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To Be or Not to Be (1942): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
To Be or Not to Be is a 1942 comedy, war, romance film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It scores 8.1 on IMDb, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 86 on Metacritic, 7.8 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 5 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 83 films from 1942 in our catalog and number 33 of 3,051 comedy films.
Billed cast: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges.
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