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The Rules of the Game (1939): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.9IMDb
97%Tomatometer
99Metacritic
7.5TMDB

The Rules of the Game is a 1939 drama, comedy, romance film directed by Jean Renoir. It scores 7.9 on IMDb, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 99 on Metacritic, 7.5 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 79 while Metacritic critics give it 99, a gap of 20 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 4 of 93 films from 1939 in our catalog and number 75 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: Jean Renoir, Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Paulette Dubost.

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