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. 3 new

    The Straight Story

    1999, in 10 top lists Check
  2. 4 new

    The Insider

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
  3. 19 new

    Catch Me If You Can

    2002, in 9 top lists Check
  4. 20 new

    The Pianist

    2002, in 21 top lists Check
  5. 25 new

    Capturing the Friedmans

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
  6. 38 new

    The Queen

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
  7. 45 new

    The King of Kong

    2007 — a.k.a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in 1 top list Check
  8. 47 new

    Persepolis

    2007, in 9 top lists Check
  9. 48 new

    Man on Wire

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
  10. 50 new

    Vals Im Bashir

    2008 — a.k.a. Waltz with Bashir, in 11 top lists Check
  11. 53 new

    Anvil: The Story of Anvil

    2008, in 2 top lists Check
  12. 65 new

    The Social Network

    2010, in 13 top lists Check
  13. 67 new

    The King's Speech

    2010, in 13 top lists Check
  14. 93 new

    Muscle Shoals

    2013, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 95 new

    12 Years a Slave

    2013, in 22 top lists Check
  16. 104 new

    Life Itself

    2014, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 113 new

    Mr. Turner

    2014, in 1 top list Check
  18. 121 new

    Cobain: Montage of Heck

    2015, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 122 new

    Iris

    2014, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 134 new

    Spotlight

    2015, in 8 top lists Check
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Last updated on Oct 22, 2018; source