chicago outdoor film festival 2000-2005

Ebert picks the highest rated season since the inaugural, and the youngest season ever. Also the first season without a musical.

Movie Year IMDB Rating IMDB Rank AFI Rank
2005
Citizen Kane (b/w) 1941 8.7 10 1
Annie Hall 1977 8.3 89 31
My Darling Clementine (b/w) 1946 8
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 7.7 25
The Night of the Hunter (b/w) 1955 8.2 119
The Hustler (b/w) 1961 8 190
Star Wars 1977 8.7 12 15
Mean 1963 8.2
2004
His Girl Friday (b/w) 1940 8.2 141
The Birds 1963 7.8
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (b/w) 1939 8.4 64 29
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 1967 7.5 99
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (b/w) 1956 7.8
Roman Holiday 1953 8 225
Guys & Dolls (musical) 1955 7.2
Mean 1953 7.8
2003
It Happened One Night (b/w) 1934 8.3 100 35
A Night at the Opera (b/w, musical) 1935 8.1 166
On the Town (musical) 1949 7.7
In the Heat of the Night 1967 8 231
Only Angels Have Wings (b/w) 1939 7.6
Pillow Talk 1959 7.3
Rear Window 1954 8.7 17 42
Mean 1948 8.0
2002
Some Like It Hot (musical) 1959 8.3 63 14
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (b/w) 1964 8.7 18 26
A Hard Day’s Night (b/w, musical) 1964 7.5
Carmen Jones (musical) 1954 7
Horse Feathers (b/w) 1932 7.7
Vertigo 1958 8.4 41
West Side Story (musical) 1961 7.8 61
Mean 1956 7.9
2001
An American in Paris (musical) 1951 7.4 68
A Streetcar Named Desire (b/w) 1951 7.9 222 45
Top Hat (b/w, musical) 1935 7.8
Auntie Mame 1958 7.5
The Maltese Falcon (b/w) 1941 8.4 51 23
A Patch of Blue (b/w) 1965 7.7
Meet Me in St. Louis (musical) 1944 7.7
Mean 1949 7.8
2000
The Wizard of Oz (musical) 1939 8.3 67 6
Casablanca (b/w) 1942 8.8 6 2
The Philadelphia Story (b/w) 1940 8.2 109 51
Singin’ in the Rain (musical) 1952 8.5 40 10
North by Northwest 1959 8.6 30 40
Mean 1946 8.5

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