Earlier generations may have had Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert to avail them decide whether to see or skip a picture , but today ’s motion-picture show buffs largely rely onRotten Tomatoes . grant totheLos Angeles Times , 36 per centum of U.S. moviegoers checker in with the popular review internet site — which aggregates hundreds of published plastic film critique to count on “ fresh ” or “ rotten ” scores for motion-picture show and TV shows — before seeing a motion picture . So to discover the twenty-first century ’s best movie so far , IndieWiredove deeply into the Rotten Tomatoes archives , compiling a list of the site ’s " fresh " films of each year since 2000 .
agree to the Rotten Tomatoes data , Jordan Peele’smuch - laudedand ( highly popular)Get Outdominated 2017 ’s plastic film offerings , with a 99 percent positive score out of 295 critical reviews . It scored slightly higher than the year ’s other critically applaud movies , likeThe Big Sick , Dunkirk , Wonder Woman , andLady Bird .
Barry Jenkins ’s Academy Award - winning filmMoonlightwas the top choice of 2016 , with a 98 percentage score reap from 305 reviews . delirious Max : Fury Road , Boyhood , Gravity , andArgowere the “ fresh ” films of 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , and 2012 , severally , according to the internet site ’s rankings . Big dealership films stole a couple of the top spot : Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows — Part 2won 2011,The Dark Knightdominated 2008 , andThe Lord of the Rings : The Two Towerswas 2002 ’s openhanded hit .
Perhaps not astonishingly , Pixar end up dominating the leaning , with 2001’sMonsters Inc. , 2003’sFinding Nemo , 2004’sThe Incredibles , 2007’sRatatouille , 2009’sUp , and 2010’sToy Story 3all beat out animated and non - animated motion-picture show alike in the years they were release . Aardman Animations ’s stop - motion comedyChicken Runwas the only non - Pixar animation to make the list , winning the top spot for 2000 with a score of 97 pct out of 170 reviews . Murderball , a documentary about wheelchair rugby , was the only nonfictional prose celluloid to make the cut , mark an ordinary 98 pct across 138 reviews in 2005 , while 2006 belong to toThe Queen .
While Rotten Tomatoesisn’t alwaysthe most accurate way to determine a film ’s caliber , the ratings do provide a bumpy idea of whether or not professional film critics on the whole wish it .
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