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Where critics and audiences disagree most, November 2, 2026
A snapshot of the widest gaps between IMDb audience scores and Metacritic critic scores among films with 10,000+ IMDb votes.
Critics rated higher than audiences
Widest gap: Snow White (2025), 2.2 on IMDb against 50 on Metacritic.
| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snow White '2025 | Fantasy | 2.2 | - | 50 | 4.2 | Marc Webb |
| 2 | Journey to Italy '1954 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 96% | 100 | 7.2 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 3 | Moonlight '2016 | Drama | 7.4 | 98% | 99 | 7.4 | Barry Jenkins |
| 4 | Mean Streets '1973 | Drama / Crime | 7.1 | 92% | 96 | 7.0 | Martin Scorsese |
| 5 | Pinocchio '1940 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.4 | 100% | 99 | 7.1 | Hamilton Luske |
| 6 | Don't Look Now '1973 | Thriller / Drama / Horror | 7.1 | 93% | 95 | 6.9 | Nicolas Roeg |
| 7 | Dumbo '1941 | Animation | 7.2 | 95% | 96 | 7.0 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 8 | American Graffiti '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 95% | 97 | 7.1 | George Lucas |
Audiences rated higher than critics
Widest gap: Half Baked (1998), 6.6 on IMDb against 16 on Metacritic.
| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half Baked '1998 | Comedy / Crime | 6.6 | 28% | 16 | 6.3 | Tamra Davis |
| 2 | Death Wish II '1982 | Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.0 | - | 11 | 6.2 | Michael Winner |
| 3 | I Am Sam '2001 | Drama | 7.6 | 35% | 28 | 7.6 | Jessie Nelson |
| 4 | Billy Madison '1995 | Comedy | 6.4 | 40% | 16 | 6.2 | Tamra Davis |
| 5 | Cocktail '1988 | Romance / Drama / Comedy | 6.0 | 11% | 12 | 6.1 | Roger Donaldson |
| 6 | Elite Squad '2007 | Drama / Action / Crime | 8.0 | 53% | 33 | 8.1 | José Padilha |
| 7 | Gummo '1997 | Drama | 6.6 | 39% | 19 | 6.6 | Harmony Korine |
| 8 | The Butterfly Effect '2004 | Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.6 | 34% | 30 | 7.6 | J. Mackye Gruber |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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