Infinitely watchable...

| Oct 24, 2024

It is a thriller, according to the classic distinction, of surprise rather than suspense. You feel like a rat, being given shock treatment, who has not yet figured out what to do to call off the buzzers.

| Jul 2, 2024

Most movies that come within a mile of this one's technical expertise hardly bother with such matters as logical human motivations, strong and unhammy acting and believable characters. Jaws, on the contrary, is rich in all of these.

| Jul 2, 2024

In what may be the best example of the "disaster" movie trend thus far, the setting is not a towering inferno nor a crippled airliner but a quiet resort town terrorized by an ancient, primitive and universal fear.

| Jul 2, 2024

Unquestionably Jaws is going to be the summer's blockbuster. It's a terrifying experience and much of its horror lingers in your head long after you've seen it.

| Jul 2, 2024

Jaws will make you go home and burn your bathing suits and stay away from the tub. But don't stay away from the film. It's a real blockbuster, alive with drama and excitement.

| Jul 2, 2024

A good commercial movie is one thing, however, and a good movie is another thing entirely. Jaws, like very few other major screen efforts, is both.

| Jul 2, 2024

One of the most terrifying films I have ever seen and one that could do for the Jersey Shore what botulism did for the Bon Vivant soup company some time ago.

| Jul 2, 2024

There isn't an ounce of dead wood in it; it is the sum total of thousands of 'effects' (special and otherwise) tested and tuned to produce the desired response in the audience. Jaws is a landmark of modem cinematic engineering.

| Jul 2, 2024

One of the few films around that actually do the work they promise. It'll unsettle you, make you jump, strain your expectations like a fishing line.

| Jul 2, 2024

I see a couple of cinch Oscar nominees emerging from this film. One is Verna Fields, for her superb editing. The other Robert Shaw, for his masterful characterization of Quint, the shark hunter.

| Jul 2, 2024

This film is not to be missed. It belongs to the cult of disaster, but is no disaster. A well-plotted and extremely exciting yarn, it must be one of the greatest fish stories ever.

| Jul 2, 2024

Even if the special attractions of the subject can be identified, Jaws could hardly have been the hit it is if it weren't into the bargain an exemplary bit of filmcraft and story-telling.

| Jul 2, 2024

I would not give my right arm to see it again; in fact wild sea-horses could not drag me back. Which means, I suppose, that it has succeeded in its purpose -- to arouse the primal fear in the spectator and scare the hell out of him on dry land.

| Jul 2, 2024

What results is an efficient if somewhat brutal thriller which is, perhaps, also somewhat inhuman since the characters are so dwarfed by the shark.

| Jul 2, 2024

A powerful, well-made thriller... Jaws is dynamite, artistically as well as commercially.

| Jul 2, 2024

The beauty of Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic is that you can choose how to watch it: as a summery, shark-bitten thriller or as an allegory about the failed leadership of institutions...

| Jun 25, 2020

...more interesting is where the political and personal intersect... which fits nicely with what the movie as a whole does so well, mixing the horror and adventure with the personal.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 19, 2020

Directed by Hollywood's newest wunderkind, Steven Spielberg... Jaws is a grisly film, often ugly as sin, which achieves precisely what it set out to accomplish -- scare the hell out of you. As such, it’s destined to become a classic.

| Sep 21, 2017

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.

| Dec 22, 2016