How to order “top rated” results by date and meta key?

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Your syntax is off – I can see you’re trying to add meta_value as an orderby param, but you’ve actually added as it an array entry – this is why formatting and indentation is important!

$rate_query = new WP_Query([
    'post_type'      => 'movies',
    'orderby'        => 'date meta_value_num',
    'meta_key'       => 'wtf_rscore', 
    'posts_per_page' => 14,
]);