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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FilmRT CriticRT UserMC CriticIMDBLetterboxdOveral Rank
Winter, the Dolphin that Can8108131213
The Tichborne Claimant8108111212
The Legend of Tarzan777121111
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald69610109
The Young Visiters888989
Sex Traffic8108368
The Girl in the Café828767
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them554886
State of Play8108115
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix343644
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince262543
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1425432
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2111211