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Best-Reviewed Films/Year (40+ Reviews)[]
1950s[]
Year | Title | Image | Director | Distributor | RT Score/ Reviews |
Top 2-10 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1950 | All About Eve | ![]() |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 20th Century Fox | 99% (100) | 2. Sunset Boulevard |
1951 | An American in Paris | ![]() |
Vincente Minnelli | Loew's Inc. | 96% (94) | 2. A Streetcar Named Desire |
1952 | Singin' in the Rain | ![]() |
Gene Kelly Stanley Donen |
Loew's Inc. | 100% (65) | 2. High Noon |
1953 | Tokyo Story | ![]() |
Yasujirō Ozu | Shochiku | 100% (49) | 2. The Wages of Fear |
1954 | Rear Window | ![]() |
Alfred Hitchcock | Paramount | 98% (122) | 2. On the Waterfront |
1955 | Panther Panchali | ![]() |
Satyajit Ray | Aurora | 97% (69) | 2. The Night of the Hunter |
1956 | Seven Samurai | ![]() |
Akira Kurosawa | Toho | 100% (86) | 2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
1957 | 12 Angry Men | ![]() |
Sidney Lumet | United Artists | 100% (55) | 2. Nights of Cabiria |
1958 | Touch of Evil | ![]() |
Orson Welles | Universal | 95% (79) | |
1959 | North by Northwest | ![]() |
Alfred Hitchcock | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 97% (109) | 2. The 400 Blows |
1960s[]
Year | Title | Image | Director | Distributor | RT Score/ Reviews |
Top 2-10 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1960 | Psycho | ![]() |
Alfred Hitchcock | Paramount | 96% (104) | 2. La Dolce Vita |
1961 | Breathless | ![]() |
Jean-Luc Godard | UGC | 97% (69) | 2. One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | ![]() |
David Lean | Columbia | 93% (121) | 2. Eyes Without a Face |
1963 | 8½ | ![]() |
Federico Fellini | Cineriz/Columbia | 98% (53) | 2. The Leopard |
1964 | A Hard Day's Night | ![]() |
Richard Lester | United Artists | 98% (109) | 2. Dr. Strangelove |
1965 | Chimes at Midnight | ![]() |
Orson Welles | Peppercorn-Wormser | 98% (50) | 2. Repulsion |
1966 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | ![]() |
Sergio Leone | Produzioni Europee/United Artists | 97% (77) | 2. Au Hasard Balthazar |
1967 | The Battle of Algiers | ![]() |
Gillo Pontecorvo | Rizzoli/Rialto | 99% (89) | 2. Cool Hand Luke |
1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | ![]() |
Stanley Kubrick | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 92% (113) | 2. Night of the Living Dead |
1969 | Army of Shadows | ![]() |
Jean-Pierre Melville | Valoria/Fida Cinematografica | 97% (75) | 2. Z |
1970s[]
1980s[]
Year | Title | Image | Director | Distributor | RT Score/ Reviews |
Top 2-10 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1980 | The Empire Strikes Back | ![]() |
Irvin Kershner | 20th Century Fox | 94% (104) | |
1981 | The Decline of Western Civilization | ![]() |
Penelope Spheeris | Nu-Image | 100% (40) | 2. Das Boot |
1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | ![]() |
Steven Spielberg | Universal | 98% (133) | 2. Blade Runner |
1983 | The Right Stuff | ![]() |
Philip Kaufman | Warner Bros. | 96% (50) | |
1984 | The Terminator | ![]() |
James Cameron | Orion | 100% (65) | 2. Stop Making Sense |
1985 | Tampopo | ![]() |
Juzo Itami | Toho | 100% (55) | 2. Ran |
1986 | Aliens | ![]() |
James Cameron | 20th Century Fox | 97% (76) | 2. Blue Velvet |
1987 | The Princess Bride | ![]() |
Rob Reiner | 20th Century Fox/Vestron | 97% (77) | |
1988 | Big | ![]() |
Penny Marshall | 20th Century Fox | 97% (75) | 2. Grave of the Fireflies |
1989 | Henry V | ![]() |
Kenneth Branagh | Curzon | 100% (40) | 2. Say Anything... |
1990s[]
Year | Title | Image | Director | Distributor | RT Score/ Reviews |
Top 2-10 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1990 | GoodFellas | ![]() |
Martin Scorsese | Warner Bros. | 96% (103) | 2. The Freshman |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | ![]() |
Jonathan Demme | Orion | 96% (104) | 2. Only Yesterday |
1992 | Unforgiven | ![]() |
Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros. | 96% (106) | 2. The Player |
1993 | Schindler's List | ![]() |
Steven Spielberg | Universal | 98% (128) | |
1994 | Three Colors: Red | ![]() |
Krzysztof Kieślowski | MK2 | 100% (54) | 2. The Lion King |
1995 | Toy Story | ![]() |
John Lasseter | Disney/Buena Vista | 100% (90) | |
1996 | When We Were Kings | ![]() |
Leon Gast | Gramercy | 98% (48) | 2. Fargo |
1997 | L.A. Confidential | ![]() |
Curtis Hanson | Warner Bros. | 99% (115) | 2. Good Will Hunting |
1998 | The Truman Show | ![]() |
Peter Weir | Paramount | 95% (132) | 2. Saving Private Ryan |
1999 | Toy Story 2 | ![]() |
John Lasseter | Disney/Buena Vista | 100% (169) | 2. The Iron Giant |
2000s[]
Year | Title | Image | Director | Distributor | RT Score/ Reviews |
Top 2-10 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Chicken Run | ![]() |
Peter Lord & Nick Park | Pathé/Dreamworks | 97% (172) | 2. The Taste of Others |
2001 | Monsters, Inc. | ![]() |
Pete Docter | Disney/Buena Vista | 96% (197) | 2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | ![]() |
Peter Jackson | New Line Cinema | 95% (255) | 2. Spirited Away |
2003 | Finding Nemo | ![]() |
Andrew Stanton | Disney/Buena Vista | 99% (268) | 2. Lost in Translation |
2004 | The Incredibles | ![]() |
Brad Bird | Disney/Buena Vista | 97% (248) | 2. Sideways |
2005 | Murderball | ![]() |
Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro | THINKFilm | 98% (141) | 2. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | ![]() |
Guillermo del Toro | Warner Bros. | 95% (239) | 2. Casino Royale |
2007 | Ratatouille | ![]() |
Brad Bird | Disney | 96% (251) | 2. No Country for Old Men |
2008 | The Dark Knight | ![]() |
Christopher Nolan | Warner Bros. | 94% (344) | 2. The Wrestler |
2009 | Up | ![]() |
Pete Docter | Disney | 98% (298) | 2. The Hurt Locker |
2010s[]
Year | Title | Image | Director | Distributor | RT Score/ Reviews |
Top 2-10 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | Toy Story 3 | ![]() |
Lee Unkrich | Disney | 98% (309) | 2. The Social Network |
2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | ![]() |
David Yates | Warner Bros. | 96% (331) | 2. The Artist |
2012 | Argo | ![]() |
Ben Affleck | Warner Bros. | 96% (359) | 2. Skyfall |
2013 | 12 Years a Slave | ![]() |
Steve McQueen | Fox Searchlight/eOne/ Summit |
95% (372) | 2. Gravity |
2014 | Selma | ![]() |
Ava DuVernay | Paramount/20th Century Fox | 99% (313) | 2. Boyhood |
2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | ![]() |
George Miller | Warner Bros. | 97% (434) | |
2016 | Moonlight | ![]() |
Barry Jenkins | A24 | 98% (393) | |
2017 | Lady Bird | ![]() |
Greta Gerwig | A24/Universal/Focus | 99% (398) | 2. Get Out |
2018 | Black Panther | ![]() |
Ryan Coogler | Disney/Marvel | 96% (525) | |
2019 | Parasite | ![]() |
Bong Joon-ho | CJ | 98% (464) |
2020s[]
Year | Title | Image | Director | Distributor | RT Score/ Reviews |
Top 2-10 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020 | One Night in Miami | ![]() |
Regina King | Amazon Studios | 98% (335) | 2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire |
2021 | Nomadland | ![]() |
Chloe Zhao | Searchlight | 93% (420) | 2. Judas and the Black Messiah |