Best Movies of 1953
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Tokyo StoryThe quietest devastation in cinema: Ozu watches a family fail its parents and never once raises his voice.Read the review
The Wages of FearClouzot lets you size up four desperate men in a dead-end town, then makes you pray for them across three hundred miles of rotten road.
ShaneThe purest version of the gunfighter myth, shot in Wyoming light, and undone slightly by the child at its centre.