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- Sea Hawk, The (1924)
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) - full review!
- Flesh and the Devil (1926) - full review!
- Jazz Singer, The (1927)
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) - full review!
- Crowd, The (1928)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- Hell's Angels (1930) - full review!
- Hell's Heroes (1930)
- Morocco (1930)
- Champ, The (1931)
- Dracula (1931)
- Five Star Final (1931) - full review!
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Free Soul, A (1931) - full review!
- Little Caesar (1931)
- M (1931)
- Public Enemy, The (1931)
- Smiling Lieutenant, The (1931)
- Street Scene (1931)
- Freaks (1932)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
- Love Me Tonight (1932)
- Most Dangerous Game, The (1932) - full review!
- Mouthpiece, The (1932) - full review!
- One Way Passage (1932)
- Red Dust (1932)
- Sign of the Cross, The (1932) - full review!
- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- 42nd Street (1933)
- Bombshell (1933)
- Counsellor at Law (1933) - full review!
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- Footlight Parade (1933) - full review!
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
- King Kong (1933)
- Lady for a Day (1933)
- Little Women (1933)
- Penthouse (1933) - full review!
- Queen Christina (1933)
- She Done Him Wrong (1933)
- Imitation of Life (1934)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
- Thin Man, The (1934)
- 39 Steps, The (1935)
- Alice Adams (1935) - full review!
- Anna Karenina (1935)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Captain Blood (1935)
- David Copperfield (1935)
- Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Tale of Two Cities, A (1935)
- Top Hat (1935)
- Anthony Adverse (1936)
- Camille (1936)
- Dodsworth (1936)
- Fury (1936)
- Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
- Libeled Lady (1936)
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Petrified Forest, The (1936)
- San Francisco (1936)
- Story of Louis Pasteur, The (1936)
- Swing Time (1936)
- These Three (1936)
- Awful Truth, The (1937)
- Captains Courageous (1937)
- Dead End (1937)
- Good Earth, The (1937)
- Life of Emile Zola, The (1937)
- Lost Horizon (1937)
- Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Stage Door (1937)
- Star is Born, A (1937)
- Stella Dallas (1937)
- They Won't Forget (1937)
- Topper (1937)
- Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
- Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
- Boys Town (1938)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Citadel, The (1938)
- Dawn Patrol, The (1938)
- Four Daughters (1938)
- Holiday (1938)
- Jezebel (1938)
- Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
- Merrily We Live (1938) - full review!
- Pygmalion (1938)
- Three Comrades (1938)
- White Banners (1938) - full review!
- You Can't Take It With You (1938)
- Bachelor Mother (1939) - full review!
- Dark Victory (1939)
- Destry Rides Again (1939)
- Four Feathers, The (1939)
- Gone With The Wind (1939)
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- Gunga Din (1939)
- Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939)
- Love Affair (1939)
- Midnight (1939)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Ninotchka (1939)
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Roaring Twenties, The (1939)
- Stagecoach (1939) - full review!
- Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
- Women, The (1939)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
- Foreign Correspondent (1940)
- Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
- Great McGinty, The (1940) - full review!
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- Letter, The (1940)
- Mark of Zorro, The (1940)
- Mortal Storm, The (1940)
- My Favorite Wife (1940)
- Our Town (1940)
- Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
- Pride and Prejudice (1940)
- Sea Hawk, The (1940)
- Shop Around the Corner, The (1940)
- Westerner, The (1940)
- Ball of Fire (1941) - full review!
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Devil and Miss Jones, The (1941) - full review!
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
- High Sierra (1941)
- Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- Lady Eve, The (1941)
- Little Foxes, The (1941)
- Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
- Meet John Doe (1941)
- One Foot in Heaven (1941)
- Sergeant York (1941)
- Sullivan's Travels (1941)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Gentleman Jim (1942)
- In Which We Serve (1942)
- King's Row (1942)
- Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
- Major and the Minor, The (1942)
- Man Who Came to Dinner, The (1942)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- Palm Beach Story, The (1942)
- Pride of the Yankees, The (1942)
- Random Harvest (1942)
- Saboteur (1942)
- Talk of the Town, The (1942) - full review!
- To Be or Not To Be (1942) - full review!
- Woman of the Year (1942)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Human Comedy, The (1943) - full review!
- More the Merrier, The (1943)
- Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943)
- Sahara (1943)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Song of Bernadette, The (1943)
- Watch on the Rhine (1943)
- Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Going My Way (1944)
- Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
- Laura (1944)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944)
- National Velvet (1944)
- Since You Went Away (1944)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- Brief Encounter (1945)
- Corn is Green, The (1945)
- Lost Weekend, The (1945)
- Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) - full review!
- Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945)
- Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945)
- Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
- Big Sleep, The (1946)
- Humoresque (1946)
- It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - full review!
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- Notorious (1946)
- Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946)
- Razor's Edge, The (1946)
- Yearling, The (1946)
- Body and Soul (1947)
- Brute Force (1947)
- Crossfire (1947)
- Double Life, A (1947)
- Farmer's Daughter, The (1947)
- Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
- Life With Father (1947)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - full review!
- Out of the Past (1947)
- Command Decision (1948)
- Force of Evil (1948)
- Foreign Affair, A (1948)
- Hamlet (1948)
- I Remember Mama (1948)
- Johnny Belinda (1948)
- Key Largo (1948)
- Red River (1948)
- Red Shoes, The (1948)
- Search, The (1948)
- State of the Union (1948)
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
- Adam's Rib (1949)
- All the King's Men (1949)
- Battleground (1949) - full review!
- Champion (1949)
- Heiress, The (1949)
- Intruder in the Dust (1949)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- Letter to Three Wives, A (1949) - full review!
- Madame Bovary (1949)
- Set-Up, The (1949)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- Stratton Story, The (1949)
- They Live By Night (1949)
- Third Man, The (1949)
- Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
- White Heat (1949)
- All About Eve (1950)
- Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
- Born Yesterday (1950)
- D.O.A. (1950)
- Father of the Bride (1950)
- Harvey (1950)
- In A Lonely Place (1950)
- Men, The (1950)
- Sunset Blvd. (1950)
- Winchester '73 (1950)
- Ace in the Hole (1951) - full review!
- African Queen, The (1951)
- Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
- Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951)
- Mating Season, The (1951) - full review!
- Place in the Sun, A (1951)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
- 5 Fingers (1952)
- Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
- Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
- High Noon (1952)
- Quiet Man, The (1952)
- Scaramouche (1952)
- Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Julius Caesar (1953)
- Naked Spur, The (1953)
- Roman Holiday (1953) - full review!
- Shane (1953)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Caine Mutiny, The (1954)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Executive Suite (1954)
- On The Waterfront (1954)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Sabrina (1954)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) - full review!
- Star is Born, A (1954)
- White Christmas (1954)
- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
- Blackboard Jungle (1955)
- Desperate Hours, The (1955)
- Ladykillers, The (1955)
- Marty (1955)
- Mister Roberts (1955)
- Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
- Oklahoma! (1955)
- Picnic (1955)
- Rose Tattoo, The (1955)
- To Catch A Thief (1955)
- Anastasia (1956)
- Friendly Persuasion (1956)
- Giant (1956) - full review!
- Harder They Fall, The (1956)
- Killing, The (1956)
- King and I, The (1956)
- Lust for Life (1956)
- Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
- Searchers, The (1956)
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
- Ten Commandments, The (1956) - full review!
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
- Designing Woman (1957) - full review!
- Enemy Below, The (1957)
- Face In The Crowd, A (1957)
- Love in the Afternoon (1957)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
- Big Country, The (1958)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Defiant Ones, The (1958)
- I Want to Live! (1958)
- Separate Tables (1958)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- Vertigo (1958)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959)
- North By Northwest (1959)
- Nun's Story, The (1959)
- Rio Bravo (1959)
- Some Like it Hot (1959)
- Apartment, The (1960)
- Elmer Gantry (1960)
- Inherit the Wind (1960)
- Magnificent Seven, The (1960)
- Psycho (1960)
- Spartacus (1960)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- One, Two, Three (1961)
- Raisin in the Sun, A (1961)
- West Side Story (1961)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Lolita (1962)
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
- Longest Day, The (1962)
- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) - full review!
- Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
- Miracle Worker, The (1962)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963)
- From Russia With Love (1963)
- Great Escape, The (1963)
- Hud (1963)
- Lilies of the Field (1963)
- Tom Jones (1963)
- Americanization of Emily, The (1964)
- Fall of the Roman Empire, The (1964)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Mary Poppins (1964) - full review!
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- Topkapi (1964)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Ship of Fools (1965)
- Sound of Music, The (1965)
- Thousand Clowns, A (1965)
- Fortune Cookie, The (1966)
- Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The (1966)
- Man for All Seasons, A (1966)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Dirty Dozen, The (1967)
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- In The Heat of the Night (1967)
- Point Blank (1967)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Lion in Winter, The (1968)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Wild Bunch, The (1969)
- M*A*S*H (1970)
- Patton (1970)
- Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- French Connection, The (1971)
- Cabaret (1972)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Frenzy (1972)
- Godfather, The (1972)
- Sleuth (1972)
- Sounder (1972)
- American Graffiti (1973)
- Day of the Jackal, The (1973)
- Paper Moon (1973)
- Sting, The (1973)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Conversation, The (1974)
- Godfather Part II, The (1974)
- Longest Yard, The (1974)
- Taking of the Pelham One Two Three, The (1974)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Jaws (1975)
- Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- All the President's Men (1976)
- Network (1976)
- Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)
- Rocky (1976)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Deer Hunter, The (1978)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Breaking Away (1979) - full review!
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
- Mad Max (1979) - full review!
- Empire Strikes Back, The (1980)
- Ordinary People (1980)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Arthur (1981)
- Chariots of Fire (1981)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Road Warrior, The (1981)
- E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Gandhi (1982)
- Tootsie (1982)
- Victor/Victoria (1982)
- Terms of Endearment (1983)
- Amadeus (1984)
- Terminator, The (1984)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Color Purple, The (1985)
- Aliens (1986)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Field of Dreams (1989)
- Dances With Wolves (1990)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Fugitive, The (1993)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Lion King, The (1994)
- Apollo 13 (1995)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Fargo (1996)
- Life is Beautiful (1997)
- Titanic (1997)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Toy Story 2 (1999)
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