AFI's Top 100 Films

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Alex

What does underrated mean?

The general consensus of how good a movie is is less than it actually is? (e.g.: Legally Blonde is generally dismissed as fluff but it is actually a pretty good movie!)

The number of people who have seen a movie is disproportionately low compared to how well regarded it is by those who have seen it?
(e.g.: A Simple Plan was one of the best movies of the 1990s but only 4,000 people ever saw it)

I would think more the latter than the former. And I loved "A Simple Plan."
I'll throw out two favorite underrated (or under radar) movies: "Five Corners," and "Once Around." For a "bigger" picture that I don't think got anywhere near the recognition it deserved, I'll go with "Everybody's All American."