Celebrating 100 years of Variety




Variety.com has over 40,000 reviews spanning Variety's 100 years of entertainment industry coverage, from the latest indie discoveries all the way back to the vaudeville and burlesque shows of the early 1900s.

To commemorate Variety's 100th anniversary, we'll be delving deep into our archives, compiling lists of and links to the complete original text of our reviews, providing snapshots highlighting Variety's place in moviemaking history.

In essence, Variety.com is a time capsule -- the world of entertainment's most exhaustive archive. Give these reviews a look: Were our critiques too harsh? Were we completely off the mark? Or were we right on the money? Variety's history is in the print -- and the legacy lives on right here, online.

Classic Reviews

Academy Awards
We present the original Variety reviews of all the Best Picture winners.

AFI Reviews
In 1998, the American Film Institute published its 100 Greatest Movies of All Time, representing the best of the first 100 years of American filmmaking.

Coming soon:

Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Winners

  1. Wings (1928)

  2. The Broadway Melody (1929)

  3. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

  4. Cimarron (1931)

  5. Grand Hotel (1932)

  6. Cavalcade (1933)

  7. It Happened One Night (1934)

  8. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

  9. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

  10. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

  11. You Can't Take It with You (1938)

  12. Gone with the Wind (1939)

  13. Rebecca (1940)

  14. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

  15. Mrs. Miniver (1942)

  16. Casablanca (1943)

  17. Going My Way (1944)

  18. The Lost Weekend (1945)

  19. Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

  20. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

  21. Hamlet (1948)

  22. All the King's Men (1949)

  23. All About Eve (1950)

  24. An American in Paris (1951)

  25. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

  26. From Here to Eternity (1953)

  27. On the Waterfront (1954)

  28. Marty (1955)

  29. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

  30. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

  31. Gigi (1958)

  32. Ben-Hur (1959)

  33. The Apartment (1960)

  34. West Side Story (1961)

  35. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

  36. Tom Jones (1963)

  37. My Fair Lady (1964)

  38. The Sound of Music (1965)

  39. A Man for All Seasons (1966)

  40. In the Heat of the Night (1967)

  41. Oliver! (1968)

  42. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

  43. Patton (1970)

  44. The French Connection (1971)

  45. The Godfather (1972)

  46. The Sting (1973)

  47. The Godfather Part II (1974)

  48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

  49. Rocky (1976)

  50. Annie Hall (1977)

  51. The Deer Hunter (1978)

  52. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

  53. Ordinary People (1980)

  54. Chariots of Fire (1981)

  55. Gandhi (1982)

  56. Terms of Endearment (1983)

  57. Amadeus (1984)

  58. Out of Africa (1985)

  59. Platoon (1986)

  60. The Last Emperor (1987)

  61. Rain Man (1988)

  62. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

  63. Dances with Wolves (1990)

  64. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

  65. Unforgiven (1992)

  66. Schindler's List (1993)

  67. Forrest Gump (1994)

  68. Braveheart (1995)

  69. The English Patient (1996)

  70. Titanic (1997)

  71. Shakespeare in Love (1998)

  72. American Beauty (1999)

  73. Gladiator (2000)

  74. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

  75. Chicago (2002)

  76. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

  77. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

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