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The Shop Around the Corner (1940): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 comedy, drama, romance film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It scores 8.0 on IMDb, 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, 96 on Metacritic, 8.1 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 80 while Metacritic critics give it 96, a gap of 16 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 4 of 71 films from 1940 in our catalog and number 51 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart.

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