Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Films I Rate 10/10

__Welcome to a series of posts in which I list every movie I've seen up to now, grouped by rating from one to ten. I already listed all the ones that form part of a series (or just a distinctive banner like, say, the Disney animated features), so if you haven't already, you can check out that post to see how I think each instalment in a series compares with the others. But now it's time to spotlight every standalone movie in between as well. I'm such a nerd that I actually keep a record of every movie I've seen (including short films, documentaries and even two-episode TV miniseries, which can easily be viewed as one movie split in half), and I try to keep my full set of ratings consistent across all movie-related websites.
__For this first entry, I'll be listing the absolute best, the movies I love so much that they've earned full marks. Lately, a full 10/10 is becoming the hardest rating to achieve, because I've seen so many movies, especially mediocre or downright terrible ones, that I'm getting increasingly jaded and harder to please. Of the 2,186 movies that I've seen to date, there are 115 that I've placed on the top tier of my enjoyment scale. That's about 5.3% of the entire library! So these are the elite, the cream of the crop, the ones I absolutely love and will never get tired of.
__And keep in mind that, since I live in the British Isles, they'll be listed alphabetically by their British titles. If the American title is significantly different, I'll be sure to mention it. I did think of making each title a link to the film's IMDb page in case you'd like more information, but considering I'd have to copy more than two thousand links and insert them into the selected text, I decided that'd be a bit too ambitious and time-consuming.
__Right, enough preamble! Here we go.

AC/DC: Live at Donington (1992)
Aladdin (1992)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Amadeus (1984)
Apollo 13 (1995)
The Artist (2011)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Batman (1989)
Batman Begins (2005)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Braveheart (1995)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Casablanca (1943)
Changeling (2008)
Citizen Kane (1941)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Close Shave (1995)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Descent (2005)
Die Hard (1988)
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dracula [AKA Horror of Dracula] (1958)
Duel (1971)
Ed Wood (1994)
Fantasia (1940)
First Blood (1982)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Great Escape (1963)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Halloween (1978)
Harry Hill in Hooves: Live (2005)
High Noon (1952)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Inception (2010)
The Incredibles (2004)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Inside Out (2015)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Italian Job (1969)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
The Jungle Book (1967)
Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Keane Live (2007)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
Let the Right One In (2008)
The Lion King (1994)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Memento (2000)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
North by Northwest (1959)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Queen Live at Wembley '86 (1986)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Rear Window (1954)
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
Rocky (1976)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Sin City (2005)
Snake Eyes (1998)
The Snowman (1982)
The Social Network (2010)
Spirited Away (2001)
Stagecoach (1939)
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Suburban Knights (2011)
Sunshine (2007)
The Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Thing (1982)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Toy Story (1995)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
TRON (1982)
12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Up (2009)
Vertigo (1958)
WALL-E (2008)
Watership Down (1978)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
The Wrong Trousers (1993)
Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
Zootropolis [AKA Zootopia] (2016)

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