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#290 - The BFG (85 points, 4 lists) #289 - Angels in the Outfield (85 points, 2 lists) #288 - Scary Movie 3 (85 points, 1 list) #287 - High School Musical (86 points, 3 lists) #286 - Scream 3 (86 points, 1 list) #285 - Insomnia (87 points, 3 lists) #284 - Adventures in Babysitting (87 points, 1 list) #283 - The Crow (88 points, 3 lists) #282 - Old Yeller (89 points, 4 lists) #281 - Beloved (89 points, 1 list)

#72 Encanto 727 points, 17 lists "Maybe your gift is being in denial." Box Office: 256.8M Rotten Tomatoes: 92% Metacritic: 75 Awards: 1 Academy Award and 2 nominations, 3 Annie Awards and 6 nominations, 1 Golden Globe Award and 2 nominations, 3 Grammy Awards, 4 Imagen Awards and 2 nominations Roger Ebert’s Review: N/A Its Legacy: Became a massive phenomenon in 2022. Inspired debates on mental health and family dynamics. The most-viewed film on streaming in 2022. The second-most viewed film on streaming in 2023. 27.7 billion views on Tiktok. "We Don't Talk About Bruno" became the first Disney song to hit #1 on Billboard since "A Whole New World". Expected to be one of Disney's biggest new franchises. Gave Stephanie Beatriz a paycheck. Commentary: It’s here we have one of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ more recent hits. This film became a worldwide phenomenon once it reached Disney+ for very good reasons. The directors Jared Bush and Bryon Howard, the duo who helped bring Zootopia to life, crafted a story that lovingly pays tribute to the beauty, the wonder, and the people of Colombia. It’s a story that isn’t about a princess finding love or talking animals discovering who they are. This is a very personal, family-driven story about the frustrations of expectations and generational divides that many empathize and relate to, regardless of your background. The film not only talks about familial pressures and the fears of not stacking up to what your loved ones wanted, but plays it smart by making all parties relatable and understandable and full of depth. Our protagonist Mirabel Madrigal is a quirky, yet kind-hearted and determined figure who just wants the best for her house and family, even if she’s the odd one out from all the powerful, more lauded members of her family. The abuela of the family could have easily been a one-dimensional and cruel matriarch, but her feelings and insecurities found in the film make sense, with a good sense of tragedy and a good sense of pathos, grounding the film in an emotional sincerity that anybody can enjoy and identify with. But of course, the real star of the show is America’s Sweetheart Lin-Manuel Miranda, who produced an absolutely incredible soundtrack full of catchy melodies, creative lyrics, and complex yet engaging compositions. It’s a soundtrack that is impossible to get out of your head and has of course become a sensation on Spotify and TikTok even now as we speak. The film has almost immediately become a staple of the Disney empire in the same way films like The Lion King and Frozen has and will likely become a huge franchise over the next few years. How big will the movie be? How much will its popularity transcend the decades? Well, it’s just getting started. But I have faith. A lot of good faith.

#73 Hercules 708 points, 19 lists "Honey, you mean Hunk-ules." Box Office: 252.7M Rotten Tomatoes: 82% Metacritic: 74 Awards: 1 Academy Award nomination, 4 Annie Awards and 2 nominations, 1 Golden Globe Award nomination Roger Ebert’s Review: "The movie has been directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, who inaugurated the modern era of Disney animation with the inspired "Little Mermaid" (1989) and also made "Aladdin" (1992). The look of their animation has a new freshness because of the style of Scarfe, famous in England for his sharp-penned caricatures of politicians and celebrities; the characters here are edgier and less rounded than your usual Disney heroes (although the cuddly Pegasus is in the traditional mode). The color palette too, makes less use of basic colors and stirs in more luminous shades, giving the picture a subtly different look that suggests it is different in geography and history from most Disney pictures." Its Legacy: Earned a strong fanbase despite underperforming at the box office. Brought Gerald Scarfe to Disney. Features a banging soundtrack. Oft-considered one of Musker and Clements' more underappreciated titles. Spawned a television series. Appeared in Kingdom Hearts. Given a musical stage show in 2019. A live-action remake is in development. Gave Bobcat Goldthwait a paycheck. Commentary: The big follow-up from Little Mermaid/Aladdin directors Ron Clements and John Musker, Hercules is a very odd duck when you get around to it. More of a Caesar’s Palace-style rendition of Greek mythology, we have a lot of the darker, sexual elements removed (for obvious reasons of course), Hercules acts more like Superman, there’s gospel music for almost all the numbers, there’s a lot of satire of merchandising and product placement that was common in the 90s, and our villain Hades was more like a shady car salesman than a booming threat. Still, it was a film that captured a lot of unique charms that, while reminiscent of other Musker/Clements features, also allowed the film to have a unique personality and style to it. This resulted in good songs, great characters, a fun and inspirational story about a misfit discovering himself and what it means to be a hero, and slick, stylized animation courtesy of Gerald Scarfe, who you may best know for his work with Pink Floyd. The film’s eccentricities meant it did underperform at the box office, but the movie’s unique identity, fun universe, and memorable sequences meant it was destined to get a strong audience. An audience that’s still enamored by the feature and still finds themselves singing its praises. And singing its catchy gospel songs.

#74 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 698 points, 11 lists "It would be so nice if something would make sense for a change." Box Office: 71.9M Rotten Tomatoes: 78% Metacritic: 69 Awards: 2 Academy Award nominations, 3 BAFTA Award nominations, 1 Golden Globe Award and 1 nomination, 2 Grammy Award wins, 2 MTV Movie Award nominations Roger Ebert’s Review: "All of these scenes are wonderful in their different ways, and yet I left the movie uncertain and unsatisfied. I saw it a second time, admired the same parts, left with the same feeling. I do not demand that all movies have a story to pull us from beginning to end, and indeed one of the charms of "The Big Lebowski," the Coens' previous film, is how its stoned hero loses track of the thread of his own life. But with "O Brother, Where Are Thou?" I had the sense of invention set adrift; of a series of bright ideas wondering why they had all been invited to the same film." Its Legacy: Competed for Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Its soundtrack went 8x Platinum. More successful than the film itself. Created the Soggy Bottom Boys and the Down from the Mountain concert tour. Gave the youths a fresh spin on Homer's The Odyssey. The first collaboration between the Coens and T Bone Burnett. Also the first collaboration between the Coens and George Clooney. Gave Charles Durning a paycheck. Commentary: One of the most famous Coen releases ever, it’s also one of the best films that showcase the idiosyncrasies of the two brothers and what make their films so unique and stylish. It’s a hilarious comedy, a fun adventure, a dramatic tale on brotherhood, and a fantastic insight into the strange, yet endearing world of the American South. All the while, having one amazing soundtrack. The songs in here, both from our Soggy Bottom Boys and not from them, is full of great bangers, highlighting the charms of folk and bluegrass music, while setting up the quirky tone of the feature perfectly. The songs here would soon take a life of their own, winning Album of the Year at the Grammys among other accolades, and is still a hit decades later, with nearly 9 million copies sold and many young folk knowing who Ralph Stanley and Haywire Mac thanks to this film. And while the soundtrack plays a big part in what makes the film so good, it’s also very funny, very well-paced, full of great twists and turns, and a tone and scale that feels loopy and silly, yet also grand and exciting. It’s an odyssey that’s as good as...well, as good as The Odyssey.

Dune: 170 Kung Fu Panda: 160 Ghostbusters: 85 GxK: 90

#300 - The Castle (80 points, 1 list) #299 - Shanghai Noon, Treasure Island (81 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #60) #298 - Infernal Affairs (81 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #39) #297 - Open Range (82 points, 3 lists) #296 - Miracle (82 points, 2 lists) #295 - Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) (82 points, 1 list) #294 - What About Bob? (83 points, 3 lists) #293 - What's Love Got To Do With It? (83 points, 2 lists) #292 - Bandits (83 points, 1 list) #291 - He Got Game, The Lion King 1 1/2 (84 points, 2 lists)

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You’re surprised by this? People always gravitate towards recent movies as their favorite lol

Ah yes. Before BvS, movies always had good word of mouth and always had good legs.

...keep telling yourself that, honey.

#310 - Frida (74 points, 1 list) #309 - Bad Monkey, Blindness (75 points, 1 list) #308 - Fresh (1994), Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (76 points, 1 list) #307 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (77 points, 2 lists) #306 - Tsotsi (77 points, 1 list) #305 - The Kid (78 points, 2 lists) #304 - Iron Monkey (78 points, 1 list) #303 - Arachnophobia (79 points, 1 list) #302 - Cinderella Man (80 points, 3 lists) #301 - Leon: The Professional (80 points, 2 lists)

#75 Alice in Wonderland 682 points, 13 lists "It would be so nice if something would make sense for a change." Box Office: 5.9M Rotten Tomatoes: 84% Metacritic: 68 Awards: 1 Academy Award nomination Roger Ebert's Review: N/A Legacy: Walt Disney's least favorite film of his. Became one of the first Disney films to air on television and release on VHS. Has a massive presence in every Disney park with at least one attraction. The best showcase of Mary Blair's talents. Turned into a stage show for children's theaters. Appeared in Kingdom Hearts. Spawned a Disney Junior spin-off series in 2022. Got a remake in 2010, kicking off the modern live-action remake trend. Very popular with hippies and stoners. Gave Ed Wynn a paycheck. Commentary: Who needs drugs when Disney can help you experience being high? The classic Lewis Carroll book had been a favorite of Walt’s for ages. Even back in the 1920s, when he was still figuring out this new animation medium thing, he created his own series of Alice in Wonderland shorts with the Alice Comedies. It’s actually some of the earliest works Walt ever did as a filmmaker, and an early instance of live-action/animation hybridness. And frankly, this seemed like the best way to adapt the original story. As shorts. How can you take something so episodic and absurdist as Alice in Wonderland and make a whole feature out of it? The answer, shockingly, was embracing the absurdism, embracing the surrealism, and embracing the odd structure. While audiences and critics found themselves frustrated with this film’s off-kilter nature compared to the previous animated films from Walt and company, it thankfully found its audience thanks to television reruns and the rise of psychedelia in the 70s. While it’s easy to understand why there were criticisms over the episodic storytelling and lack of a strong narrative drive, it’s even easier to understand why it became so popular decades later. With the incredible art direction courtesy of Mary Blair, we are given a fantastical fantasia of colors and visuals, creating something that is otherworldly, yet entrancing to watch. Alongside the beautiful animation are fantastic setpieces anchored by hilarious characters, memorable tunes, surreal imagery, and a very endearing protagonist in Alice to keep us engaged. It was in many ways ahead of its time and has been around long enough to be recognized as an all-time Disney classic. An important piece of the animation studio’s history, a defining aspect of all the Disney parks, and the film that spawned the live-action remake trend, which...well, some people like those movies.

#76 Kill Bill: Volume 2 661 points, 14 lists "The lioness has rejoined her cub, and all is right in the jungle." Box Office: 152.2M Rotten Tomatoes: 84% Metacritic: 83 Awards: 4 Empire Award nominations, 2 Golden Globe Award nominations, 1 MTV Movie Award and 2 nominations, 4 Satellite Award nominations, 3 Saturn Awards and 4 nominations Roger Ebert's Review: "Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill, Volume 2" is an exuberant celebration of moviemaking, coasting with heedless joy from one audacious chapter to another, working as irony, working as satire, working as drama, working as pure action. I liked it even more than "Kill Bill, Volume 1" (2003). It's not a sequel but a continuation and completion, filmed at the same time; now that we know the whole story, the first part takes on another dimension. "Vol. 2" stand on its own, although it has deeper resonance if you've seen "Kill Bill," just released on video." Legacy: Solidified and justified splitting Kill Bill. Opened higher than Volume 1. Soldified The Bride as one of the best action heroines ever. Earned the biggest opening weekend in Miramax history. Earned a Norwegian parody in 2007. Popularized the Ironside theme song for a new generation. Gave David Carradine a paycheck. Commentary: It’s kinda hard to really talk about Volume 2 when I haven't even mentioned Volume 1 (did it make the list??????????????) Yet if you’ve seen both movies, you know what each film’s strengths are. While Volume 1 is a nonstop thrill ride, with action scene upon action scene upon action scene, Volume 2 is the film that offers the more contemplative and story-driven take on the material. It’s the film that gives more insight to The Bride and who she actually is, more insight into our antagonist Bill, and gives us one bombshell of a third act that could, frankly, only come from Tarantino. In a way, it was kind of anticlimactic to have the big final feature be more story-driven and not as action-heavy. Yet it’s necessary, not just because of Tarantino’s usual subversions, but also makes the final confrontation a lot more complex and a lot more fascinating. Of course, it’s hard to really say one is better than the other, as this all comes down to preference. But is this the one you guys like more? Well...just wait and see.

#77 Incredibles 2 661 points, 15 lists "Math is math, math is math!" Box Office: 1.243B Rotten Tomatoes: 93% Metacritic: 80 Awards: 1 Academy Award nomination, 2 Annie Awards and 9 nominations, 1 BAFTA Award nomination, 1 Golden Globe Award nomination Roger Ebert's Review: N/A Legacy: Became the second highest-grossing animated film ever made and fifteenth highest-grossing film ever. Spawned The Incredicoaster at Disney California Adventure. Pixar's highest-grossing film ever. Accidentally caused epileptic seizures. Cited as one of the best animated movies of the year. Was one of the highest-viewed movies on Netflix in 2019. The Best Animated Film of 2018 by the National Board of Review. Gave Holly Hunter a paycheck. Commentary: Like the other Pixar sequels that came out around this time, Incredibles 2 had a lot of odds stacked against it compared to fan expectations. And this film might have dealt with it the worst. Since Day 1, people were clamoring, demanding, begging for a second Incredibles movie. The world and characters and concept was just so cool and interesting and well-developed that you could easily make tons of sequels. Have more heroes, have the characters grow up and develop, bring more interesting commentary about superheroism, show off that awesome 60s-style retrofuturism. Well, it took a while for that to happen. But after 14 years, we got it. And the wait, while didn't lead to a film as iconic as its predecessor, was certainly worth it. With over a decade of innovations and upgrades, the animation was on another level. In terms of designs, expression, and character movement. It’s some of Pixar’s most visually stunning work, as well as some of their best setpieces ever. Elastigirl is now the focus, and the way her elastic body moves and stretches is stunning to behold, with incredible action scene after incredible action scene. Add on a great subplot with Mr. Incredible learning to bond with his kids and being a better dad, we get to thus enjoy seeing the family act more like a unit and a team, with the whole cast being just as likable and fun as they were way back in 2004. There’s great comedy, great action, great suspense, great animation. It’s just a great time all around, and quickly became one of the highest-grossing animated films in history and yet another reason why Brad Bird’s one of the best animation directors working today.