Brightburn (2019)
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? (imdb)
Country: USA
Directed By: David Yarovesky
Written By: Brian Gunn, Mark Gunn
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Gregory Alan Williams, Jennifer Holland, Matt Jones, Meredith Hagner, Terence Rosemore, Becky Wahlstrom, Jackson A. Dunn, Abraham Clinkscales, Christian Finlayson, Emmie Hunter
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| Aug 18 |  |
Eignarom | 76 60% |
| Aug 18 |  |
wintersunset | 60 29% |
| Aug 18 | Maaya1x2 | 2 14% |
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| Aug 18 |  |
semitozge | 39 6% |
| Aug 17 |  |
amazedemon | 54 10% |
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Brightburn is as underwhelming as it is painful to watch. The promise of a Superman gone wrong (and given the final scene, this is undeniably the movie's aim) is squandered by focusing on a bratty child's tantrum over what seemingly amounts to a week. My main problem with the movie is that the characters and the plot are driven solely by dumb decisions, to the point where barely anyone is likable (or more accurately sympathetic). The movie doesn't shy away from gore, though I didn't that either.
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| Aug 17 | elimpe | 50 11% |
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| Aug 17 |  |
calinki | 65 23% |
| Aug 17 |  |
Yoshinaruto | 55 33% |
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For the pros, the premise is good, and the actors carry their weight. The cons are more nitpicks, but there’s a lot. Nearly every jump scare is lazy and unnecessary. The first third of the movie is a collection of unrelated brief scenes where something weird happens. There is no depth to Brandon, with the movie snapping its fingers to make him evil, instead of him getting high off power or something. Banks’ character isn’t a great protagonist either. It’s kinda fun, but underwhelming.
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| Aug 16 |  |
bybrt | 40 15% |
| Aug 16 |  |
melancholiaa | 55 7% |
| Aug 16 | cakmamcg | 40 37% |
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| Aug 16 |  |
EmreZabun3 | 63 20% |
| Aug 15 |  |
garbo | 36 23% |
| Aug 15 | spyce | 66 31% |
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| Aug 15 |  |
korbenPL | 23 13% |
| Aug 14 |  |
Guernica | 22 14% |
| Aug 14 |  |
philamental | 40 9% |
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Smallville meets The Omen! A concept with a lot of potential, but Brightburn fails to meet it. Instead we get a movie that takes itself far too seriously without any substance for doing so. They could at least have made it more fun by being a bit campy or OTT. The main kid is neither creepy nor evil enough to pull this off, and instead always has a dopey look about him which is in contrast to his supposed intelligence. Entirely predictable and lacking tension, Brightburn is more of a DullFizzle
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| Aug 14 |  |
BadCosmonaut | 2 7% |
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Spoilers. This movie wasted my time. The movie establishes a premise of a "what if" question - what if child superman was evil and kills people. My problem is that the movie never explores the answer to that question. The only answer we get is the question repeated back to us...what if he's evil and kills? Then he's evil and kills. The end. That's a fundamentally flawed story since it never progresses past the premise. Nothing else happens or is explored beyond that.
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| Aug 13 |  |
Kaan Kavusan | 40 11% |
| Aug 13 | Kianoto | 53 10% |
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| Aug 12 |  |
capitalist | 40 15% |
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Jaifman | 79 61% |
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halkas | 50 41% |
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Darkling | 30 7% |
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| Aug 09 | marjacko | 80 93% |
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el-ahrairah | 29 6% |
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Uatu | 1 12% |
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nanoth | 68 19% |
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Korsoh | 60 13% |
| Aug 08 | LesterGroans | 55 17% |
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| Aug 08 |  |
Dalboz | 52 22% |
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roonay3k | 40 14% |
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Smallville with a evil and younger Clarke Kent. Predictable and boring.
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| Aug 08 |  |
ikkegoemikke | 90 97% |
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I thought this anti-superhero film was just fabulous. [Full Review]
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| Aug 07 | Candiru | 40 14% |
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NhanLa | 50 20% |
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Iamdwg | 62 20% |
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Skippey | 28 14% |
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Marcos92 | 75 25% |
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neurophate | 44 14% |
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navid.g | 72 36% |
| Aug 05 | macab | 67 44% |
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Winternight | 20 10% |
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guvolefou | 15 1% |
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fact100 | 20 10% |
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Scarface | 50 20% |
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EbruCavdarli () | 30 2% |
| Jul 31 | bigoomp | 10 20% |
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| Jul 30 | YourNameHere | 95 84% |
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| Jul 25 | aferreira | 75 25% |
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erdu | 60 37% |
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HKi | 45 7% |
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shotton25 | 50 24% |
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topalsolucan | 70 32% |
| Jul 15 | apostlion | 78 45% |
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| Jul 14 |  |
Engord | 55 13% |
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ibodirector | 50 26% |
| Jul 13 | y.caliskan | 64 23% |
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muratkrks | 70 59% |
| Jul 11 |  |
kk3thess | 30 7% |
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WarrenWho | 70 57% |
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cankutozturk | 71 21% |
| Jul 09 | CrazyJim9380 | 78 57% |
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PunisherGT | 81 44% |
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Angliche92 | 50 15% |
| Jul 04 | siweq86 | 70 54% |
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jacqueskit | 30 20% |
| Jul 03 | danialinho | 40 11% |
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emrealtintas | 55 22% |
| Jul 02 | Prokroustis | 50 10% |
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offlineoz | 25 11% |
| Jun 30 | Croctopus | 67 57% |
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kyriei2 | 35 18% |
| Jun 29 | zevel6 | 59 63% |
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kubrickvari | 30 5% |
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Inkerictus | 60 22% |
| Jun 28 |  |
bof | 53 30% |
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We Need To Talk About Kal-El has a good premise, and one we sorely need at a time when the entirety of Western culture has turned into one big superhero franchise. Unfortunately it never really does much with that premise, adding neither depth, character, or much of a sense of fun to it. Some nice gore though.
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| Jun 27 | AchwellFoley | 38 20% |
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| Jun 27 |  |
seanfury | 4 6% |
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Great acting, good soundtrack, but overall a disappointment. The gore was over the top and unnecessary. The ending left more to be desired.
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| Jun 27 |  |
donmezsefa | 35 10% |
| Jun 26 |  |
lumen | 6 45% |
| Jun 25 |  |
Obdurate | 55 17% |
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I can say I enjoyed it but most of that was because I was waiting for the story to expand and be more than superhero torture porn. I figured something neat would happen. The premise is great, and admittedly if this happened in real life this is what would happen, but this still could have been executed better. Where's the actual plot exactly? What Warren said is true: there's a lot to dig into but it doesn't really do any of it.
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| Jun 25 | Hooker367 | 100 95% |
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EvilMangoes | 41 18% |
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FreddieQuell | 37 23% |
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DarrenCB | 50 17% |
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sacmersault | 62 24% |
| Jun 23 | gackt | 60 27% |
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| Jun 23 |  |
ADragon91 | 50 26% |
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Brightburn didn't live up to its potential. It was mostly a Jump-Scare Horror cliched ride that was not doing anything all that interesting with the actual characters. The kid is never really explained why he is evil from the very beginning and he just scares people for no good reason. A lack of character development just made the whole thing feel hollow. Some of the shots are nicely done and the acting is good especially from the kid himself. Some okay action, but overall just wasted potential.
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| Jun 23 |  |
Mystxis | 40 25% |
| Jun 22 |  |
Rexlito | 79 31% |
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It was okay and kinda funny.
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| Jun 22 |  |
BillyShears | 70 53% |
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The Gunns walk into the pitch meeting with a covered easel. “Show me”. A crude photoshop of Elliot Rodger’s head on Superman’s body.
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| Jun 22 |  |
guy piranha | 30 6% |
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Thanks to the visionary filmmakers of our time we got to see "what if E.T. was evil?", we got to see "what if superman was evil?"...and yet the most important question still goes unanswered: what if the people behind this crap were good?
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| Jun 22 |  |
hotsake | 52 37% |
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Some of the effects were good and the premise is interesting but this was not a good movie. The acting is bad all around, the story is threadbare and lacking, they never give good reasons why things go the way they go or why the various characters act the way they do or do what they do. The idea could have worked but I'd say this was a fail.
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| Jun 22 | Parasite | 20 6% |
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suurjuust | 55 39% |
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Eagle-X | 3 23% |
| Jun 21 | Aventinus | 48 16% |
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| Jun 20 | ANastase | 62 7% |
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haljordan2 | 1 % |
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Bown | 66 24% |
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avgcrtckr | 35 17% |
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filmaffinity | 58 39% |
| Jun 20 | joebocop | 60 38% |
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| Jun 19 | fireplacer | 67 34% |
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| Jun 16 | StegSchreck | 60 38% |
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eats-almonds | 2 10% |
| Jun 13 | dh1998 | 83 44% |
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VanillaSky | 40 23% |
| Jun 08 | Ciaphass | 60 19% |
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VengefulKBM | 55 30% |
| Jun 07 | conradgzz | 94 32% |
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| Jun 07 | doyler29 | 50 16% |
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Here's the boardroom pitch for this movie: He's Superman, only he's a bad guy! Isn't that just "Man of Steel"? No, it's a horror movie! Isn't that just "Man of Steel"? No, this has a lot of gore and no character development to speak of. Oh ... sure, why not? It'll also be like "Stranger Things", only set in 2016, so the deliberately retro touches will be confusing. Wait, why do we want to make this?
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| Jun 07 |  |
Darren | 30 10% |
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We really didn’t need to see that guy’s jaw smashed off his face
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| Jun 07 |  |
drawingboard | 40 2% |
| Jun 07 | ihatemovies1 | 70 34% |
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| Jun 07 | marhlew | 55 23% |
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| Jun 06 |  |
Warren | 54 6% |
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This is a cool premise that you can really dig into: there's a lot of questions you can ask about pop culture's fascination with superhero mythology, the psychology of adoption and parenthood, puberty/growing up, sociopathy, etc. Unfortunately this movie is content with "Superman but bad!!!", getting by on some cool sequences and a good Elizabeth Banks performance but not much else. A real disappointment that leads you to wonder why they even bothered if they didn't have anything to say with it.
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| Jun 05 |  |
Seethruskin | 2 13% |
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What if Superman, but incel?
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| Jun 05 | law | 8 19% |
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It does the least it can in order to be considered a movie. This is so rote, you wonder why anyone bothered.
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| Jun 05 |  |
KOS-MOS | 25 21% |
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I struggle to take the premise of this movie seriously and in execution, it's equally as laughable. We're given no reason why Brandon turns evil beyond him inherently being that way, the Superman symbolism comes across as laughable and lazy, the attempts at jump scares come across as more funny than scary, and the costume looks retarded. This movie is god awful, but I hope it creates an expanded universe where I can continue laughing at these tryhard edgy attempts at "superhero horror."
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| Jun 02 | jimmyjazz | 75 66% |
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| Jun 02 | Ashetails | 75 61% |
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| Jun 01 |  |
slassy | 35 4% |
| Jun 01 | fabkebab | 60 29% |
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SageSledge | 70 46% |
| May 31 | bdfolsom | 37 23% |
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| May 31 | Danwo | 60 10% |
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| May 30 | tliu9 | 83 28% |
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clayj41 | 52 21% |
| May 29 | KingBread | 70 54% |
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| May 28 | rrrxr6 | 20 1% |
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| May 28 | gummorabbit | 80 63% |
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| May 28 | TheStraub | 51 19% |
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EricDSnider2 | 82 49% |
| May 27 | blucthulhu | 60 37% |
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| May 27 | mattnawrocki | 45 17% |
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| May 26 | StaticSnow | 60 21% |
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| May 26 | RoyalB | 70 63% |
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| May 26 | pArLFt | 70 % |
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| May 26 |  |
toxicwind | 7 45% |
| May 25 | BasedOne | 4 6% |
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| May 24 | zflbdaf | 75 37% |
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| May 24 |  |
Megaharrison | 64 70% |
| May 24 | filmcricket | 44 25% |
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| May 24 |  |
CStuckmann | 85 50% |
| May 24 |  |
JeremyJahns | 4 56% |
| May 24 | CarsonWid | 74 70% |
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A satire without the comedy. Lots of fun moments.
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| May 24 |  |
Cipher067 | 50 27% |
| May 23 | chiphall72 | 47 12% |
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| May 23 |  |
luord | 64 54% |
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It's an interesting concept, the performances are great and it's choke full of references and homages, both subtle and overt. It suffers from a repetitive nature, but it holds through.
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| May 23 |  |
nickv | 64 44% |
| May 22 |  |
MetaCritic2 | 45 19% |
| May 18 |  |
Vandelay1 | 55 53% |
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okay movie
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| Average Percentile 27.59% from 159 Ratings |  |
