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Red Tails
2012
· Movie
· 125 min
D
MEANRANK
56/100
Every rating
26–82
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 26, highest is Google on 82. Critics average 44, everyone else 58.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Details
- Director
- Anthony Hemingway
- Writers
- Aaron McGruder, John Ridley
- Studio
- Lucasfilm Ltd., Partnership Pictures
- Released
- 19 January 2012
- Country
- United States, Czech Republic, Italy, Slovenia
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $58.0M
- Box office
- $50.4M
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