1) The Lord of the Rings listed as a Trilogy
2) Fight Club
3) Memento (actually one of my favorites)
4) The Shawshank Redemption
5) Se7en
6) Titanic
7) The Usual Suspects
8-10) The Lord of the Rings, each movie listed separately
GOOD OR VERY GOOD
A sampling of movies often considered �great� but I would describe as only good.
1) American in Paris, An
2) Beauty & The Beast (1991)
3) Dr. Zhivago
4) Forrest Gump
5) Giant (1956)
6) Guess Who�s Coming to Dinner
7) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
8) Lord of the Rings Trilogy
9) Midnight Cowboy
10) Producers, The (1968)
11) Tootsie
12) West Side Story
13) Wuthering Heights (it�s just so stilted!)
FLAWED OR NOT EVEN GOOD
Enormously popular films that I don�t think really work.
1) Dances With Wolves
2) Little Big Man
3) Titanic (oh, come the f*%k on!)
THE F&SN CRITIC PASSES MONOSYLLABIC JUDGMENT ON OTHER GREAT FILMS�
ARE THEY GREAT, OR JUST GOOD?
A sampling of movies that I either have not seen in a long time or haven�t been able to make up my mind about. Back to first "Best" page.
1) 400 Blows, The/Les Quatre Cents Coups
2) American Graffiti
3) Apartment, The
4) Ben-Hur
5) Blade Runner
6) Blue Velvet
7) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
8) Contempt
9) Day the Earth Stood Still, The
10) Do the Right Thing
11) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
12) Forbidden Planet
13) French Connection, The
14) From Here to Eternity
15) Gone with the Wind
16) High Noon
17) Lady and the Tramp
18) MASH
19) Mulholland Drive
20) Night at the Opera, A
21) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
22) Pinnochio
23) Place in the Sun, A
24) Rebel without a Cause
25) Rio Bravo
26) Searchers, The
27) Shane
28) Sound of Music, The
29) Ten Commandments, The
30) To Have and Have Not
31) Unforgiven
32) Winnie-the-Pooh (I loved it when I was little)