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38 12 Rounds
48 17 Again
76 Adventureland
48 Angels & Demons
54 Battle for Terra
xx Bruno
80 Coraline
40 Dance Flick
83 Drag Me to Hell
72 Earth
45 Fast & Furious
61 Fighting
34 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
72 Gran Torino
73 Hangover, The
47 Hannah Montana: The Movie
51 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
54 Imagine That
41 Knowing
32 Land of the Lost
56 Monsters vs. Aliens
34 My Life in Ruins
51 My Sister's Keeper
46 Next Day Air
42 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
54 Observe and Report
25 Obsessed
48 Proposal, The
70 Public Enemies
61 Soloist, The
83 Star Trek
64 State of Play
55 Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, The
52 Terminator Salvation
35 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
77 Under the Sea 3D
88 Up
43 X-Men Origins: Wolverine
34 Year One

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

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67 $9.99
75 24 City
66 Adoration
74 Afghan Star
48 Alien Trespass
56 American Violet
82 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
57 Away We Go
81 Beaches of Agnes, The
62 Big Man Japan
28 Big Shot-Caller, The
78 Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
55 Brothers Bloom, The
82 Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
xx Call of the Wild
63 Cheri
62 Cherry Blossoms
63 Dead Snow
65 Departures
18 Downloading Nancy
58 Easy Virtue
70 End of the Line, The
77 Every Little Step
64 Examined Life
80 Food, Inc.
38 Gigantic
58 Girl from Monaco, The
67 Girlfriend Experience, The
87 Gomorrah
89 Goodbye Solo
63 Great Buck Howard, The
79 Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
xx Home
82 Hunger
91 Hurt Locker, The
19 I Hate Valentine's Day
81 Il Divo
54 Is Anybody There?
71 Jerichow
58 Julia
74 Lemon Tree
36 Life is Hot in Cracktown
40 Limits of Control, The
42 Little Ashes
64 Lymelife
50 Management
57 Merry Gentleman, The
66 Moon
xx New York
62 Not Forgotten
xx Offshore
78 O'Horten
64 Outrage
40 Paris 36
54 Pontypool
71 Pressure Cooker
52 Quiet Chaos
83 Revanche
67 Rudo y Cursi
86 Seraphine
65 Sex Positive
70 Shall We Kiss?
77 Sin Nombre
59 Sleep Dealer
74 Song of Sparrows, The
54 Stoning of Soraya M., The
82 Sugar
84 Summer Hours
61 Sunshine Cleaning
26 Surveillance
42 Tennessee
63 Tetro
64 Throw Down Your Heart
80 Tokyo Sonata
63 Tokyo!
70 Tony Manero
74 Treeless Mountain
88 Tulpan
74 Two Lovers
83 Tyson
83 U2 3D
60 Under Our Skin
69 Unmistaken Child
69 Valentino: The Last Emperor
22 What Goes Up
47 Whatever Works
57 Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

The following list contains the 200 highest-scoring films in Metacritic's database with a minimum of seven reviews. Since our database consists mainly of more recent releases (virtually every film since the beginning of 1999, and selected films from prior years) most of the films on this list will be from that period. Periodically, we add additional films from the 1990's and prior decades to our database, and these releases will find their way onto this list as appropriate. Note that any movies labeled "re-release" are not included in the high score list since their scores are based on reviews at the time of the re-release rather than at the time of the original release.

Click on any title below to read all the reviews for that movie, or learn more about Metascores.

If you are looking for films from the opposite end of the quality spectrum, view our all-time low scores. You may also view high score lists by individual year.

1.	Godfather, The	1972	100
2.	Superman II	1981	99
3.	Army of Shadows	2006	99
4.	Pan's Labyrinth	2006	98
5.	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	2008	97
6.	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964	96
7.	Ratatouille	2007	96
8.	Manchurian Candidate, The	1962	94
9.	Pulp Fiction	1994	94
10.	Killer of Sheep	2007	94
11.	Spirited Away	2002	94
12.	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The	2003	94
13.	Sideways	2004	94
14.	Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The	2000	93
15.	WALL-E	2008	93
16.	Reversal of Fortune	1990	93
17.	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	2000	93
18.	Schindler's List	1993	93
19.	Amadeus: Director's Cut	2002	93
20.	Yi Yi (A One and a Two)	2000	92
21.	Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The	2007	92
22.	Class, The	2008	92
23.	Raging Bull	1980	92
24.	There Will Be Blood	2007	92
25.	Toy Story	1995	92
26.	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The	2001	92
27.	Werckmeister Harmonies	2001	92
28.	Moolaadé	2004	91
29.	Fast Runner, The	2002	91
30.	Star Wars	1977	91
31.	Triplets of Belleville, The	2003	91
32.	Queen, The	2006	91
33.	Hurt Locker, The	2009	91
34.	Beau Travail	2000	91
35.	Do The Right Thing	1989	91
36.	Secrets & Lies	1996	91
37.	Patton	1970	91
38.	Waltz with Bashir	2008	91
39.	No Country for Old Men	2007	91
40.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	90
41.	After Hours	1985	90
42.	Crying Game, The	1992	90
43.	Saving Private Ryan	1998	90
44.	L.A. Confidential	1997	90
45.	Apocalypse Now Redux	2001	90
46.	My Voyage to Italy	2001	90
47.	Bloody Sunday	2002	90
48.	Sweet Hereafter, The	1997	90
49.	Topsy-Turvy	1999	90
50.	Being John Malkovich	1999	90
51.	Incredibles, The	2004	90
52.	Before Sunset	2004	90
53.	Hannah and Her Sisters	1986	90
54.	Almost Famous	2000	90
55.	American Splendor	2003	90
56.	Gosford Park	2001	90
57.	United 93	2006	90
58.	Truman Show, The	1998	90
59.	Capturing the Friedmans	2003	90
60.	Persepolis	2007	90
61.	Lost in Translation	2003	89
62.	Best of Youth, The	2005	89
63.	Lives of Others, The	2006	89
64.	4 Little Girls	1997	89
65.	House of Flying Daggers	2004	89
66.	Man on Wire	2008	89
67.	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	2006	89
68.	Goodbye Solo	2009	89
69.	Finding Nemo	2003	89
70.	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	89
71.	No End in Sight	2007	89
72.	Stop Making Sense	1984	89
73.	Goodfellas	1990	89
74.	Piano, The	1993	89
75.	Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	89
76.	Once	2007	88
77.	Superman: The Movie	1978	88
78.	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The	2002	88
79.	Ghost World	2001	88
80.	Brazil	1985	88
81.	Capote	2005	88
82.	Tulpan	2009	88
83.	Overlord	2006	88
84.	Band of Outsiders	2001	88
85.	Time Out	2002	88
86.	Thelma & Louise	1991	88
87.	Away from Her	2007	88
88.	Up	2009	88
89.	Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut	2004	88
90.	Chicken Run	2000	88
91.	Blade Runner: The Director's Cut	1992	88
92.	Y Tu Mamá También	2002	88
93.	Toy Story 2	1999	88
94.	Nobody Knows	2005	88
95.	L'Enfant (The Child)	2006	87
96.	Little Women	1994	87
97.	Shakespeare in Love	1998	87
98.	Gomorrah	2009	87
99.	Fog of War, The	2003	87
100.	Quiz Show	1994	87
101.	Howards End	1992	87
102.	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	2005	87
103.	Crumb	1995	87
104.	Maria Full of Grace	2004	87
105.	Fateless	2006	87
106.	Tootsie	1982	87
107.	Brokeback Mountain	2005	87
108.	Shine	1996	87
109.	Tarnation	2004	87
110.	Murderball	2005	87
111.	Grizzly Man	2005	87
112.	All About My Mother	1999	87
113.	English Patient, The	1996	87
114.	Marooned in Iraq	2003	86
115.	Wind Will Carry Us, The	2000	86
116.	sex, lies, and videotape	1989	86
117.	To Die For	1995	86
118.	Slumdog Millionaire	2008	86
119.	Million Dollar Baby	2004	86
120.	42 UP	1999	86
121.	Say Anything...	1989	86
122.	Rushmore	1999	86
123.	Straight Story, The	1999	86
124.	To Be and to Have	2003	86
125.	Dead Ringers	1988	86
126.	Boys Don't Cry	1999	86
127.	Easy Rider	1969	86
128.	I'm Going Home	2002	86
129.	In the Bedroom	2001	86
130.	Ten	2003	86
131.	Chinatown	1974	86
132.	Seraphine	2009	86
133.	Das Boot	1982	86
134.	Russian Ark	2002	86
135.	Deliver Us from Evil	2006	86
136.	Our Daily Bread	2006	86
137.	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	86
138.	Under the Sand	2001	86
139.	Grifters, The	1990	86
140.	Traffic	2000	86
141.	Talk to Her	2002	86
142.	This Is England	2007	86
143.	Player, The	1992	86
144.	Son, The	2003	86
145.	Sweet Sixteen	2003	86
146.	Departed, The	2006	86
147.	Diner	1982	86
148.	American Beauty	1999	86
149.	Fugitive, The	1993	86
150.	Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film	2006	86
151.	Flight of the Red Balloon, The	2008	86
152.	Before Night Falls	2000	85
153.	Bourne Ultimatum, The	2007	85
154.	You Can Count On Me	2000	85
155.	Pianist, The	2002	85
156.	Boogie Nights	1997	85
157.	Children Underground	2001	85
158.	Edge of Heaven, The	2008	85
159.	Savages, The	2007	85
160.	Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The	2001	85
161.	Offside	2007	85
162.	Los Angeles Plays Itself	2004	85
163.	Knocked Up	2007	85
164.	Turtles Can Fly	2005	85
165.	Festival Express	2004	85
166.	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	2004	85
167.	Half Nelson	2006	85
168.	Street Fight	2006	85
169.	About Schmidt	2002	85
170.	Last Letter, The	2003	85
171.	Love & Diane	2003	85
172.	Domestic Violence	2002	85
173.	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	2006	85
174.	Last Seduction, The	1994	85
175.	Fargo	1996	85
176.	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	2001	85
177.	Intruder, The	2005	85
178.	Forbidden Lie$	2009	85
179.	Iron Giant, The	1999	85
180.	Atonement	2007	85
181.	Alexandra	2008	85
182.	Host, The	2007	85
183.	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	1988	85
184.	Out of Sight	1998	85
185.	Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience	2002	85
186.	In the Mood for Love	2001	85
187.	24 Hour Party People	2002	85
188.	Paragraph 175	2000	85
189.	Circle, The	2001	85
190.	Sound and Fury	2000	85
191.	Since Otar Left	2004	85
192.	Halloween	1978	85
193.	Sling Blade	1996	84
194.	Calle 54	2000	84
195.	Christmas Tale, A	2008	84
196.	In the Shadow of the Moon	2007	84
197.	My Winnipeg	2008	84
198.	Children of Men	2006	84
199.	Man Without a Past, The	2003	84
200.	American Movie	1999	84

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