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.
Judd Apatow's 2007 well-received follow-up to The 40-Year-Old Virgin stars Seth Rogen as a slacker accustomed to a life of pot-smoking and hanging out with friends who learns that the much more ambitious woman with whom he recently had a one-night stand (Katherine Heigl) is pregnant with his baby. It remains the director's highest-scoring film.
“Turns out to be not just rude, crude and outrageously funny but a deceptively sophisticated meditation on moral agency -- with pot jokes!” —Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
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