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This list seems like pretentious bullshit, honestly. Of all 100 movies, none of them are made within the last 20 years.
There is a strong bias towards black and white movies here, and of course the mandatory Citizen Kane is at the top. I found it mediocre by todays standard, extremely slow and boring.
The list was last updated in 2007.
This list is very unpretentious lol. I recognize everything they listed and have seen almost half of them. They are some the most famous films of all time. Also Citizen Kane is considered the best because it broke a lot of rules set by studios and it was copied by just about everyone. Cinema wouldn’t be the same without it.
Well by the same token there’s generally a lot of recency bias in online film conversations. All of the films I have seen on the list fit. Art forms can degrade or at least not progress enough to contribute to the “canon”.
What would you add from recent film?
From mainstream cinema the matrix and the dark night come to mind quickly.
Rolling Stone posted up the 50 best of the 2010s:
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-movies-decade-2010s-910770/moonlight-2016-910972/
Roger Ebert.com did a top 25 here:
https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-best-films-of-the-2010s