How Do I: Choose a Good Movie?

This list could change your viewing life.

If you’re like me, it's getting harder and harder to waste time with bad movies, tv and other consumable media.

Sure, we all have room for an occasional bit of fluff. (I know people who have pools based around Survivor.) But wouldn’t it be awesome to never again mourn the loss of two irreplaceable hours?

Then try this: Rotten Tomatoes’ 200 Freshest Movies of the Last 20 years. RT released the list on its 20th birthday in August of 2018, using this criteria:

“We only included movies that had at least 80 reviews, the number at which wide-release movies qualify for Certified Fresh status. By applying that rule, and limiting the total list to 200 titles, the lowest Tomatometer score you’ll find is 95%. The criteria also meant that no films from 1998 made the cut (Shakespeare in Love did come awfully close).”

Take a skim of the list. It’s arranged chronologically, so skip to the end to see the most recent ones. This is a "cannot miss" list, and it'll make you happy just to read it. Got faves?

P.S. Here's RT's list of 200 ESSENTIAL movies, for those who are always left out of classic movie references, it's a life saver.