25 Definitively Best Movies EVER (According To Critics AND Fans)

11. Modern Times (1936)

Score: 92

There's probably some temptation to believe that Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times makes this list because of its perceived historial importance (and that of Chaplin himself as a film icon), rather than based on pure merit. The fact that the film's Letterboxd and IMDB scores (two primarily driven by fans) are slightly lower than the others suggests further that there may be an element of that, but Modern Times is undoubtedly a cinematic great.

WIdely acknowledged as the best of Chaplin's career, Modern Times is often most-known for the insane sequence that sees Chaplin's Little Tramp riding cogs in a giant factory machine, but it's so much more than a single stunt. It's one of his most overly politically charged movies, it's funny and charming and it's inventive. In a time defined by technological over-reaching, it's also still entirely pertinent as an anxiety piece on modernism.

Rotten Tomatoes: 100 Audience: 95 IMDB: 85 Letterboxd: 85 Metascore: 96