Josh Bell

Josh Bell is a film and TV critic for Las Vegas Weekly, and can be found at Signal Bleed

These are in order of preference, but it's a loose, fluid order. By no means do I think of these as the 50 greatest films of all time, merely the 50 that most speak to me.

1. Heathers (1988) .. Michael Lehmann
2. The Big Lebowski (1998) .. The Coen Brothers
3. Rosemary's Baby (1968) .. Roman Polanski
4. Fight Club (1999) .. David Fincher
5. Batman (1989) .. Tim Burton
6. Clerks. (1994) .. Kevin Smith
7. The Birds (1963) .. Alfred Hitchcock
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) .. Michel Gondry
9. Manhattan (1979) .. Woody Allen
10. Scream (1996) .. Wes Craven
11. Bring It On (2000) .. Peyton Reed
12. Gattaca (1997) .. Andrew Niccol
13. Carrie (1976) .. Brian De Palma
14. Pulp Fiction (1994) .. Quentin Tarantino
15. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) .. James Cameron
16. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) .. Trey Parker
17. À Bout de Souffle (1960) .. Jean-Luc Godard
18. Lone Star (1996) .. John Sayles
19. Wild Things (1998) .. John McNaughton
20. Nikita (1990) .. Luc Besson
21. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) .. David Mirkin
22. Alien (1979) .. Ridley Scott
23. Almost Famous (2000) .. Cameron Crowe
24. The Craft (1996) .. Andrew Fleming
25. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) .. Don Siegel
26. Heat (1995) .. Michael Mann
27. To Die For (1995) .. Gus Van Sant
28. Interview with the Vampire (1994) .. Neil Jordan
29. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) .. Woody Allen
30. Rear Window (1954) .. Alfred Hitchcock
31. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) .. Jonathan Demme
32. Quick Change (1990) .. Howard Franklin & Bill Murray
33. Clueless (1995) .. Amy Heckerling
34. Bound (1996) .. The Wachowski Brothers
35. Chasing Amy (1997) .. Kevin Smith
36. The Conversation (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
37. Out of Sight (1998) .. Steven Soderbergh
38. Misery (1990) .. Rob Reiner
39. Annie Hall (1977) .. Woody Allen
40. Before Sunset (2004) .. Richard Linklater
41. North by Northwest (1959) .. Alfred Hitchcock
42. Face/Off (1997) .. John Woo
43. The Last Picture Show (1971) .. Peter Bogdanovich
44. The Truman Show (1998) .. Peter Weir
45. The Matrix (1999) .. The Wachowski Brothers
46. Three Kings (1999) .. David O. Russell
47. The Fly (1986) .. David Cronenberg
48. Halloween (1978) .. John Carpenter
49. Memento (2000) .. Christopher Nolan
50. About Schmidt (2002) .. Alexander Payne