National Board of Review Top Ten Films (2)

1920s[edit]
1929:
Applause
Broadway
Bulldog Drummond
The Case of Lena Smith
Disraeli ‡
Hallelujah!
The Letter
The Love Parade ‡
Paris Bound
The Valiant
1930s[edit]
1930:
All Quiet on the Western Front †
Holiday
Laughter
The Man from Blankley's
Men Without Women
Morocco
Outward Bound
Romance
Street of Chance
Tol'able David
1931:
Cimarron †
City Lights
City Streets
Dishonored
The Front Page ‡
The Guardsman
Quick Millions
Rango
Surrender
Tabu
1932:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ‡
As You Desire Me
A Bill of Divorcement
A Farewell to Arms
Madame Racketeer
Payment Deferred
Scarface
Tarzan the Ape Man
Trouble in Paradise
Two Seconds
1933:
Topaze
Berkeley Square
Cavalcade †
Little Women ‡
Mama Loves Papa
The Pied Piper
She Done Him Wrong ‡
State Fair ‡
Three-Cornered Moon
Zoo in Budapest
1934:
It Happened One Night †
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime Without Passion
Eskimo
The First World War
The Lost Patrol
Lot in Sodom
No Greater Glory
The Thin Man ‡
Viva Villa! ‡
1935:
The Informer ‡
Alice Adams ‡
Anna Karenina
David Copperfield ‡
The Gilded Lily
Les Misérables ‡
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer ‡
Mutiny on the Bounty †
Ruggles of Red Gap ‡
Who Killed Cock Robin?
1936:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ‡
The Story of Louis Pasteur ‡
Modern Times
Fury
Winterset
The Devil is a Sissy
Ceiling Zero
Romeo and Juliet ‡
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Green Pastures
1937:
Night Must Fall ‡
The Life of Emile Zola †
Black Legion
Camille
Make Way for Tomorrow
The Good Earth ‡
They Won't Forget
Captains Courageous ‡
A Star Is Born ‡
Stage Door ‡
1938:
The Citadel ‡
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Beachcomber
To the Victor
Sing You Sinners
The Edge of the World
Of Human Hearts
Jezebel ‡
South Riding
Three Comrades
1939:
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Wuthering Heights ‡
Stagecoach ‡
Ninotchka ‡
Young Mr. Lincoln
Crisis
Goodbye, Mr. Chips ‡
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ‡
The Roaring Twenties
U-Boat 29
1940s[edit]
1940:
The Grapes of Wrath ‡
The Great Dictator ‡
Of Mice and Men (1939) ‡
Our Town ‡
Fantasia
The Long Voyage Home ‡
Foreign Correspondent ‡
The Biscuit Eater
Gone with the Wind (1939) †
Rebecca (1940) †
1941:
Citizen Kane ‡
How Green Was My Valley †
The Little Foxes ‡
The Stars Look Down
Dumbo
High Sierra
Here Comes Mr. Jordan ‡
Tom, Dick and Harry
Road to Zanzibar
The Lady Eve
1942:
In Which We Serve ‡
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Mrs. Miniver †
Journey for Margaret
Wake Island ‡
The Male Animal
The Major and the Minor
Sullivan's Travels
The Moon and Sixpence
The Pied Piper ‡
1943:
The Ox-Bow Incident ‡
Watch on the Rhine ‡
Air Force
Holy Matrimony
The Hard Way
Casablanca †
Lassie Come Home
Bataan
The Moon Is Down
The Next of Kin
1944:
None But the Lonely Heart ‡
Going My Way †
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Hail the Conquering Hero
The Song of Bernadette ‡ (1943
Wilson ‡
Meet Me in St. Louis
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
Thunder Rock
Lifeboat
1945:
The True Glory
The Lost Weekend †
The Southerner
The Story of G.I. Joe
The Last Chance
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
The Fighting Lady
The Way Ahead
The Clock
1946:
Henry V ‡
The Best Years of Our Lives †
Brief Encounter
A Walk in the Sun
It Happened at the Inn
My Darling Clementine
The Diary of a Chambermaid
The Killers
1947:
Monsieur Verdoux
Great Expectations ‡
Shoeshine
Crossfire ‡
Boomerang!
Odd Man Out
Gentleman's Agreement †
To Live in Peace
It's a Wonderful Life ‡
The Overlanders
1948:
Paisan
Day of Wrath
The Search
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ‡
Louisiana Story
Hamlet †
The Snake Pit ‡
Johnny Belinda ‡
Joan of Arc
The Red Shoes ‡
1949:
The Bicycle Thief
The Quiet One
Intruder in the Dust
The Heiress ‡
Devil in the Flesh
Quartet
Germany Year Zero
Home of the Brave
A Letter to Three Wives ‡
The Fallen Idol
1950s[edit]
1950:
Sunset Boulevard ‡
All About Eve †
The Asphalt Jungle
The Men
Edge of Doom
Twelve O'Clock High ‡
Panic in the Streets
Cyrano de Bergerac
No Way Out
Stage Fright
1951:
A Place in the Sun ‡
The Red Badge of Courage
An American in Paris †
Death of a Salesman
Detective Story
A Streetcar Named Desire ‡
Decision Before Dawn ‡
Strangers on a Train
Quo Vadis ‡
Fourteen Hours
1952:
The Quiet Man ‡
High Noon ‡
Limelight
5 Fingers
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Thief
The Bad and the Beautiful
Singin' in the Rain
Above and Beyond
My Son John
1953:
Julius Caesar ‡
Shane ‡
From Here to Eternity †
Martin Luther
Lili
Roman Holiday ‡
Stalag 17
The Little Fugitive
Mogambo
The Robe ‡
1954:
On the Waterfront †
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ‡
The Country Girl ‡
A Star Is Born
Executive Suite
The Vanishing Prairie
Sabrina
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Unconquered
Beat the Devil
1955:
Marty †
East of Eden
Mister Roberts ‡
Bad Day at Black Rock
Summertime
The Rose Tattoo ‡
A Man Called Peter
Not as a Stranger
Picnic ‡
The African Lion
1956:
Around the World in 80 Days †
Moby Dick
The King and I ‡
Lust for Life
Friendly Persuasion ‡
Somebody Up There Likes Me
The Catered Affair
Anastasia
The Man Who Never Was
Bus Stop
1957:
The Bridge on the River Kwai †
12 Angry Men ‡
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Rising of the Moon
Albert Schweitzer
Funny Face
The Bachelor Party
The Enemy Below
A Hatful of Rain
A Farewell to Arms
1958:
The Old Man and the Sea
Separate Tables ‡
The Last Hurrah
The Long, Hot Summer
Windjammer
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ‡
The Goddess
The Brothers Karamazov
Me and the Colonel
Gigi †
1959:
The Nun's Story ‡
Ben-Hur †
Anatomy of a Murder ‡
The Diary of Anne Frank ‡
Middle of the Night
The Man Who Understood Women
Some Like It Hot
Suddenly, Last Summer
On the Beach
North by Northwest
1960s[edit]
1960:
Sons and Lovers ‡
The Alamo ‡
The Sundowners ‡
Inherit the Wind
Sunrise at Campobello
Elmer Gantry ‡
Home from the Hill
The Apartment †
Wild River
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1961:
Question 7
The Hustler ‡
West Side Story †
The Innocents
Hoodlum Priest
Summer and Smoke
The Young Doctors
Judgment at Nuremberg ‡
One, Two, Three
Fanny ‡
1962:
The Longest Day ‡
Billy Budd
The Miracle Worker
Lawrence of Arabia †
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Whistle Down the Wind
Requiem for a Heavyweight
A Taste of Honey
Birdman of Alcatraz
War Hunt
1963:
Tom Jones †
Lilies of the Field ‡
All the Way Home
Hud
This Sporting Life
Lord of the Flies
The L-Shaped Room
The Great Escape
How the West Was Won ‡
The Cardinal
1964:
Becket ‡
My Fair Lady †
Girl with Green Eyes
The World of Henry Orient
Zorba the Greek ‡
Topkapi
The Chalk Garden
The Finest Hours
Four Days in November
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
1965:
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Doctor Zhivago ‡
Ship of Fools ‡
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Darling ‡
The Greatest Story Ever Told
A Thousand Clowns ‡
The Train
The Sound of Music †
1966:
A Man for All Seasons †
Born Free
Alfie ‡
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ‡
The Bible: In the Beginning
Georgy Girl
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
It Happened Here
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming ‡
Shakespeare Wallah
1967:
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Whisperers
Ulysses
In Cold Blood
The Family Way
The Taming of the Shrew
Doctor Dolittle ‡
The Graduate ‡
The Comedians
Accident
1968:
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Romeo and Juliet ‡
Yellow Submarine
Charly
Rachel, Rachel ‡
The Subject Was Roses
The Lion in Winter ‡
Planet of the Apes
Oliver! †
2001: A Space Odyssey
1969:
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Ring of Bright Water
Topaz
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Battle of Britain
Isadora
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Support Your Local Sheriff!
True Grit
Midnight Cowboy †
1970s[edit]
1970:
Patton †
Kes
Women in Love ‡
Five Easy Pieces ‡
Ryan's Daughter
I Never Sang for My Father
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Love Story ‡
The Virgin and the Gypsy
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1971:
Macbeth
The Boy Friend
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The French Connection †
The Last Picture Show ‡
Nicholas and Alexandra ‡
The Go-Between
King Lear
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
Death in Venice
1972:
Cabaret ‡
Man of La Mancha
The Godfather †
Sounder ‡
1776
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Deliverance ‡
The Ruling Class
The Candidate
Frenzy
1973:
The Sting †
Paper Moon
Bang the Drum Slowly
Serpico
O Lucky Man!
The Last American Hero
The Hireling
The Day of the Dolphin
The Way We Were
1974:
The Conversation ‡
Murder on the Orient Express
Chinatown ‡
The Last Detail
Harry and Tonto
A Woman Under the Influence
Thieves Like Us
Lenny ‡
Daisy Miller
The Three Musketeers
1975:
Nashville ‡, Barry Lyndon ‡
Conduct Unbecoming
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest †
Lies My Father Told Me
Dog Day Afternoon ‡
The Day of the Locust
The Passenger
Hearts of the West
Farewell, My Lovely
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1976:
All the President's Men ‡
Network ‡
Rocky †
The Last Tycoon
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Front
The Shootist
Family Plot
Silent Movie
Obsession
1977:
The Turning Point ‡
Annie Hall †
Julia ‡
Star Wars ‡
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Late Show
Saturday Night Fever
Equus
The Picture Show Man
Harlan County, USA
1978:
Days of Heaven
Coming Home ‡
Interiors
Superman
Movie Movie
Midnight Express ‡
An Unmarried Woman ‡
Pretty Baby
Girlfriends
Comes a Horseman
1979:
Manhattan
Yanks
The Europeans
The China Syndrome
Breaking Away ‡
Apocalypse Now ‡
Being There
Time After Time
North Dallas Forty
Kramer vs. Kramer †
1980s[edit]
1980:
Ordinary People †
Raging Bull ‡
Coal Miner's Daughter ‡
Tess ‡
Melvin and Howard
The Great Santini
The Elephant Man ‡
The Stunt Man
My Bodyguard
Resurrection
1981:
Chariots of Fire †, Reds ‡
Atlantic City ‡
Stevie
Gallipoli
On Golden Pond ‡
Prince of the City
Raiders of the Lost Ark ‡
Heartland
Ticket to Heaven
Breaker Morant
1982:
Gandhi †
The Verdict ‡
Sophie's Choice
An Officer and a Gentleman
Missing ‡
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ‡
The World According to Garp
Tootsie ‡
Moonlighting
The Chosen
1983:
Betrayal, Terms of Endearment †
Educating Rita
Tender Mercies ‡
The Dresser ‡
The Right Stuff ‡
Testament
Local Hero
The Big Chill ‡
Cross Creek
Yentl
1984:
A Passage to India ‡
Paris, Texas
The Killing Fields ‡
Places in the Heart ‡
Mass Appeal
Country
A Soldier's Story ‡
Birdy
Careful, He Might Hear You
Under the Volcano
1985:
The Color Purple ‡
Out of Africa †
The Trip to Bountiful
Witness ‡
Kiss of the Spider Woman ‡
Prizzi's Honor ‡
Back to the Future
The Shooting Party
Blood Simple
Dreamchild
1986:
A Room with a View ‡
Hannah and Her Sisters ‡
My Beautiful Laundrette
The Fly
Stand By Me
The Color of Money
Children of a Lesser God ‡
Round Midnight
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Mission ‡
1987:
Empire of the Sun
The Last Emperor †
Broadcast News ‡
The Untouchables
Gaby: A True Story
Cry Freedom
Fatal Attraction ‡
Hope and Glory ‡
Wall Street
Full Metal Jacket
1988:
Mississippi Burning ‡
Dangerous Liaisons ‡
The Accused
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Last Temptation of Christ
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Big
Running on Empty
Gorillas in the Mist
Midnight Run
1989:
Driving Miss Daisy †
Henry V
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
The Fabulous Baker Boys
My Left Foot ‡
Dead Poets Society ‡
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Born on the Fourth of July ‡
Glory
Field of Dreams ‡
1990s[edit]
1990:
Dances with Wolves †
Hamlet
Goodfellas ‡
Awakenings ‡
Reversal of Fortune
Miller's Crossing
Metropolitan
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
Avalon
The Grifters
1991:
The Silence of the Lambs †
Bugsy ‡
Grand Canyon
Thelma & Louise
Homicide
Dead Again
Boyz n the Hood
Rambling Rose
Frankie and Johnny
Jungle Fever
1992:
Howards End ‡
The Crying Game ‡
Glengarry Glen Ross
A Few Good Men ‡
The Player
Unforgiven †
One False Move
Peter's Friends
Bob Roberts
Malcolm X
1993:
Schindler's List †
The Age of Innocence
The Remains of the Day ‡
The Piano ‡
Shadowlands
In the Name of the Father ‡
Philadelphia
Much Ado About Nothing
Short Cuts
The Joy Luck Club
1994:
Forrest Gump †; Pulp Fiction ‡
Quiz Show ‡
Four Weddings and a Funeral ‡
Bullets Over Broadway
Ed Wood
The Shawshank Redemption ‡
Nobody's Fool
The Madness of King George
Tom & Viv
Heavenly Creatures
1995:
Sense and Sensibility ‡
Apollo 13 ‡
Carrington
Leaving Las Vegas
The American President
Mighty Aphrodite
Smoke
Persuasion
Braveheart †
The Usual Suspects
1996:
Shine ‡
The English Patient †
Fargo ‡
Secrets & Lies ‡
Everyone Says I Love You
Evita
Sling Blade
Trainspotting
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Breaking the Waves and Jerry Maguire ‡
1997:
L.A. Confidential ‡
As Good as It Gets ‡
The Wings of the Dove
Good Will Hunting ‡
Titanic †
The Sweet Hereafter
Boogie Nights
The Full Monty ‡
The Rainmaker
Jackie Brown
1998:
Gods and Monsters
Saving Private Ryan ‡
Elizabeth ‡
Happiness
Shakespeare in Love †
The Butcher Boy
Lolita
The Thin Red Line ‡
A Simple Plan
Dancing at Lughnasa
1999:
American Beauty †
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Magnolia
The Insider ‡
The Straight Story
Cradle Will Rock
Boys Don't Cry
Being John Malkovich
Tumbleweeds
Three Kings
2000s[edit]
2000:
Quills
Traffic ‡
Croupier
You Can Count On Me
Billy Elliot
Before Night Falls
Gladiator †
Wonder Boys
Sunshine
Dancer in the Dark
2001:
Moulin Rouge! ‡
In the Bedroom ‡
Ocean's Eleven
Memento
Monster's Ball
Black Hawk Down
The Man Who Wasn't There
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Pledge
Mulholland Drive
2002:
The Hours ‡
Chicago †
Gangs of New York ‡
The Quiet American
Adaptation.
Rabbit-Proof Fence
The Pianist ‡
Far from Heaven
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Frida
2003:
Mystic River ‡
The Last Samurai
The Station Agent
21 Grams
House of Sand and Fog
Lost in Translation ‡
Cold Mountain
In America
Seabiscuit ‡
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ‡
2004:
Finding Neverland ‡
The Aviator ‡
Closer
Million Dollar Baby †
Sideways ‡
Kinsey
Vera Drake
Ray ‡
Collateral
Hotel Rwanda
2005: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
Good Night, and Good Luck ‡
Brokeback Mountain ‡
Capote ‡
Crash †
A History of Violence
Match Point
Memoirs of a Geisha
Munich ‡
Syriana
Walk the Line
2006: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
Letters from Iwo Jima ‡
Babel ‡
Blood Diamond
The Departed †
The Devil Wears Prada
Flags of Our Fathers
The History Boys
Little Miss Sunshine ‡
Notes on a Scandal
The Painted Veil
2007: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
No Country for Old Men †
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bucket List
Into the Wild
Juno ‡
The Kite Runner
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton ‡
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2008: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
Slumdog Millionaire †
Burn After Reading
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ‡
The Dark Knight
Defiance
Frost/Nixon ‡
Gran Torino
Milk ‡
WALL-E
The Wrestler
2009: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
Up in the Air ‡
(500) Days of Summer
An Education ‡
The Hurt Locker †
Inglourious Basterds ‡
Invictus
The Messenger
A Serious Man ‡
Star Trek
Up ‡
Where the Wild Things Are
2010s[edit]
2010: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
The Social Network ‡
Another Year
The Fighter ‡
Hereafter
Inception ‡
The King's Speech †
Shutter Island
The Town
Toy Story 3 ‡
True Grit ‡
Winter's Bone ‡
2011: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
Hugo ‡
The Artist †
The Descendants ‡
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
The Tree of Life ‡
War Horse ‡
2012: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
Zero Dark Thirty ‡
Argo †
Beasts of the Southern Wild ‡
Django Unchained ‡
Les Misérables ‡
Lincoln ‡
Looper
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Promised Land
Silver Linings Playbook ‡
2013: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
Her ‡
12 Years a Slave †
Fruitvale Station
Gravity ‡
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor
Nebraska ‡
Prisoners
Saving Mr. Banks
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Wolf of Wall Street ‡
2014: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
A Most Violent Year
American Sniper ‡
Birdman †
Boyhood ‡
Fury
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game ‡
Inherent Vice
The LEGO Movie
Nightcrawler
Unbroken
2015: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
Mad Max: Fury Road ‡
Bridge of Spies ‡
Creed
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
The Martian ‡
Room ‡
Sicario
Spotlight †
Straight Outta Compton