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The Name of the Rose
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1578
- IMDb #724
- Google retired #1270
- Rotten Tomatoes #1675
- Metacritic #2292
- Letterboxd #1491
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2506
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1121
- Metacritic Critics #3059
- Metacritic Audience #973
- Criticker #636
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Lowest is Metacritic critics on 54, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 64, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a remote 14th-century Italian monastery, a Franciscan monk and his young apprentice arrive to attend a theological debate. Their visit is disrupted by a series of bizarre and gruesome deaths among the clergy. The monk must use his formidable powers of logic and deduction to unravel the mystery hidden within the abbey’s labyrinthine library.
Details
- Director
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Writers
- Alain Godard, Andrew Birkin, Gérard Brach, Howard Franklin
- Based on
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- Studio
- Cristaldifilm, Les Films Ariane, ZDF, RAI
- Released
- 24 September 1986
- Country
- France, Germany, Italy
- Language
- English, Latin
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $18.0M
- Box office
- $77.2M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| César Award 1986 | Best Foreign Film | Winner |
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