The Best Movies List

The Times Online has published their own Top 100 Movies List, based on recommendations of their resident movie critics. The top 10 movies are:

• Casablanca Michael Curtiz, 1942
• There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007
• ET: The Extra Terrestrial Steven Spielberg, 1982
• Chinatown Roman Polanski, 1974
• The Shining Stanley Kubrick, 1980
• Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
• Kes Ken Loach, 1969
• Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder, 1950
• Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind Michel Gondry, 2004
• The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola, 1972

The top director in this list is Stanley Kubrick, with four movies included. On a somewhat humorous note, they observe:

While Citizen Kane, The Searchers and Lawrence of Arabia don’t make the cut, Point Break, an action thriller with preposterous stunts, a threadbare plot and Patrick Swayze as a philosopher-surfer-bankrobber, does.

Here’s looking at these: our 100 top films (timesonline.co.uk)

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