🏆Critic + Audience + Canon — Combined
The definitive movie ranking
We combine critic scores, audience ratings, canonical list appearances, longevity, and cultural impact into one honest composite score.
Critic 30%
Audience 25%
Canon 25%
Longevity 10%
Popularity 10%
20 films
Rank
Film
CriticAudienceCanon
Score
1
Citizen Kane
1941Orson WellesDramaMystery
Critic100
Audience86
Canon100
93
2
The Godfather
1972Francis Ford CoppolaDramaCrime
Critic99
Audience94
Canon93
91
3
Casablanca
1942Michael CurtizDramaRomance
Critic100
Audience89
Canon87
91
4
Seven Samurai
1954Akira KurosawaActionAdventure
Critic99
Audience91
Canon87
90
5
Vertigo
1958Alfred HitchcockMysteryRomance
Critic98
Audience84
Canon93
89
6
Tokyo Story
1953Yasujiro OzuDrama
Critic100
Audience88
Canon87
88
7
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927F.W. MurnauDramaRomance
Critic99
Audience85
Canon80
87
8
Singin' in the Rain
1952Stanley Donen, Gene KellyComedyMusical
Critic100
Audience87
Canon80
87
9
Rear Window
1954Alfred HitchcockMysteryThriller
Critic99
Audience90
Canon73
86
10
Psycho
1960Alfred HitchcockHorrorMystery
Critic97
Audience89
Canon73
85
11
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968Stanley KubrickAdventureSci-Fi
Critic88
Audience86
Canon87
84
12
Apocalypse Now
1979Francis Ford CoppolaDramaWar
Critic96
Audience89
Canon73
83
13
The Godfather Part II
1974Francis Ford CoppolaCrimeDrama
Critic94
Audience93
Canon67
82
14
Schindler's List
1993Steven SpielbergBiographyDrama
Critic96
Audience93
Canon67
81
15
GoodFellas
1990Martin ScorseseBiographyCrime
Critic93
Audience92
Canon60
79
16
Pulp Fiction
1994Quentin TarantinoCrimeDrama
Critic93
Audience93
Canon53
77
17
Mulholland Drive
2001David LynchDramaMystery
Critic84
Audience81
Canon67
73
18
Parasite
2019Bong Joon-hoComedyDrama
Critic98
Audience88
Canon47
73
19
The Dark Knight
2008Christopher NolanActionCrime
Critic89
Audience90
Canon40
71
20
Get Out
2017Jordan PeeleHorrorMystery
Critic91
Audience81
Canon27
64
How we rank films
🍅
Critic Score (30%)
Average of Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and Metacritic score, normalized to 0–100.
👥
Audience Score (25%)
Average of IMDb rating (×10), RT Audience Score, and Metacritic User Score.
🏆
Canon Score (25%)
Appearances on prestigious "greatest ever" lists: AFI Top 100, Sight & Sound, Empire 100, TSPDT, and more.
⏳
Longevity Bonus (10%)
Older films that remain highly rated receive a boost. A film from 1941 still scoring 95 is more remarkable than a 2024 release.