Jaws Reviews
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A looming, terrifying catch of the day.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Film4
A classic. Tense, engrossing, scary and, subsequently, endlessly influential.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Kalamazoo Gazette
Like all the best suspense films, "Jaws" manages to somehow remain amazingly tense, even if you've seen the film before. No wonder so many moviegoers went back for repeat viewings.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Top CriticSteven Spielberg's mechanical thriller is guaranteed to make you scream on schedule.
The fast-moving 124-minute film engenders enormous suspense as the shark attacks a succession of people.
It's no wonder a generation of holidaymakers still thinks twice before stepping into the water.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Decent Films Guide
A true film of the 70s, all its characters have feet of clay… Yet Jaws boldly puts [them] to a test as dire as any faced by the granite-jawed supermen of earlier decades.
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| Original Score: A
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Achieves a number of cheap thrills at the expense of the mechanical shark.
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| Original Score: B
EmanuelLevy.Com
Along with being a terrific character-driven (not plot) thriller, Jaws should be viewed against the broader context of 1975 as part of a cycle of paranoia films, reflecting the Vietnam War, Watergate scandal, anti-authoritarianism, and political apathy
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| Original Score: A
Combustible Celluloid
Nowadays, it doesn't really scare me anymore, but I love watching it for the way it moves.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Boulder Weekly
The first calculated summertime blockbuster...A whale of big-budget Hollywood entertainment.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Jaws' formula has become a facsimiled equation for profit, of which the opening is the preeminent, telling feature.
Reno Gazette-Journal
One of the greatest horror films made. The opening sequence is not only a classic, it's still frightening nearly three decades after it was made.
| Original Score: 5/5
KFOR Channel 4 News
It just might be one of the very best movies ever made.
| Original Score: 5/5
When it comes to this kind of thriller, no movie has been able to top Jaws, although many have tried. And, as the years go by, it seems increasingly unlikely that anything will come close.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Goatdog's Movies
I loved the film more this time than I had the first time I watched it.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
culturevulture.net
Set Jaws beside any of the contemporary summer cash leviathans and the hollowness of modern-day Hollywood's vision of action-adventure entertainment is laid bare.
Apollo Guide
Director Steven Spielberg has constructed a chillingly frightening film.
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| Original Score: 85/100
