These Are the 100 Best Films of All Time, According to Critics
By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News
AND Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker News
On 5/9/21 at 9:00 AM EDT
For more than a century, there have been movies, and people paid to review them. The first film critic, W.G. Faulkner, began churning out weekly reviews in January 1912.
Since then, movie criticism has retained countless core consistencies while evolving to keep pace with the medium itself. During this time, the two respective arenas have developed what some might call a symbiotic relationship. Movies often, but not always, depend on solid reviews to succeed, and movie critics rely on the emergence of new films to keep their jobs.
Creature from the Black Lagoon) and penned by Richard Matheson (
I Am Legend,
Stir of Echoes),
The Incredible Shrinking Man chronicles the fate of Scott Carey (Grant Williams) after he encounters a radioactive mist while on a boating trip. Carey starts shrinking slowly over a period of months.
At one point, he finds himself trapped in the basement because heâs so small that his wife Louise (Randy Stuart) canât see him or hear his faint pleas for help. And in that basement, his greatest foe is a common household spider that tries to win the crumbs of a piece of stale cake.