Jean-Pierre Melville

Jun 17, 2024 | editorial.rottentomatoes.com | Jean-Pierre Melville |Sam Peckinpah |Lindsay Anderson |John Schlesinger

The Wild Bunch celebrates its 55th anniversary!We’re ranking the 100 best movies of 1969 by Tomatometer, starting with Certified Fresh films like Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. With the women’s liberation movement, Vietnam War protests, and hippie counterculture, the late 1960s were a cocktail of social unrest that splashed into the movies. At that same time, censorship was loosening its grip on Hollywood.