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Here's your chance
to take a look at our comprehensive guide to the 100 greatest movies
of all-time. To find out more about each movie,
simply click on the movie title to be taken to a definitive movie
review.
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Unable
to procure the rights to Flash Gordon, George Lucas serves up his
own homage to the Saturday-morning adventure serials he loved as
a kid; somehow managing to create possibly the most revered and
successful film series ever in the process.
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Coppola's
epic, operatic, bullet-ridden saga of a Mafia family at war with
itself and its rivals. Murder, betrayal, ambition: it's all here,
and utterly compelling, with Brando at his scene-stealing best.
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Mugged
at the Oscars by Forrest Gump, this irresistible prison drama promotes
the unquenchable human spirit with an intelligence that the gooey
Gump readily sacrificed.
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Tarantino,
the boy wonder pushed his storytelling powers to their limits to
make this film every bit as BIG as the widescreen 70s hits that
inspired him. An instant classic.
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Wilder
and Diamond's script crackles with ideas and gags, and the performances
are uniformly assured, with Curtis's triple characterization in
particular a revelation. Monroe was reputedly at her worst on set,
fluffing take after take, but whatever was necessary to achieve
this brilliantly sustained gem was worth it.
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Ridley
Scott revives the Roman epic with computer generated imagery and
a mighty performance from Russell Crowe. Not to mention the last
stand of the late Oliver Reed.
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Capra's
Christmas perennial is a lot darker than its status as prime festive
schedule-filler would suggest. That's not to say it will have you
hiding behind the sofa but, for a film that deals with missed opportunities
and one man's dark night of the soul, it is all the more impressive
it has garnered a feel-good reputation.
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Dystopian
thriller Blade Runner remains the most influential sci-fi masterpiece
of modern cinema, notably for its immaculate visualisations of retro-futuristic
urban decay.
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A
heart-rending and redemptive Holocaust story, this Oscar-grabbing
epic added to Spielberg's directorial credibility, showing he could
handle controversial, sophisticated stories with real sensitivity.
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"As
far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster,"
Henry Hill opens his true story of 30 years in the mob in Scorsese's
epic.
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