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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) 83
4. 100% Waste Land (2010) 68
5. 100% Afghan Star (2008) 60
6. 100% The Invisible War (2012) 59
7. 100% How to Survive a Plague (2012) 56
8. 100% Last Train Home (2009) 50
9. 100% Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) 43
10. 100% We Were Here (2011) 41
11. 100% Nostalgia for the Light (2010) 40
12. 100% Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) 39
13. 100% Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011) 38
14. 100% Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008) 37
15. 100% Sound City (2013) 34
16. 100% The Order of Myths (2007) 33
17. 100% The Waiting Room (2012) 32
18. 100% Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007) 30
19. 100% Enemies of the People (2009) 30
20. 100% L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno) (2009) 28
21. 100% Hell and Back Again (2011) 27
22. 100% Into Eternity (2010) 27
23. 100% Roger & Me (1989) 27
24. 100% Thunder Soul (2011) 27
25. 100% 4 Little Girls (1997) 25
26. 100% Bandit Queen (1994) 25
27. 100% Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) 25
28. 100% Passing Strange (2008) 25
29. 100% Le Chagrin et la Pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity) (1971) 24
30. 100% Louder Than A Bomb (2011) 24
31. 100% Gimme Shelter (1970) 23
32. 100% Planet of Snail (2012) 23
33. 100% Racing Dreams (2009) 23
34. 100% Shoah (1985) 23
35. 100% I For India (2007) 22
36. 100% Nanook of the North (1922) 22
37. 100% Street Fight (2005) 22
38. 100% Twist of Faith (2004) 21
39. 100% Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 (2012) 20
40. 100% My Voyage to Italy (2001) 20
41. 100% Winter Soldier (1972) 20
42. 100% Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (1970) 20
43. 99% Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) 86
44. 99% This Is Not a Film (2012) 83
45. 99% Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) (2002) 76
46. 99% Deliver Us From Evil (2006) 73
47. 99% Rivers and Tides, (Fluß der Zeit) (2003) 70
48. 99% Bill Cunningham New York (2010) 67
49. 98% Inside Job (2010) 140
50. 98% Murderball (2005) 137
51. 98% The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) 137
52. 98% Spellbound (2002) 136
53. 98% Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2007) 134
54. 98% Project Nim (2011) 129
55. 98% The War Tapes (2006) 64
56. 98% Marwencol (2010) 58
57. 98% 56 Up (2012) 57
58. 98% The Devil Came on Horseback (2007) 53
59. 98% Brooklyn Castle (2012) 50
60. 98% Blindsight (2008) 49
61. 98% Born To Be Wild (2011) 49
62. 98% For the Bible Tells Me So (2007) 49
63. 98% Chavez: Inside the Coup (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) (2003) 48
64. 98% Hoop Dreams (1994) 48
65. 98% Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) 48
66. 98% The Island President (2012) 46
67. 98% Surfwise (2007) 45
68. 98% The Last Waltz (1978) 44
69. 98% When We Were Kings (1996) 43
70. 98% The Life of Reilly (2007) 42
71. 97% Capturing the Friedmans (2002) 147
72. 97% Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2004) 117
73. 97% Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) 76
74. 97% Apollo 13 (1995) 69
75. 97% A Film Unfinished (2010) 61
76. 97% Burma VJ: Reporter i et Lukket Land (Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country) (2008) 60
77. 97% The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999) 60
78. 97% To Be and to Have (Etre et Avoir) (2003) 58
79. 97% GasLand (2010) 38
80. 97% 51 Birch Street (2005) 37
81. 97% Sing Your Song (2011) 37
82. 97% Double Dare (2003) 36
83. 97% Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012) 35
84. 97% Mugabe and the White African (2010) 33
85. 97% Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (2011) 33
86. 97% Queen Of The Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? (2010) 32
87. 97% Down from the Mountain (2001) 31
88. 97% The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2004) 31
89. 97% Love & Diane (2002) 30
90. 97% Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe (Microcosmos) (1996) 30
91. 97% Paul Williams Still Alive (2012) 30
92. 97% S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (S21, la machine de mort Khmere Rouge) (2002) 30
93. 97% Stop Making Sense (1984) 30
94. 97% Anne Frank Remembered (1995) 29
95. 97% Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004) 29
96. 97% The Innocents (1961) 29
97. 97% When the Levees Broke (2006) 29
98. 96% Bowling for Columbine (2002) 162
99. 96% Waltz with Bashir (2008) 142
100. 96% Winged Migration (Le Peuple Migrateur) (2003) 131

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