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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 drama, romance film directed by Orson Welles. It scores 7.6 on IMDb, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, 93 on Metacritic, 7.3 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 76 while Metacritic critics give it 93, a gap of 17 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 4 of 83 films from 1942 in our catalog and number 146 of 1,511 romance films.

Billed cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins.

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