This Is the Best R-Rated Movie Ever Made

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Most films released today are R-rated movies. In fact, it was reported in 2018 that out of 29,791 films rated by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) since 1968, 17,202 were rated R.

To pick the best R-rated movie ever made, 24/7 Tempo reviewed a database of over 17,000 movies and calculated an index of each movie’s rating on IMDb and its audience score and Tomatometer scores on Rotten Tomatoes.

IMDb is an online movie database owned by Amazon. Rotten Tomatoes is an online movie and TV review aggregator. Domestic box office figures came from The Numbers, an online movie database owned by consulting firm Nash Information Services, last updated in April 2021. Box office figures are not inflation adjusted. Casting and other supplemental data comes from IMDb.

It is no coincidence that many cinematic classics also happen to be rated R. Obvious examples include “The Godfather,” “Pulp Fiction” and “Raging Bull,” to name just a few. Not just adored by critics and audiences alike, at least some of the films we looked at also performed quite well at the box office.
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The best R-rated movie of all time is “The Godfather.” Here are the details:

  • Combined score: 2.95 (highest out of 17,276)
  • Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
  • Domestic box office: $135.0 million
  • Genre: Crime, Drama

Click here to read about all the best R-rated movies ever made.
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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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