The full 200 is sure to prompt comment, and Rotten Tomatoes acknowledges this fact: Johnson (2017)ĥ0 Stranger By The Lake (2014) Sylvia Sims and Dirk Bogarde in the 1961 British movie, Victim (Photo: BFI) Don’t agree with the Rotten Tomatoes list?
Check out the top 50 LGBT movies below.Ĩ BPM (Beats Per Minute) (120 Battements Par Minute) (2017)ġ0 The Handmaiden (Ah-Ga-Ssi) (2016) Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in the 2008 movie, Milk (Photo: Focus Features)ġ2 A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica) (2018)ġ4 All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre) (1999)Ģ0 Mädchen In Uniform (Girls In Uniform) (Maidens In Uniform) (1931)Īlthough shot entirely on iPhone, 2015 movie Tangerine picked up numerous movie awards and critical acclaim (Photo: Magnolia Pictures)ģ0 Cabaret (1972) The Wedding Banquet (1993)ģ9 Appropriate Behavior (2015) The Duke of Burgundy, released 2014Ĥ0 The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (1994)Ĥ5 The Death And Life Of Marsha P. The film was credited with helping to change attitudes towards homosexuality. In it, British movie hearthrob Dirk Bogarde played a closeted lawyer blackmailed for being gay. The oldest movie in the top ten is the groundbreaking 1961 movie, Victim.
The top rated film in a language other than English is French movie, BPM. The top rated documentary is last year’s movie, McQueen, about the fashion designer Alexander McQueen. It’s followed in second place by Can You Ever Forgive Me?, in which Melissa McCarthy plays lesbian writer Lee Israel. You can check out the full list of 200 movies here.Ĭoming out on top is the 2017 Academy Award winner for Best Motion Picture, Moonlight. ‘For example, if you did it purely by Tomatometer, a movie that got ten reviews in 1960 but got 100% would beat a movie like Moonlight, which got 98% but which got hundreds of reviews, so we have to do some sort of accounting for that difference.’ ‘The Adjusted Tomatometer is a kind of inflationary equation that accounts for the average number of reviews for a film in a given year, so we can compare movies across different decades. Joel Meares, the Editor-in-Chief of Rotten Tomatoes, explained this in simpler terms for GSN. ‘The final list was culled from a longlist of hundreds, after which the films were ranked according to the Adjusted Tomatometer, which acts as a kind of inflation adjustment, taking into consideration the Tomatometer score, as well as the number of reviews a film received relative to the average number of reviews for films released that same year.’
Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures ‘To be considered for the list, a movie had to prominently feature gay, lesbian, trans, or queer characters,’ explains Rotten Tomatoes in a blog posting. This is drawn from a collection of movie reviews, and is adjusted depending on whether a movie got a wide or limited release. To get on to the list, movies had to score a high Tomatometer score. The website revealed the list for Pride Month in the United States. Reviews aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes has drawn up a list of its 200 most highly-ranked LGBT movies.