Stoner Movies, Ranked by Metascore
How high do the scores go? In the gallery above, we rank 60* stoner films from cinema history—including the most infamous examples of the genre as well as more obscure titles. (The very concept of "stoner film" is surprisingly malleable, and while we tried to include films that are oft-mentioned as belonging to the genre, you'll likely disagree with a few inclusions or omissions. Also note that we intentionally omitted documentaries in order to keep the list from being unbearably long.)
All of the movies are ranked by Metascore, indicating how much critics liked each film, beginning with the worst-reviewed and building up to the most-acclaimed.
* Our original goal of 420 proved to be too ambitious.
Long one of Metacritic's all-time lowest-scoring films, this 1996 comedy stars Razzie Award-winner Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin as a pair of none-too-bright stoners who are accidentally trapped within a yearlong experiment with a group of scientists. It's the kind of film where Roger Clinton and Patty Hearst show up for no good reason.
“Shore possesses only two talents -- his ability to assume yoga-like positions and fondle his own behind, and his mystifying knack for getting starring roles in bad movies.” —Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
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