Variety's The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

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"The movies are now more than 100 years old. That still makes them a young medium, at least in art-form years (how old is the novel? the theater? the painting?). But they’re just old enough to make compiling Variety’s first-ever list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time a more daunting task than it once might have been. Think about it: You get an average of one film per year. A great deal of ardent discussion and debate went into the creation of this list. Our choices were winnowed from hundreds of titles submitted by more than 30 Variety critics, writers and editors. As we learned, coming up with which movies to include was the easy part. The hard part was deciding which movies to leave out."

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    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
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    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 38 top lists Check
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    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
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    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
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    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
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    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
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    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
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    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
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    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
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    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
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    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
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    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
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    Do the Right Thing

    1989, in 25 top lists Check
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
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    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
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    Nashville

    1975, in 20 top lists Check
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    Persona

    1966, in 26 top lists Check
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    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
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    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
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    Chinatown

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
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    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
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    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
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    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
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    Les quatre cents coups

    1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 27 top lists Check
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    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
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    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
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    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
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    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
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    Network

    1976, in 14 top lists Check
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    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
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    8½

    1963, in 34 top lists Check
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    Stagecoach

    1939, in 21 top lists Check
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    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
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    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
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    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
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    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
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    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
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    Fargo

    1996, in 26 top lists Check
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    The Wild Bunch

    1969, in 25 top lists Check
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    Moonlight

    2016, in 13 top lists Check
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    Shoah

    1985, in 18 top lists Check
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    L'avventura

    1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check
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    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
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    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
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    Mean Streets

    1973, in 21 top lists Check
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    The Piano

    1993, in 14 top lists Check
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    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    1974, in 15 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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