Ranking All Of Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Movies
“What are Yorgos Lanthimos’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Lanthimos’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Yorgos Lanthimos 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 Yorgos Lanthimos
7 ) Kinetta (2005)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
At a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chambermaid, a man obsessed with BMW cars, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly re-enacted struggles between a man and a woman.
6 ) My Best Friend (2001)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
My Best Friend is the outrageous story of two men, friends since childhood, who have spent their lives tormenting one another. It is only when Constantinos discovers Alekos in bed with his wife that their friendship and their respective marriages finally collapse into a death spiral of sex, deceit and irrepressible humor. As events unfold another deception, one concealed by both men’s wives, opens the door to incredible erotic intrigue. Antonis Kafetzopoulos delivers a virtuoso performance in this surrealistic comedy about lies, friendship, love and deadlock
5 ) Alps (2011)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.
4 ) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor’s life in gradually unsettling ways.
3 ) The Lobster (2015)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
2 ) Dogtooth (2009)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence ‘the sea’ refers to a large armchair and ‘zombies’ are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
1 ) The Favourite (2018)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah’s cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen’s favourite.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Best Movies
Yorgos Lanthimos Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| The Favourite (2018) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Dogtooth (2009) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| The Lobster (2015) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Alps (2011) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| My Best Friend (2001) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Kinetta (2005) | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
