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War Movies Critics Rated Higher Than Audiences
12 war 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: The Hurt Locker (2008), 7.5 on IMDb against 95 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hurt Locker '2008 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.5 | 96% | 95 | 7.2 | Kathryn Bigelow | -20 |
| 2 | The Zone of Interest '2023 | Drama / War | 7.3 | 93% | 92 | 7.0 | Jonathan Glazer | -19 |
| 3 | Chimes at Midnight '1965 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.6 | 96% | 94 | 7.2 | Orson Welles | -18 |
| 4 | Battleship Potemkin '1925 | Drama / War | 7.9 | 100% | 97 | 7.6 | Sergei Eisenstein | -18 |
| 5 | Da 5 Bloods '2020 | War / Drama | 6.5 | 92% | 82 | 6.4 | Spike Lee | -17 |
| 6 | Lawrence of Arabia '1962 | War | 8.3 | 93% | 100 | 8.0 | David Lean | -17 |
| 7 | Shadow in the Cloud '2021 | Horror / Action / War | 5.0 | 77% | 66 | 5.8 | Roseanne Liang | -16 |
| 8 | Dunkirk '2017 | War / Action | 7.8 | 92% | 94 | 7.5 | Christopher Nolan | -16 |
| 9 | Pan's Labyrinth '2006 | Fantasy / Drama / War | 8.2 | 95% | 98 | 7.8 | Guillermo del Toro | -16 |
| 10 | Duck Soup '1933 | Comedy / War | 7.7 | 91% | 93 | 7.3 | Leo McCarey | -16 |
| 11 | The Battle of Algiers '1966 | Drama / War | 8.1 | 99% | 96 | 7.9 | Gillo Pontecorvo | -15 |
| 12 | Gone with the Wind '1939 | Drama / War / Romance | 8.2 | 90% | 97 | 7.9 | Victor Fleming | -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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