Illinois’ Favorite Movies, Revealed

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) takes the top spot, as the best movie filmed in Illinois, scoring 90.67 out of 100.
The Fugitive (1993) takes the second spot, scoring 87.0 out of 100.
The Shawshank Redemption takes the top spot as the nation’s favourite movie, scoring 92.33 out of 100.

A new study has revealed America’s top-rated films, chosen by both people and critics alike.

The study by AI experts Remove BG, analyzed IMDb ratings, Rotten Tomatoes scores, and Google user scores for movies filmed throughout the United States from 1990 through to the present, averaging out each rating to give a score out of 100.

Illinois‘ top film was found to be 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs, with a score of 90.7 out of 100, followed by The Fugitive and Chicago, released in 1993 and 2002, and scoring 87.0 out of 100, and 81.0 out of 100, respectively.

The top three movies recorded in Illinois, according to IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Google user reviews:

Rank	Movie	Release year	Average score out of 100
1	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	90.7
2	The Fugitive	1993	87.0
3	Chicago	2002	81.0

America’s top ten rated movies, according to IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Google user reviews:

Rank	Movie	Release year	Average score out of 100
1.	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	92.33
2. (=)	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	90.67
2. (=)	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	90.67
4. (=)	GoodFellas	1990	90.33
4. (=)	Saving Private Ryan	1998	90.33
4. (=)	Toy Story 2	1999	90.33
7.	Avengers: Endgame	2019	90.00
8. (=)	Toy Story	1995	89.67
8. (=)	Toy Story 3	2010	89.67
10.	Sling Blade	1996	89.00

In first place is The Shawshank Redemption, with a score of 92.33 out of 100. The 1994 American prison drama directed by Frank Darabont scored 93 on IMDb, 89 on Rotten Tomatoes, and 95 on Google user reviews.

Second place is a two-way tie between Terminator 2: Judgment Day and The Silence of the Lambs, with both movies scoring 90.67 out of 100.

James Cameron’s 1991 sequel to 1984’s The Terminator. Terminator 2: Judgment Day scored 92 on IMDb, 94 on Rotten Tomatoes, and 86 on Google user reviews, averaging out at 90.67 out of 100.

Jonathan Demme’s 1991 psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs also scored 92 on IMDb, 95 on Rotten Tomatoes, and 85 on Google user reviews, for a total score of 90.67 out of 100.

Fourth place is a three-way tie between GoodFellas, Saving Private Ryan, and Toy Story 2. Each movie scored 90.33 out of 100, averaged out between the three review sources.

GoodFellas, the American biographical crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, scored 90 on IMDb, 96 on Rotten Tomatoes, and 85 on Google user reviews, averaging 90.33 out of 100. Notably, GoodFellas is the oldest film to feature in the top ten, originally released in 1990.

Steven Spielberg’s 1998 American war epic Saving Private Ryan scored 91 on IMDb, 94 on Rotten Tomatoes, and 86 on Google user reviews, for a final score of 90.33.

Toy Story 2, a 1999 animated comedy produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Studios, scored 90 on IMDb, 100 on Rotten Tomatoes, and 81 on Google user reviews, averaging 90.33.

In seventh place is Avengers: Endgame, with a score of 90 out of 100. Interestingly, Avengers: Endgame is the most recent movie to feature on the list, released in 2019.

Eighth place is another tie between Toy Story and Toy Story 3, with both movies scoring 89.67 out of 100.

Rounding out the list in tenth place is Sling Blade, the 1998 American drama written, directed by, and starring Billy Bob Thornton, with a score of 89 out of 100.

Interestingly, the lowest-rated movie of any in the list is 2008’s The Happening, scoring just 42 out of 100. The science fiction thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan.

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, and Betty Buckley, and revolves around an inexplicable natural disaster causing mass suicides, and scoring just 50 on IMDb, 17 on Rotten Tomatoes, and 59 on Google user reviews.

Marc Porcar, CEO of Remove Background S.L, commented on the findings, saying,

“The study’s findings showcase some fascinating trends in America’s highest-rated movies. Audiences appear to be drawn to fresh and engaging narratives, reflecting evolving tastes in storytelling.”

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Methodology :

An initial seed list of movies related to each state was generated using IMDb’s advanced title search tool.
The results were filtered to only include movies that were released in 1990 or later and had a minimum of 100,000 ratings on the platform.
Scores for each movie from IMDb, Google User reviews, and Rotten Tomatoes were then collected.
The scores from these three sources were then averaged together to get an average score for each film. Scores were standardized on a scale from 0 to 100, which served as the ranking metric.

The top 50 rated movies, followed by the worst-rated 50 movies filmed in the United States:

Rank	Movie	Release year	IMDb Score out of 100	Rotten Tomatoes score out of 100	Google user score out of 100	Average score out of 100
1.	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	93	89	95	92.33
2. (=)	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	86	91	95	90.67
2. (=)	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	86	95	91	90.67
4. (=)	GoodFellas	1990	87	95	89	90.33
4. (=)	Saving Private Ryan	1998	86	94	91	90.33
4. (=)	Toy Story 2	1999	79	100	92	90.33
7.	Avengers: Endgame	2019	84	94	92	90.00
8. (=)	Toy Story	1995	83	100	86	89.67
8. (=)	Toy Story 3	2010	83	98	88	89.67
10.	Sling Blade	1996	80	97	90	89.00
11. (=)	12 Years a Slave	2013	81	95	91	89.00
11. (=)	The Truman Show	1998	82	94	90	88.67
11. (=)	The Holdovers	2023	79	97	90	88.67
14. (=)	Inside Out	2015	81	98	86	88.33
14. (=)	Fargo	1996	81	95	89	88.33
16.	The Wrestler	2008	79	99	87	88.33
17. (=)	There Will Be Blood	2007	82	91	91	88.00
17. (=)	Django Unchained	2012	85	87	92	88.00
19. (=)	Catch Me If You Can	2002	81	96	86	87.67
19. (=)	The Iron Giant	1999	81	96	86	87.67
19. (=)	Jurassic Park	1993	82	91	90	87.67
22. (=)	Million Dollar Baby	2004	81	90	91	87.33
22. (=)	Knives Out	2019	79	97	86	87.33
22. (=)	The Peanut Butter Falcon	2019	76	95	91	87.33
25. (=)	Fight Club	1999	88	81	92	87.00
25. (=)	The Fugitive	1993	78	96	87	87.00
25. (=)	Spotlight	2015	81	97	83	87.00
25. (=)	Coraline	2009	78	91	92	87.00
25. (=)	Star Trek: First Contact	1996	76	93	92	87.00
25. (=)	Past Lives	2023	78	95	88	87.00
31. (=)	Bowling for Columbine	2002	80	95	85	86.67
31. (=)	Guardians of the Galaxy	2014	80	92	88	86.67
31. (=)	The Bourne Ultimatum	2007	80	92	88	86.67
31. (=)	No Country for Old Men	2007	82	93	85	86.67
31. (=)	Dallas Buyers Club	2013	79	92	89	86.67
36. (=)	Top Gun: Maverick	2022	82	96	81	86.33
36. (=)	Unforgiven	1992	82	96	81	86.33
36. (=)	American Fiction	2023	75	93	91	86.33
36. (=)	Oppenheimer	2023	83	93	83	86.33
36. (=)	Hell or High Water	2016	76	97	86	86.33
36. (=)	Hidden Figures	2016	78	93	88	86.33
42. (=)	Forrest Gump	1994	88	76	94	86.00
42. (=)	The Irishman	2019	78	95	85	86.00
42. (=)	What’s Eating Gilbert Grape	1993	77	90	91	86.00
42. (=)	Dances with Wolves	1990	80	87	91	86.00
42. (=)	Donnie Darko	2001	80	87	91	86.00
47. (=)	The Social Network	2010	78	96	83	85.67
47. (=)	BlacKkKlansman	2018	75	96	86	85.67
47. (=)	Star Trek	2009	79	94	84	85.67
47. (=)	The Green Mile	1999	86	79	92	85.67

Rank	Movie	Release year	IMDb Score out of 100	Rotten Tomatoes score out of 100	Google user score out of 100	Average score out of 100
1.	The Happening	2008	50	17	59	42.00
2.	The 5th Wave	2016	52	17	58	42.33
3.	AVPR: Aliens vs Predator – Requiem	2007	46	12	70	42.67
3.	Wild Wild West	1999	49	16	66	43.67
5.	A Nightmare on Elm Street	2010	52	14	69	45.00
6. (=)	The Watch	2012	57	16	65	46.00
6. (=)	The Counsellor	2013	54	33	51	46.00
8. (=)	Assassin’s Creed	2016	56	19	64	46.33
8. (=)	Transformers: The Last Knight	2017	52	16	71	46.33
8. (=)	Hellboy	2019	53	17	69	46.33
11.	Godzilla	1998	54	20	67	47.00
12.	Transcendence	2014	62	19	61	47.33
13. (=)	Transformers: Age of Extinction	2014	56	18	71	48.33
13. (=)	The Day the Earth Stood Still	2008	55	21	69	48.33
15. (=)	Mirrors	2008	61	15	70	48.67
15. (=)	I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry	2007	59	15	72	48.67
15. (=)	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	2014	58	21	67	48.67
18. (=)	Sucker Punch	2011	61	22	65	49.33
18. (=)	Moonfall	2022	51	35	62	49.33
20. (=)	Evan Almighty	2007	54	24	71	49.67
20. (=)	That’s My Boy	2012	56	21	72	49.67
20. (=)	Baywatch	2017	55	18	76	49.67
20. (=)	I Am Number Four	2011	61	32	56	49.67
24. (=)	Wild Hogs	2007	58	14	78	50.00
24. (=)	Next	2007	62	28	60	50.00
26.	Independence Day: Resurgence	2016	52	29	70	50.33
27. (=)	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	2013	57	29	66	50.67
27. (=)	Remember Me	2010	71	26	55	50.67
27. (=)	Polar	2019	63	20	69	50.67
27. (=)	Identity Thief	2013	57	20	75	50.67
27. (=)	Friday the 13th	2009	55	26	72	51.00
32. (=)	Mr. Deeds	2002	58	22	73	51.00
32. (=)	Hall Pass	2011	59	33	61	51.00
32. (=)	Jurassic World Dominion	2022	56	29	68	51.00
35.	Gothika	2003	58	15	82	51.67
36. (=)	Downsizing	2017	58	47	51	52.00
36. (=)	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	2009	60	19	77	52.00
38. (=)	Dumb and Dumber To	2014	56	30	71	52.33
38. (=)	Along Came Polly	2004	60	27	70	52.33
38. (=)	Suicide Squad	2016	59	26	72	52.33
38.	Home Alone 3	1997	46	35	76	52.33
42. (=)	The Core	2003	55	39	64	52.67
42. (=)	Vacation	2015	62	27	69	52.67
44. (=)	Coyote Ugly	2000	57	23	79	53.00
44. (=)	AVP: Alien vs. Predator	2004	57	21	81	53.00
44. (=)	Jingle All The Way	1996	57	20	82	53.00
45.	Halloween Kills	2021	55	39	66	53.33
46.	Ghost Rider	2007	53	28	80	53.67
47. (=)	Safe Haven	2013	67	13	83	54.33
47. (=)	The Other Woman	2014	60	27	76	54.33

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