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.
In 1982, director Amy Heckerling and writer Cameron Crowe turned Crowe's book of the same name into a classic high school comedy with a cast filled with future stars like Nicolas Cage, Anthony Edwards, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Sean Penn. The latter plays surfer Jeff Spicoli, one of the most iconic on-screen stoners in cinema history.
“Sean Penn's scenes are still so stunning...His Jeff Spicoli is an unabashed kick every second he is on the screen.” —Brad Laidman, Film Threat
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