Ranking All Of Director Taika Waititi’s Movies
“What are Taika Waititi’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Waititi’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Taika Waititi and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, Metacritic, Metacritic User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page.
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The Top Film’s Of Taika Waititi
7 ) 42 One Dream Rush (2010)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
An omnibus of 42 short films by auteur directors based on Dreams.
6 ) Tama Tū (2005)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality, and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray. Director Taika Waititi describes the soldiers as young men with “a special bond, strengthened by their character, their culture and each other.” Shot in the rubble of the old Wellington Hospital, Tama Tū won international acclaim. Invited to over 40 international festivals, its many awards included honourable mentions at Sundance and Berlin.
5 ) Eagle vs Shark (2007)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
The New Zealand made “Eagle vs Shark” is the tale of two socially awkward misfits and the strange ways they try to find love; through revenge on high-school bullies, burgers, and video games. Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. After gatecrashing Jarrod’s party and proving her skills on the game console, Lily goes down to Jarrod’s home town with him so he can settle an old score with a past school bully.
4 ) Boy (2010)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
It’s 1984, and Michael Jackson is king – even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy’s father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. This is where the goat enters.
3 ) Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
2 ) What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
1 ) Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Taika Waititi’s Best Movies
Taika Waititi Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| What We Do in the Shadows (2014) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Boy (2010) | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Eagle vs Shark (2007) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| Tama Tū (2005) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| 42 One Dream Rush (2010) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
