"No, Mr. McMurphy. When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was 9 to 9."
I've just seen Larry Crowne (2011) which I loved and is on my list of summer movies I can't wait to see. I was surprised to discover it currently has an IMDb rating of 5.7/10 and a MetaScore of 37/100. Ouch. I can't understand what's going on here ... is Nurse Ratched in charge of the voting or what?
This, therefore, is a list of movies which I think are great but have a disproportionately low IMDb rating, all IMHO of course. See your own list here using Advanced Title Search to show titles with 6/10 or less on IMDb sorted by your highest votes.
The list below is in reverse chronological order and I gave every one of these either 9/10 or 10/10. IMDb rating at the time of list creation recorded in case any of these are re-evaluated over time. They ought to be.
"No, Mr. McMurphy. When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was 9 to 9."
This, therefore, is a list of movies which I think are great but have a disproportionately low IMDb rating, all IMHO of course. See your own list here using Advanced Title Search to show titles with 6/10 or less on IMDb sorted by your highest votes.
The list below is in reverse chronological order and I gave every one of these either 9/10 or 10/10. IMDb rating at the time of list creation recorded in case any of these are re-evaluated over time. They ought to be.
"No, Mr. McMurphy. When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was 9 to 9."
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- DirectorNiall MacCormickStarsFelicity JonesJessica Brown FindlaySebastian KochBeth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.IMDb = 5.4/10 (and this movie nearly made my top 10 of 2011)
- DirectorTom HanksStarsTom HanksJulia RobertsSarah MahoneyAfter losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college.IMDb = 5.7/10
- DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsChace CrawfordEmma RobertsRory CulkinA young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.IMDb = 5.5/10
- DirectorNoel ClarkeMark DavisStarsEmma RobertsTamsin EgertonOphelia Lovibond4 girls out on a 3 days trip in to 2 cities, if they survive. While Jo is working in a supermarket, her 3 friends are all out on their adventures. A chance encounter with diamond thieves sends them on a collision course with fate itself.IMDb = 5.8/10 (this movie did make my top 10 of 2010)
- DirectorAnne FletcherStarsKatherine HeiglJames MarsdenMalin AkermanAfter serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.IMDb = 6.0/10
- DirectorScott DerricksonStarsKeanu ReevesJennifer ConnellyKathy BatesA remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.IMDb = 5.5/10
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsPaul GiamattiBryce Dallas HowardJeffrey WrightApartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.IMDb = 5.7/10
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsJosh HartnettAaron EckhartScarlett JohanssonTwo policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.IMDb = 5.6/10
- DirectorMichael MannStarsColin FarrellJamie FoxxGong LiBased on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.IMDb = 6.0/10
- DirectorMike HodgesStarsClive OwenMalcolm McDowellJonathan Rhys MeyersA former gangster reenters the criminal underworld after his brother suspiciously commits suicide.IMDb = 5.9/10
- DirectorKelly MakinCarl GottliebStarsHugh GrantJeanne TripplehornJames CaanAn English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a Mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.IMDb = 5.8/10
- DirectorLuis MandokiStarsKevin CostnerRobin WrightPaul NewmanA woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.IMDb = 5.7/10
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsHarrison FordKristin Scott ThomasCharles S. DuttonPolice Sergeant Dutch Van Den Broek (Harrison Ford) and U.S. Representative Kay Chandler (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) lose their spouses in a plane crash, and they soon discover that their spouses were having an affair with each other.IMDb = 4.9/10
- DirectorDarren SteinStarsRose McGowanRebecca GayheartJulie BenzThree of the most popular girls at Reagan High accidentally kill the prom queen with a jawbreaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong.IMDb = 4.8/10
- DirectorDavid MirkinStarsMira SorvinoLisa KudrowJaneane GarofaloTwo dim-witted, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to impress their classmates.IMDb = 5.9/10
- DirectorLee TamahoriStarsNick NolteMelanie GriffithJennifer ConnellyIn 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.IMDb = 6.0/10
- DirectorKevin ReynoldsStarsKevin CostnerJeanne TripplehornDennis HopperIn a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.IMDb = 5.8/10
- DirectorPhil JoanouStarsRichard GereKim BasingerUma ThurmanA psychiatrist becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his patients, but the influence of her controlling gangster husband threatens to destroy them both.IMDb = 5.6/10
- DirectorNorman RenéStarsMeg RyanAlec BaldwinKathy BatesA couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.IMDb = 5.4/10
- DirectorAlan RudolphStarsTom BerengerElizabeth PerkinsAnne ArcherVampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.IMDb = 5.9/10
- DirectorWilliam LustigStarsJudd NelsonRobert LoggiaLeo RossiTwo Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.IMDb = 5.6/10
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsSam ShepardKim BasingerHarry Dean StantonMay is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.IMDb = 5.7/10