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53 Australia
41 Beverly Hills Chihuahua
57 Body of Lies
68 Bolt
63 Burn After Reading
64 Cadillac Records
58 City of Ember
82 Dark Knight, The
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
52 Longshots, The
61 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
85 Milk
35 Mirrors
39 Nights in Rodanthe
45 Pride and Glory
45 Punisher: War Zone
58 Quantum of Solace
36 Righteous Kill
59 Role Models
19 Saw V
57 Secret Life of Bees, The
49 Sex Drive
49 Soul Men
36 Space Chimps
51 Transporter 3
56 Twilight
70 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
56 W.
93 WALL-E
56 Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

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64 Appaloosa
69 Ashes of Time Redux
68 August Evening
54 Battle in Seattle
76 Betrayal - Nerakhoon, The
67 Black Balloon, The
55 Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The
50 Breakfast with Scot
63 Changeling
47 Choke
84 Christmas Tale, A
41 Cthulhu
81 Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
xx Dostana
62 Duchess, The
46 Dukes, The
63 Eden
xx Extreme Movie
69 Fear(s) of the Dark
26 Filth and Wisdom
28 Fireproof
73 Frost/Nixon
82 Frozen River
43 Gardens of the Night
73 Girl Cut in Two, A
54 Good Dick
30 Guitar, The
84 Happy-Go-Lucky
31 Hounddog
26 House of the Sleeping Beauties
47 How About You
68 Hunger
72 I Served the King of England
70 I.O.U.S. A
40 Igor
78 I've Loved You So Long
63 JCVD
27 Lake City
82 Let the Right One In
xx Let Them Chirp Awhile
xx Local Color
89 Man on Wire
84 Momma's Man
51 Morning Light
34 My Name Is Bruce
xx Nobel Son
40 Other End of the Line, The
34 Otto; or Up with Dead People
75 Pool, The
77 Pray the Devil Back to Hell
82 Rachel Getting Married
56 Religulous
32 Repo! The Genetic Opera
53 RocknRolla
57 Sixty Six
85 Slumdog Millionaire
57 Special
79 Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
67 Synecdoche, New York
82 Tell No One
83 Trouble the Water
43 Tru Loved
83 U2 3D
59 We Are Wizards
55 What Just Happened?

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.	Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The	2000	93
15.	WALL-E	2008	93
16.	Reversal of Fortune	1990	93
17.	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	2000	93
18.	Schindler's List	1993	93
19.	Amadeus: Director's Cut	2002	93
20.	Yi Yi (A One and a Two)	2000	92
21.	Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The	2007	92
22.	Raging Bull	1980	92
23.	There Will Be Blood	2007	92
24.	Toy Story	1995	92
25.	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The	2001	92
26.	Werckmeister Harmonies	2001	92
27.	Moolaadé	2004	91
28.	Fast Runner, The	2002	91
29.	Star Wars	1977	91
30.	Triplets of Belleville, The	2003	91
31.	Queen, The	2006	91
32.	Beau Travail	2000	91
33.	Do The Right Thing	1989	91
34.	Secrets & Lies	1996	91
35.	Patton	1970	91
36.	No Country for Old Men	2007	91
37.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	90
38.	After Hours	1985	90
39.	Crying Game, The	1992	90
40.	Saving Private Ryan	1998	90
41.	L.A. Confidential	1997	90
42.	Apocalypse Now Redux	2001	90
43.	My Voyage to Italy	2001	90
44.	Bloody Sunday	2002	90
45.	Sweet Hereafter, The	1997	90
46.	Topsy-Turvy	1999	90
47.	Being John Malkovich	1999	90
48.	Incredibles, The	2004	90
49.	Before Sunset	2004	90
50.	Hannah and Her Sisters	1986	90
51.	Almost Famous	2000	90
52.	American Splendor	2003	90
53.	Gosford Park	2001	90
54.	United 93	2006	90
55.	Truman Show, The	1998	90
56.	Capturing the Friedmans	2003	90
57.	Persepolis	2007	90
58.	Lost in Translation	2003	89
59.	Best of Youth, The	2005	89
60.	Lives of Others, The	2006	89
61.	4 Little Girls	1997	89
62.	House of Flying Daggers	2004	89
63.	Man on Wire	2008	89
64.	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	2006	89
65.	Finding Nemo	2003	89
66.	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	89
67.	No End in Sight	2007	89
68.	Stop Making Sense	1984	89
69.	Goodfellas	1990	89
70.	Piano, The	1993	89
71.	Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	89
72.	Once	2007	88
73.	Superman: The Movie	1978	88
74.	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The	2002	88
75.	Ghost World	2001	88
76.	Brazil	1985	88
77.	Capote	2005	88
78.	Overlord	2006	88
79.	Band of Outsiders	2001	88
80.	Time Out	2002	88
81.	Thelma & Louise	1991	88
82.	Away from Her	2007	88
83.	Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut	2004	88
84.	Chicken Run	2000	88
85.	Blade Runner: The Director's Cut	1992	88
86.	Y Tu Mamá También	2002	88
87.	Toy Story 2	1999	88
88.	Nobody Knows	2005	88
89.	L'Enfant (The Child)	2006	87
90.	Little Women	1994	87
91.	Shakespeare in Love	1998	87
92.	Fog of War, The	2003	87
93.	Quiz Show	1994	87
94.	Howards End	1992	87
95.	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	2005	87
96.	Crumb	1995	87
97.	Maria Full of Grace	2004	87
98.	Fateless	2006	87
99.	Tootsie	1982	87
100.	Brokeback Mountain	2005	87
101.	Shine	1996	87
102.	Tarnation	2004	87
103.	Murderball	2005	87
104.	Grizzly Man	2005	87
105.	All About My Mother	1999	87
106.	English Patient, The	1996	87
107.	Marooned in Iraq	2003	86
108.	Wind Will Carry Us, The	2000	86
109.	sex, lies, and videotape	1989	86
110.	To Die For	1995	86
111.	Million Dollar Baby	2004	86
112.	42 UP	1999	86
113.	Say Anything...	1989	86
114.	Rushmore	1999	86
115.	Straight Story, The	1999	86
116.	To Be and to Have	2003	86
117.	Dead Ringers	1988	86
118.	Boys Don't Cry	1999	86
119.	Easy Rider	1969	86
120.	I'm Going Home	2002	86
121.	In the Bedroom	2001	86
122.	Ten	2003	86
123.	Chinatown	1974	86
124.	Das Boot	1982	86
125.	Russian Ark	2002	86
126.	Deliver Us from Evil	2006	86
127.	Our Daily Bread	2006	86
128.	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	86
129.	Under the Sand	2001	86
130.	Grifters, The	1990	86
131.	Traffic	2000	86
132.	Talk to Her	2002	86
133.	This Is England	2007	86
134.	Player, The	1992	86
135.	Son, The	2003	86
136.	Sweet Sixteen	2003	86
137.	Departed, The	2006	86
138.	Diner	1982	86
139.	American Beauty	1999	86
140.	Fugitive, The	1993	86
141.	Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film	2006	86
142.	Flight of the Red Balloon, The	2008	86
143.	Before Night Falls	2000	85
144.	Bourne Ultimatum, The	2007	85
145.	You Can Count On Me	2000	85
146.	Pianist, The	2002	85
147.	Boogie Nights	1997	85
148.	Children Underground	2001	85
149.	Edge of Heaven, The	2008	85
150.	Savages, The	2007	85
151.	Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The	2001	85
152.	Offside	2007	85
153.	Los Angeles Plays Itself	2004	85
154.	Knocked Up	2007	85
155.	Turtles Can Fly	2005	85
156.	Festival Express	2004	85
157.	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	2004	85
158.	Half Nelson	2006	85
159.	Street Fight	2006	85
160.	About Schmidt	2002	85
161.	Last Letter, The	2003	85
162.	Love & Diane	2003	85
163.	Domestic Violence	2002	85
164.	Slumdog Millionaire	2008	85
165.	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	2006	85
166.	Last Seduction, The	1994	85
167.	Fargo	1996	85
168.	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	2001	85
169.	Intruder, The	2005	85
170.	Iron Giant, The	1999	85
171.	Atonement	2007	85
172.	Alexandra	2008	85
173.	Host, The	2007	85
174.	Milk	2008	85
175.	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	1988	85
176.	Out of Sight	1998	85
177.	Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience	2002	85
178.	In the Mood for Love	2001	85
179.	24 Hour Party People	2002	85
180.	Paragraph 175	2000	85
181.	Circle, The	2001	85
182.	Sound and Fury	2000	85
183.	Since Otar Left	2004	85
184.	Halloween	1978	85
185.	Sling Blade	1996	84
186.	Calle 54	2000	84
187.	In the Shadow of the Moon	2007	84
188.	My Winnipeg	2008	84
189.	Children of Men	2006	84
190.	Man Without a Past, The	2003	84
191.	American Movie	1999	84
192.	Up the Yangtze	2008	84
193.	Bus 174	2003	84
194.	Lantana	2001	84
195.	Lion King, The	1994	84
196.	Cinema Paradiso: The Director's Cut	2002	84
197.	49 UP	2006	84
198.	Broadcast News	1987	84
199.	Remains of the Day, The	1993	84
200.	No Man's Land	2001	84

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