On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, a film has a rating of 100% if each professional review recorded by the website is assessed as positive rather than negative. The percentage is based on the film's reviews aggregated by the website and assessed as positive or negative, and when all aggregated reviews are positive, the film has a 100% rating. Listed below are films with 100% ratings that have a critics' consensus or have been reviewed by at least twenty film critics. Many of these films, particularly those with a high number of positive reviews, have achieved wide critical acclaim and are often considered among the best films ever made. [1] [2] [3] A number of these films also appear on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies lists, but there are many others and several entries with dozens of positive reviews, which are considered surprising to some experts. [4] To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 248 positive reviews. [5] [6]
The 100% rating is vulnerable to a film critic purposely submitting a negative review for notoriety. For example, Lady Bird had a 100% rating based on 196 positive reviews when a film critic submitted a negative review solely in response to the perfect rating. [7] To date, Lady Bird has a 99% rating with 398 positive reviews and four negative reviews. [8] Paddington 2 held a perfect rating from its release in 2017 until a film critic published a negative review in June 2021. [9] To date, Paddington 2 has a 99% rating with 251 positive reviews and two negative reviews. [10] The 100% rating could also be affected by rediscovering negative reviews, as in the case with Citizen Kane when an 80-year-old negative review from the Chicago Tribune affected its former 100% rating with 115 reviews. [11]
Year | Name | No. of reviews | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1920 | The Golem: How He Came into the World | 32 | [12] |
1921 | The Kid | 49 | [13] |
1922 | Nanook of the North | 35 | [14] |
1924 | The Last Laugh | 30 | [15] |
The Navigator | 23 | [16] | |
1925 | Battleship Potemkin | 51 | [17] |
1926 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed | 21 | [18] |
The Black Pirate | 61 | [19] | |
1928 | The Cameraman | 20 | [20] |
The Man Who Laughs | 24 | [21] | |
1929 | Un Chien Andalou | 25 | [22] |
Year | Name | No. of reviews | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1931 | M | 63 | [23] |
The Public Enemy | 35 | [24] | |
Mädchen in Uniform | 42 | [25] | |
1932 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | 25 | [26] |
I Was Born, But... | 27 | [27] | |
The Most Dangerous Game | 25 | [28] | |
1933 | State Fair | 47 | [29] |
Baby Face | 20 | [30] | |
1934 | L'Atalante | 39 | [31] |
1935 | Top Hat | 42 | [32] |
Captain Blood | 31 | [33] | |
1937 | Pépé le Moko | 32 | [34] |
A Star Is Born | 24 | [35] | |
Make Way for Tomorrow | 21 | [36] | |
Young and Innocent | 20 | [37] | |
1938 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 24 | [38] |
Holiday | 30 | [39] | |
The Adventures of Robin Hood | 52 | [40] | |
1939 | Only Angels Have Wings | 31 | [41] |
Stagecoach | 48 | [42] | |
Young Mr. Lincoln | 20 | [43] |
Year | Name | No. of reviews | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | 49 | [44] |
The Philadelphia Story | 104 | [45] | |
Pinocchio | 64 | [46] | |
The Great McGinty | 27 | [47] | |
The Thief of Bagdad | 29 | [48] | |
1941 | Sullivan's Travels | 43 | [49] |
Ball of Fire | 29 | [50] | |
Here Comes Mr. Jordan | 21 | [51] | |
The Devil and Daniel Webster | 23 | [52] | |
1942 | Holiday Inn | 25 | [53] |
Gentleman Jim | 26 | [54] | |
The Major and the Minor | 20 | [55] | |
1943 | Shadow of a Doubt | 54 | [56] |
Day of Wrath | 26 | [57] | |
1944 | Henry V | 28 | [58] |
Laura | 64 | [59] | |
1945 | Rome, Open City | 46 | [60] |
1946 | The Killers | 35 | [61] |
Great Expectations | 29 | [62] | |
My Darling Clementine | 33 | [63] | |
1947 | Black Narcissus | 39 | [64] |
Odd Man Out | 33 | [65] | |
Quai des Orfèvres | 34 | [66] | |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 21 | [67] | |
1948 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 54 | [68] |
The Fallen Idol | 35 | [69] | |
Red River | 32 | [70] | |
Letter from an Unknown Woman | 25 | [71] | |
Oliver Twist | 24 | [72] | |
Fort Apache | 21 | [73] | |
1949 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 51 | [74] |
Late Spring | 25 | [75] | |
Jour de fête | 22 | [76] | |
A Letter to Three Wives | 20 | [77] |
Year | Name | No. of reviews | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1950 | Winchester '73 | 33 | [78] |
1951 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 71 | [79] |
1952 | Singin' in the Rain | 77 | [80] |
Forbidden Games | 20 | [81] | |
1953 | Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot | 32 | [82] |
Ugetsu | 34 | [83] | |
Tokyo Story | 52 | [84] | |
The Wages of Fear | 54 | [85] | |
I Vitelloni | 29 | [86] | |
The Naked Spur | 21 | [87] | |
1954 | Touchez pas au grisbi | 26 | [88] |
Seven Samurai | 102 | [89] | |
Sansho the Bailiff | 20 | [90] | |
1955 | Ordet | 29 | [91] |
French Cancan | 21 | [92] | |
The Ladykillers | 34 | [93] | |
1956 | A Man Escaped | 43 | [94] |
Night and Fog | 26 | [95] | |
1957 | 12 Angry Men | 63 | [96] |
Witness for the Prosecution | 41 | [97] | |
Nights of Cabiria | 45 | [98] | |
Old Yeller | 21 | [99] | |
Desk Set | 24 | [100] | |
1958 | Jalsaghar | 24 | [101] |
Indiscreet | 21 | [102] | |
A Night to Remember | 22 | [103] | |
1959 | Anatomy of a Murder | 53 | [104] |
Shadows | 24 | [105] |
Year | Name | No. of reviews | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1960 | Classe Tous Risques | 28 | [106] |
1961 | Through a Glass Darkly | 29 | [107] |
Victim | 31 | [108] | |
1962 | Ivan's Childhood | 27 | [109] |
Sanjuro | 29 | [110] | |
1964 | I Am Cuba | 40 | [111] |
Woman in the Dunes | 33 | [112] | |
1966 | The Endless Summer | 23 | [113] |
Au hasard Balthazar | 45 | [114] | |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | 28 | [115] | |
The Shooting | 20 | [116] | |
1967 | Branded to Kill | 26 | [117] |
Dragon Inn | 25 | [118] | |
Cool Hand Luke | 56 | [119] | |
Portrait of Jason | 27 | [120] | |
1968 | The Swimmer | 27 | [121] |
1969 | Funeral Parade of Roses | 22 | [122] |
Kes | 32 | [123] | |
The Sorrow and the Pity | 32 | [124] | |
Salesman | 26 | [125] |
Year | Name | No. of reviews | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1970 | The Wild Child | 27 | [126] |
Woodstock | 26 | [127] | |
Multiple Maniacs | 23 | [128] | |
1972 | Fat City | 27 | [129] |
Winter Soldier | 20 | [130] | |
1973 | Sleeper | 39 | [131] |
1974 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 41 | [132] |
1975 | Love and Death | 25 | [133] |
Mirror | 29 | [134] | |
1976 | Harlan County, USA | 22 | [135] |
1977 | The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | 19 | [136] |
1978 | The Buddy Holly Story | 31 | [137] |
1979 | Stalker | 46 | [138] |
Year | Name | No. of reviews | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1980 | Atlantic City | 37 | [139] |
Breaker Morant | 23 | [140] | |
The King and the Mockingbird | 22 | [141] | |
Babylon | 30 | [142] | |
1981 | The Decline of Western Civilization | 41 | [143] |
1982 | Fanny and Alexander | 46 | [144] |
The Grey Fox | 28 | [145] | |
1983 | Local Hero | 41 | [146] |
1984 | Broadway Danny Rose | 29 | [147] |
Stop Making Sense | 70 | [148] | |
The Terminator | 73 | [149] | |
Sugar Cane Alley | 41 | [150] | |
Threads | 15 | [151] | |
1985 | A Room with a View | 37 | [152] |
My Life as a Dog | 34 | [153] | |
Shoah | 37 | [154] | |
Tampopo | 58 | [155] | |
Vagabond | 25 | [156] | |
1987 | Law of Desire | 13 | [157] |
1988 | Grave of the Fireflies | 50 | [158] |
1989 | A Grand Day Out | 21 | [159] |
Roger & Me | 31 | [160] |
Year | Name | No. of reviews | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 28 | [161] |
The Juniper Tree | 22 | [162] | |
1991 | La Belle Noiseuse | 28 | [163] |
Rambling Rose | 22 | [164] | |
A Brighter Summer Day | 26 | [165] | |
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 33 | [166] | |
Only Yesterday | 63 | [167] | |
1992 | Rebels of the Neon God | 34 | [168] |
Incident at Oglala | 20 | [169] | |
Passion Fish | 26 | [170] | |
1993 | The Wrong Trousers | 28 | [171] |
1994 | Three Colours: Red | 63 | [172] |
Sátántangó | 26 | [173] | |
1995 | Before Sunrise | 51 | [174] |
Maborosi | 24 | [175] | |
Toy Story | 159 | [176] | |
Forgotten Silver | 10 | [177] | |
A Close Shave | 21 | [178] | |
1996 | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | 27 | [179] |
1997 | 4 Little Girls | 26 | [180] |
1999 | Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. | 42 | [181] |
My Voyage to Italy | 20 | [182] | |
Yana's Friends | 30 | [183] | |
Toy Story 2 | 173 | [184] |
Year | Name | No. of reviews | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
2000 | Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker | 10 | [185] |
2002 | Hukkle | 32 | [186] |
2004 | Take Out | 27 | [187] |
Twist of Faith | 20 | [188] | |
Live-In Maid | 33 | [189] | |
2005 | Street Fight | 22 | [190] |
I for India | 20 | [191] | |
C.R.A.Z.Y. | 32 | [192] | |
2006 | Fireworks Wednesday | 45 | [193] |
Deliver Us from Evil | 71 | [194] | |
Half Moon | 24 | [195] | |
Kenny | 26 | [196] | |
2007 | Taxi to the Dark Side | 93 | [197] |
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer | 31 | [198] | |
Moving Midway | 25 | [199] | |
2008 | The Order of Myths | 32 | [200] |
Pray the Devil Back to Hell | 34 | [201] | |
Man on Wire | 158 | [202] | |
Still Walking | 66 | [203] | |
Sita Sings the Blues | 32 | [204] | |
Dreams with Sharp Teeth | 21 | [205] | |
2009 | Afghan Star | 62 | [206] |
Last Train Home | 56 | [207] | |
Passing Strange | 26 | [208] | |
Racing Dreams | 25 | [209] | |
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno | 29 | [210] |