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Brief Encounter (1945): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Brief Encounter is a 1945 drama, romance film directed by David Lean. It scores 8.0 on IMDb, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, 92 on Metacritic, 7.7 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 80 while Metacritic critics give it 92, a gap of 12 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 2 of 63 films from 1945 in our catalog and number 33 of 1,511 romance films.

Billed cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg.

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