Ranking All Of Director Todd Haynes’s Movies
“What are Todd Haynes Best Movies?” We looked at all of Haynes’ directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Todd Haynes 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 Todd Haynes 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 Todd Haynes
7 ) Wonderstruck (2017)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
6 ) Poison (1991)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In “Hero,” Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. After the event, a documentary in cheesy lurid colors asks what Richie was like and what led up to the shooting. In the black and white “Horror,” a scientist isolates the elixir of human sexuality, drinks it, and becomes a festering, contagious murderer; a female colleague who loves him tries to help, to her peril. In “Homo,” a prisoner in Fontenal prison is drawn to an inmate whom he knew some years before, at Baton juvenile institute, and whose humiliations he witnessed.
5 ) I’m Not There (2007)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
4 ) Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 7
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowiesque glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Slade. Stuart, himself forged by the music of the 1970s, explores the larger-than-life stars who were once his idols and what has become of them since the turn of the new decade.
2 ) Safe (1995)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. She “doesn’t feel right,” has unexplained headaches, congestion, a dry cough, nosebleeds, vomiting, and trouble breathing. Her family doctor treats her concerns dismissively and suggests a psychiatrist. Eventually, an allergist tells her that she has Environmental Illness.
2 ) Carol (2015)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
1 ) Far from Heaven (2002)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Todd Haynes’s Best Movies
Todd Haynes Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Far from Heaven | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Carol | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Safe | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Velvet Goldmine | 7 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| I’m Not There | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Poison | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Wonderstruck | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
