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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.7IMDb
92%Tomatometer
83Metacritic
7.4TMDB

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 sci-fi, thriller, drama film directed by Robert Wise. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, 83 on Metacritic, 7.4 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 6 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 7 of 65 films from 1951 in our catalog and number 57 of 988 sci-fi films.

Billed cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Billy Gray, Sam Jaffe, Hugh Marlowe, Lock Martin.

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