• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Paprika
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Star Wars
  • Alien

Top 10: Science Fiction

Spaceships, lasers, aliens, and robots.

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  • The Thin Red Line
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Apocalypse Now

Top 10: War

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  • Vertigo
  • Memento
  • Rear Window
  • The Conversation
  • Notorious

Top 10: Mystery

Detectives, investigations, doublespeak, and shifting loyalties. See more all-time top 10's here.

  • Psycho
  • Alien
  • The Thing
  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • Berberian Sound Studio

Top 10: Horror

Thrills, chills, kills, and spills.

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  • Speed Racer
  • Fargo
  • Airplane!
  • s Ha
  • Intolerable Cruelty

Top 10: Comedy

Jokes, gags, laughs, and bloopers. Listed alphabetically. See more all-time top 10's here.

  • Vertigo
  • I ♥ Huckabees
  • Days of Heaven
  • The Fountain
  • Intolerable Cruelty

Top 10: Romance

Men and women, love and loss. See more all-time top 10's here.

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Speed Racer
  • Memento
  • Vertigo
  • Mulholland Drive

100 Favorite Films

Not the films I think are the best, but those which mean something special to me; not The Godfather or…

  • Vertigo
  • Double Indemnity
  • The Big Sleep
  • Laura
  • Touch of Evil

Top 10: Classic Noir

Urban underworlds, dark shadows, questionable morality, and femme fatales. ~1944–1959. See more all-time top 10's here.

  • Metropolis
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • The Gold Rush
  • Battleship Potemkin
  • The General

Top 10: Silent Films

I don't watch many silent films, and when I do I often have trouble connecting with them, so this is…

  • Ace in the Hole
  • An Affair to
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • Avanti!
  • The Barefoot Contessa

Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 100 American Films

Made as an alternative to the AFI's Top 100, which he sees as stale and uninteresting. You can find his…

  • Speed Racer
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Matrix
  • Escape from New York
  • The Bourne Identity

Top 10: Action

I am not an action aficionado. I can enjoy a good action movie if I'm in the mood for it,…

  • Memento
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Blade Runner
  • Chinatown
  • Le Samouraï

Top 10: Neo-Noir

Urban underworlds, dark shadows, questionable morality, and femme fatales. 1960–present. See more all-time top 10's here.