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Once Were Warriors was voted the best New Zealand film of all time in a 2014 online poll organized by Fairfax Media. More than 500 people voted, including about 100 film professionals and 15 critics. Spring in a Small Town (小城之春; 1948) was ranked number 1 on the Hong Kong Film Awards Association's Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures list in 2005. It was also voted the best Chinese film of all time with 25 votes in a 2010 poll of 37 critics organized by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.

The Turks, surprised by the overland attack, are routed, and the victory revitalizes the Arab rebellion. When one of his troop slays one of Auda Abu Tayi's henchmen, Lawrence in expiation executes the murderer, who proves to be the Arab he had saved in the desert. Delighted by Lawrence's military success, however, General Allenby provides him with arms and money for future victories. Lawrence launches a series of successful guerrilla raids, which, as reported by American journalist Jackson Bentley, establish his international reputation. While on a scouting mission with Ali, Lawrence is captured and tortured by the Turks. He returns to Cairo, where General Allenby persuades him to spearhead an attack on Damascus.

But we still had to do it, because talking – okay, arguing – over movies is as much a part of film culture as watching them. We’ve included everything from big-budget blockbusters to arthouse classics, romcoms and horror flicks, crime capers to eardrum-bursting action sagas. And even with all that ground covered, we’re sure someone is going to get mad over something we’ve either included or omitted. More than 30 years after Ridley Scott’s original—and groundbreaking—Blade Runner hit cinemas, its sequel starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford reprising his role as Rick Deckard took in $259 million at box offices around the world. Deckard, a former blade runner who has vanished for three decades, is tracked down by K , a Nexus-9 replicant, as he seeks to save the world from impending chaos. Exactly 30 years elapsed between Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road, the most recent offering in the series, and it was most definitely worth the wait.

Nothing is as it seems in "Vertigo," an Alfred Hitchcock classic based on Boileau-Narcejac's 1954 novel "D'entre les morts" ("From Among the Dead"). In the film, a former police detective is hired to trail a friend's wife who's been acting strangely and may be at risk of harming herself. Becomes obsessed with the woman and Hitchcock shares his most revelatory, personal production of his career.

When her mother turns up mysteriously missing, teenage Enola Holmes hits the trail to find her — something her more famous brother is simply too preoccupied to do. As she sniffs out clues, Enola discovers she might just have as much as, or even more of, a knack for this sleuthing thing than her brother, slowly uncovering a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to rattle the English aristocracy. When three New York City businessmen decide to take a Wild West-themed vacation to rekindle their friendship, they get more than they anticipated from the Colorado cattle drive and the ornery trail boss teaching them how to be cowboys. Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, and Bruno Kirby play the trio of friends, with Hollywood tough guy Jack Palance portraying the hard-as-nails cowboy who has no patience for city folk. It’s hard to look back fondly at the painfully awkward middle-school years, but Pixar’s Turning Red considers the tumultuous ups and downs of early adolescence without flinching, and with an astonishing amount of love. Domee Shi, who directed 2018’s Pixar short Bao, makes her theatrical debut with this one-of-a-kind movie that envelopes quirky magic, cultural specificity, and most of all, an absolute love for young girlhood in all its messy glory.

Arguably the most celebrated musical of all time, "Singin' in the Rain" takes place during the rise of talkies and finds the members of a production company struggling to adapt. Not only did Gene Kelly star, co-direct, and choreograph the film, but he performed a song-and-dance number with a temperature of 103 degrees Fahrenheit. In 1989, the movie became one of the first 25 films selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National top movies Film Registry. One of Martin Scorsese's earliest masterpieces, this 1976 film follows a mentally unbalanced taxi driver named Travis Bickle , whose pent up disgust with New York City slowly devolves into violence. Co-starring as a 12-year-old prostitute is Jodie Foster in one of her most challenging roles. According to legend, screenwriter Paul Schrader made numerous revisions to Foster's character after meeting an underage prostitute in real life.