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Walter Matthau Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Walter Matthau appears in the billed cast of 22 films in our catalog, from 1955 to 1993. Top of the list is A Face in the Crowd ('1957), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.1. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Pirates, 6.0 on IMDb against 32 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Face in the Crowd '1957 | Drama | 8.1 | 95% | 72 | 7.6 | Elia Kazan |
| 2 | Fail Safe '1964 | Thriller / Drama / War | 8.0 | 93% | 75 | 7.8 | Sidney Lumet |
| 3 | Charade '1963 | Comedy / Mystery / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 83 | 7.7 | Stanley Donen |
| 4 | The Odd Couple '1968 | Comedy | 7.6 | 97% | 86 | 7.4 | Gene Saks |
| 5 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three '1974 | Crime / Thriller / Action / Comedy | 7.6 | 98% | 68 | 7.5 | Joseph Sargent |
| 6 | Lonely are the Brave '1962 | Western | 7.5 | 93% | - | 7.4 | David Miller |
| 7 | Charley Varrick '1973 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.5 | 82% | 76 | 7.4 | Don Siegel |
| 8 | Bigger Than Life '1956 | Drama | 7.4 | 91% | - | 7.2 | Nicholas Ray |
| 9 | The Bad News Bears '1976 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 90% | 84 | 6.9 | Michael Ritchie |
| 10 | A New Leaf '1971 | Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | 94% | - | 7.3 | Elaine May |
| 11 | The Front Page '1974 | Comedy | 7.3 | 57% | 62 | 7.3 | Billy Wilder |
| 12 | Mirage '1965 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 13 | The Fortune Cookie '1966 | Comedy | 7.2 | 96% | 63 | 7.2 | Billy Wilder |
| 14 | Cactus Flower '1969 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 85% | 67 | 7.2 | Gene Saks |
| 15 | Hello, Dolly! '1969 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 43% | 51 | 7.0 | Gene Kelly |
| 16 | King Creole '1958 | Drama / Musical / Crime | 7.0 | 96% | - | 6.4 | Michael Curtiz |
| 17 | Grumpy Old Men '1993 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 67% | 53 | 6.7 | Donald Petrie |
| 18 | The Indian Fighter '1955 | Western | 6.3 | - | - | 6.3 | André de Toth |
| 19 | The Kentuckian '1955 | Western | 6.2 | 14% | 41 | 5.8 | Burt Lancaster |
| 20 | The Little Devil '1988 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.7 | Roberto Benigni |
| 21 | Pirates '1986 | Comedy | 6.0 | 25% | 32 | 6.3 | Roman Polanski |
| 22 | Dennis the Menace '1993 | Comedy | 5.7 | 28% | 49 | 5.9 | Nick Castle |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.