1995's Top Films: A Critical Consensus
Beginning with 1995, Alex Fung - apparently a student at Carlton University - compiled an annual ranking of the top films of each year. The first list tabulated "86 (or was it 68? - anyway, it was a lot) Top 10 lists from the leading film critics across the United States." Here are the results.
1 Sense And Sensibility
2 Leaving Las Vegas
3 Crumb
4 Apollo 13
5 Toy Story
6 Babe
7 Get Shorty
8 Nixon
9 Persuasion
10 The Usual Suspects
11 Dead Man Walking
12 To Die For
13 Heat
14 The Bridges Of Madison County
15 Braveheart
16 Devil In A Blue Dress
17 Smoke
18 Exotica
19 A Little Princess
20 The American President
21 Clueless
22 Il Postino (The Postman)
23 Safe
24 Burnt By The Sun
25 Shanghai Triad
26 Wild Reeds
27 Les Miserables
28 Once Were Warriors
29 Casino
30 Richard III
31 The Secret Of Roan Inish
32 Carrington
33 Clockers
34 Funny Bones
35 Unstrung Heroes
36 Through The Olive Trees
37 Lamerica
38 Mighty Aphrodite
39 12 Monkeys
40 Cry, The Beloved Country
41 Beyond Rangoon
42 Wild Bill
43 The Brothers McMullen
44 Seven
45 Unzipped
46 Before Sunrise
47 Before The Rain
48 Kids
49 Georgia
50 Theremin: An Electric Odyssey
Fung: "The difference between films #1-#4 are virtually negligible; they are practically interchangable in order (particularly between #2-#4). The film with the most mentions was "Sense And Sensibility", with 53 selections."