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Comedy Movies Critics Rated Higher Than Audiences
47 comedy 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: American Graffiti (1973), 7.4 on IMDb against 97 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Graffiti '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 95% | 97 | 7.1 | George Lucas | -23 |
| 2 | The Producers '1968 | Comedy | 7.5 | 92% | 96 | 7.1 | Mel Brooks | -21 |
| 3 | A Hard Day's Night '1964 | Comedy / Musical | 7.5 | 98% | 96 | 7.3 | Richard Lester | -21 |
| 4 | PlayTime '1967 | Comedy | 7.8 | 98% | 99 | 7.7 | Jacques Tati | -21 |
| 5 | Nashville '1975 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.6 | 89% | 96 | 7.3 | Robert Altman | -20 |
| 6 | Going My Way '1944 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.0 | 85% | 90 | 6.7 | Leo McCarey | -20 |
| 7 | The Rules of the Game '1939 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.9 | 97% | 99 | 7.5 | Jean Renoir | -20 |
| 8 | One Battle After Another '2025 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 95 | 7.3 | Paul Thomas Anderson | -19 |
| 9 | Licorice Pizza '2021 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 90% | 90 | 6.9 | Paul Thomas Anderson | -19 |
| 10 | Lady Bird '2017 | Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | 99% | 93 | 7.2 | Greta Gerwig | -19 |
| 11 | Sideways '2004 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 97% | 94 | 7.1 | Alexander Payne | -19 |
| 12 | The Band Wagon '1953 | Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 95% | 93 | 7.2 | Vincente Minnelli | -19 |
| 13 | Meet Me in St. Louis '1944 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 99% | 94 | 7.0 | Vincente Minnelli | -19 |
| 14 | The Lady Eve '1941 | Comedy / Romance | 7.7 | 99% | 96 | 7.3 | Preston Sturges | -19 |
| 15 | A Serious Man '2009 | Comedy / Drama | 7.0 | 89% | 88 | 6.7 | Joel Coen | -18 |
| 16 | To Die For '1995 | Drama / Comedy / Crime | 6.8 | 88% | 86 | 6.6 | Gus Van Sant | -18 |
| 17 | My Fair Lady '1964 | Comedy / Musical / Drama | 7.7 | 94% | 95 | 7.5 | George Cukor | -18 |
| 18 | Chimes at Midnight '1965 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.6 | 96% | 94 | 7.2 | Orson Welles | -18 |
| 19 | The Philadelphia Story '1940 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | 100% | 96 | 7.5 | George Cukor | -18 |
| 20 | Anora '2024 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 93% | 91 | 7.1 | Sean Baker | -17 |
| 21 | Chicken Run '2000 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | 97% | 88 | 6.9 | Peter Lord | -17 |
| 22 | Prizzi's Honor '1985 | Romance / Comedy / Crime | 6.7 | 85% | 84 | 6.4 | John Huston | -17 |
| 23 | Band of Outsiders '1964 | Crime / Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 93 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard | -17 |
| 24 | Monsieur Hulot's Holiday '1953 | Comedy | 7.3 | 100% | 90 | 7.0 | Jacques Tati | -17 |
| 25 | Swing Time '1936 | Romance / Comedy | 7.4 | 96% | 91 | 6.8 | George Stevens | -17 |
| 26 | The Favourite '2018 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 91 | 7.5 | Yorgos Lanthimos | -16 |
| 27 | Hustlers '2019 | Drama / Comedy / Crime | 6.3 | 88% | 79 | 6.5 | Lorene Scafaria | -16 |
| 28 | Knocked Up '2007 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 6.9 | 90% | 85 | 6.3 | Judd Apatow | -16 |
| 29 | Shakespeare in Love '1998 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 93% | 87 | 6.8 | John Madden | -16 |
| 30 | The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre '1995 | Horror / Comedy / Thriller | 3.4 | 15% | 50 | 4.6 | Kim Henkel | -16 |
| 31 | The Fabulous Baker Boys '1989 | Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance | 6.9 | 97% | 85 | 6.6 | Steve Kloves | -16 |
| 32 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie '1972 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.7 | 98% | 93 | 7.4 | Luis Buñuel | -16 |
| 33 | Some Like It Hot '1959 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 8.2 | 95% | 98 | 8.1 | Billy Wilder | -16 |
| 34 | Singin' in the Rain '1952 | Comedy / Romance | 8.3 | 100% | 99 | 8.1 | Gene Kelly | -16 |
| 35 | Gigi '1958 | Comedy / Romance | 6.6 | 90% | 82 | 6.3 | Vincente Minnelli | -16 |
| 36 | His Girl Friday '1940 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 7.8 | 99% | 94 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks | -16 |
| 37 | The Shop Around the Corner '1940 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 99% | 96 | 8.1 | Ernst Lubitsch | -16 |
| 38 | Duck Soup '1933 | Comedy / War | 7.7 | 91% | 93 | 7.3 | Leo McCarey | -16 |
| 39 | Top Hat '1935 | Musical / Comedy / Romance | 7.7 | 100% | 93 | 7.2 | Mark Sandrich | -16 |
| 40 | A Real Pain '2024 | Comedy / Drama | 7.0 | 96% | 85 | 6.8 | Jesse Eisenberg | -15 |
| 41 | Ratatouille '2007 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 8.1 | 96% | 96 | 7.8 | Brad Bird | -15 |
| 42 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan '2006 | Comedy | 7.4 | 90% | 89 | 6.8 | Larry Charles | -15 |
| 43 | Three Colors: White '1994 | Comedy / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 91% | 91 | 7.4 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | -15 |
| 44 | Basket Case '1982 | Horror / Comedy | 6.2 | 78% | 77 | 6.2 | Frank Henenlotter | -15 |
| 45 | La Dolce Vita '1960 | Comedy / Drama | 8.0 | 95% | 95 | 8.0 | Federico Fellini | -15 |
| 46 | The Ladykillers '1955 | Comedy / Crime | 7.6 | 100% | 91 | 7.3 | Alexander Mackendrick | -15 |
| 47 | The Lavender Hill Mob '1951 | Comedy / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | 90 | 7.2 | Charles Crichton | -15 |
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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