What is the best movie ever made....and why?

I'll start, Stars Wars: Return of the Jedi.

A sequel better than the first, with a huge box office justifying start wars being a thing to this day, complete with prequels, spin offs and themeparks.

Arguably the template for all franchises that ever followed.

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2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968

By the brilliant director Stanley Kubrick, this amazing film forever changed the ways movies are made,
and how we view them. It is EPIC!

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Gone with the Wind.

Just as popular now as the day it was released in 1939

Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior (1981)

Not only was it massively influential on the sci-fi genre and culture in general, spawning countless imitations of varying but inevitably inferior quality (including one by its very director, a whole 34 years after the fact), not only did it showcase what can be done on a shoestring budget when a strong artistic vision is behind a project, it remains a veritable lesson on lean, efficient and cleverly written storytelling to this very day.

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if you think about what they did and when
The Wizard of Oz ; they went from black and white to color and did some cute visual effects with costumes and of course a song still sung today

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

A captivating story with incredible performances (especially from Gregory Peck, who won a well deserved Academy Award) along with an excellent soundtrack from Elmer Bernstein, all delivered in a film with a strong cultural impact.