25 Greatest Movies of the 1990s
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. The 70s was an era of groundbreaking creativity, the 80s saw the advent of the blockbuster, but the 90s saw a little of both, resulting in a perfect mix of big-budget blockbusters, and quirky, inventive cult hits. Here's ShortList's list of the 25 top films of the 90s. -
Stuff's Top 25 War Movies
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. War movies, on the other hand, are great. Here are the best of the lot. -
TimeOut's 25 Essential Portuguese Films
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. -
Entertainment Weekly: The 20 Best Movies of 2016
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Among Entertainment Weekly's best movies of the year, you'll find heartbreakingly personal dramas, a superhero movie or two, a bittersweet ode to Hollywood, and an allegory for modern relationships that features a man potentially being turned in a crustacean. These are original, honest, and thrilling films that tap into what connects us and take audiences to places they could only conjure up in their dreams (or nightmares). This year was not good for many things, but it was excellent for movies. Anyone who says otherwise isn't looking hard enough.
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