Best Movies of 1984
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Once Upon a Time in AmericaLeone's last film dissolves a gangster saga into memory and regret, magnificent at 229 minutes and badly compromised by what it does to its women.Read the review
AmadeusA mediocrity's confession dressed as a costume picture, and the most entertaining film ever made about envy.
The TerminatorA six million dollar chase film with an idea so clean it survived forty years of sequels.
The BountyHopkins rebuilds Bligh from the ground up and the storms still punish, but Gibson's Christian never finds the moment he breaks.
GhostbustersA special-effects blockbuster carried almost entirely by three men refusing to take it seriously.
DuneLynch's images survive intact; the film around them collapses under its own exposition.