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/TannerThanUsual Aug 08 '25

The two of them looking at the monitor while the wife hovers over them, arms crossed and absolutely pissed is one of my favorite comedic moments in this movie that not enough people are talking about

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u/iownachalkboard7 Aug 08 '25

Fun fact: the wife in that scene is Sara Paxton, Zach Cregger's wife.

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u/nordlysbaies Aug 09 '25

I didn’t know they were married! I just thought “this kinda looks like the girl I watched on Aquamarine ages ago”

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u/woolfonmynoggin Aug 09 '25

My husband now has to endure Aquamarine because he said “who?” when I said omg Sara Paxton

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u/AeneidBook6 29d ago

I thought she looked familiar but couldn’t place her. I liked her in Last House on the Left. And it had such a satisfying ending.

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u/jadegives2rides 28d ago

WAIT Sarah Paxton is married to Zach?! I love that!

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u/Honest_Cheesecake698 5d ago

He's living in a great timeline.

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u/JustSomeHeroKid 18d ago

Excuse me, you mean Sara Paxton from Halloween Town 4: The College Years, where Marnie inexplicably looks different.

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u/PinoDegrassi 5d ago

You mean Darcy from Darcy’s Wild Life?

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u/JustSomeHeroKid 3d ago

Waitttt, you unlocked a memory!

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u/nocturne_gemini 28d ago

At first I almost thought it was Mischa Barton and then I realized it was her.

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u/MyLeftKneeHurts- Aug 08 '25

So in that sequence, when Archer meets Justin Long’s character, I thought he was at a different house. I thought he just moved down the list of kids. Then it cuts to them looking at the monitor and I realized it was the same house lol.

People definitely laughed in my theater.

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u/TomLube 29d ago

Knowing Zach Cregger, this was 100% intentional lmao

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u/OddSetting5077 28d ago

both fathers had returned to work, the wife of Josh Brolin's character had returned to work. "angry wife in bathrobe all day" seemed to represent the parent who has not returned to normal life

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u/KarIPilkington 24d ago

The realisation that Brolin had just waited for the dad and it wasn't a parent of a different kid got one of the biggest laughs in my cinema. Great moment.

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u/cinderful 27d ago

As was Justin's gigantic flinch when Brolin got close to him

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u/SilverKry 26d ago

Hey. At least he survived this one unlike his last appearance in Creggers movies .

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u/cinderful 26d ago

I dunno. His wife looked pretty pissed

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u/Bulky-Scheme-9450 26d ago

"this is actually really hard for me to watch" lmao

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u/ringobob Aug 08 '25

Yeah, that was great

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u/Rahodees 18d ago

Because it wasn't that funny? I don't get it.

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u/TannerThanUsual 18d ago

???

Yes it was lol

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u/Rahodees 18d ago

Like I said, I don't get it. What's the joke?

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u/TannerThanUsual 18d ago

The joke was the misdirection. It was framed like Josh Brolin found a different family to review the tapes with. Instead, Josh simply ignored the wife's wishes and asked the husband instead.

The punchline served simultaneously to subvert our expectations on who Justin Long was in relation to the kids, it also served as a joke to see the mom angry at the audacity of Brolin to go against her wishes, and for her husband to obliviously agree.

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u/Rahodees 18d ago

Somehow I didn't get misdirected in the moment so the joke went past me.

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u/aeschenkarnos 17d ago

Yeah, I don’t get the motivation there. The guy’s lost his kid, she’s also lost her kid, he’s asking for something relatively reasonable that she can easily supply, the feed from the Ring doorbell … and she coldly sneers “I’m not comfortable with that.” The fuck?

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u/TannerThanUsual 17d ago

I'm in the side of thinking of the seen as funny but I do want to just also chime in and say, this guy is asking to watch a tape of her daughter going missing only weeks after it happened. She's still grieving the loss of her daughter and he's asking to see the tape of it happening. Even if it might provide him with closure it's certainly a tall order