60 Movies Standing Up To The Test Of Time

Here’s  list of my favorite films, all of which are somewhere in the  A range, or a high B. I didn’t actually include everything I’ve ever given an A to on RunPee, because they were often graded according to the target audience, and aren’t actually my personal faves.

Sometimes I want to upgrade a film too, over time. Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them gets better on every viewing, for example. I want to move in the database from a B something to like an A-, or at least an A. I was colored at the time, by my wanting it to be more like the other Harry Potter films. Which is why rewatch reviews really come into their own — you can have time to let a film settle, and see what emerges in time.

It’s worth discussing about how we at RunPee grade movies. Each one of us staffers in this family is different. Like I’ve said before, I often use a curve within a movie franchise. Almost anything the Marvel Cinematic Universe does deserves an A (IMO), compared to movies otherwise in its genre (or out of it). But…that’s adding my highly idiosyncratic enjoyment factor.

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Here’s a long list of my A range, and most favorite films over time: 

1. Alien and Aliens
2. Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back
3. Terminator (The first and the second)
4. Jurassic Park (Only the first)
5. Titanic
6. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Arc
7. Back to the Future (The first)
8. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
9. The Breakfast Club
10. Jaws (the first)
11. Overboard (The original)
12. A Fish Called Wanda
13. Avatar
14. The Matrix (The first)
15. Harry Potter (I can’t really pick one from the eight movies we see. Each has their own style and merits…and together is one long story. For myself, I’d give the A+ to The Prisoner of Azkaban,  The Goblet of Fire, and maybe The Half Blood Prince.)
16. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
17. Passengers (This one is controversial.  I loved it, my mother loved it, and RunPee Dan loved it. But a lot of people aggressively dislike the movie, for reasons I shouldn’t describe here if you haven’t seen the film)
18. Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan and the Voyage Home. First Contact is great, might not be an A)
19. Logan (OMG is this sad. But wonderful, too)
20. The MCU (Like the Harry Potter films, Marvel’s Avenger superheroes have an intricately webbed series of stories. To pick out the A+ films is hard. I might only put Infinity Wars in that caliber. Maybe Thor: Ragnarok. However, the regular A films abound: Guardians of the Galaxy — one of my personal favorites, Black Panther, Iron Man 1, Avengers: Assemble, Avengers: Civil War,  and Spiderman: Homecoming)
21. Finding Nemo
22. The Shawshank Redemption
23. The Firm
24. The Fugitive
25. Top Gun
26. The Lord of the Rings (The entire LOTR series. Not the Hobbit films, unfortunately)
27. Die Hard (The first)
28. Lethal Weapon (the first)
29. Predator
30. ET: The Extra Terrestrial
31. Rain Man
32. 2001, A Space Odyssey
33. Blade Runner (The first)
34. The Shining (The original)
35. So I Married An Axe-Murderer
36. Inception
37. Mamma Mia (The first)
38. When Harry Met Sally
39. Contact
40. Apollo 13
41. The Princess Bride
42. Moonstruck
43. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
44. Pitch Black (The first)
45. The Wizard of Oz
46.  Monty Python and The Holy Grail
47. Airplane! (The first)
48.  Ghostbusters (The first)
49. Groundhog Day
50.  Live and Let Die (Bond movies are so subjective! This one is perfect, in my opinion. Yours will probably be different)
51. Pulp Fiction
52. Shaun of the Dead
53. Zombieland
54.  The Sixth Sense
55. Wayne’s World
56. Thelma and Louise
57. The Bourne  Identity
58. Steel Magnolias
59. The Little Mermaid
60.  The Hunt for Red October

….Aaaand, I’m continuing this list right now. You might have an idea of what movies I consistently like: there’s a lot of sci-fi here, (almost) no horror movies, and very few old classics. For example, I never saw Citizen Kane — which is touted to be the best movie in in the universe . I should educate myself. (I did enjoy African Queen, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, and Some Like It Hot. Is that a good start?)

I’m going to hang out with RunPee Sis next month, and she will introduce me to some horror classics, and hug me when I get scared. So maybe things like Psycho and Silence of the Lambs will join the list.

Anyway: I know I missed some important movies. Got some in mind? Comments can be added below!