Ranking All Of Director Julie Taymor’s Movies
“What are Julie Taymor Best Movies?” We looked at all of Taymor’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Julie Taymor and looked at her 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. We will update the article if/when a new movie by Julie Taymor is released. Although it probably won’t be immediate so the scores on each site have time to settle and aren’t overly influenced by the early, usually much more opinionated, users.
Happy Viewing!
The Top Film’s Of Julie Taymor
6 ) Oedipus rex (1993)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Visually gripping and filled with corruption, murder and heartbreak, this film rendition of Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio stars English tenor Philip Langridge in the title role, with Jessye Norman as the commanding Jocasta and Bryn Terfel as Creon. Produced, directed and designed by Julie Taymor, the production also features accompaniment by the Saito Kinen Orchestra, under the baton of maestro Seiji Ozawa.
6 ) Fool’s Fire (1992)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
A crippled dwarf is forced to become jester to a tyrannical king, but when the king abuses a beautiful dwarf with whom the jester is in love the jester plots a terrible revenge.
5 ) The Tempest (2010)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare’s Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
4 ) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
A film of the NYC stage production directed by Julie Taymor (Film also directed by Julie Taymor)
3 ) Across the Universe (2007)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing anti-war movement in New York’s Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
2 ) Titus (1999)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare’s goriest and earliest tragedy.
1 ) Frida (2002)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary
Julie Taymor’s Best Movies
Julie Taymor Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Frida | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Titus | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Across the Universe | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| The Tempest | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Oedipus rex | 6 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Fool’s Fire | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 |
