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Murder by Numbers
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4341
- IMDb #4199
- Rotten Tomatoes #4316
- Metacritic #3561
- Letterboxd #4239
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4714
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4084
- Metacritic Critics #3406
- Metacritic Audience #3602
- Kinopoisk #2680
- AlloCiné #4263
- Trakt #3826
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 30, highest is Google on 78. Critics average 40, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A seasoned homicide detective is assigned to investigate a brutal murder that appears to be a random killing. She becomes convinced that two intellectually gifted high school students are responsible, having staged the perfect crime as a philosophical exercise. With no physical evidence, she must outsmart the arrogant teenagers and prove their guilt before they kill again.
Details
- Director
- Barbet Schroeder
- Writer
- Tony Gayton
- Released
- 19 April 2002
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $56.7M
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