100 Most Underrated Movies (1984-Present)

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Criteria: – These Underrated movies received either little or great critical acclaim but were generally overlooked by the public for reasons such as little or no Oscar wins at the Academy Awards, another blockbuster released at the same time, or lack of promotion, yet deserved more credit than they received for overall cinematic quality.

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  1. 1.
    Miller's Crossing
    by Ethan Coen

  2. 2.
    The Thin Red Line
    by Terrence Malick

  3. 3.
    Quiz Show

  4. 4.
    Road to Perdition (Widescreen Edition)
    by Sam Mendes

  5. 5.
    Casino (Widescreen 10th Anniversary Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  6. 6.
    Malcolm X
    by Spike Lee

  7. 8.
    Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai
    by Jim Jarmusch

  8. 9.
    Fresh
    by Boaz Yakin

  9. 10.
    Bringing Out the Dead
    by Martin Scorsese

  10. 11.
    Big Night

  11. 12.
    Man on the Moon
    by Milos Forman

  12. 13.
    Downfall [DVD]
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

  13. 14.
    25th Hour
    by Spike Lee

  14. 15.
    Ronin
    by John Frankenheimer

  15. 16.
    Blow
    by Ted Demme

  16. 17.
    Boiler Room

  17. 18.
    In the Company of Men
    by Neil LaBute

  18. 19.
    The Sweet Hereafter

  19. 20.
    Kundun

  20. 21.
    The Limey
    by Steven Soderbergh

  21. 22.
    The Glass Shield (Miramax Collector's Series)
    by Charles Burnett

  22. 23.
    Munich (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  23. 25.
    Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut)
    by Darren Aronofsky

  24. 26.
    Strange Days
    by Kathryn Bigelow

  25. 27.
    Go (Special Edition)

  26. 28.
    Any Given Sunday
    by Oliver Stone

  27. 29.
    Leaving Las Vegas

  28. 30.
    Eyes Wide Shut (R-Rated Edition)
    by Stanley Kubrick

  29. 31.
    Men of Honor

  30. 32.
    A Soldier's Story
    by Norman Jewison

  31. 33.
    The Insider
    by Michael Mann

  32. 34.
    Empire of the Sun (Snap Case Packaging)
    by Steven Spielberg

  33. 35.
    Carlito's Way - Ultimate Edition

  34. 36.
    Chasing Amy (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kevin Smith

  35. 37.
    Heat
    by Michael Mann

  36. 38.
    The Boondock Saints
    by Troy Duffy

  37. 39.
    A Bronx Tale

  38. 40.
    Syriana
    by Stephen Gaghan

  39. 41.
    Clockers

  40. 42.
    Donnie Brasco (Special Edition)
    by Mike Newell

  41. 43.
    Devil in A Blue Dress

  42. 44.
    Safe
    by Todd Haynes

  43. 45.
    11:14
    by Greg Marcks

  44. 46.
    American Psycho (Uncut Killer Collector's Edition)
    by Mary Harron

  45. 47.
    He Got Game
    by Spike Lee

  46. 48.
    Zathura (Special Edition)
    by Jon Favreau

  47. 49.
    Cop Land

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Created by Jess on Mar 20, 2007.
 

Comments

For what little it's worth, — 2 years ago

I might actually put Road to Perdition on a list of the 20 most overrated films of the last 25 years, along with other similarly dumbed-down, treacly, over-written and over-directed films like The Green Mile.


Rushmore — 4 years ago

For consistency sake, I changed this title to the Criterion version. It was the only film available in that collection not listed as such.




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