Rolling Stone's 100 Best Movies of the 1970s (2023)
IT WAS THE decade that gave us midnight movies, modern blockbusters, Blaxploitation epics, neo-noirs and the cream of the New Hollywood crop. The "Film Brats" were in full bloom, and after the studio system had let the bearded barbarians in through gate, audiences were gifted with what seemed like some new beautiful, bleak vision of American life on a weekly basis. Later, boxers, biking teens, baseball kids and broken-down hockey players would prove that sometimes, the underdogs win even if they don't actually win. These were the years when we learned to be scared of sharks, masked slashers and pea-soup-spitting youngsters. (In all fairness fair to Regan MacNeil, the devil made her do it.). This list is awful. The absences of Patton, The French Connection, Grease, Superman, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Sting, et al.
avg. score: 32 of 100 (32%)
required scores: 1, 11, 24, 33, 53
