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Knife in the Water (1962): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.4IMDb
97%Tomatometer
83Metacritic
7.3TMDB

Knife in the Water is a 1962 drama, thriller film directed by Roman Polanski. It scores 7.4 on IMDb, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 83 on Metacritic, 7.3 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 9 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 37 of 67 films from 1962 in our catalog and number 213 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Roman Polanski, Anna Ciepielewska.

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