Sunday, March 24, 2019

Movie #4: Casablanca


Movie #: 4
Movie Title: Casablanca
Year Released: 1942

Director: Michael Curtiz
Notable Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Short Description: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #3
IMDB.com: #25
Ranker.com: #17
Lifed.com: #16
Empire.com: #18
FilmCrave.com: #37
FlickChart.com: #13



Date Watched: 12/22/2016

Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)

Rationale: For most other movies I watch, 3 out of 5 is generally a respectable score. For a movie regarded so highly as Casablanca is, 3 out of 5 is unacceptable because I was expecting so much more than just average. Humphrey Bogart is an incredibly dry actor and it's a good thing the supporting cast was more than adequate to pick up the slack. Sure, the few famous movie quotes I recognized like "here's looking at you, kid" brought a smile to my face, but that was the only thing to smile about. I'm glad I've now seen it just so I can say I have.

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Movie #88: Batman Begins


Movie #: 88
Movie Title: Batman Begins
Year Released: 2005

Director: Christopher Nolan
Notable Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe

Short Description: After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from the corruption that Scarecrow and the League of Shadows have cast upon it. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: #63
Lifed.com: #85
Empire.com: #81
FilmCrave.com: #49
FlickChart.com: N/A



Date Watched: 7/7/2016

Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)

Rationale: In a world that’s full of superhero movies, you’d be hard pressed to find an origin story that’s more complete and satisfying than Batman Begins. Dark and gritty is a welcome tone compared to the flashy and disgusting Batman movies of the mid to late 1990’s. Christopher Nolan made excellent casting choices with Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Michael Caine as Alfred, Gary Oldman as not-yet-Commissioner Gordon, and Liam Neeson as Batman’s foil Henri Ducard/Ra's al Ghul during the ascension of Neeson’s popularity surge in the 2000’s. While superhero movies may never fall into the realm of realistic, Batman Begins is the closest there is and I wholeheartedly appreciate the grounded feel of it.

Movie #31: The Shining


Movie #: 31
Movie Title: The Shining
Year Released: 1980

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Notable Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd

Short Description: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #47
Ranker.com: #35
Lifed.com: #49
Empire.com: #52
FilmCrave.com: #28
FlickChart.com: #26



Date Watched: 10/31/2016

Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)
Adjusted Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)

Rationale: The Shining gets a 3.5 out of 5 almost solely based on the outstanding performance of Jack Nicholson. Without his performance as deranged hotel caretaker Jack Torrance it's likely The Shining falls flat on its face because his wife, played by Shelley Duvall, was annoying and their son, played by Danny Lloyd, seemed wooden. Really, there isn't much more that can be said beyond Jack is the man and definitely not a dull boy. On a side note, it was a total and pretty cool coincidence that this happened to be the next movie on my list and I watched it on Halloween night.

Movie #45: 2001: A Space Odyssey


Movie #: 45
Movie Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Year Released: 1968

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Notable Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood

Short Description: Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #15
IMDB.com: #93
Ranker.com: #51
Lifed.com: #82
Empire.com: #16
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: #83



Date Watched: 9/24/2016

Grade: 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)

Rationale: What the hell did I watch? I literally don't know if I've been more perplexed and frustrated after watching a movie that's considered to be as good as 2001: A Space Odyssey supposedly is. The space scenes with HAL turning against the crew were what I expected the vast majority of the movie to be about since that's the most well know and/or liked part, but they were only a portion of the movie and honestly a bit boring with the lack of emotion in the characters. Easily the most disappointed I've been in a while watching a supposedly well regarded classic movie.

Movie #47: Memento


Movie #: 47
Movie Title: Memento
Year Released: 2000

Director: Christopher Nolan
Notable Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Short Description: A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #33
Ranker.com: #66
Lifed.com: #32
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #39
FlickChart.com: #72



Date Watched: 9/17/2016

Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)

Rationale: I've believed this for a while, but Memento further confirms my thought that "In Christopher Nolan I trust." The man is nothing but a genius and, along with Steven Spielberg, tops my list of favorite directors. I've seen other movies that start by showing you the end of a story and then jump back in time to show you how the movie gets to that ending in a very linear method. What I don't recall ever seeing is a movie that builds upon the initial flashback with an additional flashback layer that includes more past information. Over and over the building continues through adding more layers until you're finally at the beginning of the story and discover how it all started rather than seeing the ending first and jumping straight to the beginning. Though repetitive at times because each additional layer required a brief retelling of previous layers, it was an amazing way to watch a movie and Nolan delivers as always.

Movie #48: Reservoir Dogs


Movie #: 48
Movie Title: Reservoir Dogs
Year Released: 1992

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Notable Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen

Short Description: After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #71
Ranker.com: #47
Lifed.com: #62
Empire.com: #97
FilmCrave.com: #44
FlickChart.com: #25

Note: This is the first movie on my list to appear on six of the top 100 lists I used to compile the 251 movies I’m watching.



Date Watched: 9/17/2016

Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)

Rationale: Upon finally seeing Reservoir Dogs, my opinion of not liking Quentin Tarantino movies has certainly changed for the better. There was just the right amount of classic Tarantino action, even with a small cast confined to a small area for most of the movie, and I found the story to be very smartly written. The few characters that you get back stories for had plenty of depth to explain their part in the crime and I wanted more as I thought it ran a bit short at 1 hour 39 minutes. The audience wanting more is one of the qualities of a great movie, though.

Movie #62: The Big Lebowski


Movie #: 62
Movie Title: The Big Lebowski
Year Released: 1998

Director: Joel Coen
Notable Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro, Tara Reid, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Short Description: "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: #29
Lifed.com: #95
Empire.com: #43
FilmCrave.com: #71
FlickChart.com: #67



Date Watched: 8/17/2016

Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)

Rationale: I wasn't disappointed with The Big Lebowski like I was Hail, Caesar! and I also didn't have a feeling of meh like after watching Fargo, so that's a plus for a Coen "comedy". Jeff Bridges did a good job as The Dude, but John Goodman was phenomenal as Walter. Most of the laughs came from something Walter said or did and Goodman was the highlight of every scene he was in. I didn't mind Sam Elliot as the narrator, but the two scenes with him in the bowling alley seemed out of place and the second of the two made the ending not flow as well as it could have. The Big Lebowski still doesn't make me a fan of the Coen brothers, but I don't dislike their work as much now.

Movie #66: To Kill a Mockingbird


Movie #: 66
Movie Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Year Released: 1962

Director: Robert Mulligan
Notable Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters, Frank Overton

Short Description: Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #28
IMDB.com: #68
Ranker.com: #89
Lifed.com: #66
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #66
FlickChart.com: N/A



Date Watched: 8/12/2016

Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)

Rationale: To Kill a Mockingbird is a movie with two totally different stories going on at the same time and my feelings on them are polar opposites. I'm not a fan at all of anything related to Boo Radley and Scout and Jem's attempts to see what he looks like. I'm sure there's symbolism and importance in it that I'm not getting, even with Boo being important to the end of the movie, but it didn't click and wasn't for me. Everything involving the trial of Tom Robinson was superb and Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch delivers one of the most stirring and important speeches in cinematic history when addressing the jury in his closing arguments. That scene alone makes this a top movie in my mind.

Movie #91: The Searchers


Movie #: 91
Movie Title: The Searchers
Year Released: 1956

Director: John Ford
Notable Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood

Short Description: A Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from an Indian tribe. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #12
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: #84
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: #90



Date Watched: 7/4/2016

Grade: 2 out of 5 (Fair)

Rationale: To the best of my knowledge I’ve not previously intently watched a John Wayne movie. That said, I don’t know if it was just how his character was written or if Wayne’s own personality bled into the movie, but damn he was a racist ass in The Searchers. Every time Wayne’s character Ethan Edwards opened his mouth he was either insulting or yelling at the others in the search party or he was cracking unnecessary comments about the Cherokee Indians they were tracking. Even his character’s niece, who the search party was looking for, wasn’t immune to his wrath once he realized she’d been with the Cherokee too long. I get that times have changed and the world is far more PC now than in the 1950’s, but it really makes one wonder why being a racist ass was ok even back then. Definitely doesn’t make me want to watch more of his films if they’re like this.

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Movie #110: The Night of the Hunter


Movie #: 110
Movie Title: The Night of the Hunter
Year Released: 1955

Director: Charles Laughton
Notable Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce

Short Description: A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: #71
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: #47



Date Watched: 6/1/2016

Grade: 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
Adjusted Grade: 2 out of 5 (Fair)

Rationale: Robert Mitchum absolutely pulls off creepy as Harry Powell when he’s stalking his step children because they know where the money is that he wants, but that’s as good as The Night of the Hunter gets. I never felt the movie was as suspenseful as it should have been and a few of the supporting actors were flat out bad with unconvincing acting. I noticed that this movie was remade in 1991 as a TV movie and that’s probably what this rendition should have been as well.

Movie #128: The King’s Speech


Movie #: 128
Movie Title: The King’s Speech
Year Released: 2010

Director: Tom Hooper
Notable Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon

Short Description: The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: #35
Empire.com:
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A

Note: This is the highest ranking movie that only appears on Lifed.com's list.



Date Watched: 5/4/2016

Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)

Rationale: I found myself getting increasingly mad at The King’s Speech the deeper I got into it only because I struggled to understand the rationale of a Colin Firth’s King George VI fighting so hard against receiving speech help from Geoffrey Rush's Lionel Logue when that help was clearly working. The film hinted at mental abuse he received from his brother as kids in the form of teasing and from his father in the form of belittling, but if that’s solely the motivation for George’s unwillingness to try and general low self esteem it’s not emphasized enough. I’m still shocked that The Social Network didn’t win Best Picture instead of The King’s Speech as The Social Network was slightly better in my opinion.

Friday, February 8, 2019

Movie #147: This Is Spinal Tap


Movie #: 147
Movie Title: This Is Spinal Tap
Year Released: 1984

Director: Rob Reiner
Notable Cast: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, June Chadwick, Tony Hendra

Short Description: Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DeBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: #48
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A



Date Watched: 3/27/2016

Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)

Rationale: The best part about This Is Spinal Tap is if you don’t know this is a satire, it’s not hard to fall for the joke and think it’s real. The acting is very convincing and the humor dry enough that it comes off in an almost convincing, semi serious way. Sadly it’s a bit on the short side, but very well done and leaves you wanting more.

Movie #152: West Side Story


Movie #: 152
Movie Title: West Side Story
Year Released: 1961

Director: Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise
Notable Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn

Short Description: Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #51
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A



Date Watched: 3/16/2016

Grade: 2 out of 5 (Fair)

Rationale: Unlike Chicago and Cabaret, two musical movies that I enjoyed watching, West Side Story felt like a pure musical you'd see in a performing arts theater, which was not what I expected or wanted to watch. There didn’t seem to be much of a separation of the musical numbers or dancing from the actual story, where as in Chicago and Cabaret, there’s a distinct story with specific cut away scenes for singing and dancing. When I’m watching a movie, I expect an adaptation designed for cinema, not something I could see on a stage.

Movies I Hadn't Seen Before


Going into this project I knew that I had already seen a chunk of movies that were considered to be among the best ever, but there were plenty of movies I hadn't seen before that had that distinction as well. This project helped fill those gaps and it forced/encouraged me to watch movies outside of my normal viewing comfort zone.

Below is the list of movies I hadn't seen before I started to watch the top 251 movies of all time and the grade I gave the movie. There are quite a few big names on this list, including classics like Gone With the Wind and Casablanca as well as more recent hits from the past couple of decades like Braveheart and The Departed. The list averaged a grade of 2.799 out of 5 so there were clearly some duds, but there were also gems I'm glad to include among my personal favorite movies going forward.


Movie #Movie TitleMy Grade
1The Godfather (1972)3.5 out of 5
3The Godfather Part II (1974)3 out of 5
4Casablanca (1942)3 out of 5
5Pulp Fiction (1994)4 out of 5
8Goodfellas (1990)4 out of 5
13Citizen Kane (1941)3 out of 5
15The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)4 out of 5
16Apocalypse Now (1979)2 out of 5
17Psycho (1960)4 out of 5
19Taxi Driver (1976)2.5 out of 5
23Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)2.5 out of 5
25The Usual Suspects (1995)3.5 out of 5
27Rear Window (1954)3 out of 5
28Alien (1979)3 out of 5
29Vertigo (1958)1.5 out of 5
33Se7en (1995)3 out of 5
36Seven Samurai (1954)4 out of 5
37A Clockwork Orange (1971)2 out of 5
38It's a Wonderful Life (1946)3.5 out of 5
39Raging Bull (1980)3 out of 5
40Die Hard (1988)3.5 out of 5
41Sunset Boulevard (1950)2.5 out of 5
42North by Northwest (1959)3.5 out of 5
43City Lights (1931)3 out of 5
452001: A Space Odyssey (1968)1.5 out of 5
47Memento (2000)4 out of 5
48Reservoir Dogs (1992)4 out of 5
49Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)3 out of 5
50Gone with the Wind (1939)3.5 out of 5
51Chinatown (1974)2.5 out of 5
52The Departed (2006)3.5 out of 5
53Singin' in the Rain (1952)3.5 out of 5
54Blade Runner (1982)1.5 out of 5
55Braveheart (1995)5 out of 5
56Lawrence of Arabia (1962)2.5 out of 5
59Aliens (1986)3 out of 5
62The Big Lebowski (1998)3.5 out of 5
63Some Like It Hot (1959)3.5 out of 5
64Full Metal Jacket (1987)4 out of 5
65The General (1927)2 out of 5
67American Beauty (1999)3 out of 5
68Léon: The Professional (1994)3 out of 5
70The Third Man (1949)2.5 out of 5
71Double Indemnity (1944)3 out of 5
72The Apartment (1960)3.5 out of 5
74Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)4.5 out of 5
75City of God (2003)3 out of 5
76Spirited Away (2002)2.5 out of 5
78The Graduate (1967)2.5 out of 5
79Fargo (1996)3 out of 5
81On the Waterfront (1954)2.5 out of 5
82The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)3 out of 5
87Paths of Glory (1957)3 out of 5
91The Searchers (1956)2 out of 5
92M (1931)3.5 out of 5
94Bicycle Thieves (1948)2.5 out of 5
95Amélie (2001)2 out of 5
96The 400 Blows (1959)1.5 out of 5
97Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)4 out of 5
98Modern Times (1936)3 out of 5
99Unforgiven (1992)3 out of 5
102Annie Hall (1977)1 out of 5
103The Princess Bride (1987)3.5 out of 5
1058 1/2 (1963)2 out of 5
106The Maltese Falcon (1941)2.5 out of 5
107Up (2009)3.5 out of 5
109Stand by Me (1986)3 out of 5
110The Night of the Hunter (1955)2 out of 5
111Yojimbo (1961)1.5 out of 5
112The Sound of Music (1965)2 out of 5
113All About Eve (1950)3.5 out of 5
114It Happened One Night (1934)3 out of 5
116The Grapes of Wrath (1940)2 out of 5
117The Philadelphia Story (1940)2.5 out of 5
122High Noon (1952)2.5 out of 5
123Rashomon (1950)2 out of 5
124Life Is Beautiful (1997)4.5 out of 5
125The Sixth Sense (1999)3.5 out of 5
126Ikiru (1952)3.5 out of 5
128The King's Speech (2010)3 out of 5
129Andrei Rublev (1969)1 out of 5
130The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)2.5 out of 5
131The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)2.5 out of 5
132Heat (1995)3 out of 5
133Platoon (1986)3.5 out of 5
134King Kong (1933)2.5 out of 5
135Bonnie and Clyde (1967)3 out of 5
136Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)3.5 out of 5
137The Gold Rush (1925)3.5 out of 5
139Midnight Cowboy (1969)3 out of 5
141Network (1976)3 out of 5
142Shane (1953)1.5 out of 5
143Django Unchained (2012)4.5 out of 5
144Scarface (1983)3.5 out of 5
145A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)2 out of 5
147This is Spinal Tap (1984)3 out of 5
148Oldboy (2003)4 out of 5
149Evil Dead 2 (1987)3 out of 5
150Intolerance (1916)1 out of 5
151La Dolce Vita (1960)2 out of 5
154The Deer Hunter (1978)2.5 out of 5
155MASH (1970)2.5 out of 5
156Notorious (1946)1.5 out of 5
157L.A. Confidential (1997)3.5 out of 5
160Spartacus (1960)2.5 out of 5
161His Girl Friday (1940)3 out of 5
162Touch of Evil (1958)1.5 out of 5
163Duck Soup (1933)1 out of 5
164Amadeus (1984)4 out of 5
165Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)3.5 out of 5
167Nashville (1975)2.5 out of 5
169Pan's Labyrinth (2006)3.5 out of 5
170Come and See (1985)2 out of 5
171The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)1 out of 5
172Casino (1995)3 out of 5
173Sullivan's Travels (1941)3.5 out of 5
174The Lives of Others (2006)3 out of 5
175American Graffiti (1973)2 out of 5
176Cabaret (1972)4 out of 5
177Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)3 out of 5
178Edward Scissorhands (1990)3 out of 5
179Harold and Maude (1971)1.5 out of 5
180The African Queen (1951)1.5 out of 5
181The Intouchables (2011)4.5 out of 5
182Strangers on a Train (1951)2.5 out of 5
183Tokyo Story (1953)1 out of 5
184Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)3 out of 5
185Once Upon a Time in America (1984)3.5 out of 5
187The Seventh Seal (1957)1.5 out of 5
188Three Colours Red (1994)1.5 out of 5
189Tootsie (1982)4 out of 5
190Cool Hand Luke (1967)3.5 out of 5
191The Great Dictator (1940)2 out of 5
194The Wild Bunch (1969)3 out of 5
195Das Boot (1981)2 out of 5
196Trainspotting (1996)2 out of 5
197Requiem for a Dream (2000)2.5 out of 5
199Ratatouille (2007)3 out of 5
201A Matter of Life and Death (1946)2.5 out of 5
202In the Heat of the Night (1967)3.5 out of 5
203Manhattan (1979)1.5 out of 5
204All the President's Men (1976)2 out of 5
205Cinema Paradiso (1988)4 out of 5
206Rosemary's Baby (1968)3 out of 5
208The Thin Red Line (1998)3.5 out of 5
210The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)3 out of 5
211Wild Strawberries (1957)2.5 out of 5
213The Great Escape (1963)3.5 out of 5
214Brazil (1985)2.5 out of 5
215Groundhog Day (1993)4 out of 5
216Airplane! (1980)3 out of 5
217Easy Rider (1969)1.5 out of 5
218Gran Torino (2008)4.5 out of 5
219A Night at the Opera (1935)1 out of 5
220Blue Velvet (1986)1 out of 5
221Carrie (1976)2 out of 5
222The King of Comedy (1983)2.5 out of 5
223Training Day (2001)4 out of 5
224Bringing Up Baby (1938)3 out of 5
225Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)2.5 out of 5
226Rain Man (1988)3.5 out of 5
227Magnolia (1999)3 out of 5
228The Conversation (1974)2 out of 5
229Catch Me If You Can (2002)3 out of 5
230Metropolis (1927)1 out of 5
231Swing Time (1936)2.5 out of 5
232When Harry Met Sally (1989)3.5 out of 5
233Sophie's Choice (1982)4 out of 5
234The Big Sleep (1946)2.5 ouf of 5
235Persona (1966)4 out of 5
236Spirit of the Beehive (1973)1.5 out of 5
237The French Connection (1971)2.5 out of 5
239Princess Mononoke (1997)1 out of 5
240A Fistful of Dollars (1964)3.5 out of 5
242The Last Picture Show (1971)2.5 out of 5
243Do the Right Thing (1989)1.5 out of 5
244The Untouchables (1987)3.5 out of 5
245Shadow of a Doubt (1943)1 out of 5
247Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)1.5 out of 5
248Cinderella Man (2005)4 out of 5
250The Sting (1973)4 out of 5
251Ben-Hur (1959)3 out of 5

Overall Best to Worst: #1-251

Overall Best to Worst of #1-251

This is the final overall best to worst list of every movie in the top 251 movies of all time. As I expected, this list progressively get harder to compile every time I finished a block of 25 movies and need to incorporate those. I think it's fun to see how they all rank now that I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.

Movie #Movie TitleMy Grade
11Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
18The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
12The Dark Knight (2008)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
58Gladiator (2000)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
104Jurassic Park (1993)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
85Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
55Braveheart5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
24The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
108Titanic (1997)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
9Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
26Forrest Gump (1994)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)

198Apollo 13 (1995)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
90The Lion King (1994) 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
158Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
34Inception (2010)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
119Slumdog Millionaire (2008)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
35Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
2The Shawshank Redemption (1994)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
218Gran Torino (2008)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
212Argo (2012)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
181The Intouchables (2011)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
143Django Unchained (2012)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
6Schindler's List (1993)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
124Life Is Beautiful (1997)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
57American History X (1998)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
77The Green Mile (1999) 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
74Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
46The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)

88Batman Begins (2005)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
83Toy Story (1995)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
120Avatar (2009)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
233Sophie's Choice (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
205Cinema Paradiso (1988)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
47Memento (2000)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
186The Prestige (2006)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
146The Avengers (2012)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
22Pulp Fiction (1994)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
22Back to the Future (1985)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
164Amadeus (1984)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
86Toy Story 3 (2010)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
215Groundhog Day (1993)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
166Finding Nemo (2003)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
10Fight Club (1999)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
148Oldboy (2003)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
32Saving Private Ryan (1998)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
249Star Trek (2009)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
48Reservoir Dogs (1992)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
8Goodfellas (1990)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
20The Matrix (1999)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
235Persona (1966)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
248Cinderella Man (2005)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
207Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
223Training Day (2001)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
238Ocean's Eleven (2001)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
159Casino Royale (2006)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
61The Wizard of Oz (1939)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
3012 Angry Men (1957)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
250The Sting (1973)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
189Tootsie (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
209Iron Man (2008)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
97Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
69E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
15The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
200The Bourne Identity (2002)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
176Cabaret (1972)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
36Seven Samurai (1954)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
17Psycho (1960)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
64Full Metal Jacket (1987)4 out of 5 (Excellent)

73Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
89The Dark Knight Rises (2012)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
185Once Upon a Time in America (1984)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
80WALL-E (2008)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
14One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
31The Shining (1980)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
51The Departed3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
157L.A. Confidential (1997)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
144Scarface (1983)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
193Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
66To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
72The Apartment (1960)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
1The Godfather (1972)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
92M (1931)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
136Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
169Pan's Labyrinth (2006)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
133Platoon (1986)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
137The Gold Rush (1925)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
140The Hangover (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
113All About Eve (1950)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
103The Princess Bride (1987)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
40Die Hard (1988)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
202In the Heat of the Night (1967)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
226Rain Man (1988)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
44Jaws (1975)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
173Sullivan's Travels (1941)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
53Singin' in the Rain3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
7Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
107Up (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
62The Big Lebowski (1998)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
165Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
138Inglourious Basterds (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
121Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
100The Pianist (2002)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
125The Sixth Sense (1999)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
63Some Like It Hot (1959)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
213The Great Escape (1963)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
38It's a Wonderful Life (1946)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
25The Usual Suspects (1995)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
168The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
240A Fistful of Dollars (1964)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
21The Silence of the Lambs (1991)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
126Ikiru (1952)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
232When Harry Met Sally (1989)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
190Cool Hand Luke (1967)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
42North by Northwest (1959)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
50Gone with the Wind (1939)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
208The Thin Red Line (1998)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
244The Untouchables (1987)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)

147This is Spinal Tap (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
67American Beauty (1999)3 out of 5 (Good)
229Catch Me If You Can (2002)3 out of 5 (Good)
199Ratatouille (2007)3 out of 5 (Good)
246Shaun of the Dead (2004)3 out of 5 (Good)
93No Country for Old Men (2007)3 out of 5 (Good)
84Rocky (1976)3 out of 5 (Good)
33Se7en (1995)3 out of 5 (Good)
101The Terminator (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
60Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)3 out of 5 (Good)
132Heat (1995)3 out of 5 (Good)
128The King's Speech (2010)3 out of 5 (Good)
28Alien (1979)3 out of 5 (Good)
114It Happened One Night (1934)3 out of 5 (Good)
115Ghostbusters (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
3The Godfather Part II (1974)3 out of 5 (Good)
75City of God (2003)3 out of 5 (Good)
98Modern Times (1936)3 out of 5 (Good)
192The Breakfast Club (1985)3 out of 5 (Good)
184Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)3 out of 5 (Good)
161His Girl Friday (1940)3 out of 5 (Good)
13Citizen Kane (1941)3 out of 5 (Good)
27Rear Window (1954)3 out of 5 (Good)
172Casino (1995)3 out of 5 (Good)
135Bonnie and Clyde (1967)3 out of 5 (Good)
79Fargo (1996)3 out of 5 (Good)
206Rosemary's Baby (1968)3 out of 5 (Good)
178Edward Scissorhands (1990)3 out of 5 (Good)
251Ben-Hur (1959)3 out of 5 (Good)
174The Lives of Others (2006)3 out of 5 (Good)
139Midnight Cowboy (1969)3 out of 5 (Good)
43City Lights (1931)3 out of 5 (Good)
59Aliens (1986)3 out of 5 (Good)
71Double Indemnity (1944)3 out of 5 (Good)
99Unforgiven (1992)3 out of 5 (Good)
109Stand by Me (1986)3 out of 5 (Good)
149Evil Dead 2 (1987)3 out of 5 (Good)
82The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)3 out of 5 (Good)
141Network (1976)3 out of 5 (Good)
68Léon: The Professional (1994)3 out of 5 (Good)
4Casablanca (1942)3 out of 5 (Good)
39Raging Bull (1980)3 out of 5 (Good)
87Paths of Glory (1957)3 out of 5 (Good)
227Magnolia (1999)3 out of 5 (Good)
210The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)3 out of 5 (Good)
216Airplane! (1980)3 out of 5 (Good)
224Bringing Up Baby (1938)3 out of 5 (Good)
49Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)3 out of 5 (Good)
177Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)3 out of 5 (Good)
194The Wild Bunch (1969)3 out of 5 (Good)

225Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
130The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
117The Philadelphia Story (1940)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
134King Kong (1933)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
131The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
154The Deer Hunter (1978)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
167Nashville (1975)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
41Sunset Boulevard (1950)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
51Chinatown2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
76Spirited Away (2002)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
78The Graduate (1967)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
19Taxi Driver (1976)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
122High Noon (1952)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
182Strangers on a Train (1951)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
197Requiem for a Dream (2000)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
155MASH (1970)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
106The Maltese Falcon (1941)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
94Bicycle Thieves (1948)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
56Lawrence of Arabia2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
23Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
201A Matter of Life and Death (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
211Wild Strawberries (1957)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
242The Last Picture Show (1971)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
231Swing Time (1936)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
214Brazil (1985)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
222The King of Comedy (1983)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
160Spartacus (1960)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
70The Third Man (1949)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
237The French Connection (1971)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
81On the Waterfront (1954)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
234The Big Sleep (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)

118Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)2 out of 5 (Fair)
116The Grapes of Wrath (1940)2 out of 5 (Fair)
112The Sound of Music (1965)2 out of 5 (Fair)
95Amélie (2001)2 out of 5 (Fair)
204All the President's Men (1976)2 out of 5 (Fair)
153Donnie Darko (2001)2 out of 5 (Fair)
221Carrie (1976)2 out of 5 (Fair)
228The Conversation (1974)2 out of 5 (Fair)
241Grease (1978)2 out of 5 (Fair)
175American Graffiti (1973)2 out of 5 (Fair)
16Apocalypse Now (1979)2 out of 5 (Fair)
145A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)2 out of 5 (Fair)
151La Dolce Vita (1960)2 out of 5 (Fair)
196Trainspotting (1996)2 out of 5 (Fair)
127Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)2 out of 5 (Fair)
91The Searchers (1956)2 out of 5 (Fair)
152West Side Story (1961)2 out of 5 (Fair)
65The General (1927)2 out of 5 (Fair)
37A Clockwork Orange (1971)2 out of 5 (Fair)
1058 1/2 (1963)2 out of 5 (Fair)
123Rashomon (1950)2 out of 5 (Fair)
110The Night of the Hunter (1955)2 out of 5 (Fair)
191The Great Dictator (1940)2 out of 5 (Fair)
195Das Boot (1981)2 out of 5 (Fair)
170Come and See (1985)2 out of 5 (Fair)

142Shane (1953)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
247Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
217Easy Rider (1969)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
179Harold and Maude (1971)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
96The 400 Blows (1959)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
452001: A Space Odyssey (1968)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
111Yojimbo (1961)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
162Touch of Evil (1958)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
180The African Queen (1951)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
29Vertigo (1958)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
156Notorious (1946)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
236Spirit of the Beehive (1973)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
243Do the Right Thing (1989)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
54Blade Runner1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
203Manhattan (1979)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
187The Seventh Seal (1957)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
188Three Colours Red (1994)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)

239Princess Mononoke (1997)1 out of 5 (Poor)
245Shadow of a Doubt (1943)1 out of 5 (Poor)
220Blue Velvet (1986)1 out of 5 (Poor)
102Annie Hall (1977)1 out of 5 (Poor)
163Duck Soup (1933)1 out of 5 (Poor)
183Tokyo Story (1953)1 out of 5 (Poor)
230Metropolis (1927)1 out of 5 (Poor)
219A Night at the Opera (1935)1 out of 5 (Poor)
171The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)1 out of 5 (Poor)
150Intolerance (1916)1 out of 5 (Poor)
129Andrei Rublev (1969)1 out of 5 (Poor)

Overall Best to Worst: #26-251

Overall Best to Worst of #26-251

This list is my overall best to worst of every movie I've seen so far on my list of 251. I fully expect this list to get harder to compile every time I finish a set of 25 movies and need to incorporate those, but it'll be fun to see how I rank all 251 movies when I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.

Movie #Movie TitleMy Grade
58Gladiator (2000)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
104Jurassic Park (1993)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
85Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
55Braveheart5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
108Titanic (1997)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
26Forrest Gump (1994)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)

198Apollo 13 (1995)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
90The Lion King (1994) 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
158Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
34Inception (2010)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
119Slumdog Millionaire (2008)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
35Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
218Gran Torino (2008)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
212Argo (2012)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
181The Intouchables (2011)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
143Django Unchained (2012)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
124Life Is Beautiful (1997)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
57American History X (1998)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
77The Green Mile (1999) 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
74Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
46The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)

88Batman Begins (2005)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
83Toy Story (1995)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
120Avatar (2009)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
233Sophie's Choice (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
205Cinema Paradiso (1988)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
47Memento (2000)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
186The Prestige (2006)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
146The Avengers (2012)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
164Amadeus (1984)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
86Toy Story 3 (2010)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
215Groundhog Day (1993)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
166Finding Nemo (2003)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
148Oldboy (2003)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
32Saving Private Ryan (1998)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
249Star Trek (2009)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
48Reservoir Dogs (1992)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
235Persona (1966)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
248Cinderella Man (2005)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
207Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
223Training Day (2001)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
238Ocean's Eleven (2001)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
159Casino Royale (2006)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
61The Wizard of Oz (1939)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
3012 Angry Men (1957)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
250The Sting (1973)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
189Tootsie (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
209Iron Man (2008)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
97Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
69E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
200The Bourne Identity (2002)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
176Cabaret (1972)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
36Seven Samurai (1954)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
64Full Metal Jacket (1987)4 out of 5 (Excellent)

73Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
89The Dark Knight Rises (2012)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
185Once Upon a Time in America (1984)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
80WALL-E (2008)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
31The Shining (1980)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
51The Departed3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
157L.A. Confidential (1997)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
144Scarface (1983)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
193Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
66To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
72The Apartment (1960)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
92M (1931)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
136Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
169Pan's Labyrinth (2006)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
133Platoon (1986)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
137The Gold Rush (1925)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
140The Hangover (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
113All About Eve (1950)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
103The Princess Bride (1987)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
40Die Hard (1988)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
202In the Heat of the Night (1967)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
226Rain Man (1988)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
44Jaws (1975)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
173Sullivan's Travels (1941)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
53Singin' in the Rain3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
107Up (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
62The Big Lebowski (1998)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
165Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
138Inglourious Basterds (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
121Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
100The Pianist (2002)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
125The Sixth Sense (1999)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
63Some Like It Hot (1959)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
213The Great Escape (1963)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
38It's a Wonderful Life (1946)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
168The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
240A Fistful of Dollars (1964)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
126Ikiru (1952)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
232When Harry Met Sally (1989)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
190Cool Hand Luke (1967)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
42North by Northwest (1959)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
50Gone with the Wind (1939)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
208The Thin Red Line (1998)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
244The Untouchables (1987)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)

147This is Spinal Tap (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
67American Beauty (1999)3 out of 5 (Good)
229Catch Me If You Can (2002)3 out of 5 (Good)
199Ratatouille (2007)3 out of 5 (Good)
246Shaun of the Dead (2004)3 out of 5 (Good)
93No Country for Old Men (2007)3 out of 5 (Good)
84Rocky (1976)3 out of 5 (Good)
33Se7en (1995)3 out of 5 (Good)
101The Terminator (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
60Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)3 out of 5 (Good)
132Heat (1995)3 out of 5 (Good)
128The King's Speech (2010)3 out of 5 (Good)
28Alien (1979)3 out of 5 (Good)
114It Happened One Night (1934)3 out of 5 (Good)
115Ghostbusters (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
75City of God (2003)3 out of 5 (Good)
98Modern Times (1936)3 out of 5 (Good)
192The Breakfast Club (1985)3 out of 5 (Good)
184Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)3 out of 5 (Good)
161His Girl Friday (1940)3 out of 5 (Good)
27Rear Window (1954)3 out of 5 (Good)
135Bonnie and Clyde (1967)3 out of 5 (Good)
79Fargo (1996)3 out of 5 (Good)
206Rosemary's Baby (1968)3 out of 5 (Good)
178Edward Scissorhands (1990)3 out of 5 (Good)
172Casino (1995)3 out of 5 (Good)
251Ben-Hur (1959)3 out of 5 (Good)
174The Lives of Others (2006)3 out of 5 (Good)
139Midnight Cowboy (1969)3 out of 5 (Good)
43City Lights (1931)3 out of 5 (Good)
59Aliens (1986)3 out of 5 (Good)
71Double Indemnity (1944)3 out of 5 (Good)
99Unforgiven (1992)3 out of 5 (Good)
109Stand by Me (1986)3 out of 5 (Good)
149Evil Dead 2 (1987)3 out of 5 (Good)
82The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)3 out of 5 (Good)
141Network (1976)3 out of 5 (Good)
68Léon: The Professional (1994)3 out of 5 (Good)
39Raging Bull (1980)3 out of 5 (Good)
87Paths of Glory (1957)3 out of 5 (Good)
227Magnolia (1999)3 out of 5 (Good)
210The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)3 out of 5 (Good)
216Airplane! (1980)3 out of 5 (Good)
224Bringing Up Baby (1938)3 out of 5 (Good)
49Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)3 out of 5 (Good)
177Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)3 out of 5 (Good)
194The Wild Bunch (1969)3 out of 5 (Good)

225Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
130The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
117The Philadelphia Story (1940)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
134King Kong (1933)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
131The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
154The Deer Hunter (1978)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
167Nashville (1975)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
41Sunset Boulevard (1950)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
51Chinatown2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
76Spirited Away (2002)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
78The Graduate (1967)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
122High Noon (1952)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
182Strangers on a Train (1951)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
197Requiem for a Dream (2000)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
155MASH (1970)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
106The Maltese Falcon (1941)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
94Bicycle Thieves (1948)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
56Lawrence of Arabia2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
201A Matter of Life and Death (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
211Wild Strawberries (1957)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
242The Last Picture Show (1971)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
231Swing Time (1936)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
214Brazil (1985)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
222The King of Comedy (1983)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
160Spartacus (1960)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
70The Third Man (1949)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
237The French Connection (1971)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
81On the Waterfront (1954)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
234The Big Sleep (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)

118Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)2 out of 5 (Fair)
116The Grapes of Wrath (1940)2 out of 5 (Fair)
112The Sound of Music (1965)2 out of 5 (Fair)
95Amélie (2001)2 out of 5 (Fair)
204All the President's Men (1976)2 out of 5 (Fair)
153Donnie Darko (2001)2 out of 5 (Fair)
221Carrie (1976)2 out of 5 (Fair)
228The Conversation (1974)2 out of 5 (Fair)
241Grease (1978)2 out of 5 (Fair)
175American Graffiti (1973)2 out of 5 (Fair)
145A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)2 out of 5 (Fair)
151La Dolce Vita (1960)2 out of 5 (Fair)
196Trainspotting (1996)2 out of 5 (Fair)
127Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)2 out of 5 (Fair)
91The Searchers (1956)2 out of 5 (Fair)
152West Side Story (1961)2 out of 5 (Fair)
65The General (1927)2 out of 5 (Fair)
37A Clockwork Orange (1971)2 out of 5 (Fair)
1058 1/2 (1963)2 out of 5 (Fair)
123Rashomon (1950)2 out of 5 (Fair)
110The Night of the Hunter (1955)2 out of 5 (Fair)
191The Great Dictator (1940)2 out of 5 (Fair)
195Das Boot (1981)2 out of 5 (Fair)
170Come and See (1985)2 out of 5 (Fair)

142Shane (1953)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
247Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
217Easy Rider (1969)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
179Harold and Maude (1971)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
96The 400 Blows (1959)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
452001: A Space Odyssey (1968)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
111Yojimbo (1961)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
162Touch of Evil (1958)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
180The African Queen (1951)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
29Vertigo (1958)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
156Notorious (1946)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
236Spirit of the Beehive (1973)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
243Do the Right Thing (1989)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
54Blade Runner1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
203Manhattan (1979)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
187The Seventh Seal (1957)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
188Three Colours Red (1994)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)

239Princess Mononoke (1997)1 out of 5 (Poor)
245Shadow of a Doubt (1943)1 out of 5 (Poor)
220Blue Velvet (1986)1 out of 5 (Poor)
102Annie Hall (1977)1 out of 5 (Poor)
163Duck Soup (1933)1 out of 5 (Poor)
183Tokyo Story (1953)1 out of 5 (Poor)
230Metropolis (1927)1 out of 5 (Poor)
219A Night at the Opera (1935)1 out of 5 (Poor)
171The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)1 out of 5 (Poor)
150Intolerance (1916)1 out of 5 (Poor)
129Andrei Rublev (1969)1 out of 5 (Poor)

Overall Best to Worst: #51-251

Overall Best to Worst of #51-251

This list is my overall best to worst of every movie I've seen so far on my list of 251. I fully expect this list to get harder to compile every time I finish a set of 25 movies and need to incorporate those, but it'll be fun to see how I rank all 251 movies when I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.

Movie #Movie TitleMy Grade
58Gladiator (2000)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
104Jurassic Park (1993)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
85Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
55Braveheart (1995)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
108Titanic (1997)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
198Apollo 13 (1995)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
90The Lion King (1994) 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
158Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
119Slumdog Millionaire (2008)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
218Gran Torino (2008)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
212Argo (2012)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
181The Intouchables (2011)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
143Django Unchained (2012)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
124Life Is Beautiful (1997)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
57American History X (1998)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
77The Green Mile (1999) 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
74Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
88Batman Begins (2005)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
83Toy Story (1995)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
120Avatar (2009)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
233Sophie's Choice (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
205Cinema Paradiso (1988)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
186The Prestige (2006)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
146The Avengers (2012)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
164Amadeus (1984)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
86Toy Story 3 (2010)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
215Groundhog Day (1993)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
166Finding Nemo (2003)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
148Oldboy (2003)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
249Star Trek (2009)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
235Persona (1966)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
248Cinderella Man (2005)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
207Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
223Training Day (2001)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
238Ocean's Eleven (2001)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
209Iron Man (2008)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
159Casino Royale (2006)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
61The Wizard of Oz (1939)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
250The Sting (1973)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
189Tootsie (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
97Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
69E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
200The Bourne Identity (2002)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
176Cabaret (1972)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
64Full Metal Jacket (1987)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
73Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
89The Dark Knight Rises (2012)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
185Once Upon a Time in America (1984)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
80WALL-E (2008)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
51The Departed (2006)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
157L.A. Confidential (1997)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
144Scarface (1983)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
193Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
66To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
72The Apartment (1960)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
92M (1931)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
136Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
169Pan's Labyrinth (2006)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
133Platoon (1986)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
137The Gold Rush (1925)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
140The Hangover (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
113All About Eve (1950)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
103The Princess Bride (1987)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
202In the Heat of the Night (1967)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
226Rain Man (1988)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
173Sullivan's Travels (1941)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
53Singin' in the Rain (1952)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
107Up (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
62The Big Lebowski (1998)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
165Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
138Inglourious Basterds (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
121Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
100The Pianist (2002)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
125The Sixth Sense (1999)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
63Some Like It Hot (1959)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
213The Great Escape (1963)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
168The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
240A Fistful of Dollars (1964)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
126Ikiru (1952)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
232When Harry Met Sally (1989)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
190Cool Hand Luke (1967)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
208The Thin Red Line (1998)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
244The Untouchables (1987)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
147This is Spinal Tap (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
67American Beauty (1999)3 out of 5 (Good)
229Catch Me If You Can (2002)3 out of 5 (Good)
199Ratatouille (2007)3 out of 5 (Good)
246Shaun of the Dead (2004)3 out of 5 (Good)
93No Country for Old Men (2007)3 out of 5 (Good)
84Rocky (1976)3 out of 5 (Good)
101The Terminator (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
60Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)3 out of 5 (Good)
132Heat (1995)3 out of 5 (Good)
128The King's Speech (2010)3 out of 5 (Good)
114It Happened One Night (1934)3 out of 5 (Good)
115Ghostbusters (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
75City of God (2003)3 out of 5 (Good)
98Modern Times (1936)3 out of 5 (Good)
192The Breakfast Club (1985)3 out of 5 (Good)
184Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)3 out of 5 (Good)
161His Girl Friday (1940)3 out of 5 (Good)
135Bonnie and Clyde (1967)3 out of 5 (Good)
79Fargo (1996)3 out of 5 (Good)
206Rosemary's Baby (1968)3 out of 5 (Good)
178Edward Scissorhands (1990)3 out of 5 (Good)
172Casino (1995)3 out of 5 (Good)
251Ben-Hur (1959)3 out of 5 (Good)
174The Lives of Others (2006)3 out of 5 (Good)
139Midnight Cowboy (1969)3 out of 5 (Good)
59Aliens (1986)3 out of 5 (Good)
71Double Indemnity (1944)3 out of 5 (Good)
99Unforgiven (1992)3 out of 5 (Good)
109Stand by Me (1986)3 out of 5 (Good)
149Evil Dead 2 (1987)3 out of 5 (Good)
82The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)3 out of 5 (Good)
141Network (1976)3 out of 5 (Good)
68Léon: The Professional (1994)3 out of 5 (Good)
87Paths of Glory (1957)3 out of 5 (Good)
227Magnolia (1999)3 out of 5 (Good)
210The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)3 out of 5 (Good)
216Airplane! (1980)3 out of 5 (Good)
224Bringing Up Baby (1938)3 out of 5 (Good)
177Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)3 out of 5 (Good)
194The Wild Bunch (1969)3 out of 5 (Good)
225Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
130The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
117The Philadelphia Story (1940)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
134King Kong (1933)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
131The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
154The Deer Hunter (1978)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
167Nashville (1975)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
51Chinatown (1974)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
76Spirited Away (2002)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
78The Graduate (1967)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
122High Noon (1952)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
182Strangers on a Train (1951)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
197Requiem for a Dream (2000)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
155MASH (1970)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
106The Maltese Falcon (1941)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
94Bicycle Thieves (1948)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
56Lawrence of Arabia (1962)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
201A Matter of Life and Death (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
211Wild Strawberries (1957)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
242The Last Picture Show (1971)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
231Swing Time (1936)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
214Brazil (1985)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
222The King of Comedy (1983)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
160Spartacus (1960)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
70The Third Man (1949)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
237The French Connection (1971)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
81On the Waterfront (1954)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
234The Big Sleep (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
118Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)2 out of 5 (Fair)
116The Grapes of Wrath (1940)2 out of 5 (Fair)
112The Sound of Music (1965)2 out of 5 (Fair)
95Amélie (2001)2 out of 5 (Fair)
204All the President's Men (1976)2 out of 5 (Fair)
153Donnie Darko (2001)2 out of 5 (Fair)
221Carrie (1976)2 out of 5 (Fair)
228The Conversation (1974)2 out of 5 (Fair)
241Grease (1978)2 out of 5 (Fair)
175American Graffiti (1973)2 out of 5 (Fair)
145A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)2 out of 5 (Fair)
151La Dolce Vita (1960)2 out of 5 (Fair)
196Trainspotting (1996)2 out of 5 (Fair)
127Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)2 out of 5 (Fair)
91The Searchers (1956)2 out of 5 (Fair)
152West Side Story (1961)2 out of 5 (Fair)
65The General (1927)2 out of 5 (Fair)
1058 1/2 (1963)2 out of 5 (Fair)
123Rashomon (1950)2 out of 5 (Fair)
110The Night of the Hunter (1955)2 out of 5 (Fair)
191The Great Dictator (1940)2 out of 5 (Fair)
195Das Boot (1981)2 out of 5 (Fair)
170Come and See (1985)2 out of 5 (Fair)
142Shane (1953)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
247Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
217Easy Rider (1969)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
179Harold and Maude (1971)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
96The 400 Blows (1959)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
111Yojimbo (1961)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
162Touch of Evil (1958)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
180The African Queen (1951)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
156Notorious (1946)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
236Spirit of the Beehive (1973)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
243Do the Right Thing (1989)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
54Blade Runner (1982)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
203Manhattan (1979)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
187The Seventh Seal (1957)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
188Three Colours Red (1994)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
239Princess Mononoke (1997)1 out of 5 (Poor)
245Shadow of a Doubt (1943)1 out of 5 (Poor)
220Blue Velvet (1986)1 out of 5 (Poor)
102Annie Hall (1977)1 out of 5 (Poor)
163Duck Soup (1933)1 out of 5 (Poor)
183Tokyo Story (1953)1 out of 5 (Poor)
230Metropolis (1927)1 out of 5 (Poor)
219A Night at the Opera (1935)1 out of 5 (Poor)
171The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)1 out of 5 (Poor)
150Intolerance (1916)1 out of 5 (Poor)
129Andrei Rublev (1969)1 out of 5 (Poor)

Overall Best to Worst: #76-251

Overall Best to Worst of #76-251

This list is my overall best to worst of every movie I've seen so far on my list of 251. I fully expect this list to get harder to compile every time I finish a set of 25 movies and need to incorporate those, but it'll be fun to see how I rank all 251 movies when I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.

Movie #Movie TitleMy Grade
104Jurassic Park (1993)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
85Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
108Titanic (1997)5 out of 5 (Exceptional)
198Apollo 13 (1995)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
90The Lion King (1994) 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
158Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
119Slumdog Millionaire (2008)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
218Gran Torino (2008)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
212Argo (2012)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
181The Intouchables (2011)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
143Django Unchained (2012)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
124Life Is Beautiful (1997)4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
77The Green Mile (1999) 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)
88Batman Begins (2005)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
83Toy Story (1995)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
120Avatar (2009)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
233Sophie's Choice (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
205Cinema Paradiso (1988)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
186The Prestige (2006)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
146The Avengers (2012)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
164Amadeus (1984)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
86Toy Story 3 (2010)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
215Groundhog Day (1993)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
166Finding Nemo (2003)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
148Oldboy (2003)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
249Star Trek (2009)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
235Persona (1966)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
248Cinderella Man (2005)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
207Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
223Training Day (2001)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
238Ocean's Eleven (2001)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
209Iron Man (2008)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
159Casino Royale (2006)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
250The Sting (1973)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
189Tootsie (1982)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
97Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
200The Bourne Identity (2002)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
176Cabaret (1972)4 out of 5 (Excellent)
89The Dark Knight Rises (2012)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
185Once Upon a Time in America (1984)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
80WALL-E (2008)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
157L.A. Confidential (1997)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
144Scarface (1983)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
193Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
92M (1931)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
136Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
169Pan's Labyrinth (2006)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
133Platoon (1986)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
137The Gold Rush (1925)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
140The Hangover (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
113All About Eve (1950)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
103The Princess Bride (1987)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
202In the Heat of the Night (1967)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
226Rain Man (1988)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
173Sullivan's Travels (1941)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
107Up (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
165Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
138Inglourious Basterds (2009)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
121Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
100The Pianist (2002)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
125The Sixth Sense (1999)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
213The Great Escape (1963)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
168The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
240A Fistful of Dollars (1964)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
126Ikiru (1952)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
232When Harry Met Sally (1989)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
190Cool Hand Luke (1967)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
208The Thin Red Line (1998)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
244The Untouchables (1987)3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
147This is Spinal Tap (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
229Catch Me If You Can (2002)3 out of 5 (Good)
199Ratatouille (2007)3 out of 5 (Good)
246Shaun of the Dead (2004)3 out of 5 (Good)
93No Country for Old Men (2007)3 out of 5 (Good)
84Rocky (1976)3 out of 5 (Good)
101The Terminator (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
132Heat (1995)3 out of 5 (Good)
128The King's Speech (2010)3 out of 5 (Good)
114It Happened One Night (1934)3 out of 5 (Good)
115Ghostbusters (1984)3 out of 5 (Good)
98Modern Times (1936)3 out of 5 (Good)
192The Breakfast Club (1985)3 out of 5 (Good)
184Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)3 out of 5 (Good)
161His Girl Friday (1940)3 out of 5 (Good)
135Bonnie and Clyde (1967)3 out of 5 (Good)
79Fargo (1996)3 out of 5 (Good)
206Rosemary's Baby (1968)3 out of 5 (Good)
178Edward Scissorhands (1990)3 out of 5 (Good)
172Casino (1995)3 out of 5 (Good)
251Ben-Hur (1959)3 out of 5 (Good)
174The Lives of Others (2006)3 out of 5 (Good)
139Midnight Cowboy (1969)3 out of 5 (Good)
99Unforgiven (1992)3 out of 5 (Good)
109Stand by Me (1986)3 out of 5 (Good)
149Evil Dead 2 (1987)3 out of 5 (Good)
82The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)3 out of 5 (Good)
141Network (1976)3 out of 5 (Good)
87Paths of Glory (1957)3 out of 5 (Good)
227Magnolia (1999)3 out of 5 (Good)
210The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)3 out of 5 (Good)
216Airplane! (1980)3 out of 5 (Good)
224Bringing Up Baby (1938)3 out of 5 (Good)
177Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)3 out of 5 (Good)
194The Wild Bunch (1969)3 out of 5 (Good)
225Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
130The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
117The Philadelphia Story (1940)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
134King Kong (1933)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
131The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
154The Deer Hunter (1978)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
167Nashville (1975)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
76Spirited Away (2002)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
78The Graduate (1967)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
122High Noon (1952)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
182Strangers on a Train (1951)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
197Requiem for a Dream (2000)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
155MASH (1970)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
106The Maltese Falcon (1941)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
94Bicycle Thieves (1948)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
201A Matter of Life and Death (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
211Wild Strawberries (1957)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
242The Last Picture Show (1971)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
231Swing Time (1936)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
214Brazil (1985)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
222The King of Comedy (1983)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
160Spartacus (1960)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
237The French Connection (1971)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
81On the Waterfront (1954)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
234The Big Sleep (1946)2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)
118Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)2 out of 5 (Fair)
116The Grapes of Wrath (1940)2 out of 5 (Fair)
112The Sound of Music (1965)2 out of 5 (Fair)
95Amélie (2001)2 out of 5 (Fair)
204All the President's Men (1976)2 out of 5 (Fair)
153Donnie Darko (2001)2 out of 5 (Fair)
221Carrie (1976)2 out of 5 (Fair)
228The Conversation (1974)2 out of 5 (Fair)
241Grease (1978)2 out of 5 (Fair)
175American Graffiti (1973)2 out of 5 (Fair)
145A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)2 out of 5 (Fair)
151La Dolce Vita (1960)2 out of 5 (Fair)
196Trainspotting (1996)2 out of 5 (Fair)
127Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)2 out of 5 (Fair)
91The Searchers (1956)2 out of 5 (Fair)
152West Side Story (1961)2 out of 5 (Fair)
1058 1/2 (1963)2 out of 5 (Fair)
123Rashomon (1950)2 out of 5 (Fair)
110The Night of the Hunter (1955)2 out of 5 (Fair)
191The Great Dictator (1940)2 out of 5 (Fair)
195Das Boot (1981)2 out of 5 (Fair)
170Come and See (1985)2 out of 5 (Fair)
142Shane (1953)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
247Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
217Easy Rider (1969)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
179Harold and Maude (1971)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
96The 400 Blows (1959)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
111Yojimbo (1961)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
162Touch of Evil (1958)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
180The African Queen (1951)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
156Notorious (1946)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
236Spirit of the Beehive (1973)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
243Do the Right Thing (1989)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
203Manhattan (1979)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
187The Seventh Seal (1957)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
188Three Colours Red (1994)1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
239Princess Mononoke (1997)1 out of 5 (Poor)
245Shadow of a Doubt (1943)1 out of 5 (Poor)
220Blue Velvet (1986)1 out of 5 (Poor)
102Annie Hall (1977)1 out of 5 (Poor)
163Duck Soup (1933)1 out of 5 (Poor)
183Tokyo Story (1953)1 out of 5 (Poor)
230Metropolis (1927)1 out of 5 (Poor)
219A Night at the Opera (1935)1 out of 5 (Poor)
171The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)1 out of 5 (Poor)
150Intolerance (1916)1 out of 5 (Poor)
129Andrei Rublev (1969)1 out of 5 (Poor)