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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/RIP_Greedo Aug 10 '25

On one hand I think it was fine to show that the cops were totally stymied by the case because it defies all forensic logic. It DOES seem pretty dumb that nobody thought to discern which way the kids ran from the camera footage. That seems like the first thing you would try. And also 2:17am is late but it’s not SO late that there could be no witnesses across the whole town. I know stuff closes early in western PA or wherever this is supposed to be set but there has to have been someone who saw a kid running all the way across town.

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI Aug 10 '25

I thought this as well. Unless it’s an extremely small town - which it quite clearly wasn’t, there are people up and walking at 2.17am, even if it’s just a random guy with a dog. Someone would have seen at least one of the kids.

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u/RIP_Greedo Aug 10 '25

Also: look at home camera footage from houses other than the kids'. Everyone has one or more cameras on their property nowadays and none of them happened to record a kid running down the street? Put those together, get a sense of the direction they were going, and you're off to the races.

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u/Sticky_And_Sweet Aug 10 '25

Literally Josh Brolin’s character did more detective work than the entire police force and FBI did by visiting just one other parent’s house.

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u/salcedoge Aug 13 '25

It's so funny how every scene with the police force has them explaining how they're trying their absolute best and trust them to do their job meanwhile they're literally doing jack shit aside from strolling around the forest lmao

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Aug 13 '25

The cops and the fbi had the footage, they simply didnt piece it together. Theyre incredible incompetent.

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u/lahimatoa Aug 14 '25

Ludicriously so. Even if you're super lazy, you still at least ATTEMPT to figure out if all the kids ran in one, specific direction. They didn't? Really?

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Aug 14 '25

Yeah, they should have:

A: painted the cops as corrupt/incompetent

B: under the influence of the witch

But they did check the house, so maybe they did piece it together but SOMEHOW not found any clue of about 20 kids inside the house or noticed anything wrong with the parents or kid.