The 100 best drama movies of all time, according to critics

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"The Godfather Part 2"
  • We ranked the 100 best dramas of all time based on Rotten Tomatoes' adjusted score.
  • The adjusted score is based on a weighted formula that gives newer movies an advantage.
  • The list includes classics like "Citizen Kane," recent Oscar winners like "Parasite," and blockbusters like "Black Panther."
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As a cinematic genre, "drama" has taken many forms over the decades.

The list we compiled here is based on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and includes the site's most critically acclaimed films featuring a "drama" tag. It's an unexpected mix of action movies, classic films, and modern Oscar contenders. 

The list ranks movies by an adjusted critical score that Rotten Tomatoes derived from a weighted formula to account for the variation in number of reviews for each film. Therefore, the list heavily favors more recent critically acclaimed films that have more reviews.

It still includes classic dramas like "Citizen Kane" and "The Godfather" but favors recent titles like the best-picture winners "Moonlight" and "Parasite."

There are also plenty of blockbusters that have been heavily reviewed, like Marvel's "Avengers: Endgame" and "Black Panther."

John Lynch contributed to a previous version of this post.

The 100 best drama films of all time, according to critics:

100. "Vertigo" (1958)
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Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 93%

What critics said: "It's as much a wonder of suspense as it is a catalogue of the director's themes and an allegory for his own art of enticement-and for the erotic pitfalls of his métier." — The New Yorker

99. "The Social Network" (2010)
Jesse Eisenberg in "The Social Network."
"The Social Network."

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 86%

What critics said: "At last, a movie you can actually discuss afterward. And not just on Facebook or Twitter. No, you'll want to chew it over in person, with friends, for hours." — The Wrap

98. "Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari)" (1953)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 93%

What critics said: "The way Ozu builds up emotional empathy for a sense of disappointment in its various characters is where his mastery lies." — Time Out

97. "Rashômon" (1951)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 93%

What critics said: "What Akira Kurosawa and his tiny production team wrought is now an accepted maxim of modern life, a creed by which to live in a world where everyone has a blog and an opinion." — Boston Globe

96. "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 90%

What critics said: "Brando's performance as Stanley is one of those rare screen legends that are all they're cracked up to be." — The Washington Post

95. "Army of Shadows (L'Armée des ombres)" (1969)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 94%

What critics said: "From the first sight of German soldiers goose-stepping past the Arc de Triomphe to a postscript that spells out the fate of characters whose moral confusion is all too real, 'Army of Shadows' is a movie of its time — and ours." — Rolling Stone

94. "The Lighthouse" (2019)
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Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 72%

What critics said: "An extraordinary, unsettling film that will stay with you long after the final credits." — NME

93. "Apocalypse Now" (1979)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 94%

What critics said: "It has coherence, truthfulness, and conviction-up to a point." — New Yorker

92. "I, Tonya" (2018)
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Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 88%

What critics said: "[Allison Janney's] undiluted unsentimentality is the perfect compliment for a sporting underdog movie that disobeys the rules." — Irish Times

91. "Touch of Evil" (1955)
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Critic score: 95%

Audience score: 92%

What critics said: "It was Orson Welles's last Hollywood film, and in it he makes transcendent use of the American technology his genius throve on; never again would his resources be so rich or his imagination so fiendishly baroque." — Chicago Reader

90. "Hidden Figures" (2017)
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Critic score: 93%

Audience score: 93%

What critics said: "An assertion of humanity and civil rights that is pure cinematic nourishment for soul." — Tribune News Service

89. "Uncut Gems" (2019)
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Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 52%

What critics said: "Uncut Gems is an unforgettable film that plays out like a pulse-pounding Greek tragedy set in 2010s New York." — Polygon

88. "Dolemite Is My Name" (2019)
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This image released by Netflix shows Eddie Murphy in a scene from "Dolemite Is My Name." Netflix garnered the most NAACP Image Award nominations with 42 including for Ava Duvernay’s limited series “Whey They See Us” and the Eddie Murphy-led film “Dolemite is My Name.” (François Duhamel/Netflix via AP)

Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 91%

What critics said: "Murphy brings the spirit of Blaxploitation underdog Rudy Ray Moore to life, with tell-it-like-it-is radiance. His timing is, as always, cobra-strike precise." — Time

87. "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 94%

What critics said: "Robert Hamer's 1949 film is often cited as the definitive black, eccentric British comedy, yet it's several cuts better than practically anything else in the genre." — Chicago Reader

86. "The Hurt Locker" (2009)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 84%

What critics said: "Like every war before it, the U.S. invasion of Iraq has generated its share of movies. But 'The Hurt Locker' is the first of them that can properly be called a masterpiece." — Miami Herald

85. "Battleship Potemkin" (1925)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 86%

What critics said: "Because Battleship Potemkin is an appeal to fellow-feeling and collective action, it is only right that the restoration work creates a more immersive film, one that places no barriers between a 21st-century audience and its monumentally powerful imagery." — Guardian

84. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2" (2011)
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Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 89%

What critics said: "When the movie was over, a young boy sitting behind me said, "That was great!" He was satisfied, and rightly so." — The New Yorker

83. "First Man" (2018)
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Critic score: 87%

Audience score: 67%

What critics said: "An extraordinary film that conveys the magnitude of one of mankind's greatest achievements in a way that makes a moment that occurred 50 years ago and more than 200,000 miles away feel truly personal today." — Digital Trends

82. "The French Connection" (1971)
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"The French Connection."

Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 87%

What critics said: "Apart from telling a pretty exciting story with great mechanical skill, Friedkin examines the cop and his prey with a sceptic's eye." — Guardian

81. "The Wrestler" (2008)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 88%

What critics said: "This sad, strong beast of a film keeps us pinned to the mat with the strength of its compassion and the overpowering force of its central performance." — Houston Chronicle

80. "Blade Runner 2049" (2017)
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Ryan Gosling as Officer K in "Blade Runner 2049"

Critic score: 88%

Audience score: 81%

What critics said: "If every new film made today is to a greater or lesser degree an echo box of past possibilities, what's notable is how much Villeneuve gives those echoes room to breathe and to be new." — Film Comment

79. "Hell or High Water" (2016)
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Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 88%

What critics said: "A film with the sort of sweeping grandeur that today's filmmakers rarely aspire to, let alone fulfill." — Wall Street Journal

78. "Creed" (2015)
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Critic score: 95%

Audience score: 89%

What critics said: "It's an invigorating piece of nostalgia that fuels a bigger adrenaline rush with its climax than any big-budget blockbuster could provide." — The Atlantic

77. "Chinatown" (1974)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 93%

What critics said: "Roman Polanski's American made film, first since 'Rosemary's Baby' shows him again in total command of talent and physical filmmaking elements." — Variety

76. "12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men)" (1957)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 97%

What critics said: "This is a film where tension comes from personality conflict, dialogue and body language, not action." — Chicago Sun-Times

75. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 93%

What critics said: "Greed, a despicable passion out of which other base ferments may spawn, is seldom treated in the movies with the frank and ironic contempt that is vividly manifested toward it in 'Treasure of Sierra Madre.'" — The New York Times

74. "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (2017)
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Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 86%

What critics said: "Watching it is like having your funny bone struck repeatedly, expertly and very much too hard by a karate super-black-belt capable of bringing a rhino to its knees with a single punch behind the ear." — Guardian

73. "Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)" (1949)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 94%

What critics said: "So well-entrenched as an official masterpiece that it is a little startling to visit it again after many years and realize that it is still alive and has strength and freshness." — Chicago Sun-Times

72. "Marty" (1955)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 87%

What critics said: "Marty will give you a heartening slice of life, full of honesty and humor." — Orlando Sentinal

71. "Brooklyn" (2015)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 87%

What critics said: "Although not without moments of sadness and tragedy, 'Brooklyn' is sublimely uplifting and life affirming." — ReelViews

70. "The Babadook" (2014)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 72%

What critics said: "A deftly inventive and psychologically charged horror story that trades on the ways in which the prospect of maternal failure can be just as fearsome a boogeyman as any monster under the bed." — Buzzfeed

69. "The Dark Knight" (2008)
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Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 94%

What critics said: "An exceptionally smart, brooding picture with some terrific performances." — CNN

68. "Jaws" (1975)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 90%

What critics said: "A grisly film, often ugly as sin, which achieves precisely what it set out to accomplish-scare the hell out of you." — Newsweek

67. "M" (1931)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 95%

What critics said: "Lang's movie is that rare thing, a nail-biting soul-searcher. While 'M' steers clear of analyzing deviance, it is startling in its musings on which punishment fits an inhuman crime." — Philadelphia Inquirer

66. "Shoplifters" (2018)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 91%

What critics said: "Writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda fills the film with grace notes, humor and fine observations, circling and filling out each character while leaning more on innocence than corruption." — Detroit News

65. "Schindler's List" (1993)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 97%

What critics said: "A near-documentary, brilliantly designed and choreographed, [and] a character study in which Ralph Fiennes, the winningly urbane Liam Neeson, and the magnificently impassive Ben Kingsley attain a memorable dramatic intensity." — Sight and Sound

64. "Pain and Glory" (2019)
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This is Banderas' first Oscar nomination.

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 91%

What critics said: "While still embracing the visual facades that make his films such a pleasure to watch, Pain and Glory finds him stripping away the emotional facades, bringing us closer to him than ever before." — Chicago Reader

63. "Spider-Man: Homecoming" (2017)
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Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 88%

What critics said: "Marvel has finally started to figure out what the future of superhero movies might look like." — IndieWire

62. "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" (2020)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 52%

What critics said: "Portraits of youthful confusion and fear. Eliza Hittman, who specializes in an intimate, almost procedural approach to emotional disorientation, made a road movie about a young Pennsylvania woman" — The Ringer

61. "Baby Driver" (2017)
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Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 86%

What critics said: "Put in your metaphorical earbuds, turn the key in the ignition, and enjoy the cinematic highlight of the summer so far." — The Atlantic

60. "The Godfather, Part II" (1974)
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Robert De Niro in "The Godfather Part II."

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 97%

What critics said: "An admirable, responsible production, less emotionally disturbing than its predecessor, but a grand historical epic studying the nature of power in the United States' heritage." — The Hollywood Reporter

59. "The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri)" (1967)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 95%

What critics said: "It uses realism as an effect, documentary as a style. You feel that you're really there, and you can't help but be moved." — Village Voice

58. "Widows" (2018)
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Viola Davis in director Steve McQueen's "Widows," which comes to theaters this November.

Critic score: 91%

Audience score: 61%

What critics said: "It offers everything adults used to love about cinema." — Observer

57. "The Florida Project" (2017)
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Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 79%

What critics said: "The Florida Project is a song of innocence and of experience: mainly the former." — Guardian 

56. "War for the Planet of the Apes" (2017)
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Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 84%

What critics said: "The best summer blockbuster in years, a smart, thoughtful, confrontational and challenging allegory for a world run amok." — Detroit News

55. "1917" (2019)
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"1917" is projected to top the domestic box office this weekend.

Critic score: 89%

Audience score: 88%

What critics said: "It's a tense, unnerving ride that accomplishes its goal of translating the first-person experience of war better than any war movies that have come before it. It's a level up." — Detroit News

54. "L.A. Confidential" (1997)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 94%

What critics said: "A movie bull's-eye: noir with an attitude, a thriller packing punches. It gives up its evil secrets with a smile." — Chicago Tribune

53. "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 89%

What critics said: "Shadow of a Doubt may or may not be Hitchcock's greatest film, but it's his most intimate and heart-wrenching." — New Yorker

52. "Alien" (1979)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 94%

What critics said: "A screamingly spooky sci-fi tale with more than a few echoes of 'The Thing' but echoes which enhance rather than detract." — New York Daily News

51. "Call Me By Your Name" (2017)
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Critic score: 95%

Audience score: 86%

What critics said: "You may not realize how strong the acting is until you replay the movie in your head later." — Boston Globe

50. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 95%

What critics said: "The film's extended suspense sequences deserve a place among the great stretches of cinema." — Chicago Sun-Times

49. "La La Land" (2016)
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Critic score: 91%

Audience score: 81%

What critics said: "I'm hoping that 'La La Land' will be a hit for the ages, for all ages. It's a film that re-enacts, with rare originality, a classic role for the movie medium -- escapist entertainment in troubled times." — The Wall Street Journal

48. "Manchester by the Sea" (2016)
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Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 77%

What critics said: "The sadness of 'Manchester by the Sea' is the kind of sadness that makes you feel more alive, rather than less, to the preciousness of things." — Boston Globe

47. "Argo" (2012)
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Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 90%

What critics said: "Let's just say that the movie's final section is so nail-bitingly tense, thanks to a skillful combination of acting, writing and crosscutting, that it puts Affleck in the big leagues as a director." — The Wrap

46. "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" (2019)
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Critic score: 85%

Audience score: 70%

What critics said: "It is Tarantino's best, bravest and most confrontationally impudent movie since Pulp Fiction." — Financial Times

45. "12 Years a Slave" (2013)
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Critic score: 95%

Audience score: 90%

What critics said: "Every scene of '12 Years a Slave,' and almost every shot, conveys some penetrating truth about America's original sin." — Dallas Morning News

44. "Leave No Trace" (2018)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 81%

What critics said: "It covers difficult ground, but to say it leaves no trace would be a lie. It definitely makes its mark." — Detroit News

43. "The Maltese Falcon" (1941)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 91%

What critics said: "Frighteningly good evidence that the British (Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, et al.) have no monopoly on the technique of making mystery films." — Time

42. "Metropolis" (1927)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 92%

What critics said: "A fully realized work of art whose influence on science fiction, set design and symbolism can scarcely be put into words." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

41. "Boyhood" (2014)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 80%

What critics said: "The closest thing to a lived life that fictional cinema has yet produced." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

40. "Gravity" (2013)
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Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 80%

What critics said: "Unfolding as a series of terrifying object lessons in Newtonian physics, the movie lends new meaning to the phrase 'spatial geometry.'" — The Atlantic

39. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 93%

What critics said: "The Best Years Of Our Lives is an eloquent tribute to returned veterans [and] a magnificent, brilliant contribution to motion pictures as an art." — Boston Globe

38. "On the Waterfront" (1954)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 95%

What critics said: "It's hard to deny that Marlon Brando's performance as a dock worker and ex-fighter who finally decides to rat on his gangster brother (Rod Steiger) is pretty terrific." — Chicago Reader

37. "Marriage Story" (2019)
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"Marriage Story."

Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 85%

What critics said: "The movie is 136 minutes, but the recovery period is, well, at least the rest of the night." — TV Guide

36. "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 89%

What critics said: "From such grisly materials the popular cinema is rarely drawn. The film is monumental in the courage that risked its manufacture." — Time

35. "The Favourite" (2018)
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Critic score: 93%

Audience score: 69%

What critics said: "Yorgos Lanthimos' dryly funny historical feature is all about power, and that means literally wearing the pants in a strange time." — Indiewire

34. "Double Indemnity" (1944)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 95%

What critics said: "This shrewd, smoothly tawdry thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the high points of nineteen-forties films." — The New Yorker

33. "Arrival" (2016)
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Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 82%

What critics said: "Amy Adams is a miracle worker-she makes us believe in this mesmerizing mindbender about alien communication, directed with searching mind and heart by Denis Villeneuve." — Rolling Stone

32. "La Grande illusion (Grand Illusion)" (1938)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 93%

What critics said: "This elegy for the death of the old European aristocracy is one of the true masterpieces of the screen." — The New Yorker

31. "Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai)" (1956)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 97%

What critics said: "The greatest movie ever made about warriors and battle." — Chicago Reader

30. "Rear Window" (1954)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 95%

What critics said: "It's one of Alfred Hitchcock's inspired audience-participation films: watching it, you feel titillated, horrified, and, ultimately, purged." — The New Yorker

29. "Selma" (2015)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 86%

What critics said: "'Selma' focuses on the one thing we don't expect in a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. - his doubts - and Oyelowo comes through with a deeply felt and quite brilliant performance." — Boston Globe

28. "The Farewell" (2019)
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"The Farewell"

Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 87%

What critics said: "You'll be spewing with tears before the first act is done." — Times (UK)

27. "Spotlight" (2015)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 93%

What critics said: "It's not a stretch to suggest that 'Spotlight' is the finest newspaper movie of its era, joining 'Citizen Kane' and 'All the President's Men' in the pantheon of classics of the genre." — The Washington Post

26. "Thor: Ragnarok" (2017)
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Critic score: 93%

Audience score: 87%

What critics said: "The idea of pairing the oft-dull Thor with a series of oddball companions is an inspired, if necessary, move — so much so that it's baffling it has taken Marvel this long to smarten up." — Globe and Mail

25. "The Shape of Water" (2017)
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Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 72%

What critics said: "Del Toro's willingness to court absurdity and bad taste serves to guarantee his integrity, proving he hasn't entirely gone respectable." — The Age (Australia)

24. "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" (2017)
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Critic score: 91%

Audience score: 42%

What critics said: "Rian Johnson's middle chapter in the current Star Wars trilogy is the epic you've been looking for. Capped by Mark Hamill in the performance of his career, it points the way ahead to a next generation of skywalkers - and, thrillingly, to a new hope." — Rolling Stone

23. "Dunkirk" (2017)
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Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 81%

What critics said: "Masterful visual storytelling on an epic scale." — NPR

22. "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" (2020)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 92%

What critics said: "Weisz and Stone are both brilliantly witty and nimble, but Colman's performance is nothing short of sublime." — New York Times

21. "Logan" (2017)
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Critic score: 93%

Audience score: 90%

What critics said: "The only problem with calling it the boldest and most affecting superhero flick in many years is that it's barely a superhero movie at all." — NPR

20. "His Girl Friday" (1940)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 90%

What critics said: "Roughest spots in the original versions have been sandpapered or excised, the pressroom's whiskey cynicism toned down to half of one per cent, but the comedy still has enough Hecht-MacArthur kick to make later interpolations smell synthetic." — Time Magazine

19. "Rebecca" (1940)
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Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 92%

What critics said: "It is the finest job of direction accomplished by a master director and may justly be called Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece." — New York Daily News

18. "A Quiet Place" (2018)
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Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 83%

What critics said: "There are moments when the movie takes us firmly by the hand and escorts us down a darkened path, and they lead to one of the most profound of communal pleasures: the sound of a movie audience screaming as one." — Slate

17. "A Star Is Born" (2018)
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Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 79%

What critics said: "At its huge, pulsating heart this is a story about lovers desperately trying to save one another — from the loss of integrity in an industry that disdains it and from self-destructive impulses with roots too old and deep to be touched." — London Evening Standard

16. "Wonder Woman" (2017)
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Critic score: 93%

Audience score: 88%

What critics said: "The moviegoing world deserves the best that Hollywood can deliver, and this time we've pretty much got it." — The Wall Street Journal

15. "Roma" (2018)
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Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 72%

What critics said: "Roma captures, as well as any film I have seen, the spirit of 'magical realism,' without ever hinting at the supernatural. Its magic is pure, stunning cinematic technique." — The Atlantic

14. "Sunset Boulevard" (1950)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 95%

What critics said: "One of Wilder's finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching accounts of itself." — Time Out

13. "Moonlight" (2016)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 79%

What critics said: "A disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at American reality and a poem written in light, music and vivid human faces." — The New York Times

12. "All About Eve" (1950)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 94%

What critics said: "Joseph Mankiewicz was Hollywood's midcentury master of comic drama, and All About Eve, from 1950, was one of his signal achievements." — The New Yorker

11. "The Godfather" (1972)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 98%

What critics said: "Francis Ford Coppola has made one of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment." — The New York Times

10. "The Irishman" (2019)
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Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 86%

What critics said: "'The Irishman' is long, to be sure, but it's never less than compelling — Scorsese, De Niro, Pacino and Pesci, all in their mid-to-late-70s, are each carrying a lifetime of work, with practiced ease." — Seattle Times

9. "BlacKkKlansman" (2018)
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This image released by Focus Features shows Adam Driver, left, and John David Washington in a scene from "BlacKkKlansman." The film is nominated for an Oscar for best picture. The 91st Academy Awards will be held on Sunday. (David Lee/Focus Features via AP)

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 83%

What critics said: "The filmmaker rips from the headlines, but the struggles remain the same." — Slate

8. "Mission: Impossible — Fallout" (2018)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 87%

What critics said: "It keeps on going and going, following one exciting sequence with another and then another." — San Francisco Chronicle

7. "Lady Bird" (2017)
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"Lady Bird"

Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 79%

What critics said: "A heartfelt coming-of-age story that perfectly captures the bittersweet transition from adolescence to dawning adulthood." — Village Voice

6. "Knives Out" (2019)
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Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 92%

What critics said: "'Knives Out,' in the end, believes earnestly in the whodunit, it just wants to turn it inside out. To say more about that would spoil the fun. But keep an eye here, and elsewhere, on de Armas." — Associated Press

5. "Casablanca" (1942)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 95%

What critics said: "Across seven decades, the Humphrey Bogart-Ingrid Bergman starrer has emerged as Americans' default favorite movie." — The Hollywood Reporter

4. "Avengers: Endgame" (2019)
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"Avengers: Endgame"

Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 90%

What critics said: "Endgame consists almost entirely of the downtime scenes that were always secretly everyone's favorite parts of these movies anyway." — Slate

3. "Parasite" (2019)
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Critic score: 98%

Audience score: 90%

What critics said: "Bong delivers a stunning return to form with this newest venture." — The Wrap

2. "Citizen Kane" (1941)
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Critic score: 99%

Audience score: 90%

What critics said: "More than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound." — Chicago Sun-Times

1. "Black Panther" (2018)
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"Black Panther"

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 79%

What critics said: "Whether or not this is the best film Marvel Studios has made to date — and it is clearly in the discussion — it is by far the most thought-provoking." — The Atlantic

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The 100 best drama movies of all time, according to critics The 100 best drama movies of all time, according to critics Reviewed by mimisabreena on Saturday, November 27, 2021 Rating: 5

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