If you're looking for the very best Dolby Atmos movies to show off what your that home system you've lovingly researched and chosen can do, then there's a smart list of the 'top 100' options available on a site called Hello Atmos.
This top 100 was curated by the creator of Hello Atmos in order to find the 'consensus' list of the movies that get recommended the most often. It's based on published reviews and lists of great Atmos movies (including ours), plus community recommendations from platforms like Reddit, in the many many threads where people ask for recommendations.
It's all pulled into an algorithm designed by the app's creator, Adrian Wrona, to rank the movies based on how strongly they're recommended, and resulting in the top 100 list.
You can read the full list just below, or see it on the Hello Atmos site, which also includes where you can stream the movies in your country (though it's TechRadar's stance that uncompressed audio from the best 4K Blu-ray players is the only way to really show off your system).
While like any best-of lists there's plenty of opportunity for an argument — is Blade Runner 2049 still a better showcase than Dune? Why isn't Dredd higher up the rankings? — it's a great and eclectic guide to some of the best sounding spatial audio soundtracks, with details of who did the mixing, which is a nice touch.
We've written about Adrian before; another tool on Hello Atmos scans your Apple Music or Spotify playlists to identify which ones are available in Atmos, which is great if you want to really explore spatial audio for music.
The 100 best Dolby Atmos movies, as rated by Hello Atmos
- Blade Runner 2049
- Dune
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Ready Player One
- The Batman
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Dune: Part Two
- Gravity
- Ford v Ferrari
- A Quiet Place
- The Matrix
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Pacific Rim
- 1917
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Fury
- Midway
- Saving Private Ryan
- Deepwater Horizon
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
- A Quiet Place Part II
- Civil War
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Twister
- Godzilla vs. Kong
- Roma
- No Time to Die
- Transformers
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Oblivion
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Prey
- Alita: Battle Angel
- TRON: Legacy
- Baby Driver
- Warfare
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
- Godzilla Minus One
- Gran Turismo
- John Wick: Chapter 4
- Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague
- Kong: Skull Island
- Ambulance
- Twisters
- Unbroken
- John Wick
- Avengers: Endgame
- Jurassic Park
- Apocalypse Now
- Blade Runner
- First Man
- Man of Steel
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
- The Fifth Element
- Soul
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Black Hawk Down
- 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
- John Wick: Chapter 2
- Dredd
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Deadpool
- Nope
- Sinners
- Brave
- Doctor Sleep
- WALL·E
- F1
- War of the Worlds
- Mission: Impossible - Fallout
- Us
- Alien: Romulus
- Everest
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- 6 Underground
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Ballerina
- Aquaman
- Titanic
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters
- The Guns of Navarone
- Aliens
- Nosferatu
- Uncut Gems
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- Back to the Future
- Suspiria
- Overlord
- Top Gun
- Sicario
- 300
- Evil Dead Rise
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- A Quiet Place: Day One
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