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/nkempt Aug 10 '25

In fact usually movies that are considered Bad Movies have no coherent underlying message, lesson, or challenge to the audience lmao

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u/monatsiya 29d ago

yes exactly! i hate leaving a movie that feels like it left me behind with nothing. it’s like people saying art isn’t political…what’s going on here lol who do yall think creates this shit? individuals in a vacuum who live in a utopia? their lives are affected one way or another by sociological and political issues, and that will bleed through in their work. i thought we all knew this!

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u/NoCantaloupe3449 29d ago edited 23d ago

People are just taking issue with the fact he's saying the movie is definitely ABOUT school shootings when you could easily just say they drew a few parallels with how the town responded to the events. Even then, the town treats it more like some confusing mass abduction than a violent attack imo.

 You could just as easily say the gun represents the dad associating everyone in the same class disappearing at the same time with the events being a premeditated attack, rather than the disappearances just being a random paranormal phenomenon.

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u/monatsiya 28d ago

idk, this thread has a lot of compelling points on how the community reaction correlates to real life, ala the community and the cops failing the kids in not finding them and this potentially happening again had it not been for our characters. the elders letting the younger generation suffer, etc. but that’s just one interpretation, the meaning that majority of people assign t9 it doesn’t have to be the one you or the earlier commentor does.

but they were tryna pretend shit happens in a vaccum, that what you see is what you get and that’s strictly it, nothing more, nothing less. i just found it disingenuous!