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. 2 new

    The Iron Giant

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
  2. 5 new

    Toy Story 2

    1999, in 12 top lists Check
  3. 6 new

    Chicken Run

    2000, in 9 top lists Check
  4. 12 new

    Monsters, Inc.

    2001, in 14 top lists Check
  5. 16 new

    Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

    2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check
  6. 24 new

    Finding Nemo

    2003, in 17 top lists Check
  7. 32 new

    Hauru no ugoku shiro

    2004 — a.k.a. Howl's Moving Castle, in 18 top lists Check
  8. 34 new

    The Incredibles

    2004, in 13 top lists Check
  9. 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
  10. 43 new

    Ratatouille

    2007, in 14 top lists Check
  11. 47 new

    Persepolis

    2007, in 9 top lists Check
  12. 50 new

    Vals Im Bashir

    2008 — a.k.a. Waltz with Bashir, in 11 top lists Check
  13. 51 new

    WALL·E

    2008, in 26 top lists Check
  14. 55 new

    Up

    2009, in 16 top lists Check
  15. 60 new

    How to Train Your Dragon

    2010, in 11 top lists Check
  16. 62 new

    Toy Story 3

    2010, in 16 top lists Check
  17. 97 new

    The Lego Movie

    2014, in 5 top lists Check
  18. 107 new

    Kaguya-hime no monogatari

    2013 — a.k.a. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, in 8 top lists Check
  19. 112 new

    Song of the Sea

    2014, in 7 top lists Check
  20. 124 new

    Inside Out

    2015, in 17 top lists Check
  21. 129 new

    Shaun the Sheep Movie

    2015, in 0 top lists Check
  22. 142 new

    Zootopia

    2016, in 7 top lists Check
  23. 153 new

    Kubo and the Two Strings

    2016, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 161 new

    Moana

    2016, in 4 top lists Check
  25. 169 new

    Ma vie de Courgette

    2016 — a.k.a. My Life as a Zucchini, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 171 new

    Kimi no na wa.

    2016 — a.k.a. Your Name., in 12 top lists Check
  27. 185 new

    Coco

    2017, in 14 top lists Check
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Last updated on Oct 22, 2018; source