Ranking All Of Director David Yates’s Movies
What are David Yates’s Best Movies? We looked at all of David Yates’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by David Yates and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, Metacritic, 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 5 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 David Yates
13 ) Winter, the Dolphin that Can
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 13
- Letterboxd User Score: 12
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12 ) The Tichborne Claimant
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 11
- Letterboxd User Score: 12
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite …
11 ) The Legend of Tarzan
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
9 ) Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
The second installment of the “Fantastic Beasts” series featuring the adventures of Magizoologist Newt Scamander.
9 ) The Young Visiters
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
Alfred Salteena is a slightly bumbling gentleman who meets a young lady on a train and invites her to his home in London. She comes to see society and meet young men and bothers him to go …
8 ) Sex Traffic
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Boston based Kernwell Industries is an American defense contractor. One of those contracts is to deploy 3,000 peacekeepers to the International Peacekeeping Coalition’s work in the Balkans….
7 ) The Girl in the Café
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence’s professional obligations.
6 ) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
5 ) State of Play
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
In London, a politician’s life becomes increasingly complex as his research assistant is found dead on the London Underground and, in a seemingly unrelated incident, a teenage pickpocket is shot dead.
4 ) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
With their warning about Lord Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes’) return scoffed at, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and Dumbledore (Sir Michael Gambon) are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.
3 ) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
As Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as “the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes’) dark past.
2 ) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
As Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.
1 ) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) search for Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes’) remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord as the final battle rages on at Hogwarts.
David Yates’s Best Movies
David Yates Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Winter, the Dolphin that Can | 8 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 13 |
| The Tichborne Claimant | 8 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 12 |
| The Legend of Tarzan | 7 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 11 |
| Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | 6 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| The Young Visiters | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 |
| Sex Traffic | 8 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| The Girl in the Café | 8 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| State of Play | 8 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
