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Created Dec 16, 2010 02:23AM PST • Updated Dec 16, 2010 02:23AM PST

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1st Fight Club
1999 Perfect 107 Points

Let's talk about Fight Club. A contemporary classic, David Fincher's surreal masterpiece makes killer use of several cinematic power tools: sophisticated CGI and film processing, faux sophisticated alienation, throbbing music, Brad Pitt. You gotta give this nihilistic triumph grudging credit. It's as entertaining and intriguing a race to rock bottom as has ever been committed to celluloid. That's saying something given Hollywood's obsession with artistic self-destruction.

The movie demands to be seen twice. Don't worry. The brilliant story's even more fun the second time.

As f…

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1st Who Killed the E...
2006 Perfect 24 Points

Really well done documentary about the birth and death of the electric car. Done in a "Who Done It?" fashion, this movie is actually quite scary in an "Are you serious?" type way. (I just used two quotation-sayings in the same sentence lol). Definitely watch it.

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1st The Silence Of T...
1991 Perfect 44 Points

Silence of the Lambs set the standard for the psychological crime thriller. As Hanibal, Anthony Hopkins does 'evil' like nobody else, and if that wasn't enough, Jodie Foster and her law enforcement brood need to find and deal with Hanibal's sick protege. This movie deserved all of the Oscars that it received.

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1st Clueless
1995 OK 66 Points

Cute but dated Beverly Hills high school spoof from the mid-90s. Stars Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd provide plenty of charm, but the of-the-moment slang hasn't aged well.

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