Jaws voted the greatest film ever made – that’s staggeringly wrong

Jaws number one? Are you kidding me? (Picture: Rex Features)

So, what is the greatest movie of all time? It’s a question that’s constantly sprung on me – in the pub, at the school gates, mouth clamped open at the dentist – any time someone discovers that I’m a film critic.

Thankfully, Empire has now answered the question for us. The movie bible has just updated its list of the 100 greatest films ever made and the result is staggering.

Staggeringly wrong.

Not because the 100 films on this list are bad. Quite the opposite. They are all heavily laminated mainstream classics. The Godfather (#2). Goodfellas (#7). The

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