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Beauty and the Beast (1946): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Beauty and the Beast is a 1946 drama, fantasy, romance film directed by Jean Cocteau. It scores 7.9 on IMDb, 92 on Metacritic, 7.5 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 79 while Metacritic critics give it 92, a gap of 13 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 6 of 82 films from 1946 in our catalog and number 35 of 955 fantasy films.
Billed cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André, Mila Parély, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair.
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