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All Fox Searchlight Movies Ranked By Tomatometer

1994: A pretty good year to start a boutique movie label. Not only were the likes of Forrest Gump and Lion King keeping theaters packed, but the financial success of Pulp Fiction and Clerks cast open a new generational taste for cinema that played harder, had some attitude, and came from different places — across the ocean, or at least New Jersey. The sense of a new era being ushered in led to the founding of an independent-minded company embedded in a major: Fox Searchlight.

Their first movie, 1995’s The Brothers McMullen, did what seemed like was going to be the industry standard: Make $10 million off a 5-figure budget. Of course, that wasn’t the case (what gives, Titus?), but there were enough early word-of-mouth sensations like The Full Monty, Waking Ned Divine, Sexy Beast, and Super Troopers to mark Fox Searchlight a force to reckon with in distinguished adult’s entertainment.

If you screened a montage of Fox Searchlight’s past achievements (with The Shins’ playing softly on the soundtrack), you’d see them revival of the zombie genre (28 Days Later, setting the comedy world on fire (Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno), winning their first Best Picture (Slumdog Millionaire) of four (12 Years a Slave, Birdman, Shape of Water), and even give us a new, er, appreciation on the performing arts (The Wrestler, Black Swan).

Now under Disney, the studio recently released the Certified Fresh Ready or Not, and have Jojo Rabbit, Lucy in the Sky, and A Hidden Life lined up for the rest of 2019. Next year, expect new works from Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch), Armando Iannucci (The Personal History of David Copperfield), and more. Until then, read on to see every Fox Searchlight movie ever ranked by Tomatometer! —Alex Vo