Metacritic's "All-Time Highest-Scoring Films"

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"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."

Wherever possible, the items on this list match the specific edition that appears on Metacritic’s list. (Examples: Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut and Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut as opposed to the original theatrical releases.)

(Last update: Sep. 9, 2010)

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  1. 1.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  2. 2.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Restored Version) [Blu-ray]
    by David Lean

  3. 3.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by Victor Fleming

  4. 5.
    The Godfather
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  5. 6.
    The Leopard (English Sub-titles)
    by Luchino Visconti

  6. 7.
    The Conformist (Extended Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

  7. 8.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

  8. 9.
    Fanny and Alexander (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by Ingmar Bergman

  9. 10.
    Superman II

  10. 11.
    Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by Akira Kurosawa

  11. 12.

  12. 13.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

  13. 15.
    Pepe Le Moko (The Criterion Collection)
    by Julien Duvivier

  14. 16.
    Pan's Labyrinth
    by Guillermo Del Toro

  15. 17.
    The Complete Metropolis
    by Fritz Lang

  16. 18.
    Le Petit Soldat
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  17. 19.
    Rififi (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  18. 20.
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    by Cristian Mungiu

  19. 21.
    The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
    by Michael Curtiz

  20. 22.
    The Producers
    by Mel Brooks

  21. 23.
    Days of Being Wild
    by Kar Wai Wong

  22. 24.
    The French Connection
    by William Friedkin

  23. 26.
    Ratatouille
    by Brad Bird

  24. 27.
    Modern Times
    by Charlie Chaplin

  25. 28.
    The Social Network
    by David Fincher

  26. 29.
    A Hard Day's Night
    by Richard Lester

  27. 30.

  28. 31.
    A Separation
    by Asghar Farhadi

  29. 32.
    Days of Heaven (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by Terrence Malick

  30. 33.
    The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)
    by John Frankenheimer

  31. 34.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki

  32. 35.
    E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Anniversary Edition
    by Steven Spielberg

  33. 36.
    Pulp Fiction
    by Quentin Tarantino

  34. 37.
    Killer of Sheep
    by Charles Burnett

  35. 38.
    The Hurt Locker
    by Kathryn Bigelow

  36. 39.
    Sita Sings The Blues
    by Nina Paley

  37. 40.
    WALL·E
    by Andrew Stanton

  38. 41.
    The Battle of Algiers
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

  39. 42.
    Sideways (Widescreen Edition)

  40. 43.
    We Were Here
    by David Weissman

  41. 45.
    Carlos (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by Olivier Assayas

  42. 46.
    Amour
    by Michael Haneke

  43. 48.
    Reversal of Fortune
    by Barbet Schroeder

  44. 49.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee

  45. 50.
    Schindler's List

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List update — 2 years ago

Added movies:

  • Sita Sings The Blues
  • Toy Story 3
  • A Prophet (Un Prophéte)
  • Winter’s Bone
  • 45365
  • Toy Story 2
  • Lebanon
  • Mademoiselle Chambon
  • The Kids Are All Right
  • Exit Through the Gift Shop
  • Vincere
  • The Sun (Solntse)
  • Restrepo

Omissions:

  • Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Passing Strange
  • 24 Hour Party People
  • Paragraph 175
  • The Circle
  • Sound and Fury
  • Since Otar Left
  • Halloween (1978)
  • Sling Blade
  • Calle 54
  • A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël)
  • In the Shadow of the Moon

Also updated the list source link and removed Apollo 13 from the examples because of its disappearance from the list.




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