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The Matador
2005
· Movie
· 97 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3260
- IMDb #2977
- Rotten Tomatoes #2405
- Metacritic #2296
- Letterboxd #2958
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2400
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2902
- Metacritic Critics #1935
- Metacritic Audience #2955
- Kinopoisk #4014
- AlloCiné #4738
- Trakt #4104
Every rating
48–75
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 48, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever, as Wright is suddenly thrust into a far-from-mundane existence that he takes to surprisingly well … once he gets acclimated to it.
Details
- Director
- Richard Shepard
- Writer
- Richard Shepard
- Released
- 12 May 2005
- Country
- Germany, Mexico, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $17.3M
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