It was a closer race than anticipated, but Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” has topped our best of the ’50s poll, besting Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s “Singin’ in the Rain” by just two votes.
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Critics Poll: ‘The Godfather’ Named Best Movie of the 1970s
Just six days after celebrating its 50th anniversary, Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” has been named the best movies of the 1970s by a panel of close to 150 critics, filmmakers and historians.
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Critics' Poll: ‘Mulholland Drive' Named Best Film of the 2000s
Is “Mulholland Drive,” David Lynch’s hypnotic and surreal ode to la la land, really the best film of the aughts? According to 200 movie experts, it seems that it is. World of Reel surveyed film critics, actors, directors, academics, and curators from over a dozen countries to compile a list of the best films released between 2000-2009.
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“Goodfellas,” Martin Scorsese’s high-wire act of storytelling and visually masterful riff on the gangster genre, has topped our critics and industry poll as the best film of the 1990s. The survey, with 175 people from around the world voting, included directors, actors, producers, festival programmers, and historians. The closest competition to Scorsese’s film in the poll was Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 crime film, “Pulp Fiction,” which finished just 7 votes shy of “Goodfellas,” in second place.
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250 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors have spoken.
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