Rotten Tomatoes's "Best Reviewed Movies of All Time"

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On April 27th, 2009, Rotten Tomatoes released a list of the fifty movies that recieved the best reviews from critics. All but two of them had 100% at the Tomatometer, those two being The Battle of Algiers and Metropolis.

  1. 1.
    A Hard Day’s Night
    by Richard Lester

  2. 2.
    The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    by Carol Reed

  3. 3.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by King Vidor

  4. 4.
    Modern Times (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  5. 5.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  6. 7.
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    King Kong (Collector's Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack

  7. 8.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

  8. 9.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  9. 10.
    Singin' In The Rain (1952)
    by Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly

  10. 11.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  11. 12.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

  12. 13.
    Laura
    by Otto Preminger

  13. 14.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  14. 15.
    The Conformist (Extended Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

  15. 16.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor

  16. 17.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  17. 18.
    Cool Hand Luke (Deluxe Edition)

  18. 19.
    Taxi Driver
    by Martin Scorsese

  19. 20.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski

  20. 21.
    North By Northwest
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  21. 23.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

  22. 24.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

  23. 25.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

  24. 27.
    Man on Wire
    by James Marsh

  25. 28.
    Rashomon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  26. 29.
    The Wages of Fear (The Criterion Collection)
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

  27. 30.
    Toy Story 2
    by John Lasseter

  28. 31.
    Mary Poppins (40th Anniversary Edition)
    by Dave Bossert

  29. 32.
    Shadow of a Doubt
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  30. 33.
    Repulsion (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by Roman Polanski

  31. 34.
    Risky Business
    by Paul Brickman

  32. 36.
    Quai des Orfèvres
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

  33. 37.
    Top Hat
    by Mark Sandrich

  34. 38.
    Pinocchio (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition)
    by Ben Sharpsteen

  35. 39.
    12 Angry Men
    by Sidney Lumet

  36. 40.
    All the President's Men - 1976
    by Alan J. Pakula

  37. 41.

  38. 42.

  39. 43.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh

  40. 44.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

  41. 45.
    Rebecca
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  42. 46.
    Aliens (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by James Cameron

  43. 47.
    My Man Godfrey (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gregory La Cava

  44. 48.
    Ikiru (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  45. 49.
    Anatomy of a Murder
    by Otto Preminger

  46. 50.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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Created by who3697cares on Sep 19, 2009.
 

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