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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 drama, romance, war film directed by William Wyler. It scores 8.1 on IMDb, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 93 on Metacritic, 7.7 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 81 while Metacritic critics give it 93, a gap of 12 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 2 of 82 films from 1946 in our catalog and number 19 of 1,511 romance films.

Billed cast: Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Harold Russell, Teresa Wright, Myrna Loy, Cathy O'Donnell.

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