Best 2002 Movies

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Best 2002 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 2002 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

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#20. Bowling for Columbine

- Stacker score: 86.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 151,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: Michael Moore
- Actors: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson
- Runtime: 2 hours
- Rating: R
- Box office: $21,576,018

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#19. Chicago

- Stacker score: 87.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 252,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Rob Marshall
- Actors: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere
- Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $170,687,518

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#18. The Quiet American

- Stacker score: 88.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 31,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Phillip Noyce
- Actors: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $12,988,801

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#17. Rabbit-Proof Fence

- Stacker score: 88.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 31,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Phillip Noyce
- Actors: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Kenneth Branagh
- Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $6,199,600

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#16. Whale Rider

- Stacker score: 88.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 45,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Niki Caro
- Actors: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $20,779,666

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#15. Infernal Affairs

- Stacker score: 88.6
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 136,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak
- Actors: Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $169,659

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#14. The Hours

- Stacker score: 88.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 145,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Stephen Daldry
- Actors: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $41,675,994

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#13. Spellbound

- Stacker score: 89.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Jeffrey Blitz
- Actors: Angela Arenivar, Ubaldo Arenivar, Jorge Arenivar
- Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $5,728,581

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#12. Minority Report

- Stacker score: 89.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 608,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Actors: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton
- Runtime: 2 hours 25 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $132,072,926

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#11. Catch Me If You Can

- Stacker score: 89.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 1.2 million)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
- Runtime: 2 hours 21 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $164,615,351

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#10. Far from Heaven

- Stacker score: 89.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 51,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Todd Haynes
- Actors: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $15,901,849

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#9. About Schmidt

- Stacker score: 89.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 137,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Alexander Payne
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney
- Runtime: 2 hours 5 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $65,016,287

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#8. 24 Hour Party People

- Stacker score: 90.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 41,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Michael Winterbottom
- Actors: Steve Coogan, Lennie James, John Thomson
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,184,096

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#7. Sweet Sixteen

- Stacker score: 91.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 16,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Ken Loach
- Actors: Martin Compston, Michelle Coulter, Annmarie Fulton
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $316,319

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#6. The Magdalene Sisters

- Stacker score: 91.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 29,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Peter Mullan
- Actors: Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $4,890,878

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#5. Adaptation.

- Stacker score: 91.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 210,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Spike Jonze
- Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
- Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $22,498,520

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#4. Lilya 4-Ever

- Stacker score: 92.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 53,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Lukas Moodysson
- Actors: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov
- Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $184,023

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#3. Bloody Sunday

- Stacker score: 94.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 26,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Paul Greengrass
- Actors: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $773,228

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#2. The Pianist

- Stacker score: 97.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.5 (votes: 981,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Roman Polanski
- Actors: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
- Runtime: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $32,590,750

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#1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.8 (votes: 1.9 million)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Peter Jackson
- Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
- Runtime: 2 hours 59 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $345,518,923

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