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OUR 100th MOVIE: SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)

Akira Kurosawa invented many of the tropes of the modern action movie in this great Japanese epic.

The car chase is justly famous, but these days its cops with a “shoot first ask questions later” attitude are extremely hard to root for.

James Bond plows into the modern era by blowing up the Arecibo Telescope a quarter century early.

A Soviet propaganda film that basically invented the modern action sequence.

The first Indiana Jones movie defined its genre for more than one generation of moviegoers.

This epic basically invented modern Scottish nationalism despite a total lack of both subtlety and interest in actual history.

The late, great Sean Connery stars in maybe the best of all the Bond movies.

An oft-overlooked silent comedy classic that I actually laughed a lot at.

This extremely atmospheric neo-noir about androids and flying cars helped revolutionize science fiction with its combination of cynicism and neon.