Seven Samurai (1954) is the highest rated (100% positive) movie at Rotten Tomatoes, with the highest number of critics (57) voting as such, that is listed as an action movie on the site as of 2015-09.[1]
Mad Max 2 (1981), also known as The Road Warrior, was claimed to be the greatest action film of all time in a poll by Rolling Stone magazine in 2015-01.[10]
Die Hard (1988) is often voted the greatest action film of all time. It is also considered to be a landmark in action film history.[19][20][21]
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is the highest rated movie at Rotten Tomatoes, based on adjusted average over a large voting base (in this case, 300 critics), that is listed as an action movie on the site as of 2015-09.[1]
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) by Miyazaki was ranked at #1 in Time Out's list of top 50 greatest animated films.[26] It is also the highest-ranking animated film in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll for the greatest films of all time.[27]
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) is the highest rated live-action/animated hybrid film on film aggregate Rotten Tomatoes, and has scored an almost perfect rating of 98%.[33] The film was also ranked as the best animated/live action hybrid film by Entertainment Weekly in 2011.[34]
Toy Story (1995) was voted #1 on the "Top 100 Animated Features of All Time" list by the Online Film Critics Society (published March 2003),[37] and was ranked as the greatest animated movie by Moviefone[38] and Total Film.[39]Toy Story 2 (1999) topped a Rotten Tomatoes poll of the 50 "Best Animated Films",[40] ranked #1 on their list of the best kids movies,[41] and ranked #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best animated movies.[42] The original and the sequel hold a perfect 100% score at Rotten Tomatoes.[43][44]
Spirited Away (2001) by Miyazaki is the highest-ranking animation in Empire magazine's "100 Best Films of World Cinema" list[45] and the 2002 Sight & Sound critics' & directors' poll.[46]
Frozen (2013) was called the best animated movie ever by The Celebrity Café.[48] GeekTyrant stated that Frozen is Disney animation and storytelling at its best.[49] A review of the film from Forbes stated "I'm not one to explicitly rank each Disney animated feature in order of qualitative superiority. [...] But if I were to rank the films, Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck's Frozen would be frighteningly close to the top of the list."[50]The Weekly Standard stated that "Frozen is—hands down—the best animated film of all time."[51]
Inside Out (2015) topped Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Animation Movies list with a 98% score based on 301 reviews.[53] The film also has the highest position of a 21st-century film on the site's Top 100 Movies of All Time list at number 13.[54]
Akira (1988) is the highest-ranking animated film on lists of best comic book movies published by Movie Review Query Engine,[75]Film4[76] and Total Film,[77] as well as the highest-ranking comic book adaptation on IGN's top 25 animated movies of all time in 2010,[35] and Complex magazine's Best Animated Movies of All Time list.[78]
Ghost in the Shell (1995) is the highest-ranking film based on a manga comic on Rotten Tomatoes' Comics & Graphic Novels Vs. The Critics list in order of critical approval.[79]
Oldboy (2003) is the highest ranking film based on a manga comic on Empire Magazine's lists of the 500 greatest movies of all time,[80] as well as Empire's The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema list.[81] It is the only comic book adaptation to be named one of the ten best Asian films ever made in a 2008 poll conducted by CNN.[82]
X2 (2003) was voted #1 in Empire Magazine's list of the 20 Greatest Comic Book Movies in 2006.[83]
Spider-Man 2 (2004) was #1 on Rotten Tomatoes' Comix Worst to Best list in 2007.[84]
The Incredibles (2004) was ranked #1 in Time magazine's list of top ten greatest superhero films in 2011.[85] It is also the highest ranking animated superhero film in a reader's poll conducted by Rolling Stone magazine,[86] and on countdown lists published by media outlets such as IGN in 2010,[35] SFX in 2012,[87] The Guardian in 2013,[88] and the Houston Chronicle in 2014.[89]
Death Note (2006) was chosen as the best live-action film based on a manga comic in a Japanese audience poll conducted by the Goo Research online monitor group.[97]
Persepolis (2007) was the highest ranking graphic novel adaptation on a list of best animated movies ever published by Entertainment Weekly.[98]
The Avengers (2012) was ranked #1 in the 2012 edition of SFX's Top 50 Superhero Movies Of All Time list,[87] and the best comic book movie of all time in a list published by Film4 in order of critical approval.[76]
12 Angry Men (1957) was selected as the second-best courtroom drama ever by the American Film Institute during their AFI's 10 Top 10 list[99] and is the highest courtroom drama on Rotten Tomatoes's Top 100 Movies of All Times.[100]
Bowling for Columbine (2002), Michael Moore's controversial documentary relating to gun control and the culture of fear in the United States, heads the list of 20 all-time favorite non-fiction films selected by members of the International Documentary Association (IDA).[106][107]
The Seven Up! series (1964–) was voted as the greatest ever documentary in a Channel 4 poll of the 50 Greatest Documentaries in 2005.[110]
The Last Waltz (1978) is considered one of the greatest concert documentaries ever created, and has been deemed as such by Total Film,[111] Michael Worthington of the Chicago Tribune,[112] and by Rotten Tomatoes, where it holds a 97% favorable rating.[113]
Of the first 250 films in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound poll, some are documentaries. The first five to appear are as follows:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was voted best epic by readers of Total Film in May 2004. It was selected as the best epic movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.[22]
Spirited Away (2001) is the highest-ranking animated film on "The 25 best sci-fi and fantasy films of all time" list published by The Guardian, and the second highest-ranking fantasy film on the list after The Wizard of Oz.[116]
Blade Runner (1982) was voted the best science fiction film by a panel of scientists assembled by the British newspaper The Guardian in 2004.[147] In New Scientist, Blade Runner was voted "all-time favourite science fiction film" in both the staff,[148] and reader's 2008 polls.[149]
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Empire magazine ranks the film on its poll of "500 Greatest Movies of All Time" at #14, the highest ranking Western.