“What are Ben Wheatley’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Wheatley’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!

We took all of the movies directed by Ben Wheatley 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.

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The Top Film’s Of Ben Wheatley

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7 ) The ABCs of Death (2012)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
• Metacritc Critic Score: 7
• Metacritic User Score: 7
• IMDB User Review Score: 7
• Letterboxd User Score: 7

An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world’s leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children’s educational ABC books, the motion picture is comprised of 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of th

e alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death. Provocative, shocking, funny and ultimately confrontational; THE ABC’s OF DEATH is the definitive snapshot of the diversity of modern horror.

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6 ) High-Rise (2015)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
• Metacritc Critic Score: 5
• Metacritic User Score: 6
• IMDB User Review Score: 6
• Letterboxd User Score: 6

Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.

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5 ) Free Fire (2016)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
• Metacritc Critic Score: 6
• Metacritic User Score: 2
• IMDB User Review Score: 3
• Letterboxd User Score: 4

A crime drama set in 1970s Boston, about a gun sale which goes wrong.

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4 ) Kill List (2011)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
• Metacritc Critic Score: 4
• Metacritic User Score: 2
• IMDB User Review Score: 3
• Letterboxd User Score: 1

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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3 ) Down Terrace (2009)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
• Metacritc Critic Score: 3
• Metacritic User Score: 5
• IMDB User Review Score: 1
• Letterboxd User Score: 2

After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the “family business” is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren’t feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in..

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2 ) A Field in England (2013)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
• Metacritc Critic Score: 1
• Metacritic User Score: 1
• IMDB User Review Score: 5
• Letterboxd User Score: 4

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

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1 ) Sightseers (2012)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
• Metacritc Critic Score: 2
• Metacritic User Score: 4
• IMDB User Review Score: 1
• Letterboxd User Score: 2

Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.

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Ben Wheatley’s Best Movies

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Ben Wheatley Review Website Filmography Rankings

Film	RT Critic	RT User	MC Critic	MC User	IMDB	Letterboxd	Overal Rank
Sightseers (2012)	2	1	2	4	1	2	1
A Field in England (2013)	1	3	1	1	5	4	2
Down Terrace (2009)	3	2	3	5	1	2	3
Kill List (2011)	4	3	4	2	3	1	4
Free Fire (2016)	5	5	6	2	3	4	5
High-Rise (2015)	6	6	5	6	6	6	6
The ABCs of Death (2012)	7	7	7	7	7	7	7