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The Killing (1956): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Killing is a 1956 crime, thriller, drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick. It scores 7.9 on IMDb, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 91 on Metacritic, 7.6 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 79 while Metacritic critics give it 91, a gap of 12 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 5 of 87 films from 1956 in our catalog and number 66 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia, Marie Windsor.

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