Ranking All Of Director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Movies
“What are Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Iñárritu’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato 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. We will update the article if/when a new movie by Alejandro González Iñárritu is released. Although it probably won’t be immediate so the scores on each site have time to settle and aren’t overly influenced by the early, usually much more opinionated, users.
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The Top Film’s Of Alejandro González Iñárritu
11 ) Naran Ja
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
After being invited by Benjamin Millepied to a rehearsal for the L.A Dance Project’s premiere performance, Oscar-nominated director Alejandro G. Iñárritu was inspired to make a video-exercise that documents movement and dance in an experimental way, with a stream of consciousness narrative. The story takes place in a secluded, dusty space and centers around LADP dancer Julia Eichten who seems to be on an eternal search… for herself.
11 ) Detras del dinero
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 11
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
A series of events related to a 100 dollar bill.
10 ) El timbre
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
Film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
9 ) 11’09’’01 – September 11
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.
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8 ) The Hire: Powder Keg
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs tells the Driver about the horrors he saw as a photographer, but he regrets his inability to help war victims. Jacobs answers the driver curiosity about why he is a photographer by saying how his mother taught him to see. He gives the Driver the film needed for a New York Times story and also his dog tags to give to his mother. When they reach the border, they are confronted by a guard who begins to draw arms as Jacobs begins taking pictures, trying to get himself killed. The Driver drives through a hail of gunfire to the border, but finds Jacobs killed by a bullet through the seat. The Driver arrives in America to visit Jacobs’ mother and share the news of him winning the Pulitzer prize and hand over the dog tags, only to discover that she is blind.
7 ) Biutiful
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who’s sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
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6 ) Babel
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
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5 ) Flesh and Sand
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
4 ) 21 Grams
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.
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3 ) The Revenant
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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2 ) Birdman
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
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1 ) Amores perros
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Three different people in Mexico City are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel’s designer pooch disappears into the apartment’s floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a gunshot Rotweiler.
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Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Best Movies
Alejandro González Iñárritu Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Amores perros | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Birdman | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| The Revenant | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| 21 Grams | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Flesh and Sand | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Babel | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| Biutiful | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 |
| The Hire: Powder Keg | 7 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 8 |
| 11’09’’01 – September 11 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| El timbre | 7 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 10 |
| Naran Ja | 7 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 11 |
| Detras del dinero | 7 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
