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Bad Times at the El Royale
2018
· Movie
· 141 min
B
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2006
- IMDb #1922
- Google retired #2086
- Rotten Tomatoes #2055
- Metacritic #2244
- Letterboxd #2311
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2377
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2172
- Metacritic Critics #2435
- Metacritic Audience #1884
- Douban #1837
- Kinopoisk #2125
- AlloCiné #1835
- Trakt #2033
Every rating
60–84
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 60, highest is Google on 84.
See the most agreed on films →Seven strangers, each with a secret to hide, converge on a rundown hotel that sits directly on the border between California and Nevada. Over the course of one fateful night, their stories intersect as they are forced to confront their pasts and a dangerous cult leader who arrives seeking one of them.
Details
- Director
- Drew Goddard
- Writer
- Drew Goddard
- Released
- 4 October 2018
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $32.0M
- Box office
- $31.9M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Saturn Award 2018 | Best Thriller Film | Winner |
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Saturn Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Thriller Film | Winner |