Metacritic: Best-Reviewed Movies

68 $9.99
49 2012
56 Adam
37 Amelia
50 Armored
53 Astro Boy
35 Babysitters, The
66 Bandslam
86 Beaches of Agnes, The
19 Bitch Slap
65 Black Dynamite
71 Bliss
24 Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, The
47 Box, The
51 Breakfast with Scot
44 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
76 Broken Embraces
71 Bronson
61 Capitalism: A Love Story
57 Chelsea on the Rocks
43 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
65 Coco Before Chanel
69 Cold Souls
23 Couples Retreat
75 Crude
81 Damned United, The
54 Dare
61 Dead Snow
27 Did You Hear About the Morgans?
68 End of the Line, The
55 Endgame
47 Everybody's Fine
64 Examined Life
xx Falling for Grace
31 Fix
74 Flame & Citron
xx From Mexico with Love
28 Gentlemen Broncos
64 Gigante
58 Gogol Bordello Non-Stop
72 Good Hair
73 House of the Devil, The
82 Hunger
17 I Hate Valentine's Day
66 Informant!, The
34 Law Abiding Citizen
33 Love Happens
59 More Than a Game
34 Motherhood
49 New York, I Love You
34 Ninja Assassin
19 Old Dogs
47 Ong Bak 2: The Beginning
68 Paris
44 Peter and Vandy
39 Planet 51
86 Ponyo
79 Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire
73 Princess & the Frog, The
49 Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The
84 Revanche
69 September Issue, The
79 Serious Man, A
36 Serious Moonlight
70 Shall We Kiss?
24 Sorority Row
40 Spiral
41 Splinterheads
33 Stepfather, The
50 Stoning of Soraya M., The
47 Time Traveler's Wife
44 Twilight Saga: New Moon, The
83 Up in the Air
65 Vicious Kind, The
69 We Live in Public
65 Wedding Song, The
71 Where the Wild Things Are
43 Women in Trouble
48 Wonderful World
73 Zombieland

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.

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.	Spirited Away	2002	94
10.	Pulp Fiction	1994	94
11.	Killer of Sheep	2007	94
12.	Hurt Locker, The	2009	94
13.	WALL-E	2008	94
14.	Sideways	2004	94
15.	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The	2003	94
16.	Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The	2000	93
17.	Sita Sings the Blues	2010	93
18.	Reversal of Fortune	1990	93
19.	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	2000	93
20.	Schindler's List	1993	93
21.	Amadeus: Director's Cut	2002	93
22.	Yi Yi (A One and a Two)	2000	92
23.	Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The	2007	92
24.	Class, The	2008	92
25.	Raging Bull	1980	92
26.	35 Shots of Rum	2009	92
27.	There Will Be Blood	2007	92
28.	Toy Story	1995	92
29.	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The	2001	92
30.	Werckmeister Harmonies	2001	92
31.	Moolaadé	2004	91
32.	Fast Runner, The	2002	91
33.	Star Wars	1977	91
34.	Triplets of Belleville, The	2003	91
35.	Queen, The	2006	91
36.	Beau Travail	2000	91
37.	Do The Right Thing	1989	91
38.	Secrets & Lies	1996	91
39.	Patton	1970	91
40.	Waltz with Bashir	2008	91
41.	No Country for Old Men	2007	91
42.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	90
43.	After Hours	1985	90
44.	Crying Game, The	1992	90
45.	Saving Private Ryan	1998	90
46.	L.A. Confidential	1997	90
47.	Apocalypse Now Redux	2001	90
48.	My Voyage to Italy	2001	90
49.	Bloody Sunday	2002	90
50.	Sweet Hereafter, The	1997	90
51.	Topsy-Turvy	1999	90
52.	Being John Malkovich	1999	90
53.	Incredibles, The	2004	90
54.	Before Sunset	2004	90
55.	Hannah and Her Sisters	1986	90
56.	Almost Famous	2000	90
57.	American Splendor	2003	90
58.	Gosford Park	2001	90
59.	United 93	2006	90
60.	Truman Show, The	1998	90
61.	Capturing the Friedmans	2003	90
62.	Persepolis	2007	90
63.	Lost in Translation	2003	89
64.	Best of Youth, The	2005	89
65.	Lives of Others, The	2006	89
66.	4 Little Girls	1997	89
67.	House of Flying Daggers	2004	89
68.	Man on Wire	2008	89
69.	Prophet, A	2010	89
70.	Still Walking	2009	89
71.	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	2006	89
72.	Finding Nemo	2003	89
73.	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	89
74.	No End in Sight	2007	89
75.	Goodbye Solo	2009	89
76.	Stop Making Sense	1984	89
77.	Goodfellas	1990	89
78.	Piano, The	1993	89
79.	Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	89
80.	Once	2007	88
81.	Superman: The Movie	1978	88
82.	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The	2002	88
83.	Ghost World	2001	88
84.	Brazil	1985	88
85.	Capote	2005	88
86.	Tulpan	2009	88
87.	Overlord	2006	88
88.	Band of Outsiders	2001	88
89.	Time Out	2002	88
90.	Thelma & Louise	1991	88
91.	Away from Her	2007	88
92.	Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut	2004	88
93.	Chicken Run	2000	88
94.	Blade Runner: The Director's Cut	1992	88
95.	Up	2009	88
96.	Y Tu Mamá También	2002	88
97.	Nobody Knows	2005	88
98.	L'Enfant (The Child)	2006	87
99.	Little Women	1994	87
100.	Shakespeare in Love	1998	87
101.	Gomorrah	2009	87
102.	Fog of War, The	2003	87
103.	Quiz Show	1994	87
104.	Howards End	1992	87
105.	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	2005	87
106.	Crumb	1995	87
107.	Maria Full of Grace	2004	87
108.	Fateless	2006	87
109.	Tootsie	1982	87
110.	Brokeback Mountain	2005	87
111.	Shine	1996	87
112.	Tarnation	2004	87
113.	Murderball	2005	87
114.	Grizzly Man	2005	87
115.	All About My Mother	1999	87
116.	English Patient, The	1996	87
117.	Marooned in Iraq	2003	86
118.	Wind Will Carry Us, The	2000	86
119.	sex, lies, and videotape	1989	86
120.	To Die For	1995	86
121.	Slumdog Millionaire	2008	86
122.	Million Dollar Baby	2004	86
123.	42 UP	1999	86
124.	Say Anything...	1989	86
125.	Rushmore	1999	86
126.	Straight Story, The	1999	86
127.	To Be and to Have	2003	86
128.	Dead Ringers	1988	86
129.	Boys Don't Cry	1999	86
130.	Easy Rider	1969	86
131.	I'm Going Home	2002	86
132.	In the Bedroom	2001	86
133.	Ten	2003	86
134.	Chinatown	1974	86
135.	Beaches of Agnes, The	2009	86
136.	Das Boot	1982	86
137.	Russian Ark	2002	86
138.	Deliver Us from Evil	2006	86
139.	Our Daily Bread	2006	86
140.	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	86
141.	Under the Sand	2001	86
142.	Grifters, The	1990	86
143.	Traffic	2000	86
144.	Talk to Her	2002	86
145.	This Is England	2007	86
146.	Player, The	1992	86
147.	Son, The	2003	86
148.	Sweet Sixteen	2003	86
149.	Departed, The	2006	86
150.	Ponyo	2009	86
151.	Diner	1982	86
152.	American Beauty	1999	86
153.	Fugitive, The	1993	86
154.	Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film	2006	86
155.	Flight of the Red Balloon, The	2008	86
156.	Before Night Falls	2000	85
157.	Bourne Ultimatum, The	2007	85
158.	You Can Count On Me	2000	85
159.	Pianist, The	2002	85
160.	Boogie Nights	1997	85
161.	Children Underground	2001	85
162.	Edge of Heaven, The	2008	85
163.	Savages, The	2007	85
164.	Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The	2001	85
165.	Offside	2007	85
166.	Los Angeles Plays Itself	2004	85
167.	Knocked Up	2007	85
168.	Turtles Can Fly	2005	85
169.	Festival Express	2004	85
170.	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	2004	85
171.	Education, An	2009	85
172.	Half Nelson	2006	85
173.	Street Fight	2006	85
174.	About Schmidt	2002	85
175.	Last Letter, The	2003	85
176.	Love & Diane	2003	85
177.	Domestic Violence	2002	85
178.	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	2006	85
179.	Last Seduction, The	1994	85
180.	Fargo	1996	85
181.	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	2001	85
182.	Intruder, The	2005	85
183.	Forbidden Lie$	2009	85
184.	Iron Giant, The	1999	85
185.	Atonement	2007	85
186.	Alexandra	2008	85
187.	Host, The	2007	85
188.	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	1988	85
189.	Out of Sight	1998	85
190.	Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience	2002	85
191.	In the Mood for Love	2001	85
192.	Passing Strange	2009	85
193.	24 Hour Party People	2002	85
194.	Paragraph 175	2000	85
195.	Circle, The	2001	85
196.	Sound and Fury	2000	85
197.	Since Otar Left	2004	85
198.	Halloween	1978	85
199.	Sun, The	2009	84
200.	Sling Blade	1996	84

Return to top of page

DVD