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48 21
80 Band's Visit, The
69 Bank Job, The
64 Chronicle of an Escape
46 CJ7
36 College Road Trip
68 Cool School, The
78 Counterfeiters, The
35 Deal
51 Doomsday
58 Felon
59 Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour
57 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
55 Irina Palm
69 Last Winter, The
38 Life Before Her Eyes, The
30 Meet Bill
33 Miss Conception
63 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
71 My Brother Is an Only Child
39 Never Back Down
55 Nim's Island
48 Penelope
22 Postal
17 Prom Night
77 Rape of Europa, The
69 Redbelt
xx Rogue
76 Shine a Light
37 Shutter
57 Smart People
50 Step Up 2 the Streets
55 Street Kings
72 Surfwise
55 Turn the River
36 What Happens in Vegas...
45 Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
55 Without the King
67 Year My Parents Went on Vacation, The

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.

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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.	Momma's Man	2008	87
93.	Fog of War, The	2003	87
94.	Quiz Show	1994	87
95.	Howards End	1992	87
96.	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	2005	87
97.	Crumb	1995	87
98.	Maria Full of Grace	2004	87
99.	Fateless	2006	87
100.	Tootsie	1982	87
101.	Brokeback Mountain	2005	87
102.	Shine	1996	87
103.	Tarnation	2004	87
104.	Murderball	2005	87
105.	Grizzly Man	2005	87
106.	All About My Mother	1999	87
107.	English Patient, The	1996	87
108.	Marooned in Iraq	2003	86
109.	Wind Will Carry Us, The	2000	86
110.	sex, lies, and videotape	1989	86
111.	To Die For	1995	86
112.	Million Dollar Baby	2004	86
113.	42 UP	1999	86
114.	Say Anything...	1989	86
115.	Rushmore	1999	86
116.	Straight Story, The	1999	86
117.	To Be and to Have	2003	86
118.	Dead Ringers	1988	86
119.	Boys Don't Cry	1999	86
120.	Easy Rider	1969	86
121.	I'm Going Home	2002	86
122.	In the Bedroom	2001	86
123.	Ten	2003	86
124.	Chinatown	1974	86
125.	Up the Yangtze	2008	86
126.	Edge of Heaven, The	2008	86
127.	Das Boot	1982	86
128.	Russian Ark	2002	86
129.	Deliver Us from Evil	2006	86
130.	Our Daily Bread	2006	86
131.	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	86
132.	Under the Sand	2001	86
133.	Grifters, The	1990	86
134.	Traffic	2000	86
135.	Talk to Her	2002	86
136.	This Is England	2007	86
137.	Player, The	1992	86
138.	Son, The	2003	86
139.	Sweet Sixteen	2003	86
140.	Departed, The	2006	86
141.	Diner	1982	86
142.	American Beauty	1999	86
143.	Fugitive, The	1993	86
144.	Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film	2006	86
145.	Flight of the Red Balloon, The	2008	86
146.	Before Night Falls	2000	85
147.	Bourne Ultimatum, The	2007	85
148.	You Can Count On Me	2000	85
149.	Pianist, The	2002	85
150.	Boogie Nights	1997	85
151.	Children Underground	2001	85
152.	Savages, The	2007	85
153.	Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The	2001	85
154.	Offside	2007	85
155.	Los Angeles Plays Itself	2004	85
156.	Knocked Up	2007	85
157.	Turtles Can Fly	2005	85
158.	Festival Express	2004	85
159.	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	2004	85
160.	Half Nelson	2006	85
161.	Street Fight	2006	85
162.	About Schmidt	2002	85
163.	Last Letter, The	2003	85
164.	Love & Diane	2003	85
165.	Domestic Violence	2002	85
166.	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	2006	85
167.	Last Seduction, The	1994	85
168.	Fargo	1996	85
169.	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	2001	85
170.	Intruder, The	2005	85
171.	Iron Giant, The	1999	85
172.	Atonement	2007	85
173.	Alexandra	2008	85
174.	Host, The	2007	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.	Bus 174	2003	84
193.	Lantana	2001	84
194.	Lion King, The	1994	84
195.	Cinema Paradiso: The Director's Cut	2002	84
196.	49 UP	2006	84
197.	Broadcast News	1987	84
198.	Remains of the Day, The	1993	84
199.	No Man's Land	2001	84
200.	Distant	2004	84

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