AFI’s 10 TOP 10 — CHALLENGE RANK: ROMANTIC COMEDIES

Scott Anthony
6 min readMay 9, 2018
AFI’s 10 Top 10 — Challenge Rank: Romantic Comedies.

Hello and welcome to “AFI’s 10 Top 10 — Challenge Rank,” this is an article series where we put to test the American Film Institute’s various list rankings through a critical and audience consensual assessment scale. We will be breaking down “AFI’s 10 Top 10” lists, right here. The “AFI’s 10 Top 10” originally broke down by genre what are the 10 best films in that specified genre. We covered Courtroom Drama in the first article and for this second article in the series, we are going to tackle “AFI’s 10 Top 10: Romantic Comedies” category. Here’s the list of films and how they ranked from “AFI’s 10 Top 10: Romantic Comedies”:

1.) “City Lights

2.) “Annie Hall

3.) “It Happened One Night

4.) “Roman Holiday

5.) “The Philadelphia Story

6.) “When Harry Met Sally

7.) “Adam’s Rib

8.) “Moonstruck

9.) “Harold and Maude

10.) “Sleepless in Seattle

If you want to see the actual AFI page of the Top 10? The link is below: http://www.afi.com/10top10/category.aspx?cat=2

Now, this is how AFI ranked the best films of the romantic comedy genre. But do critics and audiences agree with AFI’s…

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Scott Anthony

Background in film, a cinephile enthusiast, who’s here to talk film, its talens, its history and its industry.