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Best Fantasy Movies of the 2010s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
115 fantasy films from the 2010s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Warcraft, 6.7 on IMDb against 32 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 '2011 | Fantasy | 8.1 | 96% | 85 | 8.1 | David Yates |
| 2 | How to Train Your Dragon '2010 | Fantasy / Animation | 8.1 | 99% | 75 | 7.9 | Chris Sanders |
| 3 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey '2012 | Fantasy / Action | 7.8 | 64% | 58 | 7.4 | Peter Jackson |
| 4 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug '2013 | Fantasy / Action | 7.8 | 74% | 66 | 7.6 | Peter Jackson |
| 5 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 '2014 | Fantasy / Action / Animation | 7.8 | 92% | 77 | 7.7 | Dean DeBlois |
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 '2010 | Fantasy | 7.7 | 77% | 65 | 7.7 | David Yates |
| 7 | About Time '2013 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 7.8 | 71% | 55 | 7.9 | Richard Curtis |
| 8 | The Lego Movie '2014 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.7 | 96% | 83 | 7.4 | Phil Lord |
| 9 | Doctor Strange '2016 | Fantasy / Action | 7.5 | 89% | 72 | 7.4 | Scott Derrickson |
| 10 | Midnight in Paris '2011 | Fantasy / Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 93% | 81 | 7.5 | Woody Allen |
| 11 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies '2014 | Action / Fantasy | 7.4 | 59% | 59 | 7.3 | Peter Jackson |
| 12 | Frozen '2013 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.4 | 89% | 75 | 7.2 | Chris Buck |
| 13 | Wonder Woman '2017 | Action / Fantasy | 7.3 | 93% | 76 | 7.2 | Patty Jenkins |
| 14 | The Shape of Water '2017 | Drama / Fantasy / Romance | 7.3 | 92% | 87 | 7.2 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 15 | The Jungle Book '2016 | Fantasy | 7.3 | 94% | 77 | 6.9 | Jon Favreau |
| 16 | The Lighthouse '2019 | Drama / Fantasy / Thriller | 7.3 | 90% | 83 | 7.5 | Robert Eggers |
| 17 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them '2016 | Fantasy | 7.2 | 74% | 66 | 7.3 | David Yates |
| 18 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty '2013 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.3 | 52% | 54 | 7.2 | Ben Stiller |
| 19 | Doctor Sleep '2019 | Horror / Fantasy | 7.3 | 79% | 59 | 7.2 | Mike Flanagan |
| 20 | Arrietty '2010 | Fantasy / Animation | 7.6 | 94% | 80 | 7.7 | Hiromasa Yonebayashi |
| 21 | Rise of the Guardians '2012 | Action / Animation / Fantasy | 7.2 | 74% | 58 | 7.4 | Peter Ramsey |
| 22 | Monsters University '2013 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.2 | 80% | 65 | 7.1 | Dan Scanlon |
| 23 | Brave '2012 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.1 | 78% | 69 | 7.0 | Mark Andrews |
| 24 | Hotel Transylvania '2012 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.1 | 45% | 47 | 7.0 | Genndy Tartakovsky |
| 25 | A Monster Calls '2016 | Fantasy | 7.4 | 86% | 76 | 7.3 | J. A. Bayona |
| 26 | The Age of Adaline '2015 | Romance / Fantasy / Drama | 7.2 | 54% | 51 | 7.5 | Lee Toland Krieger |
| 27 | Beauty and the Beast '2017 | Fantasy / Romance | 7.1 | 71% | 65 | 7.0 | Bill Condon |
| 28 | Thor '2011 | Fantasy / Action | 7.0 | 77% | 57 | 6.8 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 29 | Shazam! '2019 | Action / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.0 | 90% | 71 | 7.0 | David F. Sandberg |
| 30 | The Witch '2016 | Horror / Fantasy / Mystery | 7.0 | 91% | 84 | 7.0 | Robert Eggers |
| 31 | A Dog's Purpose '2017 | Fantasy / Drama | 7.3 | 35% | 43 | 7.6 | Lasse Hallström |
| 32 | Ted '2012 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 68% | 62 | 6.5 | Seth MacFarlane |
| 33 | Maleficent '2014 | Fantasy / Action / Romance | 6.9 | 54% | 56 | 7.1 | Robert Stromberg |
| 34 | Aladdin '2019 | Fantasy / Romance | 6.9 | 57% | 53 | 7.1 | Guy Ritchie |
| 35 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle '2017 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 76% | 58 | 6.8 | Jake Kasdan |
| 36 | Cinderella '2015 | Romance / Fantasy / Drama | 6.9 | 83% | 67 | 6.8 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 37 | Swiss Army Man '2016 | Comedy / Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 6.9 | 73% | 64 | 6.9 | Daniel Kwan |
| 38 | Yesterday '2019 | Comedy / Fantasy / Musical / Romance | 6.8 | 64% | 55 | 6.7 | Danny Boyle |
| 39 | Frozen II '2019 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.8 | 77% | 64 | 7.2 | Jennifer Lee |
| 40 | Ghostbusters '2016 | Action / Fantasy / Comedy | 6.8 | 74% | 60 | 5.3 | Paul Feig |
| 41 | X-Men: Apocalypse '2016 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Action | 6.8 | 47% | 52 | 6.5 | Bryan Singer |
| 42 | The Tree of Life '2011 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.8 | 86% | 85 | 6.7 | Terrence Malick |
| 43 | Aquaman '2018 | Action / Fantasy | 6.8 | 66% | 55 | 6.9 | James Wan |
| 44 | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children '2016 | Fantasy | 6.7 | 65% | 57 | 6.8 | Tim Burton |
| 45 | Warcraft '2016 | Action / Fantasy | 6.7 | 29% | 32 | 6.4 | Duncan Jones |
| 46 | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil '2019 | Fantasy | 6.6 | 40% | 43 | 7.3 | Joachim Rønning |
| 47 | Hotel Transylvania 2 '2015 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.6 | 58% | 44 | 6.8 | Genndy Tartakovsky |
| 48 | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword '2017 | Action / Drama / Fantasy | 6.7 | 31% | 41 | 6.6 | Guy Ritchie |
| 49 | Kong: Skull Island '2017 | Action / Fantasy | 6.7 | 75% | 62 | 6.6 | Jordan Vogt-Roberts |
| 50 | Home '2015 | Fantasy / Comedy / Animation / Sci-Fi | 6.5 | 53% | 55 | 6.8 | Tim Johnson |
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.
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