Monkey Movies of the Past 25 Years, Ranked

by Lance Cartelli, for Metacritic – March 23, 2017

Updated July 19, 2017 to add War for the Planet of the Apes.

Monkey movies are making a comeback.

With two big-time movies starring primates—Kong: Skull Island and War for the Planet of the Apes—bowing in 2017, we thought it was time to rank all of the monkey movies of the past 25 years by Metascore.