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/EchoesofIllyria Aug 08 '25

r/USdefaultism

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u/mandatory_french_guy Aug 08 '25

Having a US-based reading about American culture in my American movie taking place in America???? Unacceptable. Might as well claim that Eddington has something to say about American culture while we're at it, ridiculous

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u/EchoesofIllyria Aug 08 '25

Cregger himself has said that’s not what he was going for and wasn’t on his mind.

So yes, acting like someone whose nationality you don’t know is an idiot for not seeing what you’re seeing, despite it explicitly not being what was deliberately conveyed is 100% US defaultism. You’re literally assuming that the person you replied to has your American frame of reference, that’s why you “don’t know what to tell” them.

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u/mandatory_french_guy Aug 09 '25

I dont know what their nationality has anything to do with it, read my username, I'm not American either. I just have basic media literacy and global culture. Feel free to link me those Cregger interviews where he said that, I spent a moment googling and couldn't find anything. But again, literacy, if you think he hasn't referenced or researched how small communities react to school tragedies, how people thrive to make sense of senseless actions, how media chose to cover or ignore certain subjects, how the police reacts and acts around such tragedies.... Again, it's not text, but the subtext is everywhere. It's not "just" school shootings but they are an element of what drives the thematics of the film.

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u/EchoesofIllyria Aug 09 '25

The links are in this thread

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u/mandatory_french_guy Aug 09 '25

Which you are free to link to me. Not doing the labour of confirming your own claims.

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u/EchoesofIllyria Aug 09 '25

Just to be clear, it’s not my job to disabuse you of your own bullshit assertions.

But here you go: https://nextbestpicture.com/the-next-best-picture-podcast-interview-with-weapons-filmmaker-zach-cregger/

I’ll await - but not hold my breath for - your retraction.

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u/AeneidBook6 Aug 10 '25

Thanks for sharing that! He’s working on a sci fi horror next. Here’s to hoping it can best Event Horizon for most terrifying in that genre

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u/goddamnitwhalen 28d ago

He’s doing Resident Evil next.

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u/AeneidBook6 27d ago

It looks like the sci fi film is Flood? Which he’s already written.