Metacritic: Best-Reviewed Movies

58 Adam Resurrected
65 Adoration
42 Aliens in the Attic
56 American Violet
44 Answer Man, The
82 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
58 Away We Go
54 Battle for Terra
55 Casi Divas
63 Cheri
83 Drag Me to Hell
76 Every Little Step
70 Fados
26 Filth and Wisdom
80 Food, Inc.
34 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
67 Girlfriend Experience, The
32 I Love You, Beth Cooper
50 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
81 Il Divo
32 Land of the Lost
74 Lemon Tree
43 Love 'N Dancing
64 Lymelife
50 Management
63 Medicine for Melancholy
56 Monsters vs. Aliens
34 My Life in Ruins
48 Not Forgotten
76 Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
50 Nothing Like the Holidays
26 Objective, The
54 Observe and Report
78 O'Horten
42 Orphan
48 Proposal, The
40 Shrink
55 Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, The
35 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
88 Tulpan
66 Unmistaken Child
45 Whatever Works
34 Year One

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.

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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.	35 Shots of Rum	2009	96
9.	Manchurian Candidate, The	1962	94
10.	Pulp Fiction	1994	94
11.	Killer of Sheep	2007	94
12.	Spirited Away	2002	94
13.	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The	2003	94
14.	Sideways	2004	94
15.	Hurt Locker, The	2009	94
16.	Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The	2000	93
17.	WALL-E	2008	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.	There Will Be Blood	2007	92
27.	Toy Story	1995	92
28.	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The	2001	92
29.	Werckmeister Harmonies	2001	92
30.	Moolaadé	2004	91
31.	Fast Runner, The	2002	91
32.	Star Wars	1977	91
33.	Triplets of Belleville, The	2003	91
34.	Queen, The	2006	91
35.	Beau Travail	2000	91
36.	Do The Right Thing	1989	91
37.	Secrets & Lies	1996	91
38.	Patton	1970	91
39.	Waltz with Bashir	2008	91
40.	No Country for Old Men	2007	91
41.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	90
42.	After Hours	1985	90
43.	Crying Game, The	1992	90
44.	Saving Private Ryan	1998	90
45.	L.A. Confidential	1997	90
46.	Apocalypse Now Redux	2001	90
47.	My Voyage to Italy	2001	90
48.	Bloody Sunday	2002	90
49.	Sweet Hereafter, The	1997	90
50.	Topsy-Turvy	1999	90
51.	Being John Malkovich	1999	90
52.	Incredibles, The	2004	90
53.	Before Sunset	2004	90
54.	Hannah and Her Sisters	1986	90
55.	Almost Famous	2000	90
56.	American Splendor	2003	90
57.	Gosford Park	2001	90
58.	United 93	2006	90
59.	Truman Show, The	1998	90
60.	Capturing the Friedmans	2003	90
61.	Persepolis	2007	90
62.	Lost in Translation	2003	89
63.	Best of Youth, The	2005	89
64.	Still Walking	2009	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.	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	2006	89
70.	Finding Nemo	2003	89
71.	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	89
72.	No End in Sight	2007	89
73.	Goodbye Solo	2009	89
74.	Stop Making Sense	1984	89
75.	Goodfellas	1990	89
76.	Piano, The	1993	89
77.	Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	89
78.	Once	2007	88
79.	Superman: The Movie	1978	88
80.	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The	2002	88
81.	Ghost World	2001	88
82.	Brazil	1985	88
83.	Capote	2005	88
84.	Tulpan	2009	88
85.	Overlord	2006	88
86.	Band of Outsiders	2001	88
87.	Time Out	2002	88
88.	Thelma & Louise	1991	88
89.	Away from Her	2007	88
90.	Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut	2004	88
91.	Chicken Run	2000	88
92.	Blade Runner: The Director's Cut	1992	88
93.	Up	2009	88
94.	Y Tu Mamá También	2002	88
95.	Nobody Knows	2005	88
96.	L'Enfant (The Child)	2006	87
97.	Little Women	1994	87
98.	Shakespeare in Love	1998	87
99.	Gomorrah	2009	87
100.	Fog of War, The	2003	87
101.	Quiz Show	1994	87
102.	Howards End	1992	87
103.	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	2005	87
104.	Crumb	1995	87
105.	Maria Full of Grace	2004	87
106.	Fateless	2006	87
107.	Tootsie	1982	87
108.	Brokeback Mountain	2005	87
109.	Shine	1996	87
110.	Tarnation	2004	87
111.	Murderball	2005	87
112.	Grizzly Man	2005	87
113.	All About My Mother	1999	87
114.	English Patient, The	1996	87
115.	Marooned in Iraq	2003	86
116.	Wind Will Carry Us, The	2000	86
117.	sex, lies, and videotape	1989	86
118.	To Die For	1995	86
119.	Slumdog Millionaire	2008	86
120.	Million Dollar Baby	2004	86
121.	42 UP	1999	86
122.	Say Anything...	1989	86
123.	Rushmore	1999	86
124.	Straight Story, The	1999	86
125.	To Be and to Have	2003	86
126.	Dead Ringers	1988	86
127.	Boys Don't Cry	1999	86
128.	Easy Rider	1969	86
129.	I'm Going Home	2002	86
130.	In the Bedroom	2001	86
131.	Ten	2003	86
132.	Chinatown	1974	86
133.	Das Boot	1982	86
134.	Russian Ark	2002	86
135.	Deliver Us from Evil	2006	86
136.	Beaches of Agnes, The	2009	86
137.	Our Daily Bread	2006	86
138.	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	86
139.	Under the Sand	2001	86
140.	Grifters, The	1990	86
141.	Traffic	2000	86
142.	Talk to Her	2002	86
143.	This Is England	2007	86
144.	Player, The	1992	86
145.	Son, The	2003	86
146.	Sweet Sixteen	2003	86
147.	Departed, The	2006	86
148.	Ponyo	2009	86
149.	Diner	1982	86
150.	American Beauty	1999	86
151.	Fugitive, The	1993	86
152.	Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film	2006	86
153.	Flight of the Red Balloon, The	2008	86
154.	Before Night Falls	2000	85
155.	Bourne Ultimatum, The	2007	85
156.	You Can Count On Me	2000	85
157.	Pianist, The	2002	85
158.	Boogie Nights	1997	85
159.	Children Underground	2001	85
160.	Edge of Heaven, The	2008	85
161.	Savages, The	2007	85
162.	Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The	2001	85
163.	Offside	2007	85
164.	Los Angeles Plays Itself	2004	85
165.	Knocked Up	2007	85
166.	Turtles Can Fly	2005	85
167.	Festival Express	2004	85
168.	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	2004	85
169.	Half Nelson	2006	85
170.	Street Fight	2006	85
171.	About Schmidt	2002	85
172.	Last Letter, The	2003	85
173.	Love & Diane	2003	85
174.	Domestic Violence	2002	85
175.	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	2006	85
176.	Last Seduction, The	1994	85
177.	Fargo	1996	85
178.	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	2001	85
179.	Intruder, The	2005	85
180.	Forbidden Lie$	2009	85
181.	Iron Giant, The	1999	85
182.	Atonement	2007	85
183.	Alexandra	2008	85
184.	Host, The	2007	85
185.	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	1988	85
186.	Out of Sight	1998	85
187.	Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience	2002	85
188.	In the Mood for Love	2001	85
189.	Passing Strange	2009	85
190.	Education, An	2009	85
191.	24 Hour Party People	2002	85
192.	Paragraph 175	2000	85
193.	Circle, The	2001	85
194.	Sound and Fury	2000	85
195.	Since Otar Left	2004	85
196.	Halloween	1978	85
197.	Sling Blade	1996	84
198.	Calle 54	2000	84
199.	Christmas Tale, A	2008	84
200.	In the Shadow of the Moon	2007	84

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