Rotten Tomatoes Best Best Pictures

[Dennis Bee]

The list has been updated post-Feb. 25, with The Departed inserted at No. 30, and other various other tweakings amid the rankings. It's still the most arbitrary ranking I've ever seen. We could all go on and on--Marty at 6, It Happened One Night at 23? It's obviously a flawed formula they used.

[Hollywood Z]

The top 80 movies on the imdb looked better than this.

[OscarGuy]

I looked through the list and was amazed at some of the placement...Driving Miss Daisy is better than most of the films above it.

And how the hell are The Best Years of Our Lives, Marty, Wings, An American in Paris and The French Connection among the top 20? Blech.

I must give them props for including Sunrise in the list and happy to see it so high on the list.

[Damien]

Any list that has Marty at number 6 and How Green Was My Valley at 52 is inherently worthless, not to mention all the other rank stupidity on view here.

[FilmFan720]

I just corrected it...my bad.

[dws1982]

American Beauty is listed twice--at 42 and 36. The 36 slot is actually Million Dollar Baby.

[Penelope]

Ok, I've looked at this list 5 times and still don't see Million Dollar Tranny. I can only guess that the powers bestowed upon The Goddess Whose Beauty And Talent Enhances The Universe And Is Known To Mere Mortals As Kate Winslet have erased the memory of that film starring The Agent of Satan, Worshipped By His Minions, And Known To Mere Mortals As Hilary Swank.

[FilmFan720]

Rotten Tomatoes has compiled their ranking of Best Pictures based on the reviews of the film. Here is their convoluted scoring system. It seems to me this hurts modern films, which have more reviews:

" Here's how the Best of the Best Pictures works:
• Each critic from our discrete list gets one vote, all weighted equally.
• A movie must have 10 or more rated reviews to be considered.
• Reviews without ratings are not counted toward the results.
• Because reviews are continually added, manually and otherwise, we have a cutoff date at which new reviews are not counted. This year's cutoff date is 2/12/2007."
• We use a weighted formula (Bayesian) to account for variation in the number of reviews per movie. The winners are determined by the rankings, designated as the "adjusted score," after applying said formula:

(r ÷ (r+m)) × t + (m ÷ (r+m)) × a, with "r" representing the number of rated reviews, "m" the minimum number of reviews needed for a movie to qualify, "t" the Tomatometer score, and "a" the average Tomatometer of all the qualifying movies"

And their list, in backwards order.

79. The Greatest Show on Earth
78. Cimarron
77. The Broadway Melody
76. Cavalcade
75. The Great Ziegfeld
74. Crash
73. The Life of Emile Zola
72. Forrest Gump
71. Around the World in 80 Days
70. A Beautiful Mind
69. Gladiator
68. Dances with Wolves
67. Braveheart
66. Out of Africa
65. Going My Way
64. Driving Miss Daisy
63. Gigi
62. The Sound of Music
61. Tom Jones
60. Titanic
59. Mrs. Miniver
58. Grand Hotel
57. Chariots of Fire
56. Oliver!
55. A Man for All Seasons
54. Chicago
53. The English Patient
52. How Green Was My Valley
51. From Here to Eternity
50. Ordinary People
49. Gentleman's Agreement
48. Gandhi
47. The Apartment
46. Platoon
45. The Last Emporer
44. The Deer Hunter
43. Midnight Cowboy
42. American Beauty
41. Terms of Endearment
40. Ben-Hur
39. Rain Man
38. Kramer vs. Kramer
37. My Fair Lady
36. Million Dollar Baby
35. Rocky
34. You Can't Take It With You
33. Hamlet
32. Shakespeare in Love
31. The Bridge on the River Kwai
30. The Lost Weekend
29. All the King's Men
28. All Quiet on the Western Front
27. Mutiny on the Bounty
26. In the Heat of the Night
25. The Sting
24. Silence of the Lambs
23. It Happened One Night
22. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
21. West Side Story
20. Patton
19. Unforgiven
18. Schindler's List
17. Gone With the Wind
16. The French Connection
15. Amadeus
14. Wings
13. An American in Paris
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
11. Annie Hal
10. Casablanca
9. The Godfather Part II
8. Lawrence of Arabia
7. The Best Years of Our Lives
6. Marty
5. Rebecca
4. Sunrise
3. All About Eve
2. On the Waterfront
1. The Godfather



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