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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  1. 2 new

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 38 top lists Check
  2. 6 new

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  3. 30 new

    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
  4. 34 new

    Stagecoach

    1939, in 21 top lists Check
  5. 38 new

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  6. 39 new

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  7. 52 new

    The General

    1926, in 34 top lists Check
  8. 54 new

    Mad Max 2

    1981 — a.k.a. The Road Warrior, in 14 top lists Check
  9. 68 new

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  10. 77 new

    Goldfinger

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
  11. 95 new

    Toy Story

    1995, in 25 top lists Check
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Last updated on Dec 26, 2022; source