These are the 10 films with the highest Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores set to join Prime Video’s extensive film catalog in May, including some decades-old Oscar winners and recent critical favorites.
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto both won Academy Awards for "Dallas Buyers Club" in 2014. (Photo ... [+]
Documentary I Am Not Your Negro, based on an unfinished manuscript by James Baldwin about racism in the United States and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, is the highest-rated film coming to Prime Video next month with nearly perfect Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores.
Prime Video is adding many award-winning films: Babe, The Quiet Man, Thelma & Louise and Dallas Buyers Club are Oscar winners, while Moonrise Kingdom, True Grit and The Black Stallion are nominees.
Till, a biographical drama following Mamie Till-Bradley, the mother of abducted and killed Black teenager Emmett Till, made waves on the awards circuit this year, earning many awards and nominations for Danielle Deadwyler’s performance (though her Oscar snub was considered shocking by many media outlets).
1. I Am Not Your Negro (2017), May 1 (99% Rotten Tomatoes, 95% Metacritic)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), May 1 (98% Rotten Tomatoes, 92% Metacritic)
- Babe (1995), May 1 (97% Rotten Tomatoes, 83% Metacritic)
- Moonrise Kingdom (2012), May 1 (93% Rotten Tomatoes, 84% Metacritic)
- The Quiet Man (1952), May 1 (91% Rotten Tomatoes, 85% Metacritic)
- (Tie) True Grit (2010), May 1 (95% Rotten Tomatoes, 80% Metacritic)
- (Tie) Till (2022), May 9 (96% Rotten Tomatoes, 79% Metacritic)
- (Tie) The Black Stallion (1979), May 1 (90% Rotten Tomatoes, 84% Metacritic)
- (Tie) Thelma & Louise (1991), May 1 (86% Rotten Tomatoes, 88% Metacritic)
- Dallas Buyers Club (2013), May 1 (92% Rotten Tomatoes, 77% Metacritic)
$254,134,910. That’s how much Babe grossed at the global box office, making it the highest-grossing film on this list.
The Rotten Tomatoes critics score, known as the Tomatometer, is the percentage of critics who have given the film a positive review. A movie with at least 60% positive reviews is given a fresh tomato, while those with a score of less than 60% are given a splat. Metacritic calculates a weighted average of critics’ reviews, assigning different weights to each critic and publication depending on importance or quality. Scores are displayed in green, yellow or red—indicating favorable, mixed or unfavorable reviews—and films with a score of at least 81% are designated as “must-see.” Both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic track user ratings and allow users to write reviews, though these are displayed separately from critics’ scores.
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