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The French Connection (1971): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The French Connection is a 1971 action, crime, thriller film directed by William Friedkin. It scores 7.6 on IMDb, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 94 on Metacritic, 7.5 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 76 while Metacritic critics give it 94, a gap of 18 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 10 of 84 films from 1971 in our catalog and number 91 of 1,542 action films.

Billed cast: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frédéric de Pasquale.

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