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The 100 Best Movies 3 Hours or Longer, Ranked by Tomatometer
Suddenly finding yourself with lots of free time? In possession of a murder of minutes, a bounty of hours, a gaggle of extra days, wondering how to fill them all up? Sounds like you could go for a movie – a really loooong movie. Well, we’ve sifted through the backend of cinema history, from the silent era all the way up to the present, and collected and ranked the 100 best-reviewed movies that run three hours or longer (Certified Fresh movies listed first) to vanquish those pesky waking moments.
#101
Adjusted Score: 66410%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Based on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel...
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#102
Adjusted Score: 64525%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Prison, drugs and gang war touch three young men (Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt) in East Los Angeles from...
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#103
Adjusted Score: 61444%
Critics Consensus: Heaven's Gate contains too many ideas and striking spectacle to be a disaster, but this western buckles under the weight of its own sprawl.
Synopsis: Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the...
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#104
Adjusted Score: 77346%
Critics Consensus: Babylon's overwhelming muchness is exhausting, but much like the industry it honors, its well-acted, well-crafted glitz and glamour can often be an effective distraction.
Synopsis: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era...
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#105
Adjusted Score: 61077%
Critics Consensus: Cleopatra is a lush, ostentatious, endlessly eye-popping epic that sags collapses from a (and how could it not?) four-hour runtime.
Synopsis: "Cleopatra" is a lengthy, sprawling, spectacular love story, helmed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, depicting Cleopatra's manipulation of Julius Caesar and...
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#106
Adjusted Score: 54250%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: This expansive period drama follows two childhood friends in northern Italy during the early 20th century. Alfredo Berlinghieri (Robert De...
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#107
Adjusted Score: 50606%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Tales of women (Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider) by Italy's leading filmmakers. Stories include The Raffle, The Job and...
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#108
Adjusted Score: 48578%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A teacher's (Robert Mitchum) wife (Sarah Miles) has an affair with a British soldier (Christopher Jones) in 1916 Northern Ireland....
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#109
Adjusted Score: 33412%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Mad Ludwig II (Helmut Berger) of Bavaria likes Empress Elisabeth (Romy Schneider), composer Richard Wagner (Trevor Howard), young men and...
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#110
Adjusted Score: 37143%
Critics Consensus: Easy to admire yet difficult to love, Wyatt Earp buries eye-catching direction and an impressive cast in an undisciplined and overlong story.
Synopsis: The epic biography of western lawman Wyatt Earp, who at an early age, is taught that nothing matters more than...
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