Every movie reviewed on Colin’s Review that has received a grade of A or A+
Titles are organized in chronological order of release date.
1920s
- The Phantom Carriage (directed by Victor Sjöström, 1921)
- The Last Laugh (directed by F.W. Murnau, 1924)
1930s
- The Lady Vanishes (directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)
1940s
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (directed by Michael Curtiz, 1942)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
- Shadow of a Doubt (directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)
- Double Indemnity (directed by Billy Wilder, 1944)
- A Matter of Life and Death (directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
- White Heat (directed by Raoul Walsh, 1949)
1950s
- A Streetcar Named Desire (directed by Elia Kazan, 1951)
- The Night of the Hunter (directed by Charles Laughton, 1955)
- Paths of Glory (directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
- The Ballad of Narayama (directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, 1958)
- Anatomy of a Murder (directed by Otto Preminger, 1959)
1960s
- Au Hasard Balthazar (directed by Robert Bresson, 1966)
1970s
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (directed by Werner Herzog, 1972)
- Cabaret (directed by Bob Fosse, 1972)
- Amarcord (directed by Federico Fellini, 1973)
- Day for Night (directed by François Truffaut, 1974)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (directed by Werner Herzog, 1974)
- Barry Lyndon (directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
- All That Jazz (directed by Bob Fosse, 1979)
1980s
- Fanny and Alexander (directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
- Come and See (directed by Elem Klimov, 1985)
- Ran (directed by Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
- Kiki’s Delivery Service (directed by Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)
1990s
- The Shawshank Redemption (directed by Frank Darabont, 1994)
- Three Colours: Red (directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)
- Eyes Wide Shut (directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
2000s
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (directed by Peter Jackson, 2001)
- Minority Report (directed by Steven Spielberg, 2002)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (directed by Michel Gondry, 2004)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (directed by Alfonso Cuàron, 2004)
- Ratatouille (directed by Brad Bird, 2007)
- The Simpsons Movie (directed by David Silverman, 2007)
2010s
- Inside Out (directed by Pete Docter, 2015)
- Paddington 2 (directed by Paul King, 2017)
2020s
- Drive My Car (directed by Ryusuke Hamiguchi, 2021)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (directed by Martin McDonagh, 2022)
- Anatomy of a Fall (directed by Justine Triet, 2023)