25 Movies That Just Missed the Cut.

If you're a stone-cold movie lover, putting together a list of your 25 favorites is a painful task. There are just too many you love, warts and all; too many movies that refuse to be ignored.

I just finalized a list of my 25 favorites for the countdown we're starting this Wednesday (starting with Nos. 25 and 24, and adding two a day every Wednesday and Friday), and paring it down was really arduous. It hurt to leave out so many. So, in honor of those movies, here's my list of the 25 movies that just missed the cut (I could easily do a list of 50 or 100, but I don't want to bore you guys too much):

Citizen Kane (1941)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Paths of Glory (1958)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Zodiac (2007)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Fargo (1996)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Robocop (1987)

Superman (1978)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Blue Velvet (1986)

All the President's Men (1976)

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

They Live (1988)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Total Recall (1990)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

The Paper (1994)

Brazil (1986)

Unforgiven (1992)

Stroszek (1977)

Pinocchio (1940)
Boogie Nights (1997)