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Best Movies of 1992, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
65 films from 1992 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Reservoir Dogs ('1992), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Chaplin, 7.5 on IMDb against 47 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reservoir Dogs '1992 | Crime / Thriller | 8.2 | 90% | 81 | 8.1 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2 | Unforgiven '1992 | Western | 8.2 | 96% | 85 | 7.9 | Clint Eastwood |
| 3 | Aladdin '1992 | Animation / Fantasy / Romance | 8.0 | 96% | 86 | 7.7 | Ron Clements |
| 4 | Scent of a Woman '1992 | Drama | 8.0 | 82% | 57 | 7.8 | Martin Brest |
| 5 | A Few Good Men '1992 | Drama | 7.8 | 85% | 62 | 7.6 | Rob Reiner |
| 6 | Baraka '1992 | Documentary | 8.5 | 85% | 74 | 8.2 | Ron Fricke |
| 7 | The Last of the Mohicans '1992 | War / Drama | 7.6 | 88% | 76 | 7.4 | Michael Mann |
| 8 | Porco Rosso '1992 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.7 | 96% | 83 | 7.8 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 9 | My Cousin Vinny '1992 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 85% | 68 | 7.5 | Jonathan Lynn |
| 10 | Malcolm X '1992 | Drama | 7.7 | 89% | 73 | 7.5 | Spike Lee |
| 11 | The Muppet Christmas Carol '1992 | Musical / Comedy / Fantasy / Drama | 7.8 | 78% | 64 | 7.5 | Brian Henson |
| 12 | Glengarry Glen Ross '1992 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 95% | 84 | 7.3 | James Foley |
| 13 | Bram Stoker's Dracula '1992 | Romance / Horror | 7.4 | 69% | 57 | 7.4 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 14 | Army of Darkness '1992 | Fantasy / Horror / Comedy | 7.4 | 68% | 59 | 7.3 | Sam Raimi |
| 15 | Hard Boiled '1992 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.7 | 92% | 86 | 7.5 | John Woo |
| 16 | A League of Their Own '1992 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 82% | 69 | 7.2 | Penny Marshall |
| 17 | Braindead '1992 | Horror / Comedy | 7.4 | 89% | 54 | 7.4 | Peter Jackson |
| 18 | The Player '1992 | Mystery / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 97% | 86 | 7.2 | Robert Altman |
| 19 | Chaplin '1992 | Drama | 7.5 | 62% | 47 | 7.4 | Richard Attenborough |
| 20 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me '1992 | Drama / Mystery / Horror | 7.3 | 67% | 46 | 7.4 | David Lynch |
| 21 | Batman Returns '1992 | Action / Fantasy | 7.1 | 81% | 68 | 7.0 | Tim Burton |
| 22 | Of Mice and Men '1992 | Drama | 7.4 | 97% | 73 | 7.2 | Gary Sinise |
| 23 | Basic Instinct '1992 | Thriller / Mystery | 7.1 | 56% | 43 | 7.0 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 24 | Man Bites Dog '1992 | Comedy / Crime | 7.4 | 68% | 67 | 7.2 | Rémy Belvaux |
| 25 | A River Runs Through It '1992 | Drama | 7.2 | 80% | 68 | 7.0 | Robert Redford |
| 26 | The Crying Game '1992 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.2 | 95% | 90 | 6.8 | Neil Jordan |
| 27 | Bitter Moon '1992 | Thriller / Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 64% | 62 | 7.1 | Roman Polanski |
| 28 | Sneakers '1992 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 80% | 65 | 6.9 | Phil Alden Robinson |
| 29 | Wayne's World '1992 | Comedy / Musical | 7.0 | 79% | 57 | 6.7 | Penelope Spheeris |
| 30 | Home Alone 2: Lost in New York '1992 | Comedy | 6.9 | 35% | 46 | 6.8 | Chris Columbus |
| 31 | Bad Lieutenant '1992 | Crime / Drama | 7.0 | 78% | 70 | 7.0 | Abel Ferrara |
| 32 | Patriot Games '1992 | Drama / Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.9 | 72% | 64 | 6.7 | Phillip Noyce |
| 33 | Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler '1992 | Action / Animation / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Daisuke Nishio |
| 34 | Candyman '1992 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 6.8 | 79% | 61 | 6.7 | Bernard Rose |
| 35 | White Men Can't Jump '1992 | Comedy / Drama | 6.8 | 75% | 65 | 6.7 | Ron Shelton |
| 36 | The Lover '1992 | Drama / Romance | 6.8 | 28% | 59 | 7.0 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| 37 | Damage '1992 | Drama / Romance | 6.7 | 80% | 71 | 6.6 | Louis Malle |
| 38 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle '1992 | Drama / Thriller | 6.7 | 67% | 64 | 6.9 | Curtis Hanson |
| 39 | Death Becomes Her '1992 | Comedy / Fantasy / Horror | 6.7 | - | 56 | 6.8 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 40 | FernGully: The Last Rainforest '1992 | Fantasy / Animation | 6.6 | 67% | 67 | 6.4 | Bill Kroyer |
| 41 | Lethal Weapon 3 '1992 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.7 | 63% | 40 | 6.7 | Richard Donner |
| 42 | Far and Away '1992 | Drama / Romance / Western | 6.6 | 51% | 49 | 6.8 | Ron Howard |
| 43 | The Mighty Ducks '1992 | Comedy / Drama | 6.6 | 27% | 46 | 6.6 | Stephen Herek |
| 44 | Sister Act '1992 | Musical / Comedy | 6.6 | 73% | 51 | 6.8 | Emile Ardolino |
| 45 | 1492: Conquest of Paradise '1992 | Action / Drama | 6.4 | 30% | 47 | 6.3 | Ridley Scott |
| 46 | Single White Female '1992 | Thriller | 6.4 | 53% | 63 | 6.3 | Barbet Schroeder |
| 47 | Forever Young '1992 | Fantasy / Drama / Sci-Fi / Romance | 6.4 | 54% | - | 6.5 | Steve Miner |
| 48 | Under Siege '1992 | Action / Thriller | 6.5 | 83% | 58 | 6.3 | Andrew Davis |
| 49 | Tom and Jerry: The Movie '1992 | Animation / Comedy | 5.5 | 14% | - | 6.3 | Phil Roman |
| 50 | Memoirs of an Invisible Man '1992 | Sci-Fi / Comedy / Romance | 6.0 | 30% | 48 | 5.9 | John Carpenter |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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