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Stop Making Sense (1984): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

8.7IMDb
100%Tomatometer
94Metacritic
8.4TMDB

Stop Making Sense is a 1984 documentary, musical film directed by Jonathan Demme. It scores 8.7 on IMDb, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 94 on Metacritic, 8.4 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 7 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 8 of 77 films from 1984 in our catalog and number 6 of 109 documentary films.

Billed cast: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, Ednah Holt, Lynn Mabry.

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