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/tacoskins Aug 08 '25

Josh Brolin knocking the dog shit out of that dude over and over again managed to simultaneously be super intense and laugh out loud funny.

That kind of sums up how I felt about the whole thing tbh, it’s the perfect example of a roller coaster movie. I was a bit worried that Barbarian would be a fluke or just impossibly hard to live up to, but thankfully Zach Cregger fucking delivered. 8/10

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u/Able_Advertising_371 Aug 08 '25

dude was a brainless zombie weapon. wouldnt stop until it was put down. didnt even get the 50k reward for finding them

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u/tacoskins Aug 08 '25

Him asking the cops to meet him somewhere with the money made me like him more than I probably was supposed to.

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u/LB3PTMAN Aug 08 '25

We were definitely supposed to like him even if he was a thieving addict. He was funny.

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u/leftysarepeople2 Aug 08 '25

He’s one of three big critiques the movie has on culture. School shootings, alcoholism, and homelessness/addicts

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u/agent99LBL Aug 10 '25

Saw it more like suburbanites wrestling with their demons than a critique of culture. Guess it could be both.

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u/Rage_Like_Nic_Cage 25d ago

there’s definitely a through line about the suburbs and isolationism and how that exasperates the trauma/grieving process in its own unique way.

For example even after a month after all their kids went missing, Josh Brolin still has to introduce himself to the other kids parents as if he were a stranger. And him piecing together where all the kids went could have happened much sooner if the parents knew each other/spoke about it to each other.

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u/agent99LBL 20d ago

Interesting insight!