About the Critic’s Personal Favorites

Favorite Films

1. American Beauty
2. Memento
3. Black Swan
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Inception
6. Almost Famous
7. Pan’s Labyrinth
8. American Psycho
9. The Dark Knight
10. Casablanca
11. Adaptation.
12. Shawshank Redemption
13. The Green Mile
14. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
15. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
16. Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber on Fleet Street
17. American History X
18. Donnie Darko
19. Dangerous Liaisons
20. Good Will Hunting
21. Schindler’s List
22. The Usual Suspects
23. Collateral
24. The Devil’s Advocate
25. Shadow of the Vampire

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Favorite Actors

Johnny Depp
Edward Norton
Al Pacino
Tim Roth
Kevin Spacey
Zachary Quinto
Natalie Portman
Gary Oldman
John Malkovich
James Cagney
Liam Neeson
Ralph Fiennes
Morgan Freeman
Meryl Streep

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Favorite Directors

Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, North by Northwest, The Lodger)
Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds)
The Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Miller’s Crossing)
Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight, Memento)
Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Aviator, the Departed, Shutter Island)
Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Changeling)
Francis Ford Coppola (Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Godfather)
Stephen Spielberg (Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, E.T.)
Michael Mann (Heat, Public Enemy, Collateral)
Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile)

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Favorite Screenwriters

Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds)
The Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Miller’s Crossing)
Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight, Memento)
Alan Ball (American Beauty, Six Feet Under, True Blood)
Stephen Spielberg (Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, E.T.)
Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile)
M. Night Shyamalan (just for his first two films the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable)

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