#film-rankings

#film-rankings

Ask 100 fans to name their favorite football movie, and you'll probably get at least 30 different responses, from comedy-dramas such as "The Longest Yard" (both Burt Reynolds and Adam Sandler versions), "Semi-Tough" (1977), "Varsity Blues" (1999), and "The Waterboy" (1998) to earnest dramas including "Knute Rockne, All American" (1940), as well as "We Are Marshall" (2006), "The Express: The Ernie Davis Story" (2008), "The Blind Side" (2009), and "Concussion" (2015).

"What about Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World? It's a fantastically rollicking, Swiss watch-precise naval adventure that captures Patrick O'Brian's epic spirit."

Making a list of the Top 10 movies of the 21st century is hard, for those who work in movies and those who love watching them. It requires pitting very different films against each other in ways that don't always seem fair.