Lists
- ranked 2 in Chicago Tribune 100 Best Films of the Century
- ranked 282 in Empire 500 Greatest Movies (2008)
- ranked 533 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- ranked 541 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- ranked 562 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
I recently re-watched the first two Godfather films in preparation for The Offer, the new TV series about the first film's production. Since I'd never seen the third one I watched the slightly re-edited 2020 re-release (re-titled "The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone"). Honestly I don't understand the hate. Here's a hot take for you, but Sofia Coppola gives the second-best performance in it after Talia Shire. The main problem is that she's a character in a Sofia Coppola movie, who should be spending her time staring out windows to an Air song, while everyone else is in a bombastic, melodramatic opera -- but the contrast makes the rest of them look like fools, not her.
This is a weird, unsuccessful film, perhaps thematically in keeping with the originals but hurting them by association. See also: The Phantom Menace.