Emma Watson's 8 Best Movies, Ranked

Six of eight are Hogwarts. Ranked by movie.guru score, the critics plus audiences blend. The data picked the order. I picked the fights.

Number one is the data's pick. Guru's Take disagrees, and so will you.

1. 8
   Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)7.9

   Charming, stiff, and coasting almost entirely on pure wonder.

   A reported $125M budget turned into $1.03 billion worldwide. Watson steals scenes correcting everyone's spells, but Guru's Take is a 7.4 because the movie mostly reads the book aloud.
2. 7
   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)7.9

   An A+ CinemaScore for the series' most skippable chapter.

   Audiences gave it an A+, the only one on this list. Guru's Take is a 6.4. Kenneth Branagh is a delight, but the plot is year one with spiders.
3. 6
   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)8.0

   Watson's best Potter acting, in the one nobody rewatches.

   Lowest Rotten Tomatoes here at 76%, and Guru's Take sits at 6.3. Watson carries the whole camping trip anyway, and it still pulled $1.06 billion worldwide.
4. 5
   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)8.2

   Best Yule Ball, worst hair, decent at everything else.

   Critics and fans agreed for once: it beats 82% of movies with critics, 81% with audiences. The staircase entrance is the series' biggest glow up, and $901 million worldwide noticed.
5. 4
   The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)8.5

   Her best performance outside Hogwarts. Yes, better than Little Women.

   A reported $13M budget, $33.4 million worldwide, and it beats 92% of movies with audiences. The tunnel scene showed more range than any wand ever asked of her.
6. 3
   Little Women (2019)8.9

   Great movie. Watson plays the fourth most interesting sister.

   Metacritic 91 and 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics' favorite here. Greta Gerwig built it around Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh, and Meg mostly gets the leftovers.
7. 2
   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)8.9

   The best Potter movie, and it isn't close.

   Alfonso Cuarón made the series grow up, and Guru's Take gives it a 9.0, the highest on this list. Also the lowest grossing Potter here at $811 million worldwide.
8. 1
   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)9.3

   Number one, even though Azkaban is the better movie.

   Elite 9.3 movie.guru score, 1.07 million IMDb votes, $1.34 billion worldwide. The numbers crowned the finale. Guru's Take says 8.8, a notch below Azkaban's 9.0. Fight me?

$463.27 says you skip straight to the comments to defend Azkaban or Part 2, and nobody says a single word for Chamber.

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