Best Movies by Rotten Tomatoes Score

Movies sorted by Rotten Tomatoes score. The freshest and most critically acclaimed films. Our expert curated list features the best picks with streaming links, ratings, and honest reviews. Updated for 2026 with the latest releases and classic favorites.

What are the best movies by rotten tomatoes score?

Our curated list of best movies by rotten tomatoes score features the highest-rated and most popular picks. Updated for 2026 with streaming links.

Last Updated: March 2026
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The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie

2022★ 8.3

When five lovely young girls who hate studying hire part-time tutor Futaro, he guides not only their education but also their hearts. Time spent has brought them all closer, with feelings growing within the girls and Futaro. As they finish their third year of high school and their last school festival approaches, they set their sights on what’s next. Is there a future with one of them and Futaro?

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Violet Evergarden: The Movie

2020★ 8.3

As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.

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Léon: The Professional

1994★ 8.3

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

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We All Loved Each Other So Much

1974★ 8.3

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

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Dedicated to my ex

2019★ 8.3

The film tells the story of Ariel, a 21-year-old who decides to form a rock band to compete for a prize of ten thousand dollars in a musical band contest, this as a last option when trying to get money to save their relationship and reunite with his ex-girlfriend, which breaks due to the trip she must make to Finland for an internship. Ariel with her friend Ortega, decides to make a casting to find the other members of the band, although they do not know nothing about music, thus forming a band with members that have diverse and opposite personalities.

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The Great Dictator

1940★ 8.3

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

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Modern Times

1936★ 8.3

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

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Once Upon a Time in the West

1968★ 8.3

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

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Sunset Boulevard

1950★ 8.3

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

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It's a Wonderful Life

1946★ 8.3

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

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Once Upon a Studio

2023★ 8.3

Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.

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A Brighter Summer Day

1991★ 8.3

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

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The Intouchables

2011★ 8.3

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

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Apocalypse Now

1979★ 8.3

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

2020★ 8.3

With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

1997★ 8.3

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

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Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl

2019★ 8.3

In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.

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Counterattack

2025★ 8.3

When a hostage rescue mission creates a new enemy, Capt. Guerrero and his elite soldiers must face an ambush by a criminal group.

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Given

2020★ 8.3

Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.

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Paths of Glory

1957★ 8.3

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

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