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Best of Rotten Tomatoes

Movies with 20 or more critic reviews vie for their place in history at Rotten Tomatoes. Eligible movies are ranked based on their Tomatometer Scores.

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Rank Tomatometer Title No. of Reviews
1. 100% Man on Wire (2008) 151
2. 100% Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) 91
3. 100% The Interrupters (2011) 84
4. 100% Deliver Us From Evil (2006) 71
5. 100% Waste Land (2010) 68
6. 100% Afghan Star (2008) 60
7. 100% The Invisible War (2012) 59
8. 100% 56 Up (2012) 58
9. 100% How to Survive a Plague (2012) 57
10. 100% Last Train Home (2009) 50
11. 100% Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) 43
12. 100% Nostalgia for the Light (2010) 41
13. 100% We Were Here (2011) 41
14. 100% Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) 39
15. 100% Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011) 39
16. 100% Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008) 37
17. 100% Sound City (2013) 34
18. 100% The Order of Myths (2007) 33
19. 100% The Waiting Room (2012) 32
20. 100% More Than Honey (2012) 31
21. 100% Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007) 30
22. 100% Enemies of the People (2009) 30
23. 100% L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno) (2009) 28
24. 100% Hell and Back Again (2011) 27
25. 100% Into Eternity (2010) 27
26. 100% Roger & Me (1989) 27
27. 100% Thunder Soul (2011) 27
28. 100% 4 Little Girls (1997) 25
29. 100% Bandit Queen (1994) 25
30. 100% Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) 25
31. 100% Passing Strange (2008) 25
32. 100% Le Chagrin et la Pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity) (1971) 24
33. 100% Louder Than A Bomb (2011) 24
34. 100% Racing Dreams (2009) 24
35. 100% Shoah (1985) 24
36. 100% Gimme Shelter (1970) 23
37. 100% Planet of Snail (2012) 23
38. 100% I For India (2007) 22
39. 100% Nanook of the North (1922) 22
40. 100% Street Fight (2005) 22
41. 100% Twist of Faith (2004) 21
42. 100% My Voyage to Italy (2001) 20
43. 100% Winter Soldier (1972) 20
44. 100% Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (1970) 20
45. 99% Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) 87
46. 99% Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) (2002) 76
47. 99% 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) 74
48. 99% Rivers and Tides, (Fluß der Zeit) (2003) 70
49. 99% Bill Cunningham New York (2010) 67
50. 98% Inside Job (2010) 142
51. 98% Murderball (2005) 138
52. 98% The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) 138
53. 98% Spellbound (2002) 136
54. 98% Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2007) 134
55. 98% Project Nim (2011) 131
56. 98% Blackfish (2013) 94
57. 98% This Is Not a Film (2012) 85
58. 98% The War Tapes (2006) 64
59. 98% Marwencol (2010) 58
60. 98% The Devil Came on Horseback (2007) 53
61. 98% Brooklyn Castle (2012) 51
62. 98% Blindsight (2008) 49
63. 98% Born To Be Wild (2011) 49
64. 98% For the Bible Tells Me So (2007) 49
65. 98% Hoop Dreams (1994) 49
66. 98% Chavez: Inside the Coup (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) (2003) 48
67. 98% Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) 48
68. 98% Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012) 47
69. 98% The Island President (2012) 46
70. 98% Surfwise (2007) 45
71. 98% The Last Waltz (2002) 44
72. 98% When We Were Kings (1996) 43
73. 98% The Life of Reilly (2007) 42
74. 97% Capturing the Friedmans (2002) 147
75. 97% Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2004) 117
76. 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) 104
77. 97% Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) 76
78. 97% A Film Unfinished (2010) 61
79. 97% Burma VJ: Reporter i et Lukket Land (Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country) (2008) 60
80. 97% The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999) 60
81. 97% To Be and to Have (Etre et Avoir) (2003) 58
82. 97% GasLand (2010) 38
83. 97% Sing Your Song (2011) 38
84. 97% 51 Birch Street (2005) 37
85. 97% Double Dare (2003) 36
86. 97% Call Me Kuchu (2013) 35
87. 97% Mugabe and the White African (2010) 33
88. 97% Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (2011) 33
89. 97% Queen Of The Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? (2010) 32
90. 97% Down from the Mountain (2001) 31
91. 97% Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe (Microcosmos) (1996) 31
92. 97% Stop Making Sense (1984) 31
93. 97% The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2004) 31
94. 97% Love & Diane (2002) 30
95. 97% Paul Williams Still Alive (2012) 30
96. 97% S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (S21, la machine de mort Khmere Rouge) (2002) 30
97. 97% Anne Frank Remembered (1995) 29
98. 97% Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004) 29
99. 97% The Innocents (1961) 30
100. 97% When the Levees Broke (2006) 29

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