Best Movies of All Time

They asked 120 panelists to nominate their favorite sports movies, and then to rate each nomination from 1 to 100. Rosamund Pike portrays a diabolical con artist who poses as the legal guardian for elderly people in order to seize their assets in this dark, satirical thriller. Her highly profitable scam takes a dangerous turn when her latest victim turns out to be the mother of a powerful mob boss, leading to a deadly battle of wills between Pike’s character and a ruthless criminal kingpin played by Peter Dinklage.

Blanche explains that she was given a leave of absence from her teaching job because she had become a little "lunatic," and now makes herself at home in the cramped apartment, which affords little privacy. Blanche is immediately offended by Stanley's coarse manners, and he is infuriated when he learns that Blanche has lost the family home at Belle Reve. Stanley rants about the "Napoleonic code," which he claims decrees that what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband. Unimpressed by Blanche's genteel manners, Stanley reveals that his wife is pregnant, and at his insistence, Blanche reluctantly digs out the papers which document the many unpaid loans written against the Belle Reve estate. That night, Stanley's poker game runs late, and when Stella and Blanche return from an outing together, Blanche meets Stanley's best friend Mitch, a bachelor who looks after his sick mother.

In 1933 three close friends find themselves at the center top movies of one of the most shocking secret plots in American...

While Leia manages to escape with Han Solo and Chewbacca , Luke Skywalker has traveled to Dagobah in order to seek the help of Jedi Master Yoda in the funny-talking puppet’s first franchise appearance. While A New Hope was a family affair, The Empire Strikes Back is decidedly darker in tone, and it is the movie in which we learn some essential pieces of Star Wars intel, including the link between Luke and Leia and their true parentage. Science and religion collide in this adaptation of the Carl Sagan novel of the same name, which follows a pair of scientists who make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. Dr. Ellie Arroway works at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, where she has been attempting to make contact with extraterrestrials for years. When a repeating signal eventually appears from the Vega star system, she enters into an international race to decipher it, in the hope of being selected to respond to the message. The film caused a bit of controversy when real footage of Bill Clinton responding to the discovery of a meteorite that was thought to be from Mars was inserted into the film, prompting the White House to send a letter to the filmmakers.

Sci-fi pioneer Ridley Scott’s Alien follows the crew of a commercial space ship—led by the kickass Ellen Ripley —who are sent to investigate Ripley’s claims of a race of alien beings that overtook her previous ship, the Nostromo. It doesn’t take long for the team to encounter their first pair of murderous alien life-forms, the infamous face-huggers, and witness the trail of death and destruction they leave in their wake. The film’s claustrophobic atmosphere was inspired by classic sci-fi stories, but it struggled to secure financing until Star Wars showed that audiences were thirsting for spectacularly made sci-fi. One of the film’s stand-out techniques was to never show the full horror of the eponymous Alien , the Xenomorph XX121. Three mutated humans, known as Precogs, make these predictions—and foretell that Chief Anderton , who heads up the Precrime Unit, will kill a man he has never met in 36 hours, prompting him to go on the run.

To do so, she begins work on a rocket that will take her to the moon to prove Chang’e’s existence. Filled with heart and mesmerizing animation, the Oscar-nominated Over the Moonoften looks and feels like your standard Disney epic, but the familiar structure and dazzling music are enough to keep everyone glued to the screen. August at Akiko’s Christopher Makoto Yogi turns this ghost story into a slow-burn meditation on death, memory, and what lives on after we depart. As the elderly patriarch of a fragmented family nears the end of his life, he’s visited by family in the present and ghosts from the past, including his long-deceased wife .