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     There are a ton of critics (among them Christopher Null and his cronies at filmcritic.com, Joel Siegel of Good Morning America, and the husband-wife team at ScreenIt.com) who, at the end of each movie season, write their thoughts on how terrible the year was at the movies.  In 1996, the year when many of the greatest films of the last twenty-five years were released, Mr. Null stated, Mention of 1996 will always leave a sour taste in the mouths of critics... Of course, this is probably just punishment for all of my complaining about 1995.  Ignore the pessimism and embrace the fact that yes, there are bad/terrible/horrific excuses for movies, but there are also great ones too.
      The criterion for calling a movie Great is hotly debated.  Of course, there are many things that make a movie Great. But I hold tight to this:  every one great movie makes it worth seeing ten bad movies.
      Here now is a list of 100 Great Movies.  This is a celebration of the power of film as a medium.  A celebration of artists ranging from Alfred Hitchcock to Cameron Crowe, Martin Scorsese to Darren Aranofsky, George Cukor to Paul Thomas Anderson.  There are uniquely talented filmmakers who strived to make a great film and, at least in some cases, succeeded.  (Note: the following list is not ranked, but placed in alphabetical order.)
100. Amadeus (Milos Forman)
99. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
98. American History X (Tony Kaye)
97. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
96. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
95. A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
94. Beauty and the Beast (Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale)
93. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
92. Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks)
91. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
90. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
89. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
88. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
87. Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
86. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
85. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
84. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
83. Collateral (Michael Mann)
82. Crash (Paul Haggis)
81. Dawn of the Dead 1979 (George A. Romero)
80. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
79. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
78. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
77. Fargo (Joel Coen)
76. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
75. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
74. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
73. Gaslight (George Cukor)
72. Glory (Edward Zwick)
71. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
70. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
69. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
68. Grand Canyon (Lawrence Kasdan)
67. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
66. The Green Mile (Frank Darabont)
65. Halloween (John Carpenter)
64. Heat (Michael Mann)
63. Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
62. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
61. Its A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
60. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
59. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
58. The Kid (Charlie Chaplin)
57. Kill Bill (Volumes 1&2) (Quentin Tarantino)
56. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
55. The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) (Peter Jackson)
54. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
53. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
52. The Manchurian Candidate 1962 (John Frankenheimer)
51. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
Russell Crowe as John Nash in Ron Howard's "A Beautiful Mind" (No. 95)
A tender moment with Rick and Ilsa from "Casablanca" (No. 86)
He should have left the door shut.  Steven Spielberg's spellbinding "Close Encounters" (No. 84)
Four bad guys from Scrosese's searing "GoodFellas."  (No. 70)
Someone is on their way to "Kill Bill." (No. 57)
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