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Ranking All Of Director Joe Wright’s Movies

“What are Joe Wright’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Wright’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!

We took all of the movies directed by Joe Wright 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 Joe Wright



8 ) Pan (2015)

Pan (2015)

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 7
  • Metacritic User Score: 7
  • IMDB User Review Score: 8
  • Letterboxd User Score: 8

Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.



6 ) The Soloist (2009)

The Soloist (2009)

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 6
  • Metacritic User Score: 5
  • IMDB User Review Score: 6
  • Letterboxd User Score: 7

A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.



6 ) Anna Karenina (2012)

Anna Karenina (2012)

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 5
  • Metacritic User Score: 6
  • IMDB User Review Score: 7
  • Letterboxd User Score: 6

Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.



5 ) Charles II: The Power and The Passion (2003)

Charles II: The Power and The Passion (2003)

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 7
  • Metacritic User Score: 8
  • IMDB User Review Score: 3
  • Letterboxd User Score: 3

Charles II: The Power and the Passion is an award-winning British television mini-series, broadcast on BBC One in 2003, and produced by the BBC in association with the A&E Network in the United States. It was produced by Kate Harwood, directed by Joe Wright and written by award-winning screenwriter Adrian Hodges, whose credits include David Copperfield and The Lost World.



4 ) Hanna (2011)

Hanna (2011)

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 4
  • Metacritic User Score: 3
  • IMDB User Review Score: 5
  • Letterboxd User Score: 3

A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.



3 ) Darkest Hour (2017)

Darkest Hour (2017)

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 3
  • Metacritic User Score: 4
  • IMDB User Review Score: 4
  • Letterboxd User Score: 3

A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.



2 ) Atonement (2007)

Atonement (2007)

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 1
  • Metacritic User Score: 2
  • IMDB User Review Score: 1
  • Letterboxd User Score: 2

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit.



1 ) Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Review Website Ranks:

  • Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
  • Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
  • Metacritc Critic Score: 2
  • Metacritic User Score: 1
  • IMDB User Review Score: 1
  • Letterboxd User Score: 1

Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family’s future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.



Joe Wright’s Best Movies



Joe Wright Review Website Filmography Rankings

FilmRT CriticRT UserMC CriticMC UserIMDBLetterboxdOveral Rank
Pride & Prejudice (2005) 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
Atonement (2007) 3 4 1 2 1 2 2
Darkest Hour (2017) 2 3 3 4 4 3 3
Hanna (2011) 4 5 4 3 5 3 4
Charles II: The Power and The Passion (2003) 8 2 7 8 3 3 5
The Soloist (2009) 6 6 6 5 6 7 6
Anna Karenina (2012) 5 7 5 6 7 6 6
Pan (2015) 7 8 7 7 8 8 8