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Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #342
- IMDb #158
- Rotten Tomatoes #299
- Metacritic #221
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #396
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #158
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- Metacritic Critics #313
- Metacritic Audience #35
- Kinopoisk #308
- Trakt #328
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 52, highest is Metacritic users on 85. Critics average 55, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In seventh-century Arabia, a young boy named Bilal and his sister are torn from their family and enslaved. Bilal grows up enduring cruelty but never losing his spirit and dreams of freedom. His extraordinary voice and unwavering faith lead him on a path that places him at the forefront of a revolutionary movement, transforming him from a slave into a legendary historical figure.
Details
- Directors
- Ayman Jamal, Khurram H. Alavi
- Released
- 8 September 2016
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $1.8M
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