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Critics vs crowd: films of the 1940s

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Genre

Min votes

Films with both scores

10K+ votes each

Within 5 points

27%

of the 55 most voted

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Metascore well above the IMDb rating

Critics loved it, the crowd didn't

Critics vs crowd: films of the 1940s: Critics loved it, the crowd didn't
#
1	Pinocchio	1940	99	74	25
2	Dumbo	1941	96	72	24
3	The Three Caballeros	1944	85	62	23
4	Notorious	1946	100	79	21
5	Fantasia	1940	96	77	19
6	Red River	1948	96	77	19
7	Meet Me in St. Louis	1944	94	75	19
8	The Lady Eve	1941	96	77	19
9	Citizen Kane	1941	100	82	18
10	The Maltese Falcon	1941	97	79	18
11	Bambi	1942	91	73	18
12	Shadow of a Doubt	1943	94	77	17
13	The Third Man	1949	97	81	16
14	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	98	82	16
15	The Shop Around the Corner	1940	96	80	16
16	Casablanca	1942	100	85	15
17	The Grapes of Wrath	1940	96	81	15
18	Foreign Correspondent	1940	89	74	15
19	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	1949	87	72	15
20	They Were Expendable	1945	86	72	14
21	Beauty and the Beast	1946	92	79	13
22	Cat People	1942	85	72	13
23	Children of Paradise	1945	96	83	13
24	Double Indemnity	1944	95	83	12
25	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	93	81	12

IMDb rating well above the Metascore

Critics vs crowd: films of the 1940s: The crowd loved it, critics didn't
#
1	Song of the South	1946	54	69	15
2	Saboteur	1942	64	71	7
3	Rope	1948	73	79	6
4	Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein	1948	69	73	4
5	The Bishop's Wife	1947	73	76	3
6	Nightmare Alley	1947	75	77	2
7	The Naked City	1948	74	75	1
8	Gaslight	1944	78	78	0
9	The Wolf Man	1941	72	72	0
10	The Body Snatcher	1945	74	73	-1
11	Suspicion	1941	74	72	-2
12	Lifeboat	1944	78	76	-2
13	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	89	86	-3
14	Spellbound	1945	78	75	-3
15	The Stranger	1946	76	73	-3
16	Fun and Fancy Free	1947	66	63	-3
17	To Be or Not to Be	1942	86	81	-5
18	Sands of Iwo Jima	1949	75	70	-5
19	Rebecca	1940	86	80	-6
20	Out of the Past	1947	85	79	-6
21	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad	1949	74	68	-6
22	The Big Sleep	1946	86	79	-7
23	Mildred Pierce	1945	88	79	-9
24	The Letter	1940	84	75	-9
25	How Green Was My Valley	1941	88	77	-11