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I’m Spartacus! Okay, Kirk Douglas, start crying. Yup, Top 100 ‘cast #60 is Spartacus. Director-for-hire Stanley Kubrick has an excellent cast at his disposal (Olivier, Laughton, Curtis, Ustinov). Is this truly one of the great epics though? Find out!

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Ryan and Bev Ellis are partners in film nerdery who share their often humorous musings on the AFI's 1998 & 2007 lists of the greatest 100 American films ever made. But we finished with that in December 2015, so now we just review anything we feel like!

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