Stand by Me vs When Harry Met Sally... is currently a dead heat at 50–50

The Verdict Director's Cut

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Stand by Me is about the friendships that shape you before you understand what friendship means. When Harry Met Sally is about the friendship that changes meaning after you've spent a decade insisting it can't. Both are Reiner working at the top of his range, in opposite emotional registers: one nostalgic and elegiac, the other witty and urbane. The tie says Reiner's audience values both registers equally, which is either the bracket measuring two great films or measuring a director whose emotional range is wider than his reputation suggests. Probably both.