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Matilda
1996
· Movie
· 98 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1493
- IMDb #2159
- Google retired #306
- Rotten Tomatoes #1519
- Metacritic #1182
- Letterboxd #1133
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1137
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2283
- Metacritic Critics #1314
- Metacritic Audience #1078
- Criticker #2240
- Douban #769
- Kinopoisk #770
- AlloCiné #2383
- Trakt #612
Every rating
43–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 43, highest is Google on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A brilliant and neglected young girl discovers she has psychokinetic powers. She uses them to stand up to her dim-witted parents and, later, the tyrannical headmistress of her school, Miss Trunchbull, who terrorizes the students. She finds an ally in her kind-hearted teacher, Miss Honey.
Details
- Director
- Danny DeVito
- Writers
- Nicholas Kazan, Robin Swicord
- Based on
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Studio
- Jersey Films, TriStar Pictures
- Released
- 2 August 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $36.0M
- Box office
- $33.5M
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Awards
3 wins & 7 nominations total
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