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It

2017

Andy Muschietti

Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard ...

6.4

36,311

Horror. Fantasy In the Town of Derry, the local kids are disappearing one by one, leaving behind bloody remains. In a place known as 'The Barrens', a group of seven kids are united by their horrifying and strange encounters with an evil clown and their determination to kill It.

	Author	Review
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"Visual flair and a solid cast keep Andy Muschietti's patchy Stephen King adaptation afloat (...) It’s a collection of alternately terrifying, hallucinatory, and ludicrous nightmare imagery"	NEU
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Satisfying, if not quite terrifying (...) 'It' is a solid thriller that works best when it is most involved in its adolescent heroes' non-monster-related concerns."	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"The movie emphasizes the story's nuanced coming-of-age sentiment rather than being all horror, all the time, capturing the low-key brilliance of King’s writing (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Drew Taylor The Playlist	"A triumphant, terrifying adaptation (...) It’s striking how much this new version of 'It', despite all of the changes, alterations and adjustments, feels like the original novel."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"King's novel comes to sprawling life with plenty of scary moments to spare. The story, however, is anything but fresh (...) It’s impossible to shake the feeling that we’ve been here many times before"	NEU
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"'It' is essentially two movies. The better by far (and it’s very good) is the one that feels like a darker 'Stand by Me' (...) 'It' doesn’t shy away from nastiness"	POS
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"More successful as a coming-of-age movie than a horror, 'It' still ranks among the better Stephen King adaptations — no small praise indeed (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"[Muschietti] makes the most of every new apparition at his disposal (...) [Lieberher and Lillis] invest their parts with a nuance and sympathy that pull us through in the long run (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A collection of scares which could be shuffled and presented in any order. In some ways, it is more suited to a TV series (...) Almost everything here looks like route one scary-movie stuff that we have seen before"	NEU
United Kingdom	Rosie Fletcher Digital Spy	"A horror triumph and the best Stephen King adaptation in years (...) Muschietti's movie is full of flair (...) as well as some impressive set pieces (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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