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Film Reviews -
By Decade

300 Greatest Film Reviews - By Decade: This list of Filmsite's film reviews have been ordered chronologically, by decade, in sections titled 100 Greatest Films, 200 Greatest Films and 300 Greatest Films.

This collection includes films that have been selected as the 100 Greatest Films - they are marked with a yellow star

- and other supplemental lists of great films that have been written up, including Another 100 Greatest Films (101-200 Greatest Films) and Third 100 Greatest Films (201-300 Greatest Films).

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300 Greatest Film Reviews - By Decade

The Pre-1920's:

The Birth Of A Nation (1915)

Intolerance (1916)
Broken Blossoms (1919)

The 1920's:

Greed (1924)
The Big Parade (1925)

The Gold Rush (1925)

The General (1927)
The Jazz Singer (1927)

Sunrise (1927)

The Crowd (1928)

The 1930's:

All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
Little Caesar (1930)

City Lights (1931)
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)

Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Dinner at Eight (1933)

Duck Soup (1933)

42nd Street (1933)

King Kong (1933)
Queen Christina (1933)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933)

It Happened One Night (1934)
It's a Gift (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

A Night At The Opera (1935)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)

Top Hat (1935)
Camille (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Modern Times (1936)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
The Awful Truth (1937)

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Way Out West (1937)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Jezebel (1938)
Pygmalion (1938)
Dark Victory (1939)

Gone With The Wind (1939)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Ninotchka (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Stagecoach (1939)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Wuthering Heights (1939)

The 1940's:

The Bank Dick (1940)

Fantasia (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

His Girl Friday (1940)
The Letter (1940)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Rebecca (1940)

Citizen Kane (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)

The Lady Eve (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Casablanca (1942)
Cat People (1942)
Kings Row (1942)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Now, Voyager (1942)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Double Indemnity (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Laura (1944)

Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

The Big Sleep (1946)
Brief Encounter (1946)

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
The Killers (1946)

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Notorious (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Out Of The Past (1947)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)

Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)

Red River (1948)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
All the King's Men (1949)

The Third Man (1949)
White Heat (1949)

The 1950's:

All About Eve (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Gun Crazy (1950)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

The African Queen (1951)

An American In Paris (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

High Noon (1952)

The Quiet Man (1952)

Singin' In The Rain (1952)
The Big Heat (1953)
From Here to Eternity (1953)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Shane (1953)

On The Waterfront (1954)

Rear Window (1954)

A Star Is Born (1954)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
East of Eden (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Marty (1955)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Baby Doll (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

The Searchers (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)

The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

Paths of Glory (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957)

Touch Of Evil (1958)

Vertigo (1958)

Ben-Hur (1959)

North By Northwest (1959)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

The 1960's:

The Apartment (1960)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Psycho (1960)
The Hustler (1961)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
West Side Story (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
The Birds (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: (1964)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Blow-Up (1966)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Graduate (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Easy Rider (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)

The 1970's:

Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Patton (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Deliverance (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
American Graffiti (1973)
Badlands (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
Sleeper (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Jaws (1975)
Nashville (1975)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Network (1976)
Rocky (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Halloween (1978)
Alien (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Being There (1979)

The 1980's:

Raging Bull (1980)
The Shining (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Terminator (1984)
Brazil (1985)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Field of Dreams (1989)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

The 1990's:

GoodFellas (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Unforgiven (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Fargo (1996)