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The Dog Stars
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4306
- IMDb #3808
- Rotten Tomatoes #3408
- Metacritic #4106
- Letterboxd #4489
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4228
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2621
- Metacritic Critics #3472
- Metacritic Audience #4541
- Kinopoisk #4291
- AlloCiné #2678
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 41, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 70. Critics average 45, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.
Details
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Writer
- Mark L. Smith
- Based on
- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
- Released
- 26 August 2026
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $110.0M
- Box office
- $37.4M
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