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The most recent edition of Entertainment Weekly featured lists of the 100 best movies, TV shows, music albums, and books. It inspired me to do my own variation. I started with their list, subtracted movies I hadn't seen or didn't feel were deserving, and added movies I thought they should have included. This is by no means a comprehensive list; if I put together all the movies I like, the total would easily be 1000. I am not completely satisfied with the rankings, but I've been rearranging them for several days, and I am simply just too indecisive, so I am going to leave it as it is right now. I did not include documentaries.

I plan to do lists for TV, music and books at a later date if/when I am up to it.

Here we go:

1. Citizen Kane

2. Casablanca

3. Rear Window

4. Gone With the Wind

5. The Lord of the Rings (entire trilogy)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey

7. Seven Samurai

8. To Kill a Mockingbird

9. The Best Years of Our Lives

10. The Wizard of Oz

11. North By Northwest

12. Metropolis

13. Nosferatu

14. Modern Times

15. A Clockwork Orange

16. The Silence of the Lambs

17. Schindler's List

18. The Shining

19. M

20. Psycho

21. It's a Wonderful Life

22. All About Eve

23. City Lights

24. Intolerance

25. Annie Hall

26. Blue Velvet

27. Cinema Paradiso

28. Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

29. Toy Story (entire trilogy)

30. Sunrise

31. Bambi

32. The Philadelphia Story

33. Vertigo

34. The Great Dictator

35. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

36. Brazil

37. The Adventures of Robin Hood

38. Lawrence of Arabia

39. Rashomon

40. The Gold Rush

41. Raiders of the Lost Ark

42. Adam's Rib

43. A Face in the Crowd

44. Network

45. The Seventh Seal

46. Titanic

47. American Graffiti

48. The Graduate

49. Blade Runner

50. The General

51. Safety Last!

52. Notorious

53. Olympia

54. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

55. Brokeback Mountain

56. The Green Mile

57. Manhattan

58. The Third Man

59. My Man Godfrey

60. Do the Right Thing

61. The Pianist

62. The Elephant Man

63. Frankenstein

64. Night of the Living Dead

65. Sunset Boulevard

66. The Big Sleep

67. Ben-Hur (1959)

68. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

69. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

70. Strangers on a Train

71. All About My Mother

72. The Rules of the Game

73. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

74. Bonnie and Clyde

75. Sweet Smell of Success

76. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

77. Taxi Driver

78. Rebel Without a Cause

79. It Happened One Night

80. Shadow of a Doubt

81. Saving Private Ryan

82. Forrest Gump

83. Yojimbo

84. Singin' in the Rain

85. Pulp Fiction

86.  Memento

87. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

88. Spartacus

89. Bicycle Thieves

90. Rosemary's Baby

91. The Sound of Music

92. Midnight Cowboy

93. Dog Day Afternoon

94. King Kong (1933)

95. Rebecca

96. The Sixth Sense

97. Ran

98. The Princess Bride

99. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

100. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb