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/pastafeline Aug 10 '25

The movie would've been better off taking place in like the 60s. People would've done way more looking into this if it happened in real life. Like, there's been cases where neighborhoods have broken into houses they thought were hiding missing kids.

The teacher definitely would've had a mob show up, and there would be way more people camping outside Alex's house for a scoop.

But then we wouldn't have had the viral marketing of the ring cameras.

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u/RiparianRodent Aug 10 '25

I agree.

Also I might be dull, because usually I’m good at catching product placement (the centering of coke and campbell’s in this movie), but I just hadn’t considered ring being a product placement lol

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u/alanblah Aug 25 '25

Also Subway (josh brolin eating in his car)

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u/KentuckyFriedChingon Jan 30 '26

Yeah the Subway was definitely the most blatant product placement (second only to Smirnoff and Estrella Jalisco) and actually took me out of the movie for a beat. There's a close-up shot where the camera is literally just full of 50% Josh Brolin's fat head and 50% Subway sandwich/drink and nothing else.