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North by Northwest (1959): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

North by Northwest is a 1959 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It scores 8.2 on IMDb, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 98 on Metacritic, 8.0 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 82 while Metacritic critics give it 98, a gap of 16 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 93 films from 1959 in our catalog and number 22 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson.

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