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

We took all of the movies directed by F. Gary Gray 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 F. Gary Gray

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9 ) A Man Apart

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
• Metacritc Critic Score: 8
• Metacritic User Score: 8
• IMDB User Review Score: 8
• Letterboxd User Score: 8

When Vetter’s wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it’s easier said than done when all Vetter can focus on is revenge.

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8 ) Be Cool

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
• Metacritc Critic Score: 6
• Metacritic User Score: 7
• IMDB User Review Score: 9
• Letterboxd User Score: 9

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music exec on the way.

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7 ) The Fate of the Furious

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
• Metacritc Critic Score: 4
• Metacritic User Score: 5
• IMDB User Review Score: 7
• Letterboxd User Score: 7

When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.

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6 ) Set It Off

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
• Metacritc Critic Score: 8
• Metacritic User Score: 8
• IMDB User Review Score: 6
• Letterboxd User Score: 3

Four black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women’s brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin to change and their suspicions of each other increase on the way to a climactic robbery.

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5 ) Law Abiding Citizen

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
• Metacritc Critic Score: 7
• Metacritic User Score: 5
• IMDB User Review Score: 2
• Letterboxd User Score: 5

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family’s killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

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4 ) The Italian Job

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
• Metacritc Critic Score: 2
• Metacritic User Score: 1
• IMDB User Review Score: 5
• Letterboxd User Score: 6

Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn’t plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

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2 ) Friday

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
• Metacritc Critic Score: 5
• Metacritic User Score: 4
• IMDB User Review Score: 3
• Letterboxd User Score: 2

Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.

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2 ) The Negotiator

Review Website Ranks:

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

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he’s being framed for his partner’s murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there’s evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

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1 ) Straight Outta Compton

Review Website Ranks:

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

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

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F. Gary Gray’s Best Movies

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F. Gary Gray Review Website Filmography Rankings

Film	RT Critic	RT User	MC Critic	MC User	IMDB	Letterboxd	Overal Rank
Straight Outta Compton	1	1	1	3	1	1	1
Friday	3	1	5	4	3	2	2
The Negotiator	2	5	3	2	3	3	2
The Italian Job	4	4	2	1	5	6	4
Law Abiding Citizen	8	6	7	5	2	5	5
Set It Off	6	3	8	8	6	3	6
The Fate of the Furious	5	7	4	5	7	7	7
Be Cool	7	9	6	7	9	9	8
A Man Apart	9	8	8	8	8	8	9