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This is a bit of a companion piece to another article I wrote about movies I don’t love, despite containing some great scenes. In this case, I have movies that I do love, despite the fact that I can acknowledge them to have flaws. These are not necessarily the “Guilty Pleasures” – movies that you know are bad, but love anyway. These are films that are generally considered to be at least pretty good; they all rank in the global Top 2000 on Flickchart, and three rank in the global Top 200. They all rank in my personal Top 200, and two of them are in my Top 20. One is a Best Picture Oscar winner. Three of the other four were nominated for at least one Oscar, and the fifth made many critics’ Top 10 lists the year it came out. I love them all, but I can admit each of them has certain “issues”. Here they are, in ascending order on my Flickchart:
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There are few films that make me smile as often as Young Frankenstein does, and I’m always a bit thrilled when I find someone else who loves it too. Those of us “in the know” could potentially spend hours quoting the film back and forth – I’m terribly partial to the “Werewolf?” scene – and there are few truer facts to me than the fact that more people need to love Young Frankenstein.

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