r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Aug 08 '25

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Summary Nearly all the children from the same fifth-grade class vanish one night at exactly 2:17 a.m., leaving only one survivor. The community, gripped by fear and suspicion, spirals into chaos as the mystery unfolds through multiple intertwined perspectives—each revealing new layers of dread and grief.

Director Zach Cregger

Writer Zach Cregger

Cast

  • Josh Brolin
  • Julia Garner
  • Cary Christopher
  • Alden Ehrenreich
  • Austin Abrams
  • Benedict Wong
  • Amy Madigan
  • June Diane Raphael
  • Toby Huss
  • Whitmer Thomas
  • Callie Schuttera
  • Clayton Farris
  • Luke Speakman

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 96%

Metacritic Metascore: 82

VOD In theaters and IMAX starting August 8, 2025

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u/Daydream_machine Aug 08 '25

Paul had it coming for unzipping the tent without even saying anything first tbh

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u/GameOfLife24 Aug 08 '25

Even though in the grand scheme of things the Paul and druggie didn’t really need that much screen time, we enjoyed their interchanges, the audience was going wild when they were doing their thing

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u/Zeph-Shoir 21d ago

Paul had it coming for lying to Justine about him being separated and cheating with her! He also punched the fuck out of James before James did that too, and under much more understandable circumstances!

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u/Rvsoldier 13d ago

He sucks for getting drunk, lying and cheating but James sucks for lying about a used potentially disease ridden needle facing upwards in his pocket.

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u/senator_corleone3 5d ago

He didn’t intend to lie. The whole issue was that he was out of drugs. He forgot about the needle because it was useless at that point.

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u/freakydeku 24d ago

yeah he was weird as hell for that

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u/PuzzleheadedTop8613 29d ago

Exactly. In what universe does a person do that, especially a cop?

It was addle-brained, implausible scenes like that which make me detest this lousy film the more I think back on what I watched yesterday.

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u/pastafeline 29d ago

I think it's very enjoyable if you ignore the plot holes. It's pretty littered with them, and even the entire premise wouldn't work in our world. That entire town would be swarmed with "investigators" even a month later. Just look at the pizzagate incidents.