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Movies Critics Rated Higher Than Audiences
199 films in our catalog have at least 10,000 IMDb votes and a score that is higher with critics than with audiences by 15 points or more. The widest gap: Snow White (2025), 2.2 on IMDb against 50 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snow White '2025 | Fantasy | 2.2 | - | 50 | 4.2 | Marc Webb | -28 |
| 2 | Journey to Italy '1954 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 96% | 100 | 7.2 | Roberto Rossellini | -28 |
| 3 | Moonlight '2016 | Drama | 7.4 | 98% | 99 | 7.4 | Barry Jenkins | -25 |
| 4 | Mean Streets '1973 | Drama / Crime | 7.1 | 92% | 96 | 7.0 | Martin Scorsese | -25 |
| 5 | Pinocchio '1940 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.4 | 100% | 99 | 7.1 | Hamilton Luske | -25 |
| 6 | Don't Look Now '1973 | Thriller / Drama / Horror | 7.1 | 93% | 95 | 6.9 | Nicolas Roeg | -24 |
| 7 | Dumbo '1941 | Animation | 7.2 | 95% | 96 | 7.0 | Ben Sharpsteen | -24 |
| 8 | American Graffiti '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 95% | 97 | 7.1 | George Lucas | -23 |
| 9 | Alphaville '1965 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 6.9 | 92% | 92 | 6.9 | Jean-Luc Godard | -23 |
| 10 | The Three Caballeros '1944 | Animation / Musical | 6.2 | 85% | 85 | 6.3 | Norman Ferguson | -23 |
| 11 | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages '1916 | Drama | 7.6 | 98% | 99 | 7.1 | D.W. Griffith | -23 |
| 12 | Babygirl '2024 | Romance / Thriller | 5.7 | 76% | 79 | 5.7 | Halina Reijn | -22 |
| 13 | The Power of the Dog '2021 | Drama / Western | 6.8 | 94% | 89 | 6.7 | Jane Campion | -21 |
| 14 | Boyhood '2014 | Drama | 7.9 | 97% | 100 | 7.5 | Richard Linklater | -21 |
| 15 | Zero Dark Thirty '2012 | Thriller / Drama | 7.4 | 91% | 95 | 7.0 | Kathryn Bigelow | -21 |
| 16 | Carol '2015 | Romance / Drama | 7.3 | 94% | 94 | 7.5 | Todd Haynes | -21 |
| 17 | L'Argent '1983 | Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 97% | 95 | 6.9 | Robert Bresson | -21 |
| 18 | The Conformist '1971 | Drama | 7.9 | 98% | 100 | 7.6 | Bernardo Bertolucci | -21 |
| 19 | Jules and Jim '1962 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 94% | 97 | 7.5 | François Truffaut | -21 |
| 20 | The Leopard '1963 | Drama | 7.9 | 100% | 100 | 7.7 | Luchino Visconti | -21 |
| 21 | The Producers '1968 | Comedy | 7.5 | 92% | 96 | 7.1 | Mel Brooks | -21 |
| 22 | A Hard Day's Night '1964 | Comedy / Musical | 7.5 | 98% | 96 | 7.3 | Richard Lester | -21 |
| 23 | PlayTime '1967 | Comedy | 7.8 | 98% | 99 | 7.7 | Jacques Tati | -21 |
| 24 | Au Hasard Balthazar '1966 | Drama | 7.7 | 100% | 98 | 7.5 | Robert Bresson | -21 |
| 25 | Notorious '1946 | Drama / Romance / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 100 | 7.7 | Alfred Hitchcock | -21 |
| 26 | The Lady Vanishes '1938 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 98% | 98 | 7.4 | Alfred Hitchcock | -21 |
| 27 | The Green Knight '2021 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.5 | 88% | 85 | 6.6 | David Lowery | -20 |
| 28 | The Lost Daughter '2021 | Drama | 6.6 | 94% | 86 | 6.4 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | -20 |
| 29 | Roma '2018 | Drama | 7.6 | 96% | 96 | 7.6 | Alfonso Cuarón | -20 |
| 30 | Under the Skin '2014 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Drama | 6.3 | 84% | 83 | 6.1 | Jonathan Glazer | -20 |
| 31 | The Hurt Locker '2008 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.5 | 96% | 95 | 7.2 | Kathryn Bigelow | -20 |
| 32 | Dragonball Evolution '2009 | Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 2.5 | 14% | 45 | 2.9 | James Wong | -20 |
| 33 | Three Colors: Red '1994 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 8.0 | 100% | 100 | 7.9 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | -20 |
| 34 | Nashville '1975 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.6 | 89% | 96 | 7.3 | Robert Altman | -20 |
| 35 | Breathless '1960 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.6 | 95% | 96 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard | -20 |
| 36 | Masculin Féminin '1966 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 96% | 93 | 7.2 | Jean-Luc Godard | -20 |
| 37 | Touch of Evil '1958 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 99 | 7.7 | Orson Welles | -20 |
| 38 | Sweet Smell of Success '1957 | Drama | 8.0 | 98% | 100 | 7.6 | Alexander Mackendrick | -20 |
| 39 | Treasure Island '1950 | - | 6.9 | - | 89 | 6.5 | Byron Haskin | -20 |
| 40 | Going My Way '1944 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.0 | 85% | 90 | 6.7 | Leo McCarey | -20 |
| 41 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs '1938 | Fantasy / Animation | 7.6 | - | 96 | 7.1 | David Hand | -20 |
| 42 | The Rules of the Game '1939 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.9 | 97% | 99 | 7.5 | Jean Renoir | -20 |
| 43 | One Battle After Another '2025 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 95 | 7.3 | Paul Thomas Anderson | -19 |
| 44 | Licorice Pizza '2021 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 90% | 90 | 6.9 | Paul Thomas Anderson | -19 |
| 45 | The Zone of Interest '2023 | Drama / War | 7.3 | 93% | 92 | 7.0 | Jonathan Glazer | -19 |
| 46 | Aftersun '2022 | Drama | 7.6 | 96% | 95 | 7.7 | Charlotte Wells | -19 |
| 47 | The Brutalist '2024 | Drama | 7.2 | 93% | 91 | 6.9 | Brady Corbet | -19 |
| 48 | TÁR '2022 | Musical / Drama | 7.4 | - | 93 | 7.1 | Todd Field | -19 |
| 49 | May December '2023 | Drama | 6.7 | 91% | 86 | 6.6 | Todd Haynes | -19 |
| 50 | Gravity '2013 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama | 7.7 | 96% | 96 | 7.2 | Alfonso Cuarón | -19 |
| 51 | Lady Bird '2017 | Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | 99% | 93 | 7.2 | Greta Gerwig | -19 |
| 52 | Uncut Gems '2019 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 91% | 93 | 7.2 | Benny Safdie | -19 |
| 53 | Sideways '2004 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 97% | 94 | 7.1 | Alexander Payne | -19 |
| 54 | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown '1989 | Drama | 7.8 | 98% | 97 | 7.5 | Jim Sheridan | -19 |
| 55 | Fanny and Alexander '1982 | Fantasy / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 100% | 100 | 7.8 | Ingmar Bergman | -19 |
| 56 | Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles '1976 | Drama | 7.5 | 95% | 94 | 7.4 | Chantal Akerman | -19 |
| 57 | Tristana '1970 | Drama | 7.4 | 97% | 93 | 7.2 | Luis Buñuel | -19 |
| 58 | The Wild Bunch '1969 | Western | 7.9 | 91% | 98 | 7.6 | Sam Peckinpah | -19 |
| 59 | Tokyo Story '1953 | Drama | 8.1 | 100% | 100 | 8.2 | Yasujirō Ozu | -19 |
| 60 | The Band Wagon '1953 | Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 95% | 93 | 7.2 | Vincente Minnelli | -19 |
Gap is IMDb score times 10 minus Metacritic score, in points. Only films with at least 10,000 IMDb votes and both scores are included, and only gaps of 15 points or more. This list is ordered by the size of the gap, not by quality. Scores shown are the raw ones.
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Directors on this list
Marc Webb Roberto Rossellini Martin Scorsese Hamilton Luske Nicolas Roeg Ben Sharpsteen George Lucas Jean-Luc Godard D.W. Griffith Richard Linklater Kathryn Bigelow Robert Bresson
Actors on this list
Gal Gadot Ingrid Bergman George Sanders Robert De Niro Harvey Keitel Donald Sutherland Julie Christie Richard Dreyfuss Anna Karina Clarence Nash Sterling Holloway Lillian Gish