#2?

Rating: 7/10 (27 May 2003)

I like "The Shawshank Redemption," but cannot understand why it is rated so highly. While it's well-acted, the direction is pedestrian, and the story is derivative.
While it should be somewhere in the top 250, rating it above movies like "Citizen Kane," "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Seven Samurai," "Chinatown," "Memento," etc. strikes me as ludicrous.