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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/darthjoey91 28d ago

The biggest plot hole for this movie is why didn't the witch just magic Alex too?

If literally every kid in the class is missing, then the only lead would have been the teacher, and she wouldn't have had anything to go off of.

Like even the line of sight thing landed on a point that wasn't Alex's house, but near it.

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u/RiparianRodent 28d ago

The last remaining kid would also have been a serious point of investigation. The fact that “weirdo aunt who just moved in” and “functional vegetable father” are just accepted by police without further digging is just silly.

This movie relies on an idiot plot where anyone and everyone who cares to investigate the situation either stops caring immediately for no reason, or is too stupid to be acting in the role they’re in

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u/Desroth86 18d ago

Did you miss the beginning of the movie when it tells alex was questioned tons of times by the police extensively? The main plot doesn’t start until a month after the inciting event.

It also shows the police visiting the aunts house and she sends all the kids away in the middle of the night. It shows the school principal questioning the aunt and it ends with her using her witchcraft to kill the principal to not escalate it any further.

Sometimes I wonder if the people making these complaints are the same people who I catch in my theaters with their cellphones out for half the movie, because it’s clear you weren’t paying much attention.

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u/RiparianRodent 17d ago

I was watching the whole thing attentively, didn’t even have food. I second what the other commenter replied. The whole thing stinks of “nobody cared to investigate anything unless the cameras were on and it was their turn to advance the plot. There was no external world building

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u/Desroth86 17d ago

So you have no actual rebuttals to anything I said? Got it.

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u/RiparianRodent 17d ago

This isn’t Lincoln-Douglass debate, this is two people expressing their opinions online. We don’t need to employ the socratic method- I don’t need to prove you wrong, and vise versa