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Black Bear
2020
· Movie
· 106 min
B
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2266
- IMDb #3556
- Google retired #3213
- Metacritic #1369
- Letterboxd #1976
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1122
+4 more
- Metacritic Critics #755
- Metacritic Audience #2926
- Kinopoisk #4976
- Trakt #4085
Every rating
60–89
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89. Critics average 84, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →At a remote lake house, a filmmaker guest disrupts the relationship of a couple. The story is presented in two parts: the first shows a tense love triangle, while the second part reconfigures the same actors in different roles on a movie set, blurring the lines between performance, reality, and artistic manipulation.
Details
- Director
- Lawrence Michael Levine
- Writer
- Lawrence Michael Levine
- Released
- 4 December 2020
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Rated
- R
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