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The Killing
1956
· Movie
· 85 min
A
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #300
- IMDb #453
- Rotten Tomatoes #172
- Metacritic #323
- Letterboxd #610
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #348
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #358
- Metacritic Critics #167
- Metacritic Audience #1260
- Douban #269
- Kinopoisk #1014
- AlloCiné #1245
- Trakt #1086
Every rating
75–96
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic users on 75, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 94, everyone else 80.
See the most agreed on films →Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Details
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writer
- Stanley Kubrick
- Released
- 6 June 1956
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $320.0K
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