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The House That Jack Built
2018
· Movie
· 152 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3113
- IMDb #2635
- Google retired #3312
- Rotten Tomatoes #2987
- Metacritic #3528
- Letterboxd #1743
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3363
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3020
- Metacritic Critics #4116
- Metacritic Audience #2105
- Criticker #1242
- Douban #1336
- Kinopoisk #2536
- AlloCiné #1869
- Trakt #2941
Every rating
42–73
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 42, highest is Douban on 73. Critics average 50, everyone else 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Over a span of twelve years, a highly intelligent and meticulous engineer recounts five of his most "inspired" incidents to a mysterious companion. His stories detail his work as a serial killer, which he views as a form of brutal art, exploring his philosophical justifications for a life of escalating violence.
Details
- Director
- Lars von Trier
- Writer
- Lars von Trier
- Released
- 4 October 2018
- Country
- Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden
- Language
- English, German, Italian
- Runtime
- 152 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $9.8M
- Box office
- $5.6M
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Awards
11 wins & 17 nominations total
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