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Releasing on Aug 9, 2024
  • 2024
  • R
  • Neon
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Neon
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father's boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen's mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn't seem r...

Directed By: Tilman Singer

Written By: Tilman Singer

  • 2024
  • R
  • Neon
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Neon
  • 1 h 42 m

Cuckoo

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
58
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Summary Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father's boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen's mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn't seem r...

Directed By: Tilman Singer

Written By: Tilman Singer

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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45% Positive
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55% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
58
45% Positive
5 Reviews
55% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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80
Apr 5, 2024
Cuckoo is equal parts head-scratcher and mind-blower but so ridiculously audacious that it's impossible not to obsess over.
By BJ Colangelo FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 22, 2024
As Cuckoo moves to its final third the fragments of its ideas never quite form a convincing whole. Luckily, Schafer is there to guide us through.
By Rory O'Connor FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 16, 2024
Part of the massive entertainment value of [Singer's] wild and unwieldy second feature is that it is refreshingly free of any kind of manifesto.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 21, 2024
Sure to be a cult classic, it’s quite literally cuckoo – and often gloriously so.
By Stephen A. Russell FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 16, 2024
At its best, the movie is kind of like The Stepford Wives meets Rosemary’s Baby, with side orders of Cronenberg, J-Horror and Lynch.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 19, 2024
One may wish that the absurdity of the conceit had been matched by a bit more irreverence in the script and audacity in the imagery.
By Pat Brown FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 16, 2024
Exuding more uncertainty than discipline, this wackadoo horror-thriller from German writer-director Tilman Singer can’t decide if wearing a smirk will see it through a sloppily developed plot, which keeps promising more than it delivers.
By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Fiction Park, Neon, Waypoint Entertainment
Release Date Aug 9, 2024
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Fear its call.
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Awards

Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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