Our picks for the top 10 best film performances in cinema history

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Our picks for the top 10 best film performances in cinema history
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With so many different types of performances on screen, and so many iconic portrayals that exist up and down the spectrum of emotion, it's impossible to actually rank them.

So we're looking at them categorically: comedy next to drama, big next to small, classic next to method. Because sometimes the best way to study a topic is to find its boundaries.

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