Highest rated Rotten Tomatoes films you can watch for free on new streaming service rivalling Netflix

A brand new streaming service has launched in the United Kingdom and it poses a major threat to Netflix for one big reason - it's free to watch.

Known as Tubi, it was made freely available for those in the UK from today (2 July) with 20,000 films and television programmes currently available to watch at launch.

With a quarter of Americans using the service every day (a staggering 80 million), bosses are hoping it can achieve similar success across the Atlantic.

Aussie business mogul Rupert Murdoch is behind the venture through his business Fox Corporation.

Tubi has just launched (Getty stock photo)

Films you can already watch on the platform include Twilight and Happy Gilmore. But as well as those more mainstream blockbusters are a whole load of movies that people and critics love.

We are of course talking about the famous Rotten Tomatoes ratings, which countless people live and die by when sitting down to stream a film.

Despite only launching today, there are dozens of films on Tubi with outstanding Rotten Tomatoes scores.

As always, there are two ratings - one from critics and one from the general audience. They don't always line up, with critically-acclaimed flicks trashed by the masses.

And on the flip side, people fall in love with movies that critics said weren't very inspiring.

Making the list is the likes of Citizen Kane, which scores almost perfect ratings across the board with it accepted by may as the greatest film of all time. There is also comedy Hunt for the Wilderpeople, which gets 97 percent with critics, and documentary Deliver Us From Evil, scoring a perfect 10/10 with Rotten Tomatoes critics.

With that in mind, we've rounded up the best films you can watch on Tubi as of launch day. Happy browsing:

Some of the top rated films on Tubi (Tubi)

Films with top Rotten Tomatoes ratings on Tubi

Billy Elliot - 85 percent with critics and 89 percent with audiences

Frances Ha - 92 percent with critics and 78 percent with audiences

Yes, God, Yes - 92 percent with critics and 65 percent with audiences

Meeting Gorbachev - 86 percent with critics and 68 percent with audiences

A Vigilante - 90 percent with critics and 48 percent with audiences

Magic Mike - 78 percent with critics and 60 percent with audiences

Prospect - 89 percent with critics and 74 percent with audiences

Synchronic - 79 percent with critics and 76 percent with audiences

One of the top rated films on Tubi is Prospect (Tubi)

Being Julia - 77 percent with critics and 74 percent with audiences

Owning Mahowny - 78 percent with critics and 75 percent with audiences

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing - 83 percent with critics and 71 percent with audiences

The Beguiled - 78 percent with critics and 48 percent with audiences

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar - 80 percent with critics and 59 percent with audiences

Slow West - 92 per cent with critics and 74 per cent with audiences

Two Lovers - 82 percent with critics and 59 percent with audiences

Good Night, and Good Luck - 93 percent with critics and 83 percent with audiences

Pieta - 73 percent with critics and 72 percent with audiences

Good Night, and Good Luck gets 93% with critics (Tubi)

Ghostwritten - 67 percent with critics and 100 percent with audiences

Blockers - 84 percent with critics and 51 percent with audiences

Martin - 90 percent with critics and 76 percent with audiences

Tokyo Story - 100 percent with critics and 93 percent with audiences

13 Assassins - 95 percent with critics and 88 percent with audiences

Citizen Kane - 99 percent with critics and 90 percent with audiences

Candyman - 79 percent with critics and 63 percent with audiences

Hail, Caesar! - 86 percent with critics and 44 percent with audiences

Jackie Brown - 88 per ent with critics and 85 percent with audiences

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 - 85 percent with critics and 81 percent with audiences

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - 84 percent with critics and 89 percent with audiences

Moonrise Kingdom - 93 percent with critics and 86 percent with audiences

The Love Witch - 95 percent with critics and 61 percent with audiences

Rock 'N' Roll High School - 81 percent with critics and 75 percent with audiences

Her Smell - 84 percent with critics and 44 percent with audiences

Night of the Living Dead - 95 percent with critics and 87 percent with audiences

Growing Up Smith - 73 percent with critics and 81 percent with audiences

Across the Universe - 53 percent with critics and 82 percent with audiences

The Innkeepers - 80 percent with critics and 42 percent with audiences

The House of the Devil - 85 percent with critics and 63 percent with audiences

Stake Land - 75 percent with critics and 62 percent with audiences

Hunt for the Wilderpeople - 97 percent with critics and 91 percent with audiences

Almost two perfect scores for Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Tubi)

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - 76 per cent with critics and 79 per cent with audiences

Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes - 98 percent with critics and 88 percent with audiences

A Band Called Death - 94 percent with critics and 85 percent with audiences

Shattered Glass - 92 percent with critics and 79 percent with audiences

Blood on Her Name - 96 percent with critics and 54 percent with audiences

Stronger - 91 percent with critics and 81 percent with audiences

The Immigrant - 85 percent with critics and 60 percent with audiences

12 O'Clock Boys - 92 percent with critics and 65 percent with audiences

American Hardcore - 72 percent with critics and 78 percent with audiences

The General - 92 percent with critics and 92 percent with audiences

The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble - 85 percent with critics and 85 percent with audiences

Big Men - 100 percent with critics and 77 percent with audiences

Akeelah and the Bee - 86 percent with critics and 81 percent with audiences

Deliver Us From Evil - 100 percent with critics and 89 percent with audiences

Eve's Bayou - 83 percent with critics and 89 percent with audiences

Cropsey - 91 percent with critics and 60 percent with audiences