NOTE: For this list, we only looked at films with over 30 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes to find films that critics have given a true positive consensus. Films with the same RT score are ordered by the number of total reviews
- She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, 2014 (RT score 93%)
The story of the forgotten foundations of the U.S. women’s movement, featuring interviews with all the key players.
- Indie Game: The Movie, 2012 (RT score 94%)
A Sundance favorite that followed the development of iconic independent games Super Meat Boy, Fez and Braid.
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, 2008 (RT score 94%)
A cinematic scrapbook to the son of a father who was murdered, written, produced, directed, shot, edited and with music composed by one person.
- Best Worst Movie, 2009 (RT score 94%)
The story of the notoriously bad film Troll 2, directed by a child star who appeared in the film.
- Janis: Little Girl Blue, 2015 (RT score 94%)
The story of the rise and sad fall of one of the voices of the ’60s, Janis Joplin.
- 20,000 Days on Earth, 2014 (RT score 95%)
A semi-fictional account of a day in the life of legendary Australian gloom-monger Nick Cave.
- Gimme Danger, 2016 (RT score 95%)
A music doc about the career of punk legends Iggy Pop and The Stooges, told by Only Lovers Left Alive and Paterson director Jim Jarmusch.
- The Imposter, 2012 (RT score 95%)
A visually inventive take on the stranger than fiction story of a 20-year old French man who pretended to be an abducted 13-year-old American.
- The Queen of Versailles, 2012 (RT score 95%)
Director Lauren Greenfield’s look at the construction of America’s biggest house and the impact of the financial crash on the super-wealthy.
- The Act of Killing, 2012 (RT score 95%)
A uniquely harrowing blend of a musical and documentary that saw perpetrators on the Indonesian genocide recreating their own crimes in golden age Hollywood-inspired vignettes.
- Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, 2012 (RT score 96%)
A look behind the MoMA exhibition that invited people to sit opposite the Serbian performance artist.
- Particle Fever, 2013 (RT score 96%)
A trip behind the scenes of the first experiments using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
- The Look of Silence, 2014 (RT score 96%)
A companion piece to The Act of Killing that sees a man confronting the killers under the pretense of giving them an eye exam.
- Making Waves : The Art of Cinematic Sound, 2019 (RT score 97%)
A visual guide to the people behind the sound design of some of the world’s most famous films.
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening, 2018 (RT score 97%)
An experimental portrait of an Alabama community that turns the everyday moment into art.
- Finders Keepers, 2015 (RT score 98%)
The bizarre true story about the legal wrangling over a mummified leg between the person whose leg it was and a woman who found it at an auction.
- The Last Waltz, 1978 (RT score 98%)
Martin Scorsese’s recording of the legendary final concert of The Band plus special guests including Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton and Neil Young.
- One Child Nation, 2019 (RT score 98%)
A doc that tries to find ’the truth behind the propaganda’ of China’s former one-child policy.
- City of Ghosts, 2017 (RT score 98%)
An eye-opening look at activist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently after ISIS takes over their homeland.
- Time, 2020 (RT score 98%)
A meditative movie about one’s woman’s quest to find justice for her incarcerated husband.
- I Am Not Your Negro, 2016 (RT score 99%)
The Oscar-nominated film telling the history of American racism through the eyes of author James Baldwin.
- Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno, 2009 (RT score 100%)
A reconstruction of the Diabolique director’s unfinished 1964 film, made after the director has trapped in a lift with the director’s wife for two hours.
- Stop Making Sense, 1984 (RT score 100%)
David Byrne and his big suit take to the stage with the rest of the Talking Heads in the ultimate concert film.
- The Square, 2013 (RT score 100%)
The Emmy-winning story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and how it played out over the subsequent two years.
- Taxi to the Dark Side, 2007 (RT score 100%)
The shocking Oscar winning film from Alex Gibney about an Afghan taxi driver killed by American soldiers.
