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 Straight Story
1999, in 10 top lists Check -
4 new
The Insider
1999, in 5 top lists Check -
19 new
Catch Me If You Can
2002, in 9 top lists Check -
20 new
The Pianist
2002, in 21 top lists Check -
25 new
Capturing the Friedmans
2003, in 7 top lists Check -
38 new
The Queen
2006, in 4 top lists Check -
45 new
The King of Kong
2007 — a.k.a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in 1 top list Check -
47 new
Persepolis
2007, in 9 top lists Check -
48 new
Man on Wire
2008, in 6 top lists Check -
50 new
Vals Im Bashir
2008 — a.k.a. Waltz with Bashir, in 11 top lists Check -
53 new
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
2008, in 2 top lists Check -
65 new
The Social Network
2010, in 13 top lists Check -
67 new
The King's Speech
2010, in 13 top lists Check -
93 new
Muscle Shoals
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
95 new
12 Years a Slave
2013, in 22 top lists Check -
104 new
Life Itself
2014, in 0 top lists Check -
113 new
Mr. Turner
2014, in 1 top list Check -
121 new
Cobain: Montage of Heck
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
122 new
Iris
2014, in 0 top lists Check -
134 new
Spotlight
2015, in 8 top lists Check
Last updated on Oct 22, 2018; source