Ryan Godfrey played with IMDB data to come up with a list of the 250 best movies of all time.
He’s Philadelphia’s own “human Rotten Tomatoes,” as Philly Mag put it.
A silent classic, A Trip to the Moon (1902), tops Godfrey’s list with Humphrey Bogart’s Casablanca coming in at No. 2.
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And check out the movies that made the list that are set in Philadelphia. (No love for 1987’s Mannequin. Sorry, Dan McQuade.)
Godfrey, a project manager at Langhorne-based Hybrid Software, spent a few years as City Paper’s webmaster.
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