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Jaws (1975)
A giant shark is beginning to feed on humans and a trio comprising a police chief, a tourist and a ship captain joins forces to fight the beast.
16 June 1968, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, USA
10 October 1912, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
16 September 1928, Thurber, Texas, USA
18 March 1938, New York City, New York, USA
16 August 1937, New York City, New York, USA
15 February 1923, Harlem, New York, USA
9 October 1914
15 January 1909, Massachusetts, USA
8 August 1963, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, USA
13 February 1929, USA
18 December 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
April 6, 1926
July 29, 2013
The result is a fast-paced, straight-line thriller that moves without pause toward the climactic contest at sea between three men and a 25-foot, 3-ton great while killer shark.
May 29, 2015
Spielberg had paced the film beautifully so that one is always on edge, tensed for those scary moments that turn out to be false alarms, and left somehow totally unprepared for the real shocks.
July 18, 2014
It's just such a good film.
June 20, 2015
Jaws knew how to keep audiences invested. While getting to know the human characters and seeing what makes them relatable, the audience salivates for another monster scene.
July 17, 2016
Relentless and intense, with characters that are the accurate realizations of their behaviors and special effects that dwarf the limits of the time.
July 06, 2015
Perhaps the most perfectly constructed horror story in our time.
November 24, 2014
With no superheroes or post-apocalyptic wastelands in sight, the skill behind Jaws becomes even more thrilling to watch unfold. ... Quite literally, Jaws is the original and the best.
June 12, 2015
Director Steven Spielberg has immeasurably improved the bestselling Peter Benchley potboiler novel.
July 29, 2013
It may be the most cheerfully perverse scare movie ever made. Even while you're convulsed with laughter you're still apprehensive, because the editing rhythms are very tricky, and the shock images loom up huge, right on top of you.
July 31, 2015
I don't think there's a more exciting talent at work right now than Spielberg, an authentic moviemaking prodigy, and perhaps his worst problem from June 20, 1975, on will be preventing success from making a nervous or artistic wreck of him.
December 22, 2016
Jaws is a splendidly shrewd cinematic equation which not only gives you one or two very nasty turns when you least expect them but, possibly more important, knows when to make you think another's coming without actually providing it.