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Back to the Future (1985): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

8.5IMDb
93%Tomatometer
88Metacritic
8.3TMDB

Back to the Future is a 1985 comedy, sci-fi film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It scores 8.5 on IMDb, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 88 on Metacritic, 8.3 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 3 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 94 films from 1985 in our catalog and number 6 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Claudia Wells, Thomas F. Wilson.

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