Ranking All Of Director Cameron Crowe’s Movies
“What are Cameron Crowe’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Crowe’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Cameron Crowe 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 Cameron Crowe
10 ) Aloha
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
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9 ) The Union
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 10
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
In November 2009, filmmaker Cameron Crowe began filming a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the album The Union, a collaboration between musicians Elton John and Leon Russell, who hadn’t spoken to one another in 38 years prior to beginning work on the album. In addition, the documentary offers a rare glimpse into the process John goes through to create and compose his music. Featured in the film are musicians Neil Young, Brian Wilson, Booker T. Jones, steel guitarist Robert Randolph, Don Was and a 10-piece gospel choir who all contribute to the album, which is produced by award-winning producer T-Bone Burnett. Musician Stevie Nicks and John’s long-time lyricist Bernie Taupin also appear.
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8 ) Elizabethtown
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he’s also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family’s small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
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7 ) Singles
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Romantic comedy about six of Seattle’s young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city’s ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character’s progress through the singles scene are intriguing and often very funny, and the soundtrack is a grunge fanatic’s dream, with the likes of Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Mudhoney.
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6 ) We Bought a Zoo
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.
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5 ) Vanilla Sky
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That’s just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
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4 ) Jerry Maguire
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he’s really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.
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3 ) Pearl Jam: Twenty
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Carved from over 1,200 hours of footage spanning the band’s career, Pearl Jam: Twenty is the definitive portrait of Pearl Jam. Part concert film, part intimate insider-hang, and part testimonial to the power of music.
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2 ) Say Anything…
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: 3
A budding romance between noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler and high school valedictorian Diane Court is threatened when Diane’s overly possessive, disapproving father interferes with their relationship. With a prized scholarship to study abroad hanging in the balance, Diane must find a way to make both men happy.
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1 ) Almost Famous
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller’s unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar Russell Hammond and lead singer Jeff Bebe William.
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Cameron Crowe’s Best Movies
Cameron Crowe Review Website Filmography Rankings
Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
Almost Famous | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Say Anything… | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Pearl Jam: Twenty | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Jerry Maguire | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Vanilla Sky | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
We Bought a Zoo | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
Singles | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
Elizabethtown | 8 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
The Union | 10 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 9 |
Aloha | 9 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 10 |