The 200 Freshest Movies of the Last 20 Years

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"Can you remember a time without Rotten Tomatoes? Those sightless days of people reaching out and bumping into movies at random, like wandering through a Blockbuster with all the lights off. Those were dark and undirected times. Since the launch of RT in August of 1998, though – the site went live on August 18 of that year – movie fans have had immediate access to the largest accumulation of film reviews ever, distilled for one purpose: to get you watching the best kind of movies you want to see. (Or if you only want to watch bad movies, the site can help you find those more quickly, too.)

"As we mark our 20th birthday, we’re looking back on the past two decades with this guide to the 200 best-reviewed movies released since that fateful day in August of 1998. To keep the competition tight, we only included movies that had at least 80 reviews, the number at which wide-release movies qualify for Certified Fresh status; applying that rule, and limiting the total list to 200 titles, the lowest Tomatometer score you’ll find is 95%. The criteria also meant that no films from 1998 made the cut (Shakespeare in Love did come awfully close)."

-List was released in August of 2018
-Unranked; listed chronologically

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  1. 24 new

    Finding Nemo

    2003, in 17 top lists Check
  2. 18 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
  3. 51 new

    WALL·E

    2008, in 26 top lists Check
  4. 12 new

    Monsters, Inc.

    2001, in 14 top lists Check
  5. 55 new

    Up

    2009, in 16 top lists Check
  6. 34 new

    The Incredibles

    2004, in 13 top lists Check
  7. 43 new

    Ratatouille

    2007, in 14 top lists Check
  8. 5 new

    Toy Story 2

    1999, in 12 top lists Check
  9. 62 new

    Toy Story 3

    2010, in 16 top lists Check
  10. 65 new

    The Social Network

    2010, in 13 top lists Check
  11. 19 new

    Catch Me If You Can

    2002, in 9 top lists Check
  12. 72 new

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

    2011, in 9 top lists Check
  13. 39 new

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  14. 60 new

    How to Train Your Dragon

    2010, in 11 top lists Check
  15. 20 new

    The Pianist

    2002, in 21 top lists Check
  16. 16 new

    Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

    2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check
  17. 67 new

    The King's Speech

    2010, in 13 top lists Check
  18. 26 new

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
  19. 2 new

    The Iron Giant

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
  20. 56 new

    The Hurt Locker

    2008, in 13 top lists Check
  21. 68 new

    True Grit

    2010, in 6 top lists Check
  22. 52 new

    The Wrestler

    2008, in 3 top lists Check
  23. 32 new

    Hauru no ugoku shiro

    2004 — a.k.a. Howl's Moving Castle, in 18 top lists Check
  24. 6 new

    Chicken Run

    2000, in 9 top lists Check
  25. 94 new

    Gravity

    2013, in 12 top lists Check
  26. 9 new

    Wo hu cang long

    2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check
  27. 83 new

    Argo

    2012, in 8 top lists Check
  28. 123 new

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    2015, in 23 top lists Check
  29. 17 new

    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
  30. 49 new

    Låt den rätte komma in

    2008 — a.k.a. Let the Right One In, in 14 top lists Check
  31. 124 new

    Inside Out

    2015, in 17 top lists Check
  32. 95 new

    12 Years a Slave

    2013, in 22 top lists Check
  33. 76 new

    The Artist

    2011, in 8 top lists Check
  34. 37 new

    The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

    2005 — a.k.a. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, in 4 top lists Check
  35. 97 new

    The Lego Movie

    2014, in 5 top lists Check
  36. 30 new

    Before Sunset

    2004, in 18 top lists Check
  37. 109 new

    Nightcrawler

    2014, in 5 top lists Check
  38. 105 new

    Boyhood

    2014, in 16 top lists Check
  39. 142 new

    Zootopia

    2016, in 6 top lists Check
  40. 33 new

    Sideways

    2004, in 8 top lists Check
  41. 47 new

    Persepolis

    2007, in 9 top lists Check
  42. 168 new

    Get Out

    2017, in 16 top lists Check
  43. 134 new

    Spotlight

    2015, in 8 top lists Check
  44. 42 new

    Once

    2007, in 4 top lists Check
  45. 189 new

    Black Panther

    2018, in 9 top lists Check
  46. 185 new

    Coco

    2017, in 14 top lists Check
  47. 57 new

    An Education

    2009, in 1 top list Check
  48. 61 new

    Exit Through the Gift Shop

    2010, in 1 top list Check
  49. 103 new

    Snowpiercer

    2013, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 38 new

    The Queen

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
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Last updated on Oct 22, 2018; source