Top 10 Movies: Adventure
The highest-graded adventure movies we have reviewed, best first.
JawsThe film that invented the summer blockbuster is also a lean, funny, superbly acted suspense picture that has not aged a day.Read the review
North by NorthwestHitchcock's most purely pleasurable film, a wrong-man chase from Madison Avenue to Mount Rushmore that the Bond films spent decades imitating.
The Wizard of OzHollywood's most watched film earns every viewing: a clean, frightening, funny fable, and a sepia door that opens onto Technicolor.
Finding NemoPixar at the moment its technology catches up with its writing, and still the studio's most purely enjoyable film.
Toy StoryThe first fully computer animated feature is also a tight, mean, genuinely funny buddy comedy about being replaced.
The Bridge on the River KwaiAlec Guinness's colonel builds the enemy a perfect bridge out of pride, and David Lean turns that irony into a war film about the madness of doing a job well.
The Treasure of the Sierra MadreHuston's parable of gold fever is as lean as a campfire story, and Bogart's slide into paranoia is the bravest performance of his career.
UpFour wordless minutes at the start rank with anything in animation, and the rest is a very good adventure.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black PearlA theme park ride turned into a genuinely witty swashbuckler, half an hour too long and rescued again and again by the strangest star turn Disney ever allowed.
Monsters, Inc.Goodman and Crystal make Pixar's best double act, inside a scare factory that works as fairy tale, workplace satire and a very funny chase.
