Mad Max: Fury Road was named one of the best films of 2015 by numerous critics and publications, and was named Rotten Tomatoes' best scoring film of 2015. The film topped Metacritic's tally of film critics year-end best film lists, with 58 critics naming it their best film of the year. Mad Max: Fury Road was named the nineteenth-greatest film of the 21st century in a 2016 BBC critics' poll. In 2017, it was named the "nineteenth-best film of the 21st century so far" by The New York Times. In January 2020, Empire voted it as the best film of the 21st century.