Ranking All Of Director Wes Anderson’s Movies
“What are Wes Anderson’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Anderson’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Wes Anderson 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. We will update the article if/when a new movie by Wes Anderson 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.
Happy Viewing!
The Top Film’s Of Wes Anderson
8 ) The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other — to become brothers again like they used to be. Their “spiritual quest”, however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).
7 ) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary film maker Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a tough life crisis as he attempts to make a new film about capturing the creature that caused him pain.
6 ) Bottle Rocket (1996)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 7
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.
5 ) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary — all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father’s fault. “The Royal Tenenbaums” is the story of the family’s sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
4 ) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
3 ) Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
2 ) Rushmore (1998)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max’s new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
1 ) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Wes Anderson’s Best Movies
Wes Anderson Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Rushmore | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Moonrise Kingdom | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| The Royal Tenenbaums | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Bottle Rocket | 5 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| The Darjeeling Limited | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 |
