![]() ![]() ![]() 1 & 2 were cut from the list: You had to buy two tickets, meaning two separate movies. ![]() Other director’s cuts that clear the 3-hour mark, like Watchmen or Kingdom of Heaven, or extended editions like Lord of the Rings, are excluded because they don’t have their own Tomatometers, and never saw major release. It’s included because the film had a national theatrical release, and got its own separate Tomatometer score from the original movie. Now Redux underscores an interesting point. Of course, Francis Ford Coppola gets a couple in there: There’s The Godfather, Part II (though not The Godfather, which is three minutes shy of three hours), and Apocalypse Now Redux over regular ol’ vanilla Apocalypse Now, which runs a swift 2.5 hours. Other directors with multiple entries are legends known for their predilection for epic storytelling: Akira Kurosawa ( Seven Samurai, Red Beard) David Lean ( Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago) Oliver Stone ( JFK, Malcom X) and Stanley Kubrick ( Spartacus, Barry Lyndon). The director who takes the most advantage of your attention span? No surprise: It’s Martin Scorsese, with six films on this list, including 2019’s The Irishman. Well, we’ve sifted through the backend of cinema history, from the silent era all the way up to the present, and collected and ranked the 100 best-reviewed movies that run three hours or longer (Certified Fresh movies listed first) to vanquish those pesky waking moments. Suddenly finding yourself with lots of free time? In possession of a murder of minutes, a bounty of hours, a gaggle of extra days, wondering how to fill them all up? Sounds like you could go for a movie – a really loooong movie. Thumbnail: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / © Marvel Studios / courtesy Everett Collection New Line Cinema / courtesy Everett Collection.) The 100 Best Movies 3 Hours or Longer, Ranked by Tomatometer (Photo by Paramount Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection. ![]()
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