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.
Released in 2011, the final Harold & Kumar feature checks in with the stoner duo (played as always by John Cho and Kal Penn, with the latter taking a break from his job in the Obama White House) seven years after the events of the last film as they accidentally burn down a Christmas tree, run afoul of a Russian gangster, and meet up with a now-magical Neil Patrick Harris—all, for some reason, in 3D. It works much better than it should.
“Think of it as 'Airplane!' with controlled substances.” —Carrie Rickey, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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