Ranking All Of Director Michael Moore’s Movies
“What are Michael Moore’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Moore’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Michael Moore 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 Michael Moore
11 ) Slacker Uprising (2007)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 10
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 11
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
Michael Moore visits colleges in swing states during the 2004 election with a goal to encourage 18–29 year old to vote.
10 ) Canadian Bacon (1995)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 11
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada.
9 ) Michael Moore in TrumpLand (2016)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- Metacritic User Score: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
Oscar-winner Michael Moore dives right into hostile territory with his daring and hilarious one-man show, deep in the heart of TrumpLand in the weeks before the 2016 election.
8 ) The Big One (1997)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their product abroad where labor is cheaper while so many Americans are unemployed, losing their jobs, and would happily be hired by such companies as Nike.
7 ) Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 7
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
6 ) Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
Michael Moore’s provocative documentary explores the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How the fuck did we get here, and how the fuck do we get out?
5 ) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
Michael Moore’s view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
4 ) Where to Invade Next (2015)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
To understand firsthand what the United States of America can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” some to see what they have to offer.
3 ) Roger & Me (1989)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
2 ) Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
Why do 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence? Talking heads yelling from every TV camera blame everything from Satan to video games. But are we that much different from many other countries? What sets us apart? How have we become both the master and victim of such enormous amounts of violence? This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist’s Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old, Bowling for Columbine is a journey through America, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
1 ) Sicko (2007)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
Sicko is a Michael Moore documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who’s main goal is to make profit even if it means losing peoples lives. “The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make” is the business model for health care providers in America.
Michael Moore’s Best Movies
Michael Moore Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Sicko (2007) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Bowling for Columbine (2002) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Roger & Me (1989) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Where to Invade Next (2015) | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 6 |
| Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| The Big One (1997) | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| Michael Moore in TrumpLand (2016) | 9 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| Canadian Bacon (1995) | 11 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
| Slacker Uprising (2007) | 10 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
