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The Pale Blue Eye
2022
· Movie
· 128 min
C
MEANRANK
64/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3339
- IMDb #3123
- Google retired #2038
- Rotten Tomatoes #2778
- Metacritic #3008
- Letterboxd #3454
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3208
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2699
- Metacritic Critics #2795
- Metacritic Audience #3199
- Criticker #2735
- Douban #2154
- Kinopoisk #4142
- AlloCiné #2134
- Trakt #2609
Every rating
38–84
out of 100
A weary detective is hired to investigate a gruesome murder at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Struggling to penetrate the institution's code of silence, he enlists the help of a young, eccentric cadet who will later become a famous writer of macabre tales. Together, they delve into the hidden darkness lurking beneath the academy's strict discipline, uncovering a web of strange rituals and secrets.
Details
- Director
- Scott Cooper
- Writer
- Scott Cooper
- Based on
- The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
- Released
- 22 December 2022
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $72.0M
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