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

4. O.J.: Made In America (2016)

OJ Made In America
ESPN Films

Score: 94

Here you have it, folks: the highest rated documentary of all time. Thanks to film-maker Ezra Edelman's agenda not to have an agenda (something that not all film-makers dealing with such hot-button topics can reasonably claim), Made In America is an incredible achievement in film-making.

It might be a mammoth 7.5 hours long, but the whole process is so thoughtful and intoxicating that you end up wishing there was even more of it. Plus, in the age of binging, run-times now mean precisely nothing on home platforms.

There's a quality in production here that you'd expect from ESPN's 30 For 30 series, but it takes it to another level to create a masterpiece and the definitive take on the infamous OJ Simpson case. It's technical astounding, deeply compelling as a narrative and thoroughly gripping from start to finish, which is made even more impressive by its length.

Rotten Tomatoes: 100 Audience: 97 IMDB: 90 Letterboxd: 89

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