Thompson on Hollywood: EW's Top Five All-Time Greatest Films, TV Shows and More -- Do We Need More Lists?

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EW's Top Five All-Time Greatest Films, TV Shows and More -- Do We Need More Lists? Jun 27th 2013, 17:47 Entertainment Weekly's upcoming edition (on newsstands June 28) is being trumpeted as their first All-Time Greatest issue. This means lists galore. The sneak peek they've sent along, which includes their Top 5 films, TV shows, albums, novels and plays, is solid enough but adds nothing new to the firmament. We all love "Citizen Kane" and "The Wire" -- do we need another list saying so? Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo," which was crowned last year by Sight and Sound as the all-time greatest film, doesn't make EW's top five, though "Psycho" does. Here's the 25 selections over five categories:All-Time Greatest Movies:1.     Citizen Kane -- Directed by Orson Welles, 1941, PG. Telling the story of a newspaper tycoon based on William Randolph Hearst, the 25-year-old genius Orson Welles poured his own swaggering, larger-than-life soul into a tragic and exuberant American saga of journalism, power, celebrity, idealism, betrayal, and lost love.2.     The... Media files: citizen-kane.jpg (image/jpeg)

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