Ranking All Of Director Steven Spielberg’s Movies
“What are Steven Spielberg’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Spielberg’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Steven Spielberg and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, Metacritic, Metacritic User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page.
Happy Viewing!
The Top Film’s Of Steven Spielberg
39 ) LA 2017 (1971)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 37
- Metacritc Critic Score: 32
- Metacritic User Score: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 35
- Letterboxd User Score: 39
An extended, feature-length episode of the show The Name of the Game, a pioneering sci-fi/drama series that had a narrative that rotated between three primary characters. Glenn Howard, while driving to a Pollution Summit meeting, falls unconscious and finds himself somehow in the future year 2017 where remaining society lives underground due to contaminated air. Can he somehow return to 1971?
38 ) Something Evil (1972)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 35
- Metacritc Critic Score: 32
- Metacritic User Score: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 39
- Letterboxd User Score: 33
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don’t know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
37 ) Firelight (1964)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 36
- Metacritc Critic Score: 32
- Metacritic User Score: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 37
- Letterboxd User Score: 33
A group of scientists investigate a series of coloured lights in the sky and the subsequent disappearance of people, animals and objects from the fictional American town of Freeport, Arizona.
36 ) 1941 (1979)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 32
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 33
- Metacritc Critic Score: 32
- Metacritic User Score: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 37
- Letterboxd User Score: 37
It’s been six days since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Panic grips California, supposedly the next target of the Japanese forces. Everywhere in California, people are suffering from war nerves. Chaos erupts all over the state. An Army Air Corps Captain, a civilian with a deranged sense of Nationalism, civilian defenders, and a Motor Pool crew all end up chasing a Japanese sub planning to attack LA.
35 ) Savage (1973)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 37
- Metacritc Critic Score: 32
- Metacritic User Score: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 35
- Letterboxd User Score: 31
A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court.
34 ) Amazing Stories (1986)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 37
- Metacritc Critic Score: 32
- Metacritic User Score: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 28
- Letterboxd User Score: 21
A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy and Go to the Head of the Class
33 ) Always (1989)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 28
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 28
- Metacritc Critic Score: 29
- Metacritic User Score: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 32
- Letterboxd User Score: 36
Pete Sandich is a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Pete is introduced to business-like angel who instructs the spectral Pete to pass on his aviation knowledge to his young successor. While doing so, Pete also smoothes the course of romance for his earthly girlfriend who, after several months of grieving, finally falls in love with another man.
32 ) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 18
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 31
- Metacritc Critic Score: 24
- Metacritic User Score: 31
- IMDB User Review Score: 34
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets – led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko – are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. After being captured and then escaping from them, Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend – and Indy’s colleague – Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull’s whereabouts.
31 ) The BFG (2016)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 22
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- Metacritc Critic Score: 23
- Metacritic User Score: 30
- IMDB User Review Score: 32
- Letterboxd User Score: 33
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!
30 ) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 31
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 32
- Metacritc Critic Score: 19
- Metacritic User Score: 22
- IMDB User Review Score: 29
- Letterboxd User Score: 31
Four years after Jurassic Park’s genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards’ natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
29 ) Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 29
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 30
- Metacritc Critic Score: 19
- Metacritic User Score: 22
- IMDB User Review Score: 29
- Letterboxd User Score: 28
Four directors collaborated to remake four episodes of the popular television series ‘The Twilight Zone’ for this movie. The episodes are updated slightly and in color (the television show was in black-and-white), but very true to the originals, where eerie and disturbing situations gradually spin out of control. “A Quality of Mercy”, “Kick the Can”, “It’s a Good Life”, and “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”.
28 ) Night Gallery (1969)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 20
- Metacritc Critic Score: 32
- Metacritic User Score: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 17
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three tales of horror: “The Cemetery,” directed by Boris Sagal; “Eyes,” directed by Steven Spielberg; and “The Escape Route,” directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.
27 ) War of the Worlds (2005)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 22
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 34
- Metacritc Critic Score: 16
- Metacritic User Score: 18
- IMDB User Review Score: 29
- Letterboxd User Score: 30
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
26 ) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 25
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 27
- Metacritc Critic Score: 24
- Metacritic User Score: 27
- IMDB User Review Score: 25
- Letterboxd User Score: 17
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.
25 ) Hook (1991)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 33
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 19
- Metacritc Critic Score: 17
- Metacritic User Score: 21
- IMDB User Review Score: 27
- Letterboxd User Score: 25
The boy who wasn’t supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. But a trip to see Granny Wendy in London, where the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter’s kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland, could lead to a chance at redemption, in this family-oriented fantasy from director Steven Spielberg.
24 ) War Horse (2011)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 21
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 21
- Metacritc Critic Score: 17
- Metacritic User Score: 27
- IMDB User Review Score: 23
- Letterboxd User Score: 28
Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
23 ) Ready Player One (2018)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 27
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 18
- Metacritc Critic Score: 28
- Metacritic User Score: 18
- IMDB User Review Score: 17
- Letterboxd User Score: 25
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
22 ) Amistad (1997)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 20
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 17
- Metacritc Critic Score: 29
- Metacritic User Score: 20
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 25
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
21 ) The Sugarland Express (1974)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 26
- Metacritc Critic Score: 24
- Metacritic User Score: 24
- IMDB User Review Score: 26
- Letterboxd User Score: 21
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
20 ) The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 25
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 21
- Metacritc Critic Score: 21
- Metacritic User Score: 12
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 21
Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of stealing a priceless treasure. Tintin and Snowy, with the help of salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock and bumbling detectives, Thompson and Thomson, travel half the world, one step ahead of their enemies, as Tintin endeavors to find the Unicorn, a sunken ship that may hold a vast fortune, but also an ancient curse.
19 ) Duel (1971)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 12
- Metacritc Critic Score: 32
- Metacritic User Score: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 11
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
18 ) The Terminal (2004)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 30
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 24
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 21
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d’etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he’s stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he’s holding a passport that nobody recognizes. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living – and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant.
17 ) The Post (2017)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 23
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 24
- IMDB User Review Score: 23
- Letterboxd User Score: 17
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
16 ) Empire of the Sun (1987)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 24
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- Metacritc Critic Score: 31
- Metacritic User Score: 11
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirits, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
15 ) Lincoln (2012)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 15
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 17
- IMDB User Review Score: 18
- Letterboxd User Score: 17
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
14 ) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 16
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- Metacritc Critic Score: 12
- Metacritic User Score: 12
- IMDB User Review Score: 14
- Letterboxd User Score: 15
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
13 ) Munich (2005)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 18
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 13
- Metacritc Critic Score: 15
- Metacritic User Score: 10
- IMDB User Review Score: 14
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
12 ) Minority Report (2002)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 15
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 24
- IMDB User Review Score: 11
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
John Anderton is a top ‘Precrime’ cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they’re committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
11 ) Bridge of Spies (2015)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
- Metacritc Critic Score: 10
- Metacritic User Score: 16
- IMDB User Review Score: 14
- Letterboxd User Score: 15
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers’ only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man’s freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
10 ) The Color Purple (1985)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 16
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 12
- Metacritic User Score: 12
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie’s abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing “Mister” Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.
9 ) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 24
- Metacritic User Score: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana must team up with Marcus Brody, Sallah and Elsa Schneider to follow in his father’s footsteps and stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life.
8 ) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 25
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien.
7 ) Jurassic Park (1993)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 21
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
6 ) Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- Metacritc Critic Score: 14
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
5 ) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 12
- IMDB User Review Score: 11
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
4 ) Jaws (1975)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
3 ) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 7
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
2 ) Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
1 ) Schindler’s List (1993)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
