As I’ve done in the past, I’ve taken each feature film IMDb counts as a 2014 release and multiplied its IMDb Bayesian average rating times its Rotten Tomatoes critic percentage. Excluded were films with fewer than 2000 ratings, films with fewer than 25 critic reviews, and all documentaries. And so here are the top ~50 films—all with a combined score over 6.0:
Votes IMDb Bayes RT% RT%*B Title ====== ==== ===== === ===== =================================== 11646 8.8 8.635 96 8.290 Whiplash (imdb) 89725 8.4 8.381 98 8.213 Boyhood (imdb) 20608 8.7 8.608 93 8.005 Birdman (imdb) 55829 8.1 8.076 95 7.672 Nightcrawler (imdb) 2236 8.1 7.671 100 7.671 Leviafan (imdb) 171881 7.9 7.893 96 7.577 The Lego Movie (imdb) 18801 8.4 8.315 90 7.483 The Imitation Game (imdb) 222804 8.1 8.094 92 7.446 The Grand Budapest Hotel (imdb) 357306 8.2 8.196 90 7.376 Guardians of the Galaxy (imdb) 325608 8.1 8.096 91 7.367 X-Men: Days of Future Past (imdb) 127592 8.0 7.990 92 7.351 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (imdb) 9183 8.0 7.873 93 7.322 Pride (imdb) 4788 7.7 7.529 97 7.303 Paddington (imdb) 215839 8.3 8.293 88 7.298 Gone Girl (imdb) 10789 8.7 8.531 85 7.251 Kis uykusu (imdb) 5349 8.2 7.965 91 7.248 Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (imdb) 4852 8.3 8.028 90 7.225 Mommy (imdb) 252439 8.0 7.995 90 7.196 Edge of Tomorrow (imdb) 5751 7.9 7.724 93 7.183 What We Do in the Shadows (imdb) 35426 8.2 8.159 88 7.180 Big Hero 6 (imdb) 3817 7.5 7.336 97 7.116 '71 (imdb) 200887 7.8 7.795 91 7.093 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (imdb) 8546 7.5 7.417 94 6.972 Deux jours, une nuit (imdb) 301090 7.8 7.796 89 6.938 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (imdb) 3727 7.0 6.939 97 6.731 Mr. Turner (imdb) 31117 6.9 6.894 97 6.687 The Babadook (imdb) 3913 7.5 7.339 91 6.678 Wild (imdb) 20332 7.5 7.463 89 6.642 Calvary (imdb) 32602 7.7 7.671 85 6.520 John Wick (imdb) 380387 8.9 8.894 73 6.493 Interstellar (imdb) 22221 7.3 7.275 89 6.475 The Drop (imdb) 9861 7.6 7.518 86 6.465 Foxcatcher (imdb) 21628 7.0 6.987 92 6.428 Frank (imdb) 73260 7.3 7.292 88 6.417 Chef (imdb) 148218 8.0 7.991 80 6.393 The Fault in Our Stars (imdb) 4174 7.5 7.347 87 6.392 Still Alice (imdb) 57398 8.1 8.076 79 6.380 The Raid 2: Berandal (imdb) 31704 7.0 6.991 91 6.362 A Most Wanted Man (imdb) 4162 7.3 7.186 87 6.252 The Good Lie (imdb) 2845 7.1 6.999 89 6.229 Top Five (imdb) 15750 7.7 7.641 81 6.189 The Theory of Everything (imdb) 2570 7.5 7.279 85 6.187 Kraftidioten (imdb) 21082 6.8 6.796 91 6.184 The Guest (imdb) 96022 7.9 7.888 78 6.153 Fury (imdb) 8651 7.5 7.418 82 6.083 The Book of Life (imdb) 10267 7.0 6.974 87 6.067 The Skeleton Twins (imdb) 150296 7.2 7.197 84 6.045 22 Jump Street (imdb)
And here are the top documentaries, using the same criteria:
Votes IMDb Bayes RT% RT%*B Title ====== ==== ===== === ===== =================================== 3317 8.1 7.778 98 7.622 Life Itself (imdb) 2927 8.2 7.821 93 7.274 The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (imdb) 3644 7.6 7.408 97 7.186 20,000 Days on Earth (imdb) 2967 7.4 7.226 89 6.431 Bears (imdb) 2969 7.7 7.451 81 6.035 Fed Up (imdb)