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Alien (1979): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Alien is a 1979 horror, sci-fi film directed by Ridley Scott. It scores 8.4 on IMDb, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 89 on Metacritic, 8.2 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 5 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 85 films from 1979 in our catalog and number 2 of 1,143 horror films.

Billed cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm.

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