The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films

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"While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays—most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics."

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  1. 1 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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    42nd Street

    1933, in 12 top lists Check
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    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
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    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
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    Aparajito

    1956 — a.k.a. The Unvanquished, in 15 top lists Check
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    Apur Sansar

    1959 — a.k.a. The World of Apu, in 20 top lists Check
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    The Bank Dick

    1940, in 8 top lists Check
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    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
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    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
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    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
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    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
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    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
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    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
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    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
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    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
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    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

    1978, in 5 top lists Check
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    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
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    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
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    Chun gwong cha sit

    1997 — a.k.a. Happy Together, in 13 top lists Check
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    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
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    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
  22. 51 -

    Da hong denglong gaogao gua

    1991 — a.k.a. Raise the Red Lantern, in 21 top lists Check
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    Dance, Girl, Dance

    1940, in 4 top lists Check
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    Dekalog

    1989, in 11 top lists Check
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    Det sjunde inseglet

    1957 — a.k.a. The Seventh Seal, in 25 top lists Check
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    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
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    Die Ehe der Maria Braun

    1979 — a.k.a. The Marriage of Maria Braun, in 11 top lists Check
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    Diner

    1982, in 7 top lists Check
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    Do the Right Thing

    1989, in 25 top lists Check
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    La dolce vita

    1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check
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    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
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    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
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    Easy Rider

    1969, in 17 top lists Check
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    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
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    Enter the Dragon

    1973, in 14 top lists Check
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    The Entertainer

    1960, in 1 top list Check
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    The Exorcist

    1973, in 27 top lists Check
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    Faces

    1968, in 11 top lists Check
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    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
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    Frankenstein

    1931, in 18 top lists Check
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    The General

    1926, in 34 top lists Check
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    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
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    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
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    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
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    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
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    High Noon

    1952, in 19 top lists Check
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    Hong gao liang

    1988 — a.k.a. Red Sorghum, in 11 top lists Check
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    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    1956, in 19 top lists Check
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    Jailhouse Rock

    1957, in 4 top lists Check
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