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A Balasaur Score of 51 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes 21%, Metacritic 44/100. Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,550 2010s crime movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Prime.
Synopsis
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes21%
Metacritic44/100
Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do.
1,475 audience votes
Key crew
- James McTeigueDirector
- Lucas VidalOriginal Music Composer
- Hannah ShakespeareScreenplay
- Ben LivingstonScreenplay
Cast
- John CusackEdgar Allan Poe
- Luke EvansDetective Fields
- Alice EveEmily Hamilton
- Brendan GleesonColonel Hamilton
- Kevin McNallyMaddux
- Oliver Jackson-CohenJohn Cantrell
- Jimmy YuillCaptain Eldridge
- Pam FerrisMrs. Bradley
- Brendan CoyleReagan
- Sam HazeldineIvan
- Adrian RawlinsDoc Clements
- Aidan FeoreStage Manager
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Themes
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