Metacritic's Best Movies of All Time

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  1. 16 -2

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
  2. 28 new

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  3. 104 -18

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  4. 31 -3

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 366 new

    Piccadilly

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  6. 258 -45

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
  7. 347 -51

    Der blaue Engel

    1930 — a.k.a. The Blue Angel, in 17 top lists Check
  8. 18 -6

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  9. 324 +142

    Scarface

    1932, in 16 top lists Check
  10. 200 -26

    Little Women

    1933, in 5 top lists Check
  11. 230 +15

    The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, &...

    1935 — a.k.a. David Copperfield, in 4 top lists Check
  12. 431 -54

    Show Boat

    1936, in 8 top lists Check
  13. 34 new

    Pépé le Moko

    1937, in 10 top lists Check
  14. 51 -14

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  15. 275 -70

    Love Affair

    1939, in 7 top lists Check
  16. 409 -43

    Of Mice and Men

    1939, in 4 top lists Check
  17. 17 +8

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  18. 238 -21

    Young Mr. Lincoln

    1939, in 8 top lists Check
  19. 77 -17

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940, in 24 top lists Check
  20. 64 -13

    The Shop Around the Corner

    1940, in 14 top lists Check
  21. 5 -2

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  22. 485 -96

    How Green Was My Valley

    1941, in 11 top lists Check
  23. 46 -5

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  24. 239 +1

    Bambi

    1942, in 13 top lists Check
  25. 9 -4

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  26. 162 -35

    The Magnificent Ambersons

    1942, in 15 top lists Check
  27. 401 -39

    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    1942, in 12 top lists Check
  28. 87 -2

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  29. 132 -23

    Meet Me in St. Louis

    1944, in 16 top lists Check
  30. 227 -55

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  31. 74 -12

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  32. 494 -66

    Mildred Pierce

    1945, in 17 top lists Check
  33. 178 -39

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  34. 334 -81

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  35. 407 -60

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  36. 14 -5

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
  37. 461 -65

    Miracle on 34th Street

    1947, in 7 top lists Check
  38. 361 new

    Quai des Orfèvres

    1947 — a.k.a. Jenny Lamour, in 7 top lists Check
  39. 469 -56

    The Fallen Idol

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  40. 408 -81

    Force of Evil

    1948, in 13 top lists Check
  41. 29 -8

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  42. 181 -25

    Banshun

    1949 — a.k.a. Late Spring, in 16 top lists Check
  43. 405 new

    White Heat

    1949, in 15 top lists Check
  44. 36 -7

    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  45. 114 -1

    The Gunfighter

    1950, in 8 top lists Check
  46. 32 -5

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  47. 117 -7

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  48. 44 -4

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    1951, in 15 top lists Check
  49. 224 -30

    Ikiru

    1952, in 25 top lists Check
  50. 202 new

    Umberto D.

    1952, in 16 top lists Check
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