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53 Australia
34 Bedtime Stories
41 Beverly Hills Chihuahua
57 Body of Lies
68 Bolt
xx Bride Wars
63 Burn After Reading
65 Cadillac Records
58 City of Ember
69 Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
82 Dark Knight, The
39 Day the Earth Stood Still, The
27 Delgo
43 Eagle Eye
36 Fly Me to the Moon
41 Four Christmases
28 Haunting of Molly Hartley. The
57 High School Musical 3: Senior Year
35 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
57 Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D
61 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
53 Marley & Me
84 Milk
35 Mirrors
39 Nights in Rodanthe
50 Nothing Like the Holidays
45 Pride and Glory
30 Punisher: War Zone
58 Quantum of Solace
71 Revolutionary Road
36 Righteous Kill
60 Role Models
19 Saw V
57 Secret Life of Bees, The
36 Seven Pounds
49 Sex Drive
49 Soul Men
30 Spirit, The
53 Tale of Despereaux, The
51 Transporter 3
56 Twilight
xx Unborn, The
56 Valkyrie
70 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
56 W.
93 WALL-E
46 Yes Man
56 Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

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58 Adam Resurrected
64 Appaloosa
69 Ashes of Time Redux
68 August Evening
54 Battle in Seattle
76 Betrayal - Nerakhoon, The
70 Black Balloon, The
55 Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The
51 Breakfast with Scot
xx Cargo 200
63 Changeling
66 Che
84 Christmas Tale, A
93 Class, The
38 Dark Streets
57 Defiance
xx Dostana
70 Doubt
62 Duchess, The
46 Dukes, The
63 Eden
xx Extreme Movie
69 Fear(s) of the Dark
26 Filth and Wisdom
28 Fireproof
80 Frost/Nixon
43 Gardens of the Night
73 Girl Cut in Two, A
36 Good
54 Good Dick
73 Gran Torino
30 Guitar, The
84 Happy-Go-Lucky
31 Hounddog
26 House of the Sleeping Beauties
49 How About You
70 Hunger
72 I Served the King of England
70 I.O.U.S. A
40 Igor
79 I've Loved You So Long
64 JCVD
xx Just Another Love Story
29 Lake City
59 Last Chance Harvey
82 Let the Right One In
31 Let Them Chirp Awhile
xx Local Color
89 Man on Wire
74 Moscow, Belgium
36 My Name Is Bruce
28 Nobel Son
xx Not Easily Broken
64 Nothing But the Truth
40 Other End of the Line, The
34 Otto; or Up with Dead People
75 Pool, The
78 Pray the Devil Back to Hell
xx Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
82 Rachel Getting Married
58 Reader, The
56 Religulous
32 Repo! The Genetic Opera
53 RocknRolla
64 Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
77 Secret of the Grain, The
84 Silent Light
86 Slumdog Millionaire
57 Special
80 Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
67 Synecdoche, New York
82 Tell No One
68 Theater of War
65 Timecrimes
83 Trouble the Water
43 Tru Loved
83 U2 3D
88 Waltz with Bashir
59 We Are Wizards
80 Wendy and Lucy
71 What Doesn't Kill You
55 What Just Happened?
61 Where God Left His Shoes
40 While She Was Out
81 Wrestler, The
xx Yonkers Joe

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.	Class, The	2008	93
15.	Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The	2000	93
16.	WALL-E	2008	93
17.	Reversal of Fortune	1990	93
18.	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	2000	93
19.	Schindler's List	1993	93
20.	Amadeus: Director's Cut	2002	93
21.	Yi Yi (A One and a Two)	2000	92
22.	Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The	2007	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.	Beau Travail	2000	91
34.	Do The Right Thing	1989	91
35.	Secrets & Lies	1996	91
36.	Patton	1970	91
37.	No Country for Old Men	2007	91
38.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	90
39.	After Hours	1985	90
40.	Crying Game, The	1992	90
41.	Saving Private Ryan	1998	90
42.	L.A. Confidential	1997	90
43.	Apocalypse Now Redux	2001	90
44.	My Voyage to Italy	2001	90
45.	Bloody Sunday	2002	90
46.	Sweet Hereafter, The	1997	90
47.	Topsy-Turvy	1999	90
48.	Being John Malkovich	1999	90
49.	Incredibles, The	2004	90
50.	Before Sunset	2004	90
51.	Hannah and Her Sisters	1986	90
52.	Almost Famous	2000	90
53.	American Splendor	2003	90
54.	Gosford Park	2001	90
55.	United 93	2006	90
56.	Truman Show, The	1998	90
57.	Capturing the Friedmans	2003	90
58.	Persepolis	2007	90
59.	Lost in Translation	2003	89
60.	Best of Youth, The	2005	89
61.	Lives of Others, The	2006	89
62.	4 Little Girls	1997	89
63.	House of Flying Daggers	2004	89
64.	Man on Wire	2008	89
65.	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	2006	89
66.	Finding Nemo	2003	89
67.	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	89
68.	No End in Sight	2007	89
69.	Stop Making Sense	1984	89
70.	Goodfellas	1990	89
71.	Piano, The	1993	89
72.	Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	89
73.	Once	2007	88
74.	Superman: The Movie	1978	88
75.	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The	2002	88
76.	Ghost World	2001	88
77.	Brazil	1985	88
78.	Capote	2005	88
79.	Waltz with Bashir	2008	88
80.	Overlord	2006	88
81.	Band of Outsiders	2001	88
82.	Time Out	2002	88
83.	Thelma & Louise	1991	88
84.	Away from Her	2007	88
85.	Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut	2004	88
86.	Chicken Run	2000	88
87.	Blade Runner: The Director's Cut	1992	88
88.	Y Tu Mamá También	2002	88
89.	Toy Story 2	1999	88
90.	Nobody Knows	2005	88
91.	L'Enfant (The Child)	2006	87
92.	Little Women	1994	87
93.	Shakespeare in Love	1998	87
94.	Fog of War, The	2003	87
95.	Quiz Show	1994	87
96.	Howards End	1992	87
97.	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	2005	87
98.	Crumb	1995	87
99.	Maria Full of Grace	2004	87
100.	Fateless	2006	87
101.	Tootsie	1982	87
102.	Brokeback Mountain	2005	87
103.	Shine	1996	87
104.	Tarnation	2004	87
105.	Murderball	2005	87
106.	Grizzly Man	2005	87
107.	All About My Mother	1999	87
108.	English Patient, The	1996	87
109.	Marooned in Iraq	2003	86
110.	Wind Will Carry Us, The	2000	86
111.	sex, lies, and videotape	1989	86
112.	To Die For	1995	86
113.	Million Dollar Baby	2004	86
114.	42 UP	1999	86
115.	Say Anything...	1989	86
116.	Rushmore	1999	86
117.	Straight Story, The	1999	86
118.	To Be and to Have	2003	86
119.	Dead Ringers	1988	86
120.	Boys Don't Cry	1999	86
121.	Easy Rider	1969	86
122.	I'm Going Home	2002	86
123.	In the Bedroom	2001	86
124.	Ten	2003	86
125.	Chinatown	1974	86
126.	Das Boot	1982	86
127.	Russian Ark	2002	86
128.	Deliver Us from Evil	2006	86
129.	Slumdog Millionaire	2008	86
130.	Our Daily Bread	2006	86
131.	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	86
132.	Under the Sand	2001	86
133.	Grifters, The	1990	86
134.	Traffic	2000	86
135.	Talk to Her	2002	86
136.	This Is England	2007	86
137.	Player, The	1992	86
138.	Son, The	2003	86
139.	Sweet Sixteen	2003	86
140.	Departed, The	2006	86
141.	Diner	1982	86
142.	American Beauty	1999	86
143.	Fugitive, The	1993	86
144.	Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film	2006	86
145.	Flight of the Red Balloon, The	2008	86
146.	Before Night Falls	2000	85
147.	Bourne Ultimatum, The	2007	85
148.	You Can Count On Me	2000	85
149.	Pianist, The	2002	85
150.	Boogie Nights	1997	85
151.	Children Underground	2001	85
152.	Edge of Heaven, The	2008	85
153.	Savages, The	2007	85
154.	Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The	2001	85
155.	Offside	2007	85
156.	Los Angeles Plays Itself	2004	85
157.	Knocked Up	2007	85
158.	Turtles Can Fly	2005	85
159.	Festival Express	2004	85
160.	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	2004	85
161.	Half Nelson	2006	85
162.	Street Fight	2006	85
163.	About Schmidt	2002	85
164.	Last Letter, The	2003	85
165.	Love & Diane	2003	85
166.	Domestic Violence	2002	85
167.	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	2006	85
168.	Last Seduction, The	1994	85
169.	Fargo	1996	85
170.	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	2001	85
171.	Intruder, The	2005	85
172.	Iron Giant, The	1999	85
173.	Atonement	2007	85
174.	Alexandra	2008	85
175.	Host, The	2007	85
176.	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	1988	85
177.	Out of Sight	1998	85
178.	Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience	2002	85
179.	In the Mood for Love	2001	85
180.	24 Hour Party People	2002	85
181.	Paragraph 175	2000	85
182.	Circle, The	2001	85
183.	Sound and Fury	2000	85
184.	Since Otar Left	2004	85
185.	Halloween	1978	85
186.	Sling Blade	1996	84
187.	Calle 54	2000	84
188.	Christmas Tale, A	2008	84
189.	In the Shadow of the Moon	2007	84
190.	My Winnipeg	2008	84
191.	Children of Men	2006	84
192.	Man Without a Past, The	2003	84
193.	American Movie	1999	84
194.	Up the Yangtze	2008	84
195.	Bus 174	2003	84
196.	Lantana	2001	84
197.	Lion King, The	1994	84
198.	Cinema Paradiso: The Director's Cut	2002	84
199.	49 UP	2006	84
200.	Broadcast News	1987	84

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