A gang of Variety staffers — Peter Debruge, Owen Gleiberman, Lisa Kennedy, Jessica Kiang, Tomris Laffly, Guy Lodge and Amy Nicholson — have decided that Hitchcock‘s “Psycho” is the greatest movie of all-time. I won’t complain. It’s pretty clear that “Vertigo” has emerged as Hitch’s consensus masterpiece in the last few decades, but “Psycho” is still a great movie — save for its aged last 5-10 minutes which needed to painstakingly explain Norman Bates’ schizophrenia diagnosis to its bewildered 1960 audience. That final shot though, wowzer. Let’s not dissect this list too much, but just to point out that, as with all lists, many great films were omitted from the top 100, and a few odd picks did make it. “Bridesmaids” at #94? “The Sound of Music” at #87? “My Best Friend’s Wedding” #71? The more-recent “Moonlight” is at #42. “Bridesmaids” was a riot. I laughed hard when I saw it back in the summer of 2011. But 94th greatest movie of all-time? Ha! Even worse, “My Best Friend’s Wedding” managing to make the list and not “Raging Bull,” “Schindler’s List,” “Dr. Strangelove,” “M,” “Taxi Driver,” “Rashomon” … Following the controversial Sight & Sound poll of a few weeks ago, Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman” (#78) had to show up here, somewhere, it just had to. I actually do like its placement. However, Variety had to throw some shade at it in their blurb: Not the greatest movie of all-time. Ya get it? Contribute Hire me
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