Last Updated on 4 July 2025
I searched the Internet for lists of the best Michael Bay movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed by time or alphabet, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 39 lists. I took the 39 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. I ended up averaging the rankings each movie got and dividing that average by a factor of the number of lists that movie was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- Brave AI – 4 Jul 2025
- IMDb – 4 Jul 2025
- No Film School – 28 Jun 2025
- Ranker – 16 May 2025
- The Gamer – 21 Apr 2025
- The Shot – 1 Apr 2025
- Filmmaking Lifestyle – 12 Mar 2025
- StudioBinder – 10 Mar 2025
- Screen Rant – 25 Nov 2024
- MetaCritic – 30 Aug 2024
- Collider – 16 Jul 2024
- SchoolTube – 20 Jun 2024
- JustWatch – 14 May 2024
- Loud and Clear – 12 Apr 2024
- Paste Magazine – 20 Feb 2023
- Ultimate Movie Rankings – 3 Nov 2022
- Cinema Blend – 16 Sep 2022
- ComingSoon – 19 Apr 2022
- Rotten Tomatoes – 13 Apr 2022
- BAMTube Movies – 11 Apr 2022
- ScreenHub Entertainment – 8 Apr 2022
- SyFy – 8 Apr 2022
- USA Today – 8 Apr 2022
- Thrillist – 6 Apr 2022
- MovieWeb – 23 Feb 2022
- SlashFilm – 2 Dec 2021
- IGN – 16 Aug 2021
- WhatCulture – 23 Sep 2020
- Looper – 24 Jan 2020
- Film School Rejects – 30 Dec 2019
- The Guardian – 12 Dec 2019
- Taste of Cinema – 1 Jul 2017
- Business Insider – 22 Jun 2017
- Variety – 22 Jun 2017
- The Wrap – 20 Jun 2017
- Flickchart – no date
- Movie Meter – no date
- Through the Clutter – no date
- The Top Tens – no date