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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 3. In a Lonely Place 4. Gun Crazy
1951	An American in Paris		Vincente Minnelli	Loew's Inc.	96% (94)	2. A Streetcar Named Desire 3. Rashômon 4. Strangers on a Train 5. The African Queen 6. The Day The Earth Stood Still
1952	Singin' in the Rain		Gene Kelly Stanley Donen	Loew's Inc.	100% (65)	2. High Noon 3. The Quiet Man 4. Los Olvidados
1953	Tokyo Story		Yasujirō Ozu	Shochiku	100% (49)	2. The Wages of Fear 3. Roman Holiday 4. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 5. House of Wax 6. From Here to Eternity 7. The Hitch-hiker 8. The Bad and the Beautiful
1954	Rear Window		Alfred Hitchcock	Paramount	98% (122)	2. On the Waterfront 3. A Star Is Born 4. The Road 5. Godzilla 6. Johnny Guitar 7. Sabrina 8. Dial M for Murder 9. Creature from the Black Lagoon 10. White Christmas
1955	Panther Panchali		Satyajit Ray	Aurora	97% (69)	2. The Night of the Hunter 3. Kiss Me Deadly 4. Marty 5. To Catch a Thief 6. Diabolique 7. Rebel Without a Cause 8. Lady and the Tramp 9. East of Eden 10. The Man with the Golden Arm
1956	Seven Samurai		Akira Kurosawa	Toho	100% (86)	2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 3. Ikiru 4. The Killing 5. The Searchers 6. Forbidden Planet 7. Rififi 8. Giant 9. The Ten Commandments 10. Around the World in 80 Days
1957	12 Angry Men		Sidney Lumet	United Artists	100% (55)	2. Nights of Cabiria 3. Sweet Smell of Success 4. Paths of Glory 5. The Bridge on the River Kwai 6. Wild Strawberries 7. The Seventh Seal 8. Throne of Blood
1958	Touch of Evil		Orson Welles	Universal	95% (79)	2. Vertigo 3. Elevator to the Gallows 4. The Fly 5. The Defiant Ones 6. Horror of Dracula
1959	North by Northwest		Alfred Hitchcock	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	97% (109)	2. The 400 Blows 3. Anatomy of a Murder 4. Rio Bravo 5. Some Like It Hot 6. Pickpocket 7. Black Orpheus 8. Sleeping Beauty 9. Ben-Hur

1960s

Year	Title	Image	Director	Distributor	RT Score/ Reviews	Top 2-10
1960	Psycho		Alfred Hitchcock	Paramount	96% (104)	2. La Dolce Vita 3. Peeping Tom 4. The Apartment 5. Spartacus 6. L'Avventura 7. The Magnificent Seven
1961	Breathless		Jean-Luc Godard	UGC	97% (69)	2. One Hundred and One Dalmatians 3. The Hustler 4. West Side Story 5. The Innocents 6. Last Year at Marienbad 7. Yojimbo 8. Breakfast at Tiffany's
1962	Lawrence of Arabia		David Lean	Columbia	93% (121)	2. Eyes Without a Face 3. The Manchurian Candidate 4. Dr. No 5. To Kill a Mockingbird 6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 7. Jules and Jim 8. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 9. Lolita
1963	8½		Federico Fellini	Cineriz/Columbia	98% (53)	2. The Leopard 3. The Birds 4. Charade 5. The Great Escape 6. Jason and the Argonauts 7. The Haunting
1964	A Hard Day's Night		Richard Lester	United Artists	98% (109)	2. Dr. Strangelove 3. Goldfinger 4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 5. Mary Poppins 6. A Fistful of Dollars 7. My Fair Lady 8. From Russia with Love 9. Mafioso 10. Band of Outsiders
1965	Chimes at Midnight		Orson Welles	Peppercorn-Wormser	98% (50)	2. Repulsion 3. Alphaville 4. Thunderball 5. The Sound of Music 6. Doctor Zhivago
1966	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly		Sergio Leone	Produzioni Europee/United Artists	97% (77)	2. Au Hasard Balthazar 3. Masculin Feminin 4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 5. Persona 6. Blow-Up 7. A Man for All Seasons
1967	The Battle of Algiers		Gillo Pontecorvo	Rizzoli/Rialto	99% (89)	2. Cool Hand Luke 3. In the Heat of the Night 4. The Graduate 5. Bonnie and Clyde 6. The Jungle Book 7. In Cold Blood 8. The Dirty Dozen 9. You Only Live Twice 10. Casino Royale
1968	2001: A Space Odyssey		Stanley Kubrick	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	92% (113)	2. Night of the Living Dead 3. Rosemary's Baby 4. The Young Girls of Rochefort 5. Bullitt 6. Once Upon a Time in the West 7. Yellow Submarine 8. Belle de Jour 9. The Producers 10. Funny Girl
1969	Army of Shadows		Jean-Pierre Melville	Valoria/Fida Cinematografica	97% (75)	2. Z 3. The Wild Bunch 4. Midnight Cowboy 5. True Grit 6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 7. Pierrot le Fou 8. Easy Rider 9. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1970s

Year	Title	Image	Director	Distributor	RT Score/ Reviews	Top 2-10
1970	The Conformist		Bernardo Bertolucci	Paramount	98% (56)	2. Le Cercle Rouge 3. Patton 4. Five Easy Pieces 5. M*A*S*H 6. El Topo
1971	The French Connection		William Friedkin	20th Century Fox	98% (83)	2. The Last Picture Show 3. Wake in Fright 4. Klute 5. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 6. Dirty Harry 7. A Clockwork Orange 8. THX 1138 9. Shaft 10. The Abominable Dr. Phibes
1972	The Godfather		Francis Ford Coppola	Paramount	97% (132)	2. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie 3. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 4. Cabaret 5. Deliverance 6. Frenzy 7. What's Up, Doc? 8. Duel 9. Last Tango in Paris 10. Pink Flamingos
1973	Playtime		Jacques Tati	Unknown	98% (51)	2. Don't Look Now 3. Mean Streets 4. American Graffiti 5. Enter the Dragon 6. The Sting 7. Andrei Rublev 8. The Long Goodbye 9. Paper Moon 10. The Wicker Man
1974	The Godfather Part II		Francis Ford Coppola	Paramount	96% (114)	2. Chinatown 3. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 4. Badlands 5. The Conversation 6. Young Frankenstein 7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 8. Blazing Saddles 9. F for Fake 10. Amarcord
1975	Jaws		Steven Spielberg	Universal	98% (92)	2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 4. Dog Day Afternoon 5. Barry Lyndon 6. Nashville 7. The Passenger 8. Picnic at Hanging Rock 9. Hearts and Minds 10. Three Days of the Condor
1976	Taxi Driver		Martin Scorsese	Columbia	96% (94)	2. Assault on Precinct 13 3. All the President's Men 4. Carrie 5. Rocky 6. Solaris 7. Network 8. The Outlaw Josey Wales 9. The Omen 10. The Man Who Fell to Earth
1977	Star Wars		George Lucas	20th Century Fox	92% (133)	2. Annie Hall 3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4. Suspiria 5. Eraserhead 6. Saturday Night Fever 7. The Spy Who Loved Me 8. Sorcerer 9. New York, New York
1978	Halloween		John Carpenter	Compass/Aquarius	96% (72)	2. The Last Waltz 3. Superman 4. The Deer Hunter 5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 6. Days of Heaven 7. National Lampoon's Animal House 8. Heaven Can Wait 9. Grease 10. The Lord of the Rings
1979	Alien		Ridley Scott	20th Century Fox	98% (126)	2. Apocalypse Now 3. Stalker 4. Monty Python's Life of Brian 5. Manhattan 6. Nosferatu the Vampyre 7. Being There 8. Breaking Away 9. Dawn of the Dead 10. Mad Max

1980s

Year	Title	Image	Director	Distributor	RT Score/ Reviews	Top 2-10
1980	The Empire Strikes Back		Irvin Kershner	20th Century Fox	94% (104)	2. Airplane! 3. Raging Bull 4. The Elephant Man 5. The Big Red One 6. Ordinary People 7. The Stunt Man 8. The Shining 9. Altered States 10. Flash Gordon
1981	The Decline of Western Civilization		Penelope Spheeris	Nu-Image	100% (40)	2. Das Boot 3. Raiders of the Lost Ark 4. Body Heat 5. Diva 6. The Evil Dead 7. Gallipoli 8. Time Bandits 9. An American Werewolf in London 10. Reds
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial		Steven Spielberg	Universal	98% (133)	2. Blade Runner 3. Chan Is Missing 4. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 5. 48 Hrs. 6. Diner 7. Tootsie 8. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 9. The Thing 10. Poltergeist
1983	The Right Stuff		Philip Kaufman	Warner Bros.	96% (50)	2. WarGames 3. National Lampoon's Vacation 4. Risky Business 5. The King of Comedy 6. A Christmas Story 7. The Dead Zone 8. Testament 9. Trading Places 10. Return of the Jedi
1984	The Terminator		James Cameron	Orion	100% (65)	2. Stop Making Sense 3. Ghostbusters 4. Sugar Cane Alley 5. Blood Simple 6. Repo Man 7. Amadeus 8. This Is Spinal Tap 9. A Nightmare on Elm Street 10. The Killing Fields
1985	Tampopo		Juzo Itami	Toho	100% (55)	2. Ran 3. Back to the Future 4. Brazil 5. My Beautiful Laundrette 6. Re-Animator 7. Witness 8. The Return of the Living Dead 9. The Breakfast Club 10. After Hours
1986	Aliens		James Cameron	20th Century Fox	97% (76)	2. Blue Velvet 3. The Fly 4. Ruthless People 5. Manhunter 6. Hannah and Her Sisters 7. Stand By Me 8. Something Wild 9. Hoosiers 10. Little Shop of Horrors
1987	The Princess Bride		Rob Reiner	20th Century Fox/Vestron	97% (77)	2. Wings of Desire 3. Broadcast News 4. Evil Dead II 5. Moonstruck 6. Full Metal Jacket 7. Planes, Trains and Automobiles 8. RoboCop 9. Raising Arizona 10. The Last Emperor
1988	Big		Penny Marshall	20th Century Fox	97% (75)	2. Grave of the Fireflies 3. Bill Durham 4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit 5. The Vanishing 6. Hairspray 7. Die Hard 8. A Fish Called Wanda 9. Midnight Run 10. My Neighbor Totoro
1989	Henry V		Kenneth Branagh	Curzon	100% (40)	2. Say Anything... 3. Do the Right Thing 4. Kiki's Delivery Service 5. My Left Foot 6. The Killer 7. Sex, Lies, and Videotape 8. The Little Mermaid 9. Crimes and Misdemeanors 10. When Harry Met Sally...

1990s

Year	Title	Image	Director	Distributor	RT Score/ Reviews	Top 2-10
1990	GoodFellas		Martin Scorsese	Warner Bros.	96% (103)	2. The Freshman 3. Miller's Crossing 4. The Witches 5. Arachnophobia 6. Metropolitan 7. Reversal of Fortune 8. Misery 9. Edward Scissorhands 10. The Hunt for Red October
1991	The Silence of the Lambs		Jonathan Demme	Orion	96% (104)	2. Only Yesterday 3. Beauty and the Beast 4. Paris Is Burning 5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day 6. Boyz 'n the Hood 7. Daughters of the Dust 8. L.A. Story 9. Barton Fink 10. City Slickers
1992	Unforgiven		Clint Eastwood	Warner Bros.	96% (106)	2. The Player 3. Aladdin 4. Howards End 5. Glengarry Glen Ross 6. The Crying Game 7. Bob Roberts 8. One False Move 9. Reservoir Dogs 10. Strictly Ballroom
1993	Schindler's List		Steven Spielberg	Universal	98% (128)	2. Searching for Bobby Fischer 3. The Nightmare Before Christmas 4. Jurassic Park 5. Groundhog Day 6. The Fugitive 7. In the Line of Fire 8. What's Love Got to Do with It 9. Three Colors: Blue 10. Dave
1994	Three Colors: Red		Krzysztof Kieślowski	MK2	100% (54)	2. The Lion King 3. Hoop Dreams 4. Bullets Over Broadway 5. Four Weddings and a Funeral 6. Quiz Show 7. Pulp Fiction 8. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 9. Speed 10. The Last Seduction
1995	Toy Story		John Lasseter	Disney/Buena Vista	100% (90)	2. Before Sunrise 3. Apollo 13 4. Babe 5. Sense and Sensibility 6. Richard III 7. Dead Man Walking 8. The Secret of Roan Inish 9. Crumb 10. The American President
1996	When We Were Kings		Leon Gast	Gramercy	98% (48)	2. Fargo 3. Ghost in the Shell 4. Sling Blade 5. Big Night 6. Supercop 7. Hamlet 8. Lone Star 9. That Thing You Do! 10. Trainspotting
1997	L.A. Confidential		Curtis Hanson	Warner Bros.	99% (115)	2. Good Will Hunting 3. Titanic 4. The Sweet Hereafter 5. The Full Monty 6. Men in Black 7. Face/Off 8. Boogie Nights 9. Secrets & Lies 10. Ulee's Gold
1998	The Truman Show		Peter Weir	Paramount	95% (132)	2. Saving Private Ryan 3. Shakespeare in Love 4. Gods and Monsters 5. Out of Sight 6. Antz 7. Insomnia 8. A Bug's Life 9. Central Station 10. Rushmore
1999	Toy Story 2		John Lasseter	Disney/Buena Vista	100% (169)	2. The Iron Giant 3. The Insider 4. All About My Mother 5. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. 6. Being John Malkovich 7. Three Kings 8. The Straight Story 9. Princess Mononoke 10. Election

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 3. Yi Yi 4. Memento 5. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg 6. You Can Count on Me 7. Traffic 8. Not One Less 9. High Fidelity 10. Best in Show
2001	Monsters, Inc.		Pete Docter	Disney/Buena Vista	96% (197)	2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 4. The Dish 5. With a Friend Like Harry... 6. Werckmeister Harmonies 7. Ghost World 8. In the Bedroom 9. Time Out 10. I'm Going Home
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers		Peter Jackson	New Line Cinema	95% (255)	2. Spirited Away 3. Catch Me If You Can 4. Spellbound 5. Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time 6. The Man Without a Past 7. The Pianist 8. Bowling for Columbine 9. Read My Lips 10. About a Boy
2003	Finding Nemo		Andrew Stanton	Disney/Buena Vista	99% (268)	2. Lost in Translation 3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 4. Capturing the Friedmans 5. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara 6. American Splendor 7. Sweet Sixteen 8. Raising Victor Vargas 9. Chavez: Inside the Coup 10. Winged Migration
2004	The Incredibles		Brad Bird	Disney/Buena Vista	97% (248)	2. Sideways 3. Spider-Man 2 4. Maria Full of Grace 5. Moolaadé 6. The Twilight Samurai 7. Hero 8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 9. Before Sunset 10. Osama
2005	Murderball		Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro	THINKFilm	98% (141)	2. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 3. Good Night, and Good Luck 4. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 5. March of the Penguins 6. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill 7. Kung Fu Hustle 8. The Squid and the Whale 9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 10. Grizzly Man
2006	Pan's Labyrinth		Guillermo del Toro	Warner Bros.	95% (239)	2. Casino Royale 3. The Queen 4. Deliver Us from Evil 5. Children Of Men 6. The Departed 7. The War Tapes 8. Mountain Patrol 9. Blindsight 10. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2007	Ratatouille		Brad Bird	Disney	96% (251)	2. No Country for Old Men 3. Taxi to the Dark Side 4. Once 5. The Band's Visit 6. Juno 7. The Bourne Ultimatum 8. Persepolis 9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 10. Killer of Sheep
2008	The Dark Knight		Christopher Nolan	Warner Bros.	94% (344)	2. The Wrestler 3. Man on Wire 4. Let the Right One In 5. WALL-E 6. Iron Man 7. Frost/Nixon 8. Milk 9. Slumdog Millionaire 10. Still Walking
2009	Up		Pete Docter	Disney	98% (298)	2. The Hurt Locker 3. Star Trek 4. Anvil! The Story of Anvil 5. Afghan Star 6. Fantastic Mr. Fox 7. Drag Me to Hell 8. District 9 9. Inglourious Basterds 10. Precious

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 3. How to Train Your Dragon 4. True Grit 5. The King's Speech 6. Inside Job 7. Waste Land 8. Last Train Home 9. A Prophet 10. 127 Hours
2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2		David Yates	Warner Bros.	96% (331)	2. The Artist 3. A Separation 4. Moneyball 5. The Muppets 6. Poetry 7. Drive 8. Le Havre 9. The Interrupters 10. Project Nim
2012	Argo		Ben Affleck	Warner Bros.	96% (359)	2. Skyfall 3. The Avengers 4. Looper 5. Moonrise Kingdom 6. The Cabin in the Woods 7. Jiro Dreams of Sushi 8. Silver Linings Playbook 9. The Dark Knight Rises 10. Amour
2013	12 Years a Slave		Steve McQueen	Fox Searchlight/eOne/ Summit	95% (372)	2. Gravity 3. Before Midnight 4. Her 5. Short Term 12 6. Captain Phillips 7. Mud 8. American Hustle 9. 20 Feet from Stardom 10. All Is Lost
2014	Selma		Ava DuVernay	Paramount/20th Century Fox	99% (313)	2. Boyhood 3. The Babadook 4. The Lego Movie 5. Nightcrawler 6. Whiplash 7. Life Itself 8. Guardians of the Galaxy 9. Birdman 10. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015	Mad Max: Fury Road		George Miller	Warner Bros.	97% (434)	2. Inside Out 3. Spotlight 4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 5. Brooklyn 6. Creed 7. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 8. It Follows 9. Carol 10. The Martian
2016	Moonlight		Barry Jenkins	A24	98% (393)	2. Arrival 3. Manchester by the Sea 4. La La Land 5. Zootopia 6. Hell or High Water 7. Finding Dory 8. Captain America: Civil War 9. The Jungle Book 10. Paterson
2017	Lady Bird		Greta Gerwig	A24/Universal/Focus	99% (398)	2. Get Out 3. Wonder Woman 4. Logan 5. Coco 6. Dunkirk 7. Star Wars: The Last Jedi 8. The Shape of Water 9. Thor: Ragnarok 10. The Big Sick
2018	Black Panther		Ryan Coogler	Disney/Marvel	96% (525)	2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout 3. BlacKkKlansman 4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 5. Roma 6. A Star Is Born 7. A Quiet Place 8. Eighth Grade 9. Can You Ever Forgive Me? 10. The Favourite
2019	Parasite		Bong Joon-ho	CJ	98% (464)	2. Avengers: Endgame 3. Knives Out 4. Us 5. Toy Story 4 6. The Irishman 7. Little Women 8. Booksmart 9. The Farewell 10. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

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 3. Minari 4. The Invisible Man 5. Soul 6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 7. 1917 8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always 9. Sound of Metal 10. Promising Young Woman
2021	Nomadland		Chloe Zhao	Searchlight	93% (420)	2. Judas and the Black Messiah 3. The Father 4. Spider-Man: No Way Home 5. In the Heights 6. Summer of Soul 7. Pig 8. The Power of the Dog 9. CODA 10. West Side Story