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Ranking The Best Movies By Annapurna Pictures

“What are Annapurna Pictures Best Movies?” We looked at all of Annapurna’s filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!

We took all of the Annapurna Picture Movies and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, Metacritic, Metacritic User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same company. The process is very scientific.

The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page. We will update the article if/when a new movie by Annapurna is released. Although it probably won’t be immediate so the scores on each site have time to settle and aren’t overly influenced by the early, usually much more opinionated, users.

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The Top Film’s Of Annapurna Pictures



19 ) The Bad Batch (2016) directed by Ana Lily Amirpour

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 19
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 17
  • Metacritic User Score: 18
  • IMDB User Review Score: 18
  • Letterboxd User Score: 18

In a desert wasteland in Texas, a muscled cannibal breaks one important rule: don’t play with your food.

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18 ) Spring Breakers (2013) directed by Harmony Korine

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 16
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 18
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 16
  • Metacritic User Score: 15
  • IMDB User Review Score: 18
  • Letterboxd User Score: 16

After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.

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17 ) Wiener-Dog (2017) directed by Todd Solondz

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 14
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 17
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 13
  • Metacritic User Score: 16
  • IMDB User Review Score: 17
  • Letterboxd User Score: 15

Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road trip picking up some depressed mariachis along the way. Wiener-Dog then encounters a floundering film professor, as well as an embittered elderly woman and her needy granddaughter—all longing for something more.

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15 ) Joy (2013) directed by David O. Russell

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 18
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 13
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 19
  • Metacritic User Score: 11
  • IMDB User Review Score: 12
  • Letterboxd User Score: 16

A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs.

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15 ) Sausage Party (2016) directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 11
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 15
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 13
  • Metacritic User Score: 17
  • IMDB User Review Score: 15
  • Letterboxd User Score: 18

Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.

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14 ) Killing Them Softly (2017) directed by Andrew Dominik

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 15
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 16
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 15
  • Metacritic User Score: 14
  • IMDB User Review Score: 15
  • Letterboxd User Score: 13

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

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13 ) Brad’s Status (2014) directed by Mike White

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 13
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 11
  • Metacritic User Score: 7
  • IMDB User Review Score: 12
  • Letterboxd User Score: 13

Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, things aren’t quite what he imagined during his college glory days. When he accompanies his musical prodigy son on a university tour, he can’t help comparing his life with those of his four best college friends who seemingly have more wealthy and glamorous lives. But when circumstances force him to reconnect with his former friends, Brad begins to question whether he has really failed or if their lives are actually more flawed than they appear.

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12 ) The Grandmaster (2015) directed by Wong Kar Wai

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 12
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 10
  • Metacritic User Score: 10
  • IMDB User Review Score: 14
  • Letterboxd User Score: 10

Ip Man’s peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family’s honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.

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11 ) Lawless (2017) directed by John Hillcoat

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 16
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 18
  • Metacritic User Score: 2
  • IMDB User Review Score: 7
  • Letterboxd User Score: 11

Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.

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10 ) Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2012) directed by Angela Robinson

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 12
  • Metacritic User Score: 19
  • IMDB User Review Score: 7
  • Letterboxd User Score: 5

The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.

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9 ) Everybody Wants Some!! (2017) directed by Richard Linklater

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 6
  • Metacritic User Score: 7
  • IMDB User Review Score: 10
  • Letterboxd User Score: 8

A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

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8 ) Foxcatcher (2012) directed by Bennett Miller

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 8
  • Metacritic User Score: 5
  • IMDB User Review Score: 10
  • Letterboxd User Score: 9

The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul – a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

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7 ) Detroit (2013) directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 9
  • Metacritic User Score: 13
  • IMDB User Review Score: 3
  • Letterboxd User Score: 5

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens’ uprisings in the history of the United States.

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6 ) The Master (2012) directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 5
  • Metacritic User Score: 4
  • IMDB User Review Score: 9
  • Letterboxd User Score: 4

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new “religion” he forms after World War II.

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5 ) 20th Century Women (2016) directed by Mike Mills

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 6
  • Metacritic User Score: 5
  • IMDB User Review Score: 3
  • Letterboxd User Score: 3

In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields’ home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie’s upbringing.

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4 ) American Hustle (2013) directed by David O. Russell

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 3
  • Metacritic User Score: 3
  • IMDB User Review Score: 6
  • Letterboxd User Score: 11

A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

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3 ) Zero Dark Thirty (2016) directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 1
  • Metacritic User Score: 9
  • IMDB User Review Score: 3
  • Letterboxd User Score: 5

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

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2 ) Phantom Thread (2017) directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 2
  • Metacritic User Score: 11
  • IMDB User Review Score: 1
  • Letterboxd User Score: 1

In the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.

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1 ) Her (2012) directed by Spike Jonze

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 3
  • Metacritic User Score: 1
  • IMDB User Review Score: 2
  • Letterboxd User Score: 2

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user’s every needs. To Theodore’s surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

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Annapurna Pictures Best Movies


Annapurna Pictures Review Website Filmography Rankings

Film RT Critic RT User MC Critic MC User IMDB Letterboxd Overal Rank
Her 1 1 3 1 2 2 1
Phantom Thread 3 8 2 11 1 1 2
Zero Dark Thirty 4 2 1 9 3 5 3
American Hustle 2 5 3 3 6 11 4
20th Century Women 5 7 6 5 3 3 5
The Master 9 11 5 4 9 4 6
Detroit 10 3 9 13 3 5 7
Foxcatcher 6 10 8 5 10 9 8
Everybody Wants Some!! 7 9 6 7 10 8 9
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women 7 3 12 19 7 5 10
Lawless 16 5 18 2 7 11 11
The Grandmaster 13 12 10 10 14 10 12
Brad’s Status 12 13 11 7 12 13 13
Killing Them Softly 15 16 15 14 15 13 14
Joy 18 13 19 11 12 16 15
Sausage Party 11 15 13 17 15 18 15
Wiener-Dog 14 17 13 16 17 15 17
Spring Breakers 16 18 16 15 18 16 18
The Bad Batch 19 19 17 18 18 18 19