Mdare:
Not sure if I'm looking at the same list, since the one I'm looking at purports to show the 50 best movies of all time according to Rotten Tomatoes, but it's hard to take seriously a list that rates Mad Max: Fury Road higher than Sunset Boulevard and a Toy Story sequel higher than Citizen Kane. Nothing against Mad Max or Toy Story, but really. If you think of film as an art form as well as a source of entertainment, then the lists to pay attention to are the American Film Institute's Best 100 of all time and Sight & Sound's list of the same. As the Brits in the Library should know, S&S updates its list every 10 years and is due to release its new list by the end of this year. The big debate is whether the list will reflect a greater diversity this year than in the white-male-dominated lists of the past. Would be interested to see a list of the top 10 spanking-inclusive movies of all time.
I could see an argument for Fury Road being on the list, though I won't quibble over its exact ranking. If there's to be a "best in category" aspect to the choices, then one would be very hard-pressed to name a better action film than Fury Road.
On the topic of other twenty-first century candidates; looking at a list of top rated 2000-2022 films, I feel like "Up" might honest-to-god be a better children's animated film than anything produced in the twentieth century. Not
definitely, but it certainly
might be. Then there's Parasite, Get Out, Ghostworld, Her, Pan's Labyrinth, the Lord of the Rings trilogy...
Notably, the list does skew toward the early years of the 21st century. And, of the ones produced more recently, the list skews toward non-Hollywood films. My takeaway is that Hollywood is in creative decline, but other places are slowly-but-surely rising to the occasion.