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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1319
- IMDb #1488
- Google retired #1951
- Rotten Tomatoes #1576
- Metacritic #493
- Letterboxd #1412
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1117
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2393
- Metacritic Critics #328
- Metacritic Audience #1219
- Douban #1784
- Kinopoisk #3240
- AlloCiné #2351
- Trakt #2407
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 68, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89. Critics average 88, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two brothers, deeply in debt and desperate, plan the seemingly perfect crime: robbing their own parents' jewelry store. They believe it will be a victimless crime, but the heist goes catastrophically wrong, triggering a violent chain of events that unravels their lives and exposes the lies, betrayals, and moral decay within their family.
Details
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Writer
- Kelly Masterson
- Released
- 26 September 2007
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $18.0M
- Box office
- $25.0M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Nastro d'Argento 2008 | Best Non-European Foreign Film | Sidney Lumet | Winner |
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1 awards — Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
×| Best Non-European Foreign Film | Sidney Lumet | Winner |