It’s beautiful, beautiful cinema: to mark the release of Netflix’s The Gentlemen, here’s every Guy Ritchie movie ranked by their Rotten Tomatoes score.
Ritchie has proven to be a dab hand at several genres. Since emerging with Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998, he’s mastered the British gangster movie—but he’s also brought his trademark brawny and quick-witted style to all sorts of films, like Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur, and even the live-action Aladdin remake.
However, The Gentlemen marks a significant evolution for the filmmaker. Not only is it a spinoff of his hit 2019 film, but it’s the first time in more than 20 years that he’s been actively and creatively involved in a project stemming from one of his films—oh, and we forgot to mention: it’s a TV show.
With The Gentlemen dropping on Netflix in early March, we’ve taken a look back at Ritchie’s decades-long filmography and ranked all of them by their Rotten Tomatoes score.
Guy Ritchie movies ranked worst to best by Rotten Tomatoes score
While we’ve not included The Gentlemen TV series on this list, you can find out where its movie predecessor ranks alongside the rest of Ritchie’s Rotten Tomatoes scores below.
- The Covenant – 83%
- The Gentlemen – 75%
- Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels – 75%
- Snatch – 74%
- Sherlock Holmes – 70%
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E – 68%
- Wrath of Man – 67%
- RocknRolla – 60%
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – 60%
- Aladdin (2019) – 57%
- Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre – 51%
- King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – 31%
- Revolver – 15%
- Swept Away – 5%
That’s a wide spectrum of critical reception, and both movies at each end are fascinating. The Covenant is a terrific action film, following Jake Gyllenhaal’s American soldier has he tries to survive in Afghanistan with a local interpreter – but it doesn’t have any of the potty-mouthed, verbal ping-pong his movies are best known for.
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Swept Away, a remake of a 1974 Italian movie, is a forgotten disaster. It starred Madonna, whom Ritchie was married to at the time, and grossed just over $1 million against a $10 million budget. In his brutal one-star write-up, Roger Ebert described it as a “deserted island movie during which I desperately wished the characters had chosen one movie to take along if they were stranded on a deserted island, and were showing it to us instead of this one.”
His next movie will be released later this year: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, starring Henry Cavill as a British Nazi hunter.
As for his TV debut, The Gentlemen series is currently sitting at 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. In our review, we called it “an ultra-Guy Ritchie experience; a brilliant, binge-able sojourn into a frying-pan-or-fire world of drugs, violence, and struggles and grunts.”
The Gentlemen starts streaming on Netflix on March 7. In the meantime, you can check out the best new movies coming to streaming next month.
