Critics adored a love-struck robot and a tightrope-walking Frenchman in 2008.
The sci-fi romance WALL-E and the documentary Man on Wire took top honours from the 10th annual Golden Tomato Awards.
The awards honour the best-reviewed films of the year as determined by the web site RottenTomatoes.com, which compiles reviews from critics to measure the percentage of favourable critiques.
WALL-E won the Golden Tomato for wide release with a Tomatometer score of 96 per cent.
Golden Globes multi-award winner Slumdog Millionaire rated 94 per cent on the Tomatometer, while The Curious case of Benjamin Button rated 72 per cent.
Man on Wire, a film that recalls Philippe Petit's tightrope feat between the World Trade Centre towers in 1974, scored 100 per cent and won the Golden Tomato for limited release films.
Man on Wire is only the second film in the first decade of the Golden Tomatoes to earn a perfect score.
Pixar's Toy Story 2 is the other.
WALL-E is the fifth Pixar film to rank above all others.
Ratatouille was the best-reviewed film of 2007, along with the lauded Irish romance Once.
Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles are Pixar's other Golden Tomato winners.
"Pixar has won more Golden Tomatoes than anyone else," said Rotten Tomatoes editor-in-chief Matt Atchity.
"They're not quite batting a thousand, but they're pretty close. Ever since Toy Story 2 came out - which is still one of the highest-rated films of all time on Rotten Tomatoes - they've just had this series of really critically loved films."
The Mouldy Tomato - given to the worst-reviewed film of the year - was awarded to the horror film One Missed Call.
That movie had the unfortunate distinction of not finding a single positive review, earning a goose egg on the Tomatometer.
The website flung rotten tomatoes at Edward Zwick's WWII movie Defiance, with critic Sean Burns asking if Zwick (who also made the slow-moving The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise) was the most boring filmmaker in the US.
"Zwick movies invariably balloon into lumbering white elephants, embalmed in the icky molasses of awards-season prestige and corny Hollywood contrivances," Burns wrote.
Rotten Tomatoes has a definite blokey influence.
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dark Knight and Iron Man were highly rated by the website.
But chick flicks Sex & The City and Mamma Mia! were panned.
"No self-respecting man would be caught dead shelling out the cost of two beers to see Kim Cattrall bemoan her exceedingly lucrative affair/business partnership or hear an ex-Bond (try his darnedest to) sing," the website said.
Baz Luhrmann's Australia has mixed reviews.
It's described as "built on lavish vistas and impeccable production, Australia is unfortunately burdened with thinly drawn characters and a lack of originality".
On the Tomatometer, approval for Australia was 54 per cent.
The comedy film Bride Wars, starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, got an almost universal barrage of rotten tomatoes.
"The usually-winning leads are saddled with characters that aren't particularly likable - or smart. At four per cent on the Tomatometer, Bride Wars seems destined for cinematic annulment," the website said.
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