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Top 50 WOKE Films
The 50 films with the highest chudrank scores right now, most WOKE first: how each film is seen in the culture war, with the reason under each title. Disagree? Every vote moves the score.
Vote on these films →← CHUD · swipe · WOKE →| # | Title and why | Score | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)Michael Moore documentary against Trump | 92Full WOKE | Vote |
| 2 |  Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)Michael Moore film criticizing capitalism | 91Full WOKE | Vote |
| 3 |  Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)Michael Moore attack on the Bush administration | 91Full WOKE | Vote |
| 4 |  Sicko (2007)Michael Moore documentary for universal health care | 91Full WOKE | Vote |
| 5 |  Sorry to Bother You (2018)Anticapitalist satire on race and labor | 90Full WOKE | Vote |
| 6 |  Before the Flood (2016)DiCaprio climate change documentary | 89Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 7 |  I Am Not Your Negro (2017)James Baldwin documentary on race in America | 89Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 8 |  Paris Is Burning (1991)Documentary of Black and Latino queer ball culture | 89Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 9 |  Dear White People (2014)Satire on race and campus culture, culture-war target | 88Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 10 |  An Inconvenient Truth (2006)Al Gore climate change documentary | 87Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 11 |  I, Daniel Blake (2016)Ken Loach attack on welfare system | 87Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 12 |  Religulous (2008)Bill Maher mocking organized religion | 86Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 13 |  Suffragette (2015)Feminist suffrage drama | 86Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 14 |  Barbie (2023)Feminist satire of patriarchy, culture-war lightning rod | 85Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 15 |  The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)Drama against conversion therapy | 85Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 16 |  What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)Nina Simone documentary, civil rights activist | 85Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 17 |  But I'm a Cheerleader (2000)Satire of conversion therapy | 84Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 18 |  Pride (2014)Gay activists supporting miners strike | 84Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 19 |  Reds (1981)Biopic of communist journalist John Reed | 84Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 20 |  Born on the Fourth of July (1989)Anti-war Vietnam veteran drama | 83Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 21 |  Captain Marvel (2019)Female-led Marvel film, culture-war target on the right | 83Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 22 |  Tangerine (2015)Trans sex workers comedy-drama | 83Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 23 |  The Hate U Give (2018)Drama on police shooting, Black Lives Matter themes | 83Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 24 |  Brokeback Mountain (2005)Landmark gay love story; widely seen as progressive | 82Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 25 |  Just Mercy (2019)Racial justice and death penalty drama | 82Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 26 |  Roger & Me (1989)Michael Moore documentary on corporate layoffs | 82Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 27 |  Strange World (2022)Openly gay lead and climate theme; culture-war reception | 82Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 28 |  The Apprentice (2024)Trump biopic; unflattering portrayal, Trump threatened to sue | 82Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 29 |  12 Years a Slave (2013)Slavery drama, acclaimed for confronting American racism | 81Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 30 |  Detroit (2017)Drama on 1967 Detroit police violence | 81Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 31 |  Don't Look Up (2021)Satire of climate denial and media; widely read as left-leaning | 81Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 32 |  Food, Inc. (2008)Documentary criticizing industrial food corporations | 81Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 33 |  Fruitvale Station (2013)Drama about police killing of Oscar Grant | 81Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 34 |  Get Out (2017)Horror satire on liberal racism, strongly anti-racist | 81Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 35 |  The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)Anti-British Irish independence drama by Ken Loach | 81Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 36 |  American History X (1998)Anti-racist drama condemning white supremacy | 80Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 37 |  Charlie's Angels (2019)Female-led reboot; attacked by anti-woke critics | 80Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 38 |  Dark Waters (2019)Anti-corporate pollution legal thriller | 80Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 39 |  Harriet (2019)Harriet Tubman biopic; anti-slavery message | 80Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 40 |  Malcolm X (1992)Malcolm X biography, Black liberation | 80Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 41 |  Milk (2008)Harvey Milk biopic, gay rights | 80Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 42 |  Moonlight (2016)Acclaimed Black queer coming-of-age drama; Oscar Best Picture | 80Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 43 |  Snow White (2025)Culture-war flashpoint over casting and Gadot/Zegler comments | 80Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 44 |  The Marvels (2023)Female-led superhero film; seen as progressive-leaning | 80Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 45 |  Children of Men (2006)Dystopia on immigrant treatment and state repression | 79Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 46 |  Elysium (2013)Allegory for wealth gaps and immigration; seen as pro-migrant | 79Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 47 |  Ghostbusters (2016)All-female reboot hit by culture-war backlash | 79Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 48 |  Selma (2014)Civil rights drama about Selma marches | 79Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 49 |  Silkwood (1983)Whistleblower drama against corporate negligence | 79Leaning WOKE | Vote |
| 50 |  Snowpiercer (2013)Class-revolt allegory against elites | 79Leaning WOKE | Vote |
Across these 50: average score 83, median 82, from 79 to 92. Highest score: Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) (92). Lowest score: Children of Men (2006) (79).
What critics said about the quality
Scores are about how a title is seen in the culture war, not whether it is good. For some of the titles on this list, here is how critics judged them, word for word from Wikipedia.
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
The film was received positively by critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 82% based on 235 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10.
Wikipedia, Fahrenheit 9/11, quoted verbatim · CC BY-SA 4.0
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 74% based on 186 reviews, with an average score of 6.71 out of 10. The site's critics' consensus reads: "Love him or hate him, Capitalism captures Michael Moore in his muckraking element -- with all the Moore-centric showmanship that entails." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to mainstream critics' reviews, reported an average score of 61 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Wikipedia, Capitalism: A Love Story, quoted verbatim · CC BY-SA 4.0
Snowpiercer (2013)
Film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 94% of critics gave the film a positive rating, based on 267 reviews with an average score of 8.1/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Snowpiercer offers an audaciously ambitious action spectacle for filmgoers numb to effects-driven blockbusters." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 84 out of 100, based on 38 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "universal acclaim".
Wikipedia, Snowpiercer, quoted verbatim · CC BY-SA 4.0
Elysium (2013)
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 64% based on 262 reviews and an average rating of 6.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "After the heady sci-fi thrills of District 9, Elysium is a bit of a comedown for director Neill Blomkamp, but on its own terms, it delivers just often enough to satisfy." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Wikipedia, Elysium (film), quoted verbatim · CC BY-SA 4.0