Staged in the New England tourist town of Amity Island where a young woman is eating by a shark forcing a trio to begin a battle against nature.
13 February 1929, USA
15 July 1945, New York City, New York, USA
16 September 1928, Thurber, Texas, USA
29 October 1947, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
16 August 1937, New York City, New York, USA
9 October 1914
April 6, 1926
20 September 1946, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 November 1932, Orange, New Jersey, USA
July 18, 1939 in Abington, Pennsylvania, USA
7 August 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 October 1912, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
24 March 1923, Washington, North Carolina, USA
March 1, 1924 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
8 May 1940, New York City, New York, USA
15 January 1909, Massachusetts, USA
July 18, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
18 December 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
December 22, 2016
Jaws is a splendidly shrewd cinematic equation which not only gives you one or two very nasty turns when you least expect them but, possibly more important, knows when to make you think another's coming without actually providing it.
June 12, 2015
Director Steven Spielberg has immeasurably improved the bestselling Peter Benchley potboiler novel.
May 29, 2015
Spielberg had paced the film beautifully so that one is always on edge, tensed for those scary moments that turn out to be false alarms, and left somehow totally unprepared for the real shocks.
July 31, 2015
I don't think there's a more exciting talent at work right now than Spielberg, an authentic moviemaking prodigy, and perhaps his worst problem from June 20, 1975, on will be preventing success from making a nervous or artistic wreck of him.
July 29, 2013
It may be the most cheerfully perverse scare movie ever made. Even while you're convulsed with laughter you're still apprehensive, because the editing rhythms are very tricky, and the shock images loom up huge, right on top of you.
November 24, 2014
With no superheroes or post-apocalyptic wastelands in sight, the skill behind Jaws becomes even more thrilling to watch unfold. ... Quite literally, Jaws is the original and the best.
July 18, 2014
It's just such a good film.
June 20, 2015
Jaws knew how to keep audiences invested. While getting to know the human characters and seeing what makes them relatable, the audience salivates for another monster scene.
July 17, 2016
Relentless and intense, with characters that are the accurate realizations of their behaviors and special effects that dwarf the limits of the time.
July 06, 2015
Perhaps the most perfectly constructed horror story in our time.
July 29, 2013
The result is a fast-paced, straight-line thriller that moves without pause toward the climactic contest at sea between three men and a 25-foot, 3-ton great while killer shark.
