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Anonymous
2011
· Movie
· 130 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3484
- IMDb #2729
- Rotten Tomatoes #3742
- Metacritic #3668
- Letterboxd #3934
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3933
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3840
- Metacritic Critics #3388
- Metacritic Audience #3836
- Kinopoisk #1292
- AlloCiné #2702
- Trakt #3638
Every rating
47–88
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 47, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 48, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →This political thriller proposes the controversial theory that Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, was the true author of William Shakespeare's plays. The film depicts a power struggle in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, suggesting the plays were used as propaganda to influence the succession of the throne, with the illiterate actor Shakespeare acting as a front.
Details
- Director
- Roland Emmerich
- Writer
- John Orloff
- Released
- 21 October 2011
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $15.4M
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