In 2000, as part of his "The Great Movies" series, Ebert said while the special effects had not aged well, they were perfect for this type of film. He concluded it was a "whiz-bang slamarama" made with "heedless joy". In 2005, the Writer's Guild of America's (WGA) listed the film's screenplay as the forty-second greatest screenplay of the preceding 75 years on their 101 Greatest Screenplays list. In 2008, "Empire" listed the film at number two on its list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, behind the 1972 crime film "The Godfather". They said, "no adventure movie is quite so efficiently entertaining". In 2014, a poll of 2,120 entertainment-industry members by "The Hollywood Reporter" ranked it the thirteenth best film of all time. In 1997, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked "Raiders of the Lost Ark" number60 on its 100 Years...100 Movies list recognizing the best American films. They reassessed to number66 in the 2007 anniversary edition. On the AFI's list of the 100 Best Thrills, the film was ranked number10, and the 2003 list of the 100 Best Heroes & Villains ranked the Indiana Jones character as the number two hero, behind Atticus Finch from "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962). It is listed in the film reference book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die".