Rear Window named most perfect thriller in ranked list

Collider has ranked the ten most perfect thriller movies and placed Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) at number one.

The list highlights a range of films across eras and styles: The Silence of the Lambs sits at number two and is described as an essentially perfect psychological thriller; Alien is third, praised as a horror‑thriller‑sci‑fi hybrid; No Country for Old Men is lauded as a near‑perfect neo‑Western with Javier Bardem’s Anton Chigurh; Parasite is noted as a complete, Oscar‑winning film; and Martin Scorsese’s Oscar‑winning The Departed appears at number ten, with roots in the Winter Hill gang’s crimes.

The piece frames perfection as a combination of cinematography, script and performances and says the ranking is based on how iconic and perfect each film is. The selection ranges from Rear Window (1954) to Parasite (2019) and includes works inspired by true crimes (Zodiac, Memories of Murder) as well as films with divisive elements such as Prisoners’ ambiguous ending.

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Culture, Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, Parasite, Bong Joon-ho, Zodiac