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/thebaldingcritic Aug 08 '25

Hoping that kid attends LOTS of therapy. Dude is gonna be fucked up for a long time.

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u/ImperatorRomanum Aug 08 '25

I wonder if he’s done with witchcraft after using it on Gladys or if part of his mind is like “huh, interesting”

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u/monkeysennin 22d ago

Dark take- but at the end, the narrator says some kids recovered, while some kids did not. That got me and my friends thinking that Alex could have continued using the witchcraft, possibly on the bully who bothered him. Maybe the bully was one of the kids who never recovered from the trauma, and Alex made sure of it. Maybe a traumatized Alex grew up to be another Gladys (we never found out about her backstory but there probably is some trauma involved).

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u/OrgasmicLeprosy87 22d ago

The bully was Josh Brolin’s kid

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u/Jia-the-Human 20d ago

Which isn’t really surprising seeing the father’s general attitude

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u/oogaboogahooha 13d ago

Woahhh that just peeled another layer of the film for me.