Rotten Tomatoes may be the most famous movie review site in the world. They aggregate reviews from multiple sources and movies get a score from 0 to 100% based on how many of those reviews are positive.
They also rate the top movies of all time, but those lists are neither a straight rundown of movies scoring the best nor are they reflections of those movies receiving the most reviews. One would assume as that list is updated, the changes would merely reflect the inclusion of a few newer titles, but the lists have varied widely over the years (for example, see the lists referenced in the resources at the bottom of the page). Also, Rotten Tomatoes annoyingly updates their “Top 100 Movies of All Time” list without indicating any dates of revisions.
Rotten Tomatoes also puts out a list of the “200 Essential Movies to Watch Now” which is put together by their editorial staff, seemingly not driven by how the movies have been rated on the site. Again, they frustratingly don’t bother to post dates to show when this list was posted. I have found a couple of those lists which I’ve factored into the mix.
With all that in mind, Dave’s Movie Database assembled its own Rotten Tomatoes list by averaging three lists from over the years along with a ranking of the 300+ movies to have received 100% ratings over the years. Here are the results:
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Third Man (1949)
3. All About Eve (1950)
4. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
5. Rear Window (1954)
6. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
7. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
8. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
9. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
10. 12 Angry Men (1957)
11. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
12. Get Out (2017)
13. Inside Out (2015)
14. Metropolis (1927)
15. Moonlight (2016)
16. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
17. It Happened One Night (1934)
18. The Godfather (1972)
19. Selma (2014)
20. North by Northwest (1959)
21. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
22. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
23. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
24. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
25. Vertigo (1958)
26. Jaws (1975)
27. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
28. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
29. Toy Story (1995)
30. Casablanca (1942)
31. Modern Times (1936)
32. Laura (1944)
33. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
34. King Kong (1933)
35. Toy Story 2 (1999)
36. The Terminator (1984)
37. Psycho (1960)
38. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari) (1920)
39. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
40. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
41. Taxi Driver (1976)
42. The Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Biciclette) (1947)
43. On the Waterfront (1954)
44. M (1931)
45. Alien (1979)
46. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
47. Playtime (1967)
48. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
49. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
50. Rebecca (1940)
51. Frankenstein (1931)
52. The Dark Knight (2008)
53. Spotlight (2015)
54. Wonder Woman (2017)
55. Lady Bird (2017)
56. The Big Sick (2017)
57. Paddington 2 (2017)
58. Boyhood (2014)
59. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
60. Arrival (2016)
61. Star Wars – Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
62. Repulsion (1965)
63. Zootopia (2016)
64. La La Land (2016)
65. Baby Driver (2017)
66. The Searchers (1956)
67. Toy Story 3 (2010)
68. The Godfather Part II (1974)
69. Manchester by the Sea (2016)
70. Up (2009)
71. Let the Right One In (Låt Den Rätte Komma In) (2008)
72. Chinatown (1974)
73. The Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) (1939)
74. Mary Poppins (1964)
75. Hell or High Water (2016)
76. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
77. The Babadook (2014)
78. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
79. Double Indemnity (1944)
80. Army of Shadows (L'Armée des Ombres) (1969)
81. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
82. The Jungle Book (2016)
83. Finding Nemo (2003)
84. Pinocchio (1940)
85. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
86. Schindler’s List (1993)
87. Apocalypse Now (1979)
88. High Noon (1952)
89.
90. Wages of Fear (La Salaire de la Peur) (1953)
91. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
92. Man on Wire (2008)
93. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
94. Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
95. Waste Land (2010)
96. Poetry (2010)
97. Still Walking (Aruitemo Aruitemo) (2008)
98. Dunkirk (2017)
99. Afghan Star (2008)
100. Leave No Trace (2018)
Resources:
- Internet Movie Database (8/15/2017). “200 Essential Movies to Watch Now”
- Newshub.co.nz (1/19/2018). “The countless oddities of the Rotten Tomatoes Top 100 Movies of All Time”
- Newsweek (6/22/2018). “The 100 Best Films of All Time, According to Critics” (based on Rotten Tomatoes)
- RottenTomatoes.com (7/30/2019). “Top 100 Movies of All Time”
- Rotten Tomatoes (8/31/18?). “200 Essential Movies to Watch Now”
- RottenTomatoes.com (2013?). “Top 100 Movies of All Time
”: list has been updated since- Wikipedia.org (7/30/2019). “List of Films with a 100% Rating on Rotten Tomatoes”
- Newshub.co.nz (1/19/2018). “The countless oddities of the Rotten Tomatoes Top 100 Movies of All Time”
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