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. 107 -

    Written on the Wind

    1956, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 103 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  3. 99 -

    Trouble in Paradise

    1932, in 17 top lists Check
  4. 97 -

    Top Hat

    1935, in 13 top lists Check
  5. 94 -

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  6. 93 -

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  7. 89 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  8. 84 -

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  9. 77 -

    The Piano

    1993, in 14 top lists Check
  10. 72 -

    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
  11. 71 -

    The Palm Beach Story

    1942, in 14 top lists Check
  12. 69 -

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  13. 52 -

    Hong gao liang

    1988 — a.k.a. Red Sorghum, in 11 top lists Check
  14. 46 -

    Chun gwong cha sit

    1997 — a.k.a. Happy Together, in 13 top lists Check
  15. 44 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  16. 42 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  17. 17 -

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  18. 15 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  19. 14 -

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  20. 13 -

    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
  21. 10 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  22. 7 -

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
  23. 5 -

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  24. 2 -

    42nd Street

    1933, in 12 top lists Check
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