AFIS 100 YEARS100 MOVIES 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION American Film Institute

Joined by their friend Casy, a former "fire and brimstone" preacher, the Joads begin their long trek west on Route 66. Their hopes for a bright future are dimmed when a man at a roadside camp warns of no work in California, but the family continues on. As the Joads cross the great California desert, Grandma dies, and the remainder of the family emerges from the desert to find no jobs and hoards of starving migrants.

The visual effects of the film, which was directed by Neill Blomkamp and inspired by apartheid in his home country, were designed to evoke a kind of insect-like alien, but one that viewers would sympathize with as the film went on. Set in the then super-futuristic year of 1997, Carpenter’s vision of America is essentially one giant war zone with the island of Manhattan serving as a maximum security prison. Unfortunately for the president of the United States , that’s exactly where Air Force One crash lands following a hijacking.

Starring as Police Capt. Hank Quinlan is Welles himself, who later claimed this was the most fun he'd ever had making a picture. Among the film's accolades, "Touch of Evil" would go on to receive the International Critics Prize. In this 1944 film noir from Billy Wilder, an insurance salesman is lured into a murderous plot by a gorgeous femme fatale . While accomplished mystery author Raymond Chandler helped write the screenplay and even has a secret cameo in the film, the movie itself is based on a book by James M. Cain. Another one of Cain's novels, "The Postman Always Rings Twice," featured a similar premise and was adapted twice for the big screen. Woody and the gang are back for the third installment in the "Toy Story" franchise.

Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972. Here's a movie so great that when something else is likewise top movies terrific, that thing is often referred to as the "Citizen Kane" of its respective arena. Accordingly, this 1941 film—which depicts the ambitious rise of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane —has only gotten better with age. It might no longer retain the #1 spot on lists of the greatest films, including this one, but ask the right cinephile, and they will likely assert "Citizen Kane" is still the best movie of them all. Despite garnering nine Academy Awards, the film only walked away with one, for Best Original Screenplay.

Proving just how poignant the movie was and remains, a psychological condition known as the Truman Show Delusion is named for a delusion in which individuals believe they are being filmed and that the world around them is a set of sorts. Ethan Hawke plays a creepy villain named The Grabber in The Black Phone, a horror based on a story of the same name from Joe Hill. The movie marks a return to horror for director Scott Derrickson, who most recently directed Doctor Strange, but before that was behind Sinister (also with Hawke!) and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Superhero and horror movie godfather Sam Raimi gets to a little bit of both of those specialities in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which has proven to be one of the more polarizing Marvel Cinematic Universe movies to date. We fall on the side of loving it—Raimi's directorial flourishes are all over the movie, which is something that you rarely see in a movie with as many chefs in the kitchen as a Marvel film. At the end of the day, you'll be thinking about the horror elements that the director snuck in, and Elizabeth Olsen's dynamic performance as Wanda Maximoff—who has become without question Marvel's most compelling post-Endgame character.