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Machine Gun Preacher
2011
· Movie
· 129 min
C
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3964
- IMDb #2932
- Google retired #1982
- Rotten Tomatoes #4008
- Metacritic #3739
- Letterboxd #3997
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4799
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3240
- Metacritic Critics #4027
- Metacritic Audience #2919
- Criticker #2664
- Kinopoisk #2844
- AlloCiné #1635
- Trakt #3029
Every rating
28–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 28, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 36, everyone else 66.
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Details
- Director
- Marc Forster
- Writer
- Jason Keller
- Released
- 23 September 2011
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $3.3M
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