100 New Movie Classics: No. 75-51
Here's part two of our countdown of the films from 1983 to today that future movie buffs will still be loving 25 years from now — see why ''Unforgiven,'' ''There's Something About Mary,'' ''Scream,'' and more make the grade
By EW Staff Updated June 16, 2008 at 08:00 PM EDT
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Out of Africa, Meryl Streep, ... | ROBERT REDFORD and MERYL STREEP, Out of Africa (1985) This Best Picture-winner garnered praise for Streep's intense performance as writer Karen Blixen, though Redford's portrayalÂ…
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Matt Dillon, Drugstore Cowboy
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Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, ...
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Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood
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Holly Hunter, William Hurt, ...
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Penelope Cruz, All About My Mother
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Lukas Haas, Harrison Ford, ...
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Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, ...
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Juliette Lewis, Woody Harrelson, ...
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Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, ...
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Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
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James Spader, Sex, Lies, and Videotape
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Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop
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2. SCREAM (1996)
Scream, Drew Barrymore | SCREAM ''Why do you want to know my name?'' ''Because I want to know who I'm looking at.'' In the first few minutes of thisÂ…
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Poised on the knife's edge between parody and homage, Wes Craven's mock thriller revived the slasher films of the '80s in all their gruesomely ritualized glory. Except that the teenagers in Scream have been raised on endless replays of those films, so the sudden appearance of a mad killer becomes a case of life imitating schlock. The killer's mask suggests a plastic version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, and it has the eerie effect of reflecting the audience's fear right back at it.
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Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, ...
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Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, ...
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Cameron Diaz, There's Something About Mary
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Ulrich Muhe, The Lives of Others
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Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, ...
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Glenn Close, Michael Douglas, ...
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Jim Carrey, The Truman Show
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Leslie Nielsen, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad
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Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
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By EW Staff