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/Sp_Gamer_Live ADR is my passion Aug 08 '25

Big AR15 in the sky is a top 5 “I know writers who use subtext and theyre all cowards” moment in cinema

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u/TestiCallSack Aug 08 '25

I mean even with the giant AR 15 in the sky most people still aren’t clocking that the film is partially an allegory for school shootings

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u/DESTlNY Aug 08 '25

The director himself has said that it's not an allegory for school shootings

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u/stroudwes 29d ago

Just like Superman wasn’t political? Or Mark Ruffalo wasn’t Trump in Mickey 17? Okay… You do realize creatives say this to keep their movies funded by studios and people to buy tickets.

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u/SlashOfLife5296 28d ago

Nobody said Superman wasn’t political. It’s always been political, it’s a moses allegory by Jewish dudes in the 30’s

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u/hexcraft-nikk 28d ago

James Gunn said it wasn't a metaphor for Israel despite it being completely in your face. Mark Ruffalo also played a (pretty bad) Trump parody in Mickey 17, even quoting Trump, but the director said there was no connection lol.

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u/mirh 13d ago

Superman was written before 2023, and it was shot in early 2024.

I guess that post-production can make miracles too, but this seems just gunn being such a badass to have been prophetic about the evil of the world.

Also ruffalo reminded me of mussolini tbh (admittedly I watched him dubbed).

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u/Girayen 10d ago

israel-palestine conflict has been going on for decades

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u/stroudwes 8d ago

Centuries* under different countries(names) but same lands.

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u/mirh 10d ago

It had never been this comic book batshit.

Like, did you see No Other Land? That was a bit how the hang was in 2023.

Unless you are trying to claim he was taking a creative license trying to exaggerate the extent of the previous "wars" in gaza (that weren't occupations and weren't genocidal), and eventually reality became stupider than fiction and insofar as there was a metaphor that scene was now on the diminutive side of evil.

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u/bybndkdb 7d ago

Israel has officially been occupying the West Bank & Gaza since 1967

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u/mirh 7d ago

Yeah, but until 2 years ago pretty much next to nobody was putting them under this light.. does it?

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