Sacrifice

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Sacrifice

R

2025

1h 43m

Comedy

Adventure

Action

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After the fiery death of their mother, Joan (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her siblings, driven by a mysterious volcanic prophecy, believe it is their duty to cleanse the Earth. Their radical group hijacks a glamorous charity gala and takes three unlikely hostages for a sacrificial ritual: their hero, movie star Mike Tyler (Chris Evans); their villain, pragmatically cold billionaire Ben Bracken (Vincent Cassel); and their lover, an unlucky performer named Katie (Ambika Mod). As the night descends into chaos, both an inward journey and an outward adventure ensue, where the line between performance and belief, salvation and sacrifice, begins to blur.

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Bilge Ebiri

New York Magazine/Vulture

13 hrs ago

Thinking more about Sacrifice, I realize it also belongs to a certain utopian strain of filmmaking that is, secretly, mired in helplessness.

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Adam Nayman

Sight & Sound

Nov 4, 2025

In the end, vain, cowardly, Mike proves to be more Captain Planet than Captain America – but it’s all for naught; the movie proceeds directly to the memory hole.

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Peter Debruge

Variety

Sep 15, 2025

There’s a virtuosity to Gavras’ filmmaking, which yields some surprising laughs and thrills along the way... [But] of all Gavras’ cine-revolutions, this one is both most familiar and the farthest removed from our reality.

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Lady Jenevia

LadyJenevia (YouTube)

2 days ago

3/5

Anya Taylor-Joy’s performance of a devoted believer in a cause is the most convincing by far. There are stylish flourishes and creative set pieces but the story would have benefitted from deeper intellectual and thematic material [on the] climate crisis.

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

Sep 29, 2026

C

"Sacrifice" goes soft when it should hit harder, only really scoring intermittent laughs and messaging as it commences, making for a disappointing second half.

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Ridge Harripersad

CGMagazine

May 20, 2026

5.5/10

"Sacrifice lost its way partway through, stumbling into its own volcanic magma by the time the credits rolled."

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Stefan P

@RT20645640 2 hrs ago

The time I sacrificed watching this horrible movie i"ll never get back!

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After the fiery death of their mother, Joan (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her siblings, driven by a mysterious volcanic prophecy, believe it is their duty to cleanse the Earth. Their radical group hijacks a glamorous charity gala and takes three unlikely hostages for a sacrificial ritual: their hero, movie star Mike Tyler (Chris Evans); their villain, pragmatically cold billionaire Ben Bracken (Vincent Cassel); and their lover, an unlucky performer named Katie (Ambika Mod). As the night descends into chaos, both an inward journey and an outward adventure ensue, where the line between performance and belief, salvation and sacrifice, begins to blur.

Director: Romain Gavras
Producer: Robert Walak, Gregory Jankilevitsch, Giorgos Karnavas, Jacob Perlin, Klaudia Śmieja
Screenwriter: Will Arbery
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Film 4, Mid March Media
Rating: R (Language|Some Sexual References|Some Bloody Violence)
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 16, 2026
Runtime: 1h 43m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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