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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Rotten Tomatoes recently released a new ranking of the 300 best movies ever, but the list is filled with odd surprises when analyzed in detail. The list uses a formula which takes into account a movie's audience score as well as its critical reception. This formula has thrown up plenty of strange choices, and the list is quite unlike any other ranking of the best movies of all time.
Citizen Kane was ranked number one in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list, and it also claimed top spot in the BFI's Sight & Sound poll five times in a row over the course of 40 years. While these are all great movies, it's a little surprising that they outrank Oppenheimer, which is placed at number 199. The Rotten Tomatoes system takes audience opinion into account, so crowd-pleasing blockbusters tend to do well, even if they aren't the types of films which are geared toward awards-season success. This explains how movies from the Mission: Impossible and John Wick franchises place so highly.
7 The Two Towers Is 161 Places Higher Than The Next Best Lord Of The Rings Movie Peter Jackson's three Lord of the Rings movies are usually on an equal footing Close Peter Jackson's brilliant Lord of the Rings trilogy is often regarded as one of the finest film series of all time, and it's not uncommon for all three movies to appear in lists similar to the Rotten Tomatoes top 300. For example, all three movies are in the top 12 of IMDb's Top 250 Movies.
Kubrick's admirers may have expected to see A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon or 2001: A Space Odyssey in the top 300. Many more of Daniel Day-Lewis' best movies wouldn't have looked out of place on the list. There Will Be Blood, In the Name of the Father and Lincoln are all hugely popular with critics and audiences alike, but they clearly aren't quite popular enough. Day-Lewis' presence in a movie is all but a guarantee of quality, but he may not have the kind of general appeal that other actors do, since he focused on standalone dramatic works rather than splashy blockbusters or comedies.
3 There Are No Movies From 2005 2005 is strangely under-represented Close For some reason, 2005 is the only year within the last 40 that doesn't contribute a single movie to the list. Even the lean pandemic years are able to add one or two movies. Recency bias seems to be an issue with the Rotten Tomatoes list, as the 21st century is disproportionately represented, but 2005 is the one year that doesn't benefit from this phenomenon, despite delivering a few films now considered classics.
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