"What are the 100 best movies of all time?" It's a hell of a question to ask, and an even harder one to answer — even for us here at Empire, the world's biggest and best-loved movie magazine.

It was named the greatest American western by the American Film Institute in 2008, and it placed 12th on the same organization's 2007 list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time.

We talk about noir plotting and tropes, but in fact it drew liberally from the gangster pics of the Depression/Prohibition era, crime procedurals, heist movies ... make sense. All that paranoia ...

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And, of course, about Halloween… the time when all the masks come off. It’s easy to overlook them nowadays but the first few “Ernest P. Worrell” movies were actually quite good.

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