Best Movies of 1966

Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.

  1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly1966Leone's widescreen opera of greed; faces like landscapes, landscapes like faces.Read the review
  2. The Battle of Algiers1966Pontecorvo shoots an insurgency like a newsreel crew that got lucky, and refuses to tell you who deserves to win.
  3. Manos: The Hands of Fate1966A fertilizer salesman wins a bet by making a horror film, and every limit of that bet is visible in every frame.