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 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002, in 26 top lists Check -
7 new
Yi yi
2000 — a.k.a. Yi Yi: A One and a Two..., in 19 top lists Check -
105 new
Boyhood
2014, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Insider
1999, in 5 top lists Check -
58 new
Un prophète
2009 — a.k.a. A Prophet, in 10 top lists Check -
20 new
The Pianist
2002, in 21 top lists Check -
19 new
Catch Me If You Can
2002, in 9 top lists Check -
95 new
12 Years a Slave
2013, in 22 top lists Check -
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L'emploi du temps
2001 — a.k.a. Time Out, in 5 top lists Check -
137 new
Creed
2015, in 4 top lists Check -
56 new
The Hurt Locker
2008, in 13 top lists Check -
72 new
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011, in 10 top lists Check -
59 new
Madeo
2009 — a.k.a. Mother, in 9 top lists Check -
134 new
Spotlight
2015, in 8 top lists Check -
33 new
Sideways
2004, in 8 top lists Check -
16 new
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check -
77 new
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
2011 — a.k.a. A Separation, in 15 top lists Check -
54 new
Revanche
2008, in 3 top lists Check -
83 new
Argo
2012, in 8 top lists Check -
17 new
Bowling for Columbine
2002, in 11 top lists Check -
123 new
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015, in 23 top lists Check -
75 new
The Muppets
2011, in 0 top lists Check -
65 new
The Social Network
2010, in 13 top lists Check -
9 new
Wo hu cang long
2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check -
32 new
Hauru no ugoku shiro
2004 — a.k.a. Howl's Moving Castle, in 18 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 King's Speech
2010, in 13 top lists Check -
89 new
The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
133 new
Brooklyn
2015, in 4 top lists Check -
11 new
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
2000 — a.k.a. With a Friend Like Harry..., in 1 top list Check -
109 new
Nightcrawler
2014, in 5 top lists Check -
34 new
The Incredibles
2004, in 13 top lists Check -
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Sur mes lèvres
2001 — a.k.a. Read My Lips, in 3 top lists Check -
108 new
Citizenfour
2014, in 3 top lists Check -
49 new
Låt den rätte komma in
2008 — a.k.a. Let the Right One In, in 14 top lists Check -
41 new
4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile
2007 — a.k.a. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, in 13 top lists Check -
64 new
Animal Kingdom
2010, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Straight Story
1999, in 10 top lists Check -
43 new
Ratatouille
2007, in 14 top lists Check -
35 new
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005, in 1 top list Check -
68 new
True Grit
2010, in 6 top lists Check -
86 new
Before Midnight
2013, in 6 top lists Check -
66 new
Inside Job
2010, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Wrestler
2008, in 3 top lists Check -
142 new
Zootopia
2016, in 7 top lists Check -
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Capturing the Friedmans
2003, in 7 top lists Check -
27 new
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...
2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Jungle Book
2016, in 2 top lists Check -
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Sweet Sixteen
2002, in 2 top lists Check -
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Taxi to the Dark Side
2007, in 2 top lists Check
Last updated on Oct 22, 2018; source