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This list is drawn from "The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See", published in 2019. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.

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  1. 413 +14

    The Insider

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
  2. 227 +16

    La dolce vita

    1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check
  3. 411 +14

    The Informer

    1935, in 7 top lists Check
  4. 64 new

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 43 +6

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
  6. 685 +7

    Prizzi's Honor

    1985, in 6 top lists Check
  7. 937 +5

    Unforgiven

    1992, in 24 top lists Check
  8. 470 +8

    A Letter to Three Wives

    1949, in 5 top lists Check
  9. 386 +14

    Hope and Glory

    1987, in 7 top lists Check
  10. 450 new

    Lady Bird

    2017, in 11 top lists Check
  11. 661 +5

    The Pianist

    2002, in 21 top lists Check
  12. 159 +12

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
  13. 233 +7

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  14. 758 -87

    Sense and Sensibility

    1995, in 11 top lists Check
  15. 983 +3

    Women in Love

    1969, in 7 top lists Check
  16. 188 +12

    Darling

    1965, in 7 top lists Check
  17. 924 new

    12 Years a Slave

    2013, in 22 top lists Check
  18. 553 new

    Million Dollar Baby

    2004, in 12 top lists Check
  19. 422 +1

    Jaws

    1975, in 29 top lists Check
  20. 727 new

    Roma

    2018, in 18 top lists
    Check
  21. 389 +16

    How Green Was My Valley

    1941, in 11 top lists Check
  22. 359 +9

    Hamlet

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  23. 568 new

    Moonlight

    2016, in 13 top lists Check
  24. 574 -5

    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    1936, in 11 top lists Check
  25. 694 +6

    The Quiet Man

    1952, in 15 top lists Check
  26. 106 +7

    Born on the Fourth of July

    1989, in 6 top lists Check
  27. 765 +6

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  28. 260 +13

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 31 top lists Check
  29. 687 +7

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  30. 297 +10

    Frankenstein

    1931, in 18 top lists Check
  31. 880 +11

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  32. 51 +6

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  33. 57 +7

    Bambi

    1942, in 13 top lists Check
  34. 667 +6

    Pinocchio

    1940, in 16 top lists Check
  35. 803 +8

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
  36. 845 +8

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    1971, in 9 top lists Check
  37. 914 +6

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  38. 162 +12

    Coal Miner's Daughter

    1980, in 7 top lists Check
  39. 149 +12

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  40. 67 +8

    Beauty and the Beast

    1991, in 19 top lists Check
  41. 520 +11

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 26 top lists Check
  42. 576 -4

    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    1939, in 15 top lists Check
  43. 860 +7

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  44. 247 +16

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  45. 207 +13

    The Defiant Ones

    1958, in 7 top lists Check
  46. 441 +7

    The King and I

    1956, in 5 top lists Check
  47. 137 +10

    Carmen Jones

    1954, in 7 top lists Check
  48. 500 new

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
  49. 6 +3

    The African Queen

    1951, in 11 top lists Check
  50. 352 +11

    Groundhog Day

    1993, in 22 top lists Check
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