The 10 Most Underrated Movies of the Last 10 Years

There’s nothing the internet loves more than turning a large group of subjective opinions into something that looks like a consensus. Take a bunch of reviews, assign each a numerical value, average it out, and boom — suddenly art is now math.

Of course, not even the most widely beloved movie in history is widely beloved by every single person on the planet. Somewhere out there is a cinephile who hates The Godfather. And on the flip side of the equation, just because nine people agree that a film is a piece of junk, that does not mean there isn’t a tenth person who thinks that same movie is actually pretty good.

Hello, I am that tenth person.  And today, I’m offering my picks for the ten most underrated films of the last ten years. In terms of methodology, I decided to determine how a film was “rated” by looking at its score on the movie social media app Letterboxd. Every title on that site is rated on a five-star scale; anything over a 3.0 would be considered “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes.

That would make anything under that mark “rotten,” or a mixed to negative response. The ten films below almost all fall into that category — but would all receive much higher and more positive ratings from me. That’s why I’m going to bat for them today here at ScreenCrush. If you missed any of them the first time around because you heard nothing but bad things about them, well, that is no longer true.

10 More Underrated Movies of the Last 10 Years: Avengement, Bad Trip, Blockers, Bridge of Spies, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Hit Man, MacGruber, Spotlight, The Walk.