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West Side Story (1961): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
West Side Story is a 1961 crime, drama, romance film directed by Robert Wise. It scores 7.6 on IMDb, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, 86 on Metacritic, 7.2 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 76 while Metacritic critics give it 86, a gap of 10 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 12 of 72 films from 1961 in our catalog and number 122 of 1,511 romance films.
Billed cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland.
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