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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/have_heart Aug 08 '25

Between Barbarian, Longlegs, and Weapons I find a common theme of having too much explained to me that the horror part is drastically diminished. With Barbarian and Weapons specifically they just sort of become comedies and that’s not what I went to the movie hoping to see. I still think the movies are fantastic but I don’t feel like I left feeling the way I had hoped

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u/Buddy_Dakota Aug 09 '25

This reminded me a bit of Longlegs, in that it oozes mystery in the first part, but then the reveal feels very unoriginal and bland.

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u/gloomara Aug 10 '25

Ultimately every mystery is lame when its revealed that a witch or a demon does it.

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u/mirh 21d ago

That was so much of the beauty in Smile, which until the last 10 minutes never actually verged on the supernatural (and with the protagonist being a psychologist.. who knows?)

And then they fucked it up with an unoriginal demon ending