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Crime Movies Critics Rated Higher Than Audiences
31 crime 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: Mean Streets (1973), 7.1 on IMDb against 96 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mean Streets '1973 | Drama / Crime | 7.1 | 92% | 96 | 7.0 | Martin Scorsese | -25 |
| 2 | L'Argent '1983 | Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 97% | 95 | 6.9 | Robert Bresson | -21 |
| 3 | Breathless '1960 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.6 | 95% | 96 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard | -20 |
| 4 | Touch of Evil '1958 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 99 | 7.7 | Orson Welles | -20 |
| 5 | One Battle After Another '2025 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 95 | 7.3 | Paul Thomas Anderson | -19 |
| 6 | Uncut Gems '2019 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 91% | 93 | 7.2 | Benny Safdie | -19 |
| 7 | American Hustle '2013 | Drama / Crime | 7.2 | 92% | 90 | 6.9 | David O. Russell | -18 |
| 8 | To Die For '1995 | Drama / Comedy / Crime | 6.8 | 88% | 86 | 6.6 | Gus Van Sant | -18 |
| 9 | The Crying Game '1992 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.2 | 95% | 90 | 6.8 | Neil Jordan | -18 |
| 10 | The French Connection '1971 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.6 | 97% | 94 | 7.5 | William Friedkin | -18 |
| 11 | Frenzy '1972 | Crime / Thriller / Horror | 7.4 | 89% | 92 | 7.1 | Alfred Hitchcock | -18 |
| 12 | The Night of the Hunter '1955 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 93% | 97 | 7.9 | Charles Laughton | -18 |
| 13 | The Maltese Falcon '1941 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 99% | 97 | 7.7 | John Huston | -18 |
| 14 | You Were Never Really Here '2017 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.7 | 89% | 84 | 6.5 | Lynne Ramsay | -17 |
| 15 | Prizzi's Honor '1985 | Romance / Comedy / Crime | 6.7 | 85% | 84 | 6.4 | John Huston | -17 |
| 16 | Badlands '1973 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.7 | 97% | 94 | 7.4 | Terrence Malick | -17 |
| 17 | Band of Outsiders '1964 | Crime / Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 93 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard | -17 |
| 18 | Rashomon '1950 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 98% | 98 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa | -17 |
| 19 | Kimi '2022 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 6.3 | 92% | 79 | 6.2 | Steven Soderbergh | -16 |
| 20 | The Irishman '2019 | Crime / Drama | 7.8 | 95% | 94 | 7.6 | Martin Scorsese | -16 |
| 21 | Hustlers '2019 | Drama / Comedy / Crime | 6.3 | 88% | 79 | 6.5 | Lorene Scafaria | -16 |
| 22 | Assault on Precinct 13 '1976 | Thriller / Action / Crime | 7.3 | 94% | 89 | 7.3 | John Carpenter | -16 |
| 23 | Some Like It Hot '1959 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 8.2 | 95% | 98 | 8.1 | Billy Wilder | -16 |
| 24 | Rififi '1955 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.1 | 92% | 97 | 7.8 | Jules Dassin | -16 |
| 25 | Shadow of a Doubt '1943 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.8 | 100% | 94 | 7.5 | Alfred Hitchcock | -16 |
| 26 | His Girl Friday '1940 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 7.8 | 99% | 94 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks | -16 |
| 27 | Anatomy of a Murder '1959 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 8.0 | 100% | 95 | 7.8 | Otto Preminger | -15 |
| 28 | Elevator to the Gallows '1958 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 93% | 94 | 7.6 | Louis Malle | -15 |
| 29 | The Ladykillers '1955 | Comedy / Crime | 7.6 | 100% | 91 | 7.3 | Alexander Mackendrick | -15 |
| 30 | The Lavender Hill Mob '1951 | Comedy / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | 90 | 7.2 | Charles Crichton | -15 |
| 31 | Sabotage '1936 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.0 | 91% | 85 | 6.7 | Alfred Hitchcock | -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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