Best Movies of 1954
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Seven SamuraiThe blueprint every ensemble action film still borrows from, and almost nobody has matched.Read the review
On the WaterfrontBrando's Terry Malloy rewrote screen acting inside a film that doubles as Elia Kazan's defense of informing, and both facts are on the screen.
Dial M for MurderHitchcock barely leaves one London flat and lets Frederick Knott's clockwork murder plot do the work: filmed theater, but superior filmed theater.
Rear WindowA thriller assembled entirely out of looking, and it implicates the audience by the second reel.