I am looking for a list of the 50 greatest movies of all time. What list is the most reliable (as there are many)?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: They all stink. The list that’s in your own head is probably the most reliable. The American Film Institute’s list done back in 2000 is suspicious (just US films; biased towards the usual sentimental favorites). http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx
The Village Voice has a somewhat more rounded listing: http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html
Sight & Sound magazine combines polls by listing the number of times different films made their decennial top 10 lists: http://www.filmsite.org/sightsound.html
These and other polls are linked from the References in a Wikipedia article entitled “Films that have been considered the greatest ever”