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. 1 new

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  2. 4 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  3. 7 new

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  4. 20 new

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 22 new

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  6. 32 new

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  7. 44 new

    L'avventura

    1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check
  8. 93 new

    Le samouraï

    1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check
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Last updated on Dec 26, 2022; source