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The Birds (1963): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.6IMDb
95%Tomatometer
90Metacritic
7.5TMDB

The Birds is a 1963 horror, thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It scores 7.6 on IMDb, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, 90 on Metacritic, 7.5 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 8 of 78 films from 1963 in our catalog and number 33 of 1,143 horror films.

Billed cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies.

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