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AFI Countdown Challenge #89: Patton
The wartime biopic of the controversial general was a favorite movie of a controversial president.
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AFI Countdown Challenge #90: The Jazz Singer
A young man must choose between a promising Broadway singing career and his Jewish heritage in this movie, considered the first “talkie”.
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Godzilla Minus Zero (2026)
Godzilla returns, and he’s no longer the only giant monster out there.
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AFI Countdown Challenge #91: My Fair Lady
A pompous phonetics professor decides, on a bet, to teach a cockney flower girl how to pass for a lady in this musical classic.
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AFI Countdown Challenge #92: A Place In The Sun
A young man experiences the dark side of a love triangle in this 1950 melodrama.
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AFI Countdown Challenge #93: The Apartment
Jack Lemmon is consistently pushed out of his own apartment by philandering supervisors at his job, but then he meets the delightful Shirley MacLaine in this 1960 Best Picture winner.
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AFI Challenge Countdown #94: Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese’s work makes its first appearance in the countdown with one of Watson’s favorite films, the based-on-a-true-story mob drama Goodfellas.
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AFI Countdown Challenge #95: Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino;s second–and possibly best–movie, a collection of stories about criminals and other lowlifes in Los Angeles made some careers and revived one other.
