In 2008, Empire Magazine released their 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, comprised of opinions from industry professionals, film critics, and movie fans. Below are my reviews for all the films on the list.
1-50 | 51-100 | 101-150 | 151-200 | 201-250 | 251-300 | 301-350 | 351-400 | 401-450 | 451-500
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Jaws
6. GoodFellas
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Fight Club
11. Raging Bull
12. The Apartment
13. Chinatown
14. Once Upon a Time in the West
15. The Dark Knight
17. Taxi Driver
18. Casablanca
20. Blade Runner
21. The Third Man*
22. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
24. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
25. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
26. Dr. Strangelove
27. Some Like It Hot
28. Citizen Kane
29. Die Hard
30. Aliens
31. Gone with the Wind
32. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
33. Alien
34. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
35. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
36. Andrei Rublev
37. A Clockwork Orange
38. Heat
39. The Matrix
40. Vertigo
41. The 400 Blows
42. Kind Hearts and Coronets*
43. The Big Lebowski
44. Schindler’s List
45. Psycho
46. On the Waterfront
47. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
48. This Is Spinal Tap*
49. Evil Dead
50. Seven Samurai
51. 8 ½
52. The Shining
53. Donnie Darko*
54. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
55. La Dolce Vita
56. Casino Royale
57. Lawrence of Arabia
58. His Girl Friday
59. Close Encounters of the Third Kind*
60. Come and See
61. The Usual Suspects
62. The Graduate
63. Sunset Boulevard
64. Oldboy
65. Harold and Maude*
66. Edward Scissorhands
67. Tokyo Story
68. Annie Hall*
69. Three Colours Red*
70. Stand by Me*
71. The Night of the Hunter
72. 12 Angry Men
73. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
74. The Treasure of Sierra Madre
75. A Matter of Life and Death*
76. Manhattan*
77. Spartacus
78. Rosemary’s Baby
79. The Thin Red Line
80. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp*
81. Batman Begins
82. The Great Escape*
83. Brazil*
84. L.A. Confidential
85. Blue Velvet
86. Carrie
87. The King of Comedy
88. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
89. Magnolia
90. When Harry Met Sally
91. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
92. Once Upon a Time in America
93. Spirit of the Beehive
94. The Wild Bunch
95. Yojimbo
96. American Beauty
97. Reservoir Dogs
98. North by Northwest
99. Toy Story
100. Network
101. Raising Arizona
102. The Hustler*
103. Rear Window
104. The Rules of the Game
105. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
106. A Man for All Seasons
107. An American Werewolf in London*
108. The Tree of Wooden Clogs*
109. Touch of Evil
110. Before Sunset
111. Fitzcarraldo*
112. I Am Cuba*
113. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
114. The Conversation*
115. Blazing Saddles*
116. Rio Bravo*
117. Miller’s Crossing*
118. Withnail and I*
119. The Wages of Fear*
120. The Battle of Algiers
121. Los Olvidados
122. The Princess Bride
123. A Woman Under the Influence*
124. The Silence of the Lambs
125. A Bout de souffle*
126. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid*
127. The Sting
128. Lost in Translation
129. Harvey*
130. The Man Who Would Be King*
131. The Last of the Mohicans
132. Pan’s Labyrinth
133. Double Indemnity
134. Seven
135. Duck Soup
136. Amadeus
137. Dances with Wolves
138. Cool Hand Luke*
139. Blow Out*
140. As Good as It Gets*
141. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
142. Almost Famous
143. Cyrano De Bergerac*
144. There Will Be Blood
145. Sophie’s Choice
146. Shampoo*
147. Notorious
148. Z*
149. The Red Shoes*
150. The French Connection
151. Gladiator
152. Boogie Nights
153. The Innocents*
154. Betty Blue*
155. Badlands
156. Saving Private Ryan
157. True Romance
158. Unforgiven
159. The Royal Tenenbaums
160. Being There*
161. The Year of Living Dangerously*
162. A Nightmare on Elm Street*
163. The Bridge on the River Kwai
164. The Searchers
165. Partie de campagne*
166. Goldfinger*
167. Don’t Look Now*
168. Tootsie
169. Viridiana
170. La Haine*
171. Brief Encounter
172. The Wizard of Oz
173. Memento
174. Superman the Movie
175. Rushmore
176. A Canterbury Tale*
177. City of God
178. Hellzapoppin’*
179. Toy Story 2
180. To Kill a Mockingbird
181. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls*
182. Performance*
183. Le Samourai*
184. Dirty Harry*
185. Paths of Glory
186. United 93*
187. The Big Country*
188. School of Rock
189. Ghostbusters
190. Big
191. Brokeback Mountain
192. Eraserhead
193. Ed Wood*
194. Bicycle Thieves
195. It’s a Wonderful Life
196. Amélie
197. Point Break
198. Fargo
199. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
200. Before Sunrise
201. JFK*
202. The Killer*
203. Life of Brian*
204. The Bride of Frankenstein
205. The Addiction
206. The Exorcist
207. The Misfits*
208. The Departed
209. Local Hero*
210. Platoon
211. Moulin Rouge!
212. M
213. Songs from the Second Floor*
214. Army of Shadows*
215. Jackie Brown
216. Sunday Bloody Sunday*
217. The Magnificent Seven*
218. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday*
219. The Outlaw Josey Wales*
220. Far From Heaven
221. McCabe & Mrs Miller*
222. Mother and Son*
223. Safe*
224. Distant Voices, Still Lives*
225. Get Carter*
226. Romeo + Juliet*
227. Léon*
228. No Country for Old Men
229. Festen*
230. Howl’s Moving Castle
231. Shaun of the Dead
232. Jurassic Park
233. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
234. The Bourne Ultimatum
235. Battle Royale*
236. Black Narcissus*
237. Delicatessen*
238. Requiem for a Dream
239. Cinema Paradiso
240. Forrest Gump
241. Brighton Rock*
242. King Kong
243. Heimat*
244. Dazed and Confused
245. Downfall*
246. The Philadelphia Story
247. All That Jazz*
248. Pandora’s Box*
249. My Darling Clementine*
250. Sunrise
251. Darling*
252. The Leopard
253. First Blood*
254. The Verdict
255. Ninotchka*
256. Le Quai des brumes*
257. The Black Cat*
258. The Blues Brothers*
259. Groundhog Day
260. Field of Dreams
261. Roman Holiday*
262. The Virgin Suicides
263. Das Boot*
264. American Graffiti
265. A.I. Artificial Intelligence*
266. Ghost World*
267. Crimes and Misdemeanors*
268. The Lady Vanishes*
269. A Place in the Sun*
270. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu*
271. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure*
272. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage*
273. The Maltese Falcon
274. Sin City
275. My Neighbour Totoro
276. Layer Cake*
277. On the Town*
278. Carlito’s Way
279. National Lampoon’s Animal House*
280. Mad Max 2*
281. Interview with the Vampire*
282. The Godfather Part III
283. Ran
284. Scarface
285. Solaris
286. L’avventura
287. Secrets and Lies*
288. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
289. John Carpenter’s The Thing
290. Rashomon
291. Rocco and His Brothers*
292. Le belle et la bête*
293. La maman et la putain*
294. The Red Balloon*
295. The Untouchables*
296. All the President’s Men
297. It Happened One Night
298. Le cercle rouge*
299. The Palm Beach Story*
300. Sawdust and Tinsel*
301. Love and Death*
302. The Best Years of Our Lives
303. Together*
304. Radio Days*
305. The Prestige
306. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
307. Midnight Cowboy
308. The Terminator
309. Transformers
310. Gremlins
311. American History X
312. Suspiria
313. Battleship Potemkin
314. Sweet Smell of Success*
315. Sense and Sensibility
316. Trainspotting
317. Midnight Run*
318. Rebecca
319. The Lion King
320. Braveheart*
321. Funny Face*
322. Aladdin
323. The Last Seduction*
324. Lone Star*
325. Kill Bill Vol. 1
326. Out of Sight*
327. The Nightmare Before Christmas
328. The Truman Show
329. The Lives of Others
330. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
331. The Green Mile*
332. The Sixth Sense
333. Grease*
334. The Magnificent Ambersons
335. The Seventh Seal
336. Titanic
337. 300
338. Jules et Jim
339. Spirited Away
340. High and Low
341. The Passenger*
342. The Gold Rush
343. Monsters, Inc.
344. The Last Waltz*
345. Fatal Attraction
346. Leave Her to Heaven*
347. All About Eve
348. Au hasard Balthazar
349. Arthur*
350. Planet of the Apes*
351. Zulu*
352. Unfaithfully Yours*
353. Bugsy Malone*
354. Un chien andalou*
355. Sunshine*
356. Napoléon*
357. The Long Goodbye*
358. Russian Ark*
359. The Lady Eve
360. The Return*
361. Clerks*
362. The Elephant Man
363. Good Morning, Vietnam*
364. Natural Born Killers*
365. The Bourne Identity
366. Predator
367. Cabaret
368. Airplane!
369. The Breakfast Club
370. Rocky
371. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
372. Army of Darkness*
373. Wall-E
374. Hot Fuzz
375. Four Weddings and a Funeral*
376. Zodiac
377. Mean Streets
378. The Goonies
379. Ratatouille
380. Children of Men
381. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
382. Caché*
383. Serenity*
384. The Shop Around the Corner
385. Ace in the Hole
386. The Great Silence*
387. Rain Man
388. The English Patient
389. Election
390. 2 Days in Paris
391. Mulholland Drive
392. Paris, Texas*
393. Garden State
394. Cloverfield*
395. Casino
396. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford*
397. Night of the Living Dead
398. Killer of Sheep*
399. Greed*
400. The Incredibles
401. Batman Returns
402. Little Miss Sunshine
403. Do the Right Thing
404. RoboCop
405. Dirty Dancing
406. Iron Man
407. The Jungle Book
408. Zelig*
409. Men in Black
410. A Hard Day’s Night*
411. Spider-Man 2
412. Heathers*
413. Finding Nemo
414. The Double Life of Véronique
415. Dawn of the Dead*
416. Bad Taste
417. Lords of Dogtown*
418. V for Vendetta
419. Days of Heaven
420. Jerry Maguire
421. Lethal Weapon*
422. A Man Escaped*
423. Kill Bill Vol. 2
424. To Have and Have Not*
425. Wonder Boys*
426. Enduring Love*
427. Spring in a Small Town
428. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser*
429. Danger: Diabolik*
430. Big Trouble in Little China
431. Electra Glide in Blue*
432. X-Men 2
433. Good Will Hunting
434. The Cat Concerto*
435. American Psycho
436. Beauty and the Beast
437. Spider-Man
438. The Lost Boys*
439. Grosse Pointe Blank*
440. Akira*
441. Being John Malkovich
442. Atonement
443. Dog Day Afternoon
444. Hairspray*
445. Dumb and Dumber
446. High Fidelity*
447. Ten*
448. A History of Violence
449. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
450. King Kong
451. Speed
452. Unbreakable
453. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
454. The Bourne Supremacy
455. Top Gun
456. 28 Days Later
457. Full Metal Jacket
458. Batman
459. Ikiru
460. Crash
461. Halloween
462. Dead Man’s Shoes*
463. Juno
464. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers*
465. 12 Monkeys*
466. Snatch*
467. The Deer Hunter
468. The Crow*
469. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas*
470. Glengarry Glen Ross*
471. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
472. Le Doulos*
473. Into the Wild*
474. Enter the Dragon*
475. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
476. Santa Sangre*
477. Rebel Without a Cause*
478. Flesh*
479. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty*
480. The Son’s Room*
481. Topsy-Turvy*
482. Scream
483. The Big Red One*
484. The Fountain*
485. The Wicker Man*
486. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
487. Superbad
488. Princess Mononoke
489. Brick
490. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
491. Ben-Hur
492. Amores Perros
493. In the Company of Men*
494. Sideways
495. Jailhouse Rock*
496. Superman Returns
497. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
498. Back to the Future Part II
499. Saw
500. Ocean’s Eleven
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