"Jaws" was released in 1975, quickly becoming the highest-grossing picture made up to that time, and forever wresting the summer releasing season away from B movies and exploitation pictures. The major Hollywood studios, which had avoided summer, now identified it as the prime releasing season, and "Jaws" inspired hundreds of summer thrillers ...
Jaws movie review & film summary (1975)
Jaws. Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" is a sensationally effective action picture, a scary thriller that works all the better because it's populated with characters that have been developed into human beings we get to know and care about. It's a film that's as frightening as " The Exorcist ," and yet it's a nicer kind of fright, somehow more fun ...
Jaws
Rated: 5/5 Sep 24, 2023 Full Review Cory Woodroof For the Win (USA Today) Jaws is the pinnacle of shark movies, one of the greatest ... Jaws (1975) Jaws (1975) Poster Art Jaws (1975) View more photos
'Jaws': 1975 Movie Review
'Jaws': 1975 Movie Review Getting right to the point, "Jaws" is an artistic and commercial smash. Producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, and director Steven Spielberg, have the ...
Jaws
Jaws (1975) is a classic that defined the modern Summer Movie Blockbuster as we know it. It still plays like gangbusters and will make you deeply nervous around water. Full Review | Sep 10, 2021
'Jaws' Review: 1975 Movie
June 22, 2015 10:25am. Photofest. A blockbuster arrived in U.S. theaters on June 20, 1975. The PG-rated, 124-minute feature adaptation of the best-selling novel Jaws quickly captured the attention ...
Jaws (1975)
9/10. Even with very dated technology, this is a great film to watch. planktonrules 1 January 2022. Back in 1975, "Jaws" made a huge splash (pardon the pun) in theaters. It set all sorts of box office records and made the covers of magazines all over the country. And, the film was seen as groundbreaking and amazing.
Jaws (1975)
Jaws: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary. When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Jaws (1975)
Steven Spielberg overcame the lumpy plotting of Peter Benchley's novel to create an efficient, graceful fright machine in Jaws. 100. ReelViews James Berardinelli. ReelViews James Berardinelli. The first is the best. When it comes to this kind of thriller, no movie has been able to top Jaws, although many have tried.
Jaws
1975 PG Universal Pictures 2 h 4 m 1975 PG Universal Pictures ... "Jaws" is one of the top 10 movies ever. More importantly, it is my greatest movie experience. ... We recap the just-concluded festival with a list of award winners and review summaries for dozens of films making their world premieres in Cannes, including new titles from David ...
Jaws (film)
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.
Jaws (1975)
Film Features The Popcorn Champs From the depths of a disastrous shoot swam Jaws , the ultimate summer blockbuster In the 1949 thriller The Third Man , Orson Welles plays Harry Lime, one of the ...
L.A. Times' original 1975 review of 'Jaws' unearthed: We hated it
Here's the full review from then-Times entertainment editor Champlin, published on June 20, 1975, with the headline, "Don't Go Near the Water": The first and crucial thing to say about the ...
Jaws Movie Review
Our review: Parents say ( 103 ): Kids say ( 462 ): This film remains a horror classic that effectively transcends the genre and the time in which it was released. Though Jaws is one of Steven Spielberg 's early films, his adept building up of the tension -- heightened by the now almost universally known two-note "shark attack" music provided by ...
Jaws
Jaws (United States, 1975) A movie review by James Berardinelli. ... The second half of the film is the classic man against beast, with Jaws representing the rarest of movie monsters - something that exists in the depths of the ocean (albeit typically in smaller dimensions). This, of course, is the clash for which people watch the movie, and it ...
Jaws at 40: Read What TIME Thought of the Movie in 1975
2 minute read. The June 23, 1975, cover of TIME TIME. By Lily Rothman. June 19, 2015 9:30 AM EDT. S hortly after the movie Jaws was released 40 years ago this weekend, TIME declared in a cover ...
'Jaws' (1975): An exciting, grandiose adventure (review)
The 1975 "Jaws," directed by Stephen Spielberg, and starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, is a marvelous movie with great cinematography, a fantastic score composed by John Williams, and a contagious excitement.
JAWS (1975) Movie Review
The Maniacal Cinephile reviews JAWS (1975) directed by Steven Spielberg. JAWS changed the movie industry by becoming the first summer blockbuster and highest...
'Jaws' sends shivers of terror down the spine: 1975 review
AP. FILE - In this 1975 film publicity image originally released by Universal Pictures, Roy Scheider, left, and Richard Dreyfuss are shown in a scene from the movie "Jaws," 1975.
Jaws Review: A Thriller That Left Me Rooting For the Shark
As Collider looks back on movie classics, we review the 1975 classic, Jaws, amidst its IMAX re-release.
Jaws Movie Review for Parents
Rated in 1975, before the classification system had a PG-13 category, the film received a PG. Using today's system, Jaws would likely have been awarded a PG-13 (or perhaps even R - due to the drug use depicted in the opening scene) considering the many bloody feedings portrayed. The movie also includes graphic shots of severed limbs and one ...
Jaws (1975)
Jaws - Movie review by film critic Tim Brayton. Cast : Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss Screenplay : Carl Gottlieb, Peter Benchley Release : June 18, 1975 Director : Steven Spielberg Genre : Horror, Thriller, Adventure Country : USA Stream Now Carrie's Rating : Rob's Rating : Tim's Rating : Bang for your Buck :
The 10 Best So-Bad-They're-Good Movie Franchises, Ranked
Starting way back in 1975, Jaws is one of the most iconic movies ever made, following a great white shark that's attacking people at random. Considered a bonafide classic and arguably the first ...
Review: 'Under Paris' Is The Best Shark Movie Since 'Jaws'
The problem shark movies have is they got it right the first time. Yes, I know there were shark movies before Jaws, but that 1975 Spielberg classic made sharks mainstream, and since then it has never been surpassed.Under Paris doesn't quite escape the long triangular shadow of that movie either, but it has a better go than most wannabes in the last few decades.
Theater expresses 'regret' for Richard Dreyfuss' remarks at 'Jaws' event
Dreyfuss, who appeared in the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster, had controversial words, witnesses said. The Massachusetts theater said the words may have caused "distress."
Netflix's Under Paris is every killer-shark movie rolled up in one
Tasha Robinson leads Polygon's movie coverage. She's covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. Gens and co-writers Maud Heywang ...
Richard Dreyfuss comments at 'Jaws' screening prompt theater apology
A sold-out event at the Cabot Theater in Beverly, Mass., on Saturday was billed as a screening and chat with one of the 1975 film's stars, Richard Dreyfuss, but Dreyfuss' comments subsequently ...
'Under Paris' Review: At Last, a Shark Movie Worthy of Swimming ...
In much the same way that Godzilla was driven to his city-destroying ways by radiation-emitting nuclear tests, Lilith (as our apex-predator antagonist is somewhat endearingly known) seeks refuge ...
'Under Paris' Netflix Shark Movie Review: Stream It or Skip It?
The film courts ingenuity by setting scenes in the flooded underground catacombs of Paris, which is a way of setting shark-slaughter in an ancient crypt without contorting reality too egregiously.
Netflix's new shark movie is being compared to 'Jaws'
A new shark movie has just landed on Netflix, and it could well be one of this summer's surprise blockbusters. Directed by Xavier Gens, "Under Paris" is a French-language original that sees Paris ...
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"Jaws" was released in 1975, quickly becoming the highest-grossing picture made up to that time, and forever wresting the summer releasing season away from B movies and exploitation pictures. The major Hollywood studios, which had avoided summer, now identified it as the prime releasing season, and "Jaws" inspired hundreds of summer thrillers ...
Jaws. Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" is a sensationally effective action picture, a scary thriller that works all the better because it's populated with characters that have been developed into human beings we get to know and care about. It's a film that's as frightening as " The Exorcist ," and yet it's a nicer kind of fright, somehow more fun ...
Rated: 5/5 Sep 24, 2023 Full Review Cory Woodroof For the Win (USA Today) Jaws is the pinnacle of shark movies, one of the greatest ... Jaws (1975) Jaws (1975) Poster Art Jaws (1975) View more photos
'Jaws': 1975 Movie Review Getting right to the point, "Jaws" is an artistic and commercial smash. Producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, and director Steven Spielberg, have the ...
Jaws (1975) is a classic that defined the modern Summer Movie Blockbuster as we know it. It still plays like gangbusters and will make you deeply nervous around water. Full Review | Sep 10, 2021
June 22, 2015 10:25am. Photofest. A blockbuster arrived in U.S. theaters on June 20, 1975. The PG-rated, 124-minute feature adaptation of the best-selling novel Jaws quickly captured the attention ...
9/10. Even with very dated technology, this is a great film to watch. planktonrules 1 January 2022. Back in 1975, "Jaws" made a huge splash (pardon the pun) in theaters. It set all sorts of box office records and made the covers of magazines all over the country. And, the film was seen as groundbreaking and amazing.
Jaws: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary. When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Steven Spielberg overcame the lumpy plotting of Peter Benchley's novel to create an efficient, graceful fright machine in Jaws. 100. ReelViews James Berardinelli. ReelViews James Berardinelli. The first is the best. When it comes to this kind of thriller, no movie has been able to top Jaws, although many have tried.
1975 PG Universal Pictures 2 h 4 m 1975 PG Universal Pictures ... "Jaws" is one of the top 10 movies ever. More importantly, it is my greatest movie experience. ... We recap the just-concluded festival with a list of award winners and review summaries for dozens of films making their world premieres in Cannes, including new titles from David ...
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.
Film Features The Popcorn Champs From the depths of a disastrous shoot swam Jaws , the ultimate summer blockbuster In the 1949 thriller The Third Man , Orson Welles plays Harry Lime, one of the ...
Here's the full review from then-Times entertainment editor Champlin, published on June 20, 1975, with the headline, "Don't Go Near the Water": The first and crucial thing to say about the ...
Our review: Parents say ( 103 ): Kids say ( 462 ): This film remains a horror classic that effectively transcends the genre and the time in which it was released. Though Jaws is one of Steven Spielberg 's early films, his adept building up of the tension -- heightened by the now almost universally known two-note "shark attack" music provided by ...
Jaws (United States, 1975) A movie review by James Berardinelli. ... The second half of the film is the classic man against beast, with Jaws representing the rarest of movie monsters - something that exists in the depths of the ocean (albeit typically in smaller dimensions). This, of course, is the clash for which people watch the movie, and it ...
2 minute read. The June 23, 1975, cover of TIME TIME. By Lily Rothman. June 19, 2015 9:30 AM EDT. S hortly after the movie Jaws was released 40 years ago this weekend, TIME declared in a cover ...
The 1975 "Jaws," directed by Stephen Spielberg, and starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, is a marvelous movie with great cinematography, a fantastic score composed by John Williams, and a contagious excitement.
The Maniacal Cinephile reviews JAWS (1975) directed by Steven Spielberg. JAWS changed the movie industry by becoming the first summer blockbuster and highest...
AP. FILE - In this 1975 film publicity image originally released by Universal Pictures, Roy Scheider, left, and Richard Dreyfuss are shown in a scene from the movie "Jaws," 1975.
As Collider looks back on movie classics, we review the 1975 classic, Jaws, amidst its IMAX re-release.
Rated in 1975, before the classification system had a PG-13 category, the film received a PG. Using today's system, Jaws would likely have been awarded a PG-13 (or perhaps even R - due to the drug use depicted in the opening scene) considering the many bloody feedings portrayed. The movie also includes graphic shots of severed limbs and one ...
Jaws - Movie review by film critic Tim Brayton. Cast : Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss Screenplay : Carl Gottlieb, Peter Benchley Release : June 18, 1975 Director : Steven Spielberg Genre : Horror, Thriller, Adventure Country : USA Stream Now Carrie's Rating : Rob's Rating : Tim's Rating : Bang for your Buck :
Starting way back in 1975, Jaws is one of the most iconic movies ever made, following a great white shark that's attacking people at random. Considered a bonafide classic and arguably the first ...
The problem shark movies have is they got it right the first time. Yes, I know there were shark movies before Jaws, but that 1975 Spielberg classic made sharks mainstream, and since then it has never been surpassed.Under Paris doesn't quite escape the long triangular shadow of that movie either, but it has a better go than most wannabes in the last few decades.
Dreyfuss, who appeared in the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster, had controversial words, witnesses said. The Massachusetts theater said the words may have caused "distress."
Tasha Robinson leads Polygon's movie coverage. She's covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. Gens and co-writers Maud Heywang ...
A sold-out event at the Cabot Theater in Beverly, Mass., on Saturday was billed as a screening and chat with one of the 1975 film's stars, Richard Dreyfuss, but Dreyfuss' comments subsequently ...
In much the same way that Godzilla was driven to his city-destroying ways by radiation-emitting nuclear tests, Lilith (as our apex-predator antagonist is somewhat endearingly known) seeks refuge ...
The film courts ingenuity by setting scenes in the flooded underground catacombs of Paris, which is a way of setting shark-slaughter in an ancient crypt without contorting reality too egregiously.
A new shark movie has just landed on Netflix, and it could well be one of this summer's surprise blockbusters. Directed by Xavier Gens, "Under Paris" is a French-language original that sees Paris ...