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The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 action, sci-fi film directed by Irvin Kershner. It scores 8.7 on IMDb, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 82 on Metacritic, 8.4 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 5 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 58 films from 1980 in our catalog and number 1 of 988 sci-fi films.

Billed cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse.

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