considered the best sci-movie of the 1950s

The film is now considered to be one of the best films of 1951 and one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s.[22][23][24][25] It garnered an 86% "Fresh" rating at the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes from 65 reviews, with the consensus that the film "is better than most flying saucer movies, thanks to well-drawn characters and concise, tense plotting".[26] In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.[27][28] Additionally, Time magazine named The Thing from Another World "the greatest 1950s sci-fi movie".[29][30]