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The 100 Best Movies Ever, Ranked

What are the 100 greatest films of all-time? Opinions vary widely, but one thing is clear: if you want to be a serious cinema review outlet, you must have a ranked list of The 100 Best Movies Ever Made.

That’s why we, Fanboy and Know-It-All, are releasing our rankings for the Top 100 Greatest Cinematic Experiences.

Because we’re serious cinephiles and we’re spectacular.

It’s an audacious undertaking. Subjective and fraught with peril. Lists of this nature have taken down greater women and men than Fanboy and Know-It-All. The journey was not something we took lightly. We fretted. Hems were hawed and Haws were hemmed. We edited, re-edited, triple-checked, and quadruple-bypassed ourselves in order to combine our respective Top 50 Movies of All-Time lists and together build the definitive ranked list of the 100 Best Films Ever.

Will you agree? Probably not.

And, for us, that’s the fun of it.

Movies — and movie rankings — are less fun when they aren’t shared with one another and hashed out ad nauseum. We believe one of the most important joys that makes or breaks most of the greatest cinematic experiences of our lives is the ability to share the experiences with people you enjoy. Movies are better when we enjoy them together, and ranked movie lists are better when we haggle over them together.

So lend us your opinion(s)! We are ready.

Pop Culture with Fanboy and Know-It-All’s 100 Best Movies Ever, Ranked

  1. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Fanboy)
  2. Mad Max: Fury Road (Know-It-All)
  3. Rear Window (Fanboy)
  4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Know-It-All)
  5. Singing in the Rain (Fanboy)
  6. Napoleon Dynamite (Know-It-All)
  7. Sunset Blvd (Fanboy)
  8. About Time (Know-It-All)
  9. Vertigo (Fanboy)
  10. The Princess Bride* (Know-It-All)
  11. Casablanca (Fanboy)
  12. The Dark Knight* (Know-It-All)
  13. The Princess Bride* (Fanboy)
  14. Captain America: The Winter Soldier* (Know-It-All)
  15. 12 Angry Men (Fanboy)
  16. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King* (Know-It-All)
  17. Star Wars: A New Hope (Fanboy)
  18. The LEGO Movie (Know-It-All)
  19. High Noon (Fanboy)
  20. 1917 (Know-It-All)
  21. Schindler’s List (Fanboy)
  22. Toy Story 2 (Know-It-All)
  23. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* (Fanboy)
  24. Nacho Libre (Know-It-All)
  25. Bringing Up Baby (Fanboy)
  26. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* (Know-It-All)
  27. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Fanboy)
  28. Kung Fu Hustle (Know-It-All)
  29. The Dark Knight* (Fanboy)
  30. Inside Out (Know-It-All)
  31. The Bridge on the River Kwai (Fanboy)
  32. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers* (Know-It-All)
  33. Arsenic and Old Lace (Fanboy)
  34. Remember the Titans (Know-It-All)
  35. Die Hard (Fanboy)
  36. The LEGO Batman Movie (Know-It-All)
  37. Up (Fanboy)
  38. Murder By Death (Know-It-All)
  39. The Haunting (Fanboy)
  40. Paddington 2 (Know-It-All)
  41. Ben Hur (Fanboy)
  42. The Shawshank Redemption (Know-It-All)
  43. North By Northwest (Fanboy)
  44. Snatch (Know-It-All)
  45. Alien* (Fanboy)
  46. Alien* (Know-It-All)
  47. The Maltese Falcon (Fanboy)
  48. The Prestige (Know-It-All)
  49. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Fanboy)
  50. To Kill a Mockingbird (Know-It-All)
  51. It’s a Wonderful Life (Fanboy)
  52. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Know-It-All)
  53. Blade Runner (Fanboy)
  54. Ocean’s Eleven (Know-It-All)
  55. The Lion in Winter (Fanboy)
  56. The Incredibles (Know-It-All)
  57. Dunkirk (Fanboy)
  58. Groundhog Day* (Know-It-All)
  59. Lifeboat (Fanboy)
  60. Baby Driver (Know-It-All)
  61. The Fisher King (Fanboy)
  62. Memento (Know-It-All)
  63. Roma (Fanboy)
  64. Gladiator (Know-It-All)
  65. Some Like It Hot (Fanboy)
  66. No Country for Old Men (Know-It-All)
  67. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Fanboy)
  68. Logan (Know-It-All)
  69. The Exorcist (Fanboy)
  70. Get Out (Know-It-All)
  71. The Avengers (Fanboy)
  72. Thor: Ragnarok (Know-It-All)
  73. Saving Private Ryan (Fanboy)
  74. District 9 (Know-It-All)
  75. The Impossible (Fanboy)
  76. Ip Man (Know-It-All)
  77. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Fanboy)
  78. Shaun of the Dead (Know-It-All)
  79. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers* (Fanboy)
  80. A Shot in the Dark (Know-It-All)
  81. The Mission (Fanboy)
  82. Selma (Know-It-All)
  83. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Fanboy)
  84. Knives Out (Know-It-All)
  85. Skyfall (Fanboy)
  86. Wall-E (Know-It-All)
  87. Pinocchio (Fanboy)
  88. The Rundown (Know-It-All)
  89. Silence of the Lambs (Fanboy)
  90. Casino Royale (Know-It-All)
  91. Captain America: The Winter Soldier* (Fanboy)
  92. Edge of Tomorrow (Know-It-All)
  93. Gran Torino (Fanboy
  94. Zootopia (Know-It-All)
  95. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (Fanboy)
  96. Catch Me If You Can (Know-It-All)
  97. Groundhog Day* (Fanboy)
  98. Jo Jo Rabbit (Know-It-All)
  99. Silence (Fanboy)
  100. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Know-It-All)

*Denotes films that made both Fanboy and Know-It-All’s respective Top 50 Movies of All-Time lists

Get enmeshed in all the banter and the arguments as we hash out the entire list in our special super-sized 100th episode below or via your favorite podcast app!

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