The Golden Tomato Awards

Rotten Tomatoes (the wonderful website that compiles every critics reviews and shows percentages of positive and negative reviews) has listed its year end tally for the best reviewed films of the year. Its an interesting list, where some big Oscar contenders are MIA, and some smaller or forgotten films place near the top. Here are the top 5 in each catagory of film - and listed to the right is the percentage of POSITIVE reviews:

BEST REVIEWED DRAMA
1 - THE WRESTLER - 99% positive
2 - Slumdog Millionaire - 94%
3 - Milk - 93%
4 - The Visitor - 92%
5 - Frost/Nixon - 91%

BEST REVIEWED ACTION/ADVENTURE
1 - THE DARK KNIGHT - 94% positive
2 - Iron Man - 93%
3 - JCVD - 87%
4 - The Bank Job - 78%
5 - Indiana Jones and the .... - 76%

BEST REVIEWED COMEDY
1 - HAPPY GO LUCKY - 94% positive
2 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 85%
3 - Tropic Thunder - 83%
4 - In Bruges - 81%
5 - Burn After Reading - 79%

BEST REVIEWED HORROR
1 - TEETH - 82% positive
2 - Cloverfield - 77%
3 - Baghead - 76%
4 - Diary of the Dead - 68%
5 - Quarantine - 60%

BEST REVIEWED ANIMATION
1 - WALL-E - 96% positive
2 - Kung Fu Panda - 88%
3 - Bolt - 85%
4 - Chicago 10 - 79%
5 - Horton Hears a Who - 78%

BEST REVIEWED DOCUMENTARY
1 - MAN ON WIRE - 100% positive
2 - Taxi to the Dark Side - 99%
3 - Bigger Stronger Faster - 97%
4 - Trouble in the Water - 97%
5 - My Winnipeg - 95%

BEST REVIEWED FOREIGN FILM
1 - THE BANDS VISIT - 98% positive
2 - 4 Months, 3 weeks, and 2 days - 97%
3 - Let The Right One In - 97%
4 - Counterfeiters - 94%
5 - Tell No One - 93%

BEST REVIEWED MUSICAL
1 - REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA - 68% positive
2 - High School Musical 3 - 67%
3 - Cadillac Records - 66%
4 - Hamlet 2 - 63%
5 - Mamma Mia - 53%

BEST REVIEWED ROMANCE
1 - VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA - 84%
2 - Ghost Town - 82%
3 - In Search of a Midnight Kiss - 80%
4 - Definately, Maybe - 73%
5 - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - 72%

BEST REVIEWED SCI-FI/FANTASY
1 - HELLBOY II - THE GOLDEN ARMY - 88% positive
2 - The Spiderwick Chronicles - 79&
3 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 71%
4 - Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - 66%
5 - The Forbidden Kingdom - 62%

BEST REVIEWED THRILLER
1 - TRANSIBERIAN - 90% positive
2 - Paranoid Park - 76%
3 - Changeling - 74%
4 - Stuck - 59%
5 - Eden Lake - 58%