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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. 369 +12

    Heathers

    1988, in 7 top lists Check
  2. 985 +4

    Working Girl

    1988, in 9 top lists Check
  3. 465 +9

    A League of Their Own

    1992, in 5 top lists Check
  4. 679 new

    Portrait of Jason

    1967, in 11 top lists Check
  5. 650 new

    Paris Is Burning

    1990, in 12 top lists Check
  6. 88 +8

    Billy Liar

    1963, in 7 top lists Check
  7. 885 +11

    This Sporting Life

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  8. 626 +4

    One False Move

    1991, in 8 top lists Check
  9. 350 +12

    The Grifters

    1990, in 8 top lists Check
  10. 649 +3

    The Parallax View

    1974, in 10 top lists Check
  11. 425 +11

    Jerry Maguire

    1996, in 8 top lists Check
  12. 894 +9

    To Catch a Thief

    1955, in 6 top lists Check
  13. 386 +14

    Hope and Glory

    1987, in 7 top lists Check
  14. 498 +10

    Lost Horizon

    1937, in 6 top lists Check
  15. 268 new

    Face/Off

    1997, in 7 top lists Check
  16. 304 +11

    Funny Face

    1957, in 6 top lists Check
  17. 326 +11

    The Girl Can't Help It

    1956, in 7 top lists Check
  18. 357 +10

    Hair

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 692 +6

    Pygmalion

    1938, in 6 top lists Check
  20. 982 +3

    The Women

    1939, in 8 top lists Check
  21. 549 +10

    Midnight

    1939, in 7 top lists Check
  22. 496 +10

    The Longest Day

    1962, in 6 top lists Check
  23. 619 +4

    Of Mice and Men

    1939, in 4 top lists Check
  24. 558 new

    Les misérables

    1934 — a.k.a. Les Misérables, in 6 top lists Check
  25. 411 +14

    The Informer

    1935, in 7 top lists Check
  26. 493 +11

    The Long Good Friday

    1980, in 12 top lists Check
  27. 142 +10

    Cavalcade

    1933, in 4 top lists Check
  28. 343 +10

    Grand Hotel

    1932, in 4 top lists Check
  29. 584 +8

    My Dinner with Andre

    1981, in 7 top lists Check
  30. 332 +12

    Going My Way

    1944, in 6 top lists Check
  31. 18 +6

    All the King's Men

    1949, in 8 top lists Check
  32. 959 +3

    The Way We Were

    1973, in 6 top lists Check
  33. 441 +7

    The King and I

    1956, in 5 top lists Check
  34. 305 +11

    Funny Girl

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
  35. 187 +12

    Dark Victory

    1939, in 6 top lists Check
  36. 454 +8

    Lamerica

    1994, in 4 top lists Check
  37. 12 +5

    Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    1974, in 4 top lists Check
  38. 899 +9

    Tom Jones

    1963, in 13 top lists Check
  39. 730 +8

    Room at the Top

    1958, in 10 top lists Check
  40. 449 +9

    Lacombe Lucien

    1974, in 8 top lists Check
  41. 391 +16

    Howards End

    1992, in 9 top lists Check
  42. 758 -87

    Sense and Sensibility

    1995, in 11 top lists Check
  43. 991 +4

    The Year of Living Dangerously

    1982, in 6 top lists Check
  44. 866 +11

    Tess

    1979, in 5 top lists Check
  45. 252 +15

    Empire of the Sun

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  46. 845 +8

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    1971, in 9 top lists Check
  47. 676 new

    Point Break

    1991, in 9 top lists Check
  48. 935 +6

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    1988, in 6 top lists Check
  49. 519 +11

    Malcolm X

    1992, in 7 top lists Check
  50. 236 +14

    Dressed to Kill

    1980, in 7 top lists Check
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