Highest Graded Films

The filmsgraded 500: these are the best films I have graded over the years.

(99.5) Red River (1948) review
(99) Casablanca (1942) review
(98.7) The Thin Red Line (1998) review
(98) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) review
(97.7) Rebecca (1940) review
(97.5) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) review
(97.4) Schindler's List (1993) review
(97.3) Ordinary People (1980) review
(97.3) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) review
(97.3) Citizen Kane (1941) review
(96.9) Room at the Top (1959) review
(96.8) Strangers on a Train (1951) review
(96.6) Chinatown (1974) review
(96.3) The Godfather, Part II (1974) review
(96.2) Singin' in the Rain (1952) review
(96.2) The Third Man (1949) review
(95.9) Reservoir Dogs (1992) review
(95.9) A Star Is Born (1954) review
(95.5) Dumbo (1941) review
(95.4) Unforgiven (1992) review
(94.9) A Night to Remember (1958) review
(94.9) The Life of Emile Zola (1937) review
(94.7) To Be or Not to Be (1942) review
(94.7) Five Easy Pieces (1970) review
(94.7) Hamlet (1948)
(94.5) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) review
(94.5) The Godfather (1972) review
(94.4) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) review
(94.1) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) review
(94) The Heiress (1949) review
(94) Over the Edge (1979) review
(93.9) High Noon (1952) review
(93.4) Barry Lyndon (1975) review
(93.3) Paper Moon (1973) review
(93.2) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) review
(93.1) Gone with the Wind (1939) review
(93.1) Children of Paradise (1945) review
(93) Days of Heaven (1978) review
(93) Toy Story 2 (1999) review
(93) Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters (2004) review
(92.8) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) review
(92.6) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) review
(92.3) A Room with a View (1986) review
(92.3) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) review
(92) The Hustler (1961) review
(92) Rear Window (1954) review
(92) The Pawnbroker (1964)
(91.9) Alfie (1966) review
(91.7) Modern Times (1936) review
(91.5) All About Eve (1950) review
(91.5) The Gold Rush (1925) review
(91.2) Double Indemnity (1944) review
(91.1) Stagecoach (1939) review
(91.1) Manhattan (1979) review
(91) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) review
(91) The Lost Weekend (1945) review
(91) The Song of Bernadette (1943) review
(90.8) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) review
(90.8) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) review
(90.7) Throne of Blood (1957) review
(90.5) The Basketball Diaries (1995) review
(90.4) Back to the Future (1985) review
(90.2) White Heat (1949) review
(90.1) Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) review
(90) Suspicion (1941) review
(90) Babe (1995) review
(90) Psycho (1960) review
(90) The Wanderers (1979) review
(90) Night of the Living Dead (1968) review
(90) Little Big Man (1970) review
(90) Sense and Sensibility (1995) review
(89.9) A Hard Day's Night (1964) review
(89.8) O Lucky Man! (1973) review
(89.7) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) review
(89.5) Alive (1993) review
(89.5) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) review
(89.1) Raging Bull (1980) review
(89.1) Star Wars (1977) review
(88.9) Patton (1970) review
(88.7) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) review
(88.7) Papillon (1973) review
(88.5) Easy Rider (1969) review
(88.5) Full Metal Jacket (1987) review
(88.2) Toy Story (1995) review
(88.1) His Girl Friday (1940) review
(88) Ran (1985) review
(88) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) review
(88) David Copperfield (1935) review
(88) Angel on My Shoulder (1946) review
(88) Goodfellas (1990) review
(88) Blowup (1966)
(87.4) The Tin Drum (1979) review
(87.3) Kolya (1996) review
(87.1) Bringing Up Baby (1938) review
(87) Mean Streets (1973) review
(87) One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975) review
(87) Mildred Pierce (1945) review
(86.9) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) review
(86.7) Always Outnumbered (1998) review
(86.7) And the Band Played On (1993) review
(86.7) Eight Men Out (1988) review
(86.7) The Innocents (1961) review
(86.4) A Christmas Carol (1951) review
(86.4) The Young Lions (1958) review
(86.3) To Live (1994) review
(86.3) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) review
(86.1) Aliens (1986) review
(86) Stray Dog (1949) review
(86) Spellbound (2002) review
(85.7) A Little Princess (1995) review
(85.6) Dead End (1937) review
(85.5) The Betty Ford Story (1987) review
(85.5) 48 Hrs. (1982) review
(85.5) In the Name of the Father (1993) review
(85.5) Midnight Cowboy (1969) review
(85.4) Sounder (1972) review
(85.4) Monkey Business (1952) review
(85.1) Touch of Evil (1958) review
(85) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) review
(85) Jaws (1975) review
(85) The Maltese Falcon (1941) review
(85) Glory (1989) review
(85) The Fugitive (1947)
(84.7) The Blue Angel (1930) review
(84.7) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) review
(84.6) The Piano (1993) review
(84.4) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) review
(84.4) The Insider (1999) review
(84.3) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) review
(84.1) The Seven Samurai (1954) review
(84.1) The Little Princess (1939) review
(84) Tokyo Olympiad (1965) review
(84) Hud (1963) review
(84) The Wrong Box (1966) review
(84) Tom Jones (1963) review
(83.9) Morning Glory (1933) review
(83.8) Raising Arizona (1987) review
(83.8) Trading Places (1983) review
(83.8) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) review
(83.7) America, America (1963) review
(83.7) Bird (1988) review
(83.7) Clueless (1995) review
(83.6) Little Shop of Horrors (1986) review
(83.4) Jane Eyre (1944) review
(83.4) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) review
(83.2) MASH (1970) review
(83) Don King: Only in America (1997) review
(83) The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) review
(83) Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) review
(83) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) review
(83) Monster (2003) review
(83) Au revoir, les enfants (1987) review
(82.9) Wee Willie Winkie (1937) review
(82.9) Winchester '73 (1950) review
(82.8) The Road Warrior (1981) review
(82.7) Laura (1944) review
(82.7) Pinocchio (1940) review
(82.5) Gentleman's Agreement (1947) review
(82.5) Jackie Brown (1997) review
(82.5) The Front (1976) review
(82.4) The Quiet Man (1952) review
(82.3) On the Waterfront (1954) review
(82.3) Bullets Over Broadway (1994) review
(82.1) The Grifters (1990) review
(82.1) I Was a Male War Bride (1949) review
(82.1) The Longest Day (1962) review
(82.1) Notorious (1946) review
(82) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) review
(82) Play It Again, Sam (1972) review
(82) The Hidden Fortress (1958)
(81.9) Spanking the Monkey (1994) review
(81.9) Hallelujah (1929) review
(81.8) Network (1976) review
(81.8) Paths of Glory (1957) review
(81.8) The Client (1994) review
(81.7) Champion (1949) review
(81.7) The General (1927) review
(81.7) Pulp Fiction (1994) review
(81.6) Odd Man Out (1947) review
(81.2) Ministry of Fear (1944) review
(81.2) Mortal Thoughts (1991) review
(81.2) Mousey (1974) review
(81) The French Connection (1971) review
(81) Roger & Me (1989) review
(81) Danton (1982) review
(81) The Battleship Potemkin (1925) review
(81) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) review
(81) Dance With a Stranger (1985) review
(81) Conspiracy (2001) review
(81) The Invisible Man (1933)
(80.8) A Christmas Story (1983) review
(80.6) Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) review
(80.6) Foxfire (1996) review
(80.6) The Grand Illusion (1937) review
(80.5) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) review
(80.5) The Return of the Jedi (1983) review
(80.2) Ship of Fools (1965) review
(80.2) The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) review
(80) The Full Monty (1997) review
(80) The Killing (1956) review
(80) Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) review
(80) Romeo and Juliet (1968) review
(80) Heavenly Creatures (1994) review
(80) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) review
(80) It's A Wonderful Life (1946) review
(80) Sleuth (1972) review
(80) Carousel (1956) review
(80) Julius Caesar (1953) review
(80) Helter Skelter (1976) review
(80) Gallipoli (1981) review
(80) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) review
(80) King of the Hill (1993) review
(79.5) How Green Was My Valley (1941) review
(79.4) Apollo 13 (1995) review
(79.4) Frankenstein (1931) review
(79.3) Cat People (1942) review
(79) Annie Hall (1977) review
(79) I Confess (1953) review
(79) Rosemary's Baby (1968) review
(79) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) review
(79) Wit (2001) review
(78.7) Libeled Lady (1936) review
(78.6) Claudine (1974) review
(78.5) All the President's Men (1976) review
(78.5) Help! (1965) review
(78.4) The Three Musketeers (1973) review
(78.4) High Plains Drifter (1972) review
(78.4) Angel and the Badman (1947) review
(78) South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999) review
(78) Alien (1979) review
(78) Freaks (1932) review
(78) M (1931) review
(78) The Crowd (1928) review
(78) The Gunfighter (1950) review
(78) Dracula (1931) review
(78) Ponette (1996) review
(78) Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker (1986) review
(78) The Nutty Professor (1996) review
(78) Andrei Rublev (1969) review
(78) Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) review
(78) Trouble in Paradise (1932) review
(78) The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) review
(78) Anna Karenina (1935) review
(78) Oliver Twist (1948) review
(77.7) The Snapper (1993) review
(77.6) Julia (1977) review
(77.4) Avalon (1990) review
(77.4) Now, Voyager (1942) review
(77.3) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) review
(77.2) Breaking Away (1979) review
(77) Shane (1953) review
(77) Fargo (1996) review
(77) One True Thing (1998) review
(77) The Parallax View (1974) review
(77) The Stranger (1946) review
(77) The Day of the Locust (1975) review
(77) Run Lola Run (1998) review
(77) What Price Hollywood? (1932) review
(77) Das Boot (1981) review
(77) Splendor in the Grass (1961) review
(77) Marty (1955) review
(77) Trekkies (1997) review
(77) The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) review
(77) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) review
(77) Ride the Pink Horse (1947) review
(77) The House on 92nd Street (1945) review
(77) Great Expectations (1946) review
(77) Dodsworth (1936) review
(77) Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) review
(77) The Enchanted Cottage (1945) review
(77) I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968) review
(77) The Human Comedy (1943) review
(77) H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) review
(76.9) The Big Carnival (1951) review
(76.9) One-Eyed Jacks (1961) review
(76.6) To Have and Have Not (1944) review
(76.5) Cinderella (1950) review
(76.3) A Clockwork Orange (1971) review
(76.3) The Great Dictator (1940) review
(76.1) Braveheart (1995) review
(76.1) Operation Crossbow (1965) review
(76.1) The Freshman (1925)
(76) THX 1138 (1970) review
(76) Welcome Stranger (1947) review
(76) Wuthering Heights (1939) review
(76) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) review
(76) Seconds (1966) review
(76) The 39 Steps (1935) review
(76) For a Few Dollars More (1965) review
(76) Straw Dogs (1971) review
(76) Portrait of Jennie (1948) review
(76) The Merry Widow (1934) review
(76) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) review
(76) Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970) review
(76) Princess Mononoke (1997) review
(76) The 400 Blows (1959) review
(76) The Man With Two Brains (1983) review
(76) Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945) review
(76) Bugsy (1991)
(76) Theodora Goes Wild (1936) review
(75.7) The Four Musketeers (1974) review
(75.7) The Deer Hunter (1978) review
(75.6) The Panic in Needle Park (1971) review
(75.5) This Is Elvis (1981) review
(75.3) Rashomon (1950) review
(75.2) The Dresser (1983) review
(75.2) Safety Last (1923) review
(75) The Searchers (1956) review
(75) The Stone Boy (1984) review
(75) The Big Lebowski (1998) review
(75) Under Fire (1983) review
(75) Jezebel (1938) review
(75) 10 Rillington Place (1971) review
(75) Quiz Show (1994) review
(75) National Velvet (1944) review
(75) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) review
(75) Serpico (1973) review
(75) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) review
(75) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) review
(75) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) review
(74.9) The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) review
(74.9) Fantasia (1940) review
(74.8) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) review
(74.6) The Littlest Rebel (1935) review
(74.6) Breaker Morant (1980) review
(74.5) Destry Rides Again (1939) review
(74.5) A Face in the Crowd (1957) review
(74.2) Jailhouse Rock (1957) review
(74.2) Of Human Bondage (1934) review
(74) Sorcerer (1977) review
(74) Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) review
(74) The Great Ziegfeld (1936) review
(74) Repulsion (1965) review
(74) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) review
(74) The Mark of Zorro (1940) review
(74) Look Who's Talking (1989) review
(74) Holiday Inn (1942) review
(74) Kagemusha (1980) review
(74) The Ninth Gate (1999) review
(74) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) review
(74) The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) review
(74) Bananas (1971)
(74) The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
(74) Smile (1975)
(74) The Thin Blue Line (1988)
(74) From Russia with Love (1963)
(74) Phantom Lady (1944)
(74) Coming Home (1978) review
(74) The Entertainer (1960) review
(74) Jules and Jim (1962) review
(73.9) Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) review
(73.7) Days of Wine and Roses (1962) review
(73.6) Brainstorm (1983) review
(73.4) Bat 21 (1988) review
(73.4) She (1935) review
(73.3) The English Patient (1996) review
(73.3) Mad Max (1979) review
(73.1) In The Mood (1987) review
(73.1) My Darling Clementine (1946) review
(73) Anastasia (1956) review
(73) North by Northwest (1959) review
(73) Death in Venice (1971) review
(73) Bullitt (1968) review
(73) The Freshman (1990) review
(73) The Big Sky (1952) review
(73) Brief Encounter (1946) review
(73) Like Water for Chocolate (1992) review
(73) Shoulder Arms (1918) review
(73) Zeppelin (1971) review
(73) Pride and Prejudice (1940)
(73) Drunken Angel (1948)
(73) 'Round Midnight (1986)
(73) Leaving Las Vegas (1995) review
(72.9) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) review
(72.8) La Bamba (1987) review
(72.7) Cleopatra (1934) review
(72.6) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) review
(72.6) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) review
(72.6) A Place in the Sun (1951) review
(72.6) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) review
(72.3) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) review
(72.2) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) review
(72.2) Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) review
(72) Suspiria (1977) review
(72) Cat Ballou (1965) review
(72) The New Land (1972) review
(72) Waterloo Bridge (1940) review
(72) Dreamboat (1952) review
(72) The Spiral Staircase (1946) review
(72) The Bank Dick (1940) review
(72) Cry Freedom (1987) review
(72) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) review
(72) Valerie Flake (1999) review
(72) Pygmalion (1938) review
(72) The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) review
(72) The Fury (1978) review
(72) The Lodger (1944) review
(72) The Loved One (1965)
(72) Chicago (2002)
(72) The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
(72) Bloody Sunday (2002)
(72) Deception (1946) review
(72) A Matter of Life and Death (1946) review
(72) The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) review
(72) Watership Down (1978) review
(72) Before the Rain (1994) review
(72) Sherlock Jr. (1924) review
(72) Open City (1945) review
(72) Ulee's Gold (1997) review
(71.9) No Time for Sergeants (1958) review
(71.9) Go West (1925) review
(71.8) The Fighting Seabees (1944) review
(71.5) Sergeant York (1941) review
(71.3) You Never Can Tell (1951) review
(71.2) Evita (1996) review
(71.2) Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) review
(71.2) A Night at the Opera (1935) review
(71.1) The Anderson Tapes (1971) review
(71.1) The Universal Story (1995) review
(71) Stir of Echoes (1999) review
(71) True Romance (1993) review
(71) The Graduate (1967) review
(71) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) review
(71) My Left Foot (1989) review
(71) An Unmarried Woman (1978) review
(71) The Wizard of Oz (1939) review
(71) Yojimbo (1961) review
(71) High Fidelity (2000) review
(71) Day for Night (1973) review
(71) The Last Picture Show (1971) review
(71) Angel Heart (1987) review
(71) Defending Your Life (1991) review
(71) Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) review
(71) Wild River (1960) review
(71) Another Day in Paradise (1998) review
(71) Deliverance (1972) review
(71) Mystery Train (1989) review
(71) Next Stop Wonderland (1998) review
(71) Dead Presidents (1995) review
(71) The Cranes are Flying (1957) review
(71) Lili (1953)
(71) The Miracle Worker (1962)
(71) The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
(71) The Goodbye Girl (1977)
(71) We Are Not Alone (1939)
(71) Clash by Night (1952)
(71) Lost in Translation (2003)
(71) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) review
(71) The Last Days (1998) review
(71) The Shop on Main Street (1965) review
(70.9) Little Women (1933) review
(70.9) Election (1999) review
(70.8) The Awful Truth (1937) review
(70.8) Three Days of the Condor (1975) review
(70.8) Ossessione (1943)
(70.7) Anna and the King of Siam (1946) review
(70.6) Back Street (1941) review
(70.6) Back to the Future Part III (1990) review
(70.3) The Haunting (1963) review
(70.3) Rachel, Rachel (1968) review
(70.2) Alice in Wonderland (1951) review
(70.2) Elephant Walk (1954) review
(70.2) The Endless Summer (1966) review
(70.2) I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) review
(70) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) review
(70) The Trip to Bountiful (1985) review
(70) Cape Fear (1962) review
(70) The Circus (1928) review
(70) Greed (1925) review
(70) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) review
(70) The Night of the Hunter (1955) review
(70) The Public Enemy (1931) review
(70) Captains Courageous (1937) review
(70) I Never Sang for My Father (1970) review
(70) Sword of Gideon (1986) review
(70) The Impossible Spy (1987) review
(70) The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) review
(70) Blood Ties (1986) review
(70) The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) review
(70) A Child Is Waiting (1963) review
(70) The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) review
(70) The Wrong Man (1956) review
(70) Crusoe (1988) review
(70) Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) review
(70) Stage Door (1937) review
(70) The Filth and the Fury (2000) review
(70) A Woman of Paris (1923) review
(70) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) review
(70) 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) review
(70) The Cocoanuts (1929) review
(70) A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) review
(70) Yellow Submarine (1968) review
(70) Heartland (1980) review
(70) Roberta (1935)
(70) The Old Dark House (1932) review
(70) Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) review
(70) Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) review
(69.9) Roman Holiday (1953) review
(69.8) The Palm Beach Story (1942) review
(69.7) The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) review

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