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. 10 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  2. 102 -

    Les vampires

    1915, in 14 top lists Check
  3. 67 -

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  4. 45 -

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
  5. 95 -

    The Thief of Bagdad

    1924, in 14 top lists Check
  6. 9 -

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  7. 39 -

    The General

    1926, in 34 top lists Check
  8. 61 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  9. 93 -

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  10. 73 -

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  11. 59 -

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  12. 72 -

    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
  13. 37 -

    Frankenstein

    1931, in 18 top lists Check
  14. 57 -

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  15. 79 -

    The Public Enemy

    1931, in 13 top lists Check
  16. 99 -

    Trouble in Paradise

    1932, in 17 top lists Check
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    42nd Street

    1933, in 12 top lists Check
  18. 30 -

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  19. 7 -

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
  20. 38 -

    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
  21. 97 -

    Top Hat

    1935, in 14 top lists Check
  22. 62 -

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  23. 14 -

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  24. 42 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  25. 63 -

    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    1939, in 16 top lists Check
  26. 84 -

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  27. 106 -

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 38 top lists Check
  28. 8 -

    The Bank Dick

    1940, in 8 top lists Check
  29. 23 -

    Dance, Girl, Dance

    1940, in 4 top lists Check
  30. 19 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  31. 58 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  32. 15 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  33. 71 -

    The Palm Beach Story

    1942, in 14 top lists Check
  34. 29 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  35. 17 -

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  36. 70 -

    Roma città aperta

    1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check
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    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  38. 68 -

    Los olvidados

    1950 — a.k.a. The Young and the Damned, in 25 top lists Check
  39. 82 -

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  40. 94 -

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  41. 105 -

    Winchester '73

    1950, in 7 top lists Check
  42. 25 -

    Journal d'un curé de campagne

    1951 — a.k.a. Diary of a Country Priest, in 14 top lists Check
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    High Noon

    1952, in 19 top lists Check
  44. 89 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  45. 96 -

    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
  46. 100 -

    Ugetsu monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Ugetsu, in 25 top lists Check
  47. 69 -

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  48. 87 -

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  49. 91 -

    La strada

    1954, in 21 top lists Check
  50. 65 -

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
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