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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 sci-fi, drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It scores 7.6 on IMDb, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, 90 on Metacritic, 7.3 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 76 while Metacritic critics give it 90, a gap of 14 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 4 of 79 films from 1977 in our catalog and number 73 of 988 sci-fi films.

Billed cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, J. Patrick McNamara.

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