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High-Rise
MEANRANK
52/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5027
- IMDb #5285
- Google retired #3797
- Rotten Tomatoes #3797
- Metacritic #3263
- Letterboxd #4294
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3301
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4668
- Metacritic Critics #1934
- Metacritic Audience #4678
- Criticker #2829
- Kinopoisk #5302
- AlloCiné #5044
- Trakt #5033
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 37, highest is Metacritic critics on 65. Critics average 62, everyone else 50.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Residents of a luxurious, ultra-modern high-rise apartment building begin to form a self-contained society. The building's infrastructure starts to fail, and the social order rapidly breaks down. The affluent inhabitants descend into violent tribal warfare, with the building's floors becoming a new class system in this descent into primal chaos.
Details
- Director
- Ben Wheatley
- Writer
- Amy Jump
- Based on
- High-Rise by J. G. Ballard
- Released
- 22 November 2015
- Country
- United Kingdom, Belgium, Northern Ireland
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $4.3M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 7 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →2 wins from 9 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| British Film Designers Guild Awards 2017 | Best Production Design for an Independent Feature Film | Mark Tildesley, Frank Walsh, and Paki Smith | Winner |
| Diversity in Media Awards 2017 | Movie of the Year | High-Rise | Nominee |
| Empire Awards 2017 | Best British Film | High-Rise | Nominee |
| European Composer and Songwriter Alliance Grand Scores Award 2017 | Best Orchestral Score | Clint Mansell | Winner |
| London Film Critics' Circle Awards 2017 | British/Irish film of the Year | High-Rise | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2015 | Best Actor | Tom Hiddleston | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2015 | Best Screenplay | Amy Jump | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2015 | Best Supporting Actor | Luke Evans | Nominee |
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9 awards — High-Rise
×| Best Production Design for an Independent Feature Film | Mark Tildesley, Frank Walsh, and Paki Smith | Winner |
| Best Orchestral Score | Clint Mansell | Winner |
| Best Actor | Tom Hiddleston | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Amy Jump | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Luke Evans | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Sienna Miller | Nominee |
| Movie of the Year | High-Rise | Nominee |
| Best British Film | High-Rise | Nominee |
| British/Irish film of the Year | High-Rise | Nominee |