Lists are a powerful thing.  They can be used to rank and categorize, or in the case of a newcomer to the world of intellectual cinema, as a guide.  These are the 75 films That I am making it my goal to watch in the year 2017.  All of them have been acclaimed in some way for something that has been deemed beneficial to the advancement of cinema.  So…without further ado:

1. Minority Report
2.  Memento
3.  Dead Poets Society
4.  The Good The Bad and the Ugly
5.  The Sixth Sense
6.  Fistful of Dollars
7.  The Sting
8. The Godfather
9. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
10.  The Departed
11.  The Prestige
12.  The Imitation Game
13.  The Great Dictator
14.  Birdman
15.  The King’s Speech
16.  Casablanca
17.  The Bourne Supremacy
18. The Bourne Ultimatum
19. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
20.  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
21.  Amadeus
22.  Dr. Strangelove
23.  Inception
24.  Prisoners
25.  Cache (Hidden)
26.  Bridge on the River Kwai
27.  Alien
28.  Collateral
29.  The Last Samurai
30.  The Maltese Falcon
31.  The Great Escape
32.  Citizen Kane
33.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
34.  Signs
35.  The Grand Budapest Hotel
36.  Twelve Years a Slave
37.  Blade Runner
38.  Apacolypse Now
39.  League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
40.  Argo
41.  The Raid
42.  True Grit
43.  Batman Vs. Superman (The Ultimate Cut)
44.  The Legend of Tarzan
45.  Training Day
46.  Shattered Glass
47.  Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
48.  The Killing
49.  Ace in the Hole
50.  Sullivan’s Travels
51.  O Brother Where Art Thou
52.  The Player
53.  Payback
54.  Blackhawk Down
55.  Se7en
56.  Seven Samurai
57.  Lawrence of Arabia
58.  The Third Man
59.  The Walk
60.  Children of Men
61.  There Will Be Blood
62.  Daze and Confused
63.  Hell or Highwater
64.  Sing Street
65. Hacksaw Ridge
66.  The Nice Guys
67.  Moana
68.  Kubo and the Two Strings
69.  Deepwater Horizon
70.  Arrival
71.  Speed
72.  Don Juan Demarco
73.  LaLa Land
74.  American Sniper
75.  Once Upon a Time in the West