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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The Insider
1999, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Iron Giant
1999, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Straight Story
1999, in 10 top lists Check -
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Todo sobre mi madre
1999 — a.k.a. All About My Mother, in 18 top lists Check -
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Toy Story 2
1999, in 12 top lists Check -
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Chicken Run
2000, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Dish
2000, in 0 top lists Check -
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Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
2000 — a.k.a. With a Friend Like Harry..., in 1 top list Check -
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Wo hu cang long
2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check -
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Yi yi
2000 — a.k.a. Yi Yi: A One and a Two..., in 19 top lists Check -
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L'emploi du temps
2001 — a.k.a. Time Out, in 5 top lists Check -
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Monsters, Inc.
2001, in 14 top lists Check -
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Le peuple migrateur
2001 — a.k.a. Winged Migration, in 1 top list Check -
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Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check -
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Sur mes lèvres
2001 — a.k.a. Read My Lips, in 3 top lists Check -
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Bowling for Columbine
2002, in 11 top lists Check -
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Catch Me If You Can
2002, in 9 top lists Check -
18 new
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002, in 26 top lists Check -
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Mies vailla menneisyyttä
2002 — a.k.a. The Man Without a Past, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Pianist
2002, in 21 top lists Check -
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Raising Victor Vargas
2002, in 0 top lists Check -
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Spellbound
2002, in 2 top lists Check -
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Sweet Sixteen
2002, in 2 top lists Check -
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Capturing the Friedmans
2003, in 7 top lists Check -
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Finding Nemo
2003, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...
2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check -
26 new
Lost in Translation
2003, in 19 top lists Check -
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Osama
2003, in 3 top lists Check -
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Before Sunset
2004, in 18 top lists Check -
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Control Room
2004, in 0 top lists Check -
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Hauru no ugoku shiro
2004 — a.k.a. Howl's Moving Castle, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Incredibles
2004, in 13 top lists Check -
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Maria Full of Grace
2004, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sideways
2004, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005 — a.k.a. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, in 4 top lists Check -
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005, in 1 top list Check -
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Murderball
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
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El laberinto del fauno
2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check -
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The Queen
2006, in 4 top lists Check -
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4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile
2007 — a.k.a. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, in 13 top lists Check -
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Bikur Ha-Tizmoret
2007 — a.k.a. The Band's Visit, in 1 top list Check -
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The King of Kong
2007 — a.k.a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in 1 top list Check -
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No End in Sight
2007, in 1 top list Check -
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Once
2007, in 4 top lists Check -
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Persepolis
2007, in 9 top lists Check -
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Ratatouille
2007, in 14 top lists Check -
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Taxi to the Dark Side
2007, in 2 top lists Check -
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Anvil: The Story of Anvil
2008, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Hurt Locker
2008, in 13 top lists Check -
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Låt den rätte komma in
2008 — a.k.a. Let the Right One In, in 14 top lists Check
Last updated on Oct 22, 2018; source