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Bird Box
2018
· Movie
· 124 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3612
- IMDb #3055
- Google retired #2307
- Rotten Tomatoes #3047
- Metacritic #3626
- Letterboxd #4050
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3098
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3523
- Metacritic Critics #3342
- Metacritic Audience #3907
- Criticker #3065
- Douban #1462
- Kinopoisk #3159
- AlloCiné #2295
- Trakt #2555
Every rating
34–82
out of 100
A mysterious force has decimated the world’s population. The unseen presence causes anyone who looks at it to take their own life. A survivor and her two children must embark on a terrifying journey blindfolded down a treacherous river to reach the rumored safety of a sanctuary. They must navigate this unseen horror using only their sense of sound to guide them.
Details
- Director
- Susanne Bier
- Writer
- Eric Heisserer
- Based on
- Bird Box by Josh Malerman
- Released
- 13 December 2018
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $19.8M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Artios Awards 2020 | Film – Non-Theatrical Release | Mary Vernieu, Michelle Wade Byrd and Jina Jay | Nominee |
| Visual Effects Society Awards 2019 | Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature | Marcus Taormina, David Robinson, Mark Bakowski, Sophie Dawes and Mike Meinardus | Nominee |
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Artios Awards
1 nomination
| Film – Non-Theatrical Release | Mary Vernieu, Michelle Wade Byrd and Jina Jay | Nominee |
Visual Effects Society Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature | Marcus Taormina, David Robinson, Mark Bakowski, Sophie Dawes and Mike Meinardus | Nominee |