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Animals
Film
FilmR2026
Animals
Directed by Ben Affleck
When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money spent on his political campaign, they have to get their hands dirty and expose a side of their lives they never intended to see the light of day. From TMDB
229 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 18 | 41 | 151 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| TMDB reviews * | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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At a glance
Animals is a 2026 thriller drama action film, directed by Ben Affleck, starring Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington and Gillian Anderson.
- 208 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Apr 24, 2024 to Nov 5, 2026
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Critics, per Wikipedia
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 30% of 79 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.4/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 33 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.
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Reactions
60 of 229 · most liked firstIt needs to be treated as importantly as "no animals were harmed during the making of this film" Because yeah, for a time? Animals got harmed and people accepted it as a part of the process. And it was wrong. So is this, and it needs to stop.
neutral · AI labelView post →How fucking tone deaf have you gotta be to know mostly furries play your game and you decide to pull a fucking “AI VIDEO CONTEST” our your dumb stinking ass … and you think they’re gonna be cool with that? I can the review bombs now. Fuck Ai, Party Animals you just dug your own grave.
neutral · AI labelView post →Anything without context is absurd. The movie industry used real animals and tortured or killed them. That's why nowadays movies show the "No Animals Were Harmed" disclaimer. Many food industries abused human rights, that's why nowadays we have disclaimers like "100% Fair Trade". See the pattern?
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you know… Tango is from ‘Good Dog Animals,’ a company that rescues and trains animals specifically for film and TV? They also rehabilitate woodland animals. •ᴗ•
neutral · AI labelView post →~Lily & Ivy - Cam Footage~ Lily and Ivy are often caught on film in strange locations. Animals do not tend to flee in their presence. (Photo from my backyard animal cam)
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve become my mother. She can’t watch nature shows. Animals suffering and dying—no go. And now, that’s me. If a movie or show promises to show killed or suffering animals, I’m out. I suppose in some ways, we become our parents. In only some ways…
neutral · AI labelView post →👏 US actor and director Sean Penn has appeared in the Ukrainian film War Through the Eyes of Animals for a fee of just one dollar. 📸: USA Art News
neutral · AI labelView post →Do. Not. Harass. Wild. Animals. To. Film. A. Video!
neutral · AI labelView post →This snake represents a shift towards passion and working with animals that truly intrigue and challenge us! On top of that he’s absolutely amazing looking! Our son has also been watching the Sponge Bob movie if you can’t tell! #markhamreptiles #whitelippedpython #animals #snake #reptile
neutral · AI labelView post →🇺🇸🇺🇦American actor and director Sean Penn joined the Ukrainian film War Through the Eyes of Animals for a symbolic $1 fee.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: “Dangerous Animals” (2025), directed by Sean Byrne
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Dangerous Animals (2025) Dir: Sean Byrne #Movies #Film #Horror
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: “Nocturnal Animals” (2016), directed by Tom Ford
neutral · AI labelView post →Holy moly, Sean Byrne of The Loved Ones (2009) fame has his new film Dangerous Animals just announced in this years' Directors' Fortnight lineup at Cannes - huge moment for Australian horror! variety.com/2025/film/gl...
neutral · AI labelView post →Why did no one tell me that Ben Affleck used AI in his film Animals to accidentally remake a scene from Mac and Me? Hilarious. Sorry, how much did Netflix acquire his company for? Good grief.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gillian Anderson in the upcoming movie Animals
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Of The Day... Dangerous Animals 🦈🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Dangerous Animals (2025) 🎬🖤 Directed by Sean Byrne
neutral · AI labelView post →Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones, The Devil’s Candy) heads into shark-infested waters with new horror movie DANGEROUS ANIMALS, and it's swimming to theaters on June 6, 2025.
neutral · AI labelView post →just fyi, horror fans: you could watch Together on Hulu, Dangerous Animals on AMC+ or rent 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple or Primate instead of seeing that cursed, franchise-killing sequel now in theaters 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW FILM! 🔊🚨 Party with Simon's Cat and his new friends in Party Animals - Pt. 3 of our Back to the Vet Special! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkPY...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched DANGEROUS ANIMALS with about 100 folks who’d apparently never seen a movie before. A good time! #JaiBless
positive · AI labelView post →Share a movie featuring ANIMALS I’ll start… ‘Grizzly’ (1976) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film Dangerous Animals (2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →Animals were originally introduced as a promotional tie-in with the Rob Schneider movie THE ANIMAL
neutral · AI labelView post →5. DANGEROUS ANIMALS I fucking loved this movie. The performances are great, it’s a downright nasty survival horror thriller.
positive · AI labelView post →ANIMALS: You cannot imagine how many terrible drone shots there are in this movie.
negative · AI labelView post →Two @guinnessworldrecords.com. World’s youngest documentary presenter and the youngest newspaper columnist. #GWR #documantry #film #animals #nature #wildlife
neutral · AI labelView post →My Go-To Cure-All's (No Order): 🖤 Laughter 😂 🖤 Music 🎶 🖤 Orgasms / Sex 🫦 🖤 Delicious Food 😋 🖤 A good cry 😢 🖤 Hugs/Cuddles: People and Animals 🤗 🖤 Being in Nature 🖤 Getting Lost in a Movie, Series, Game, or Book
neutral · AI labelView post →Ben Affleck used AI to make parts of ANIMALS, which tracks, since the whole film plays like nobody cared enough to make anything feel real. My review of a movie so slapdash and halfhearted that not even Gillian Anderson gives a good performance (!) is at @thewrap.com.
negative · AI labelView post →Before you decide to spend a couple hours streaming ANIMALS this weekend, a reminder that Affleck very casually used “lots” of AI for the film and is a little too comfortable with that.
negative · AI labelView post →Tabekko Doubutsu: THE MOVIE / Dream Animals: The Movie (2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie #1: The best no-budget splatter film almost no one has watched RISE OF THE ANIMALS (2011)
neutral · AI labelView post →You know full well that Cannibal Holocaust caused more real harm than some manga. Animals died. People were almost burned alive. You cannot criticize fictional depictions of assault then dismiss a movie that actually caused sexual trauma on its actors.
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a movie featuring ANIMALS 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →That new Affleck movie on Netflix, Animals. Didn't think Id like it, but it was sooo good.
positive · AI labelView post →I was sent this clip from the ending of Ben Affleck’s Netflix movie ANIMALS, a scene that likely has been partially created by AI, and I’m watching it over and over again while laughing my ass off this morning.
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to film. 📚=🎞️ Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell. Adapted in 1954 animated film, 1999 live action film, and 2025 animated adventure comedy film. An allegorical story of farm animals that critiques the events of the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalinism. 😱🐷 #booksky #filmsky #animals
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ #FilmSky #NowWatching Nocturnal Animals (2016) Dir. Tom Ford
neutral · AI labelView post →Wednesday movie: Day of the Animals (1977) ***
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a movie featuring ANIMALS ‘Jonesy’
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a movie featuring ANIMALS
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie 88- Dangerous Animals (2025) #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #HorrorSky @shudder.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Camille Saint-Saëns birthday! (1835-1921) Yes, you know "Carnival of the Animals" and "Danse Macabre" other concert works, BUT did you know he was the first major composer to write an original film score? In 1908! For THE ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF GUISE: #filmsky #moviesky #classicalmusic
neutral · AI labelView post →Sad that Criterion Channel's upcoming salute to Jeremy Thomas doesn't include the only film he directed, ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS--one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen, but I've never forgotten it. (Animal lovers Christian Bale and John Hurt vs. animal hater Daniel Benzali.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ben Affleck, an actor/director I like, has a new film out on Netflix. ANIMALS is yet another remake of Kurosawa’s HIGH & LOW, and it is dreadful. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
negative · AI labelView post →BEN AFFLECK WOULDN’T SAY WHICH PART OF HIS NEW MOVIE ANIMALS USED AI BECAUSE IT WAS WRITTEN, DIRECTED, AND STARTED AI. 0/10. Just shit.
negative · AI labelView post →We’re never gonna get another DANGEROUS ANIMALS and that movie fucked.
positive · AI labelView post →Finally out. I don't like being mean to Ben Affleck. Bro is one of my filmmaking idols, I adore this man. Argo is a Top favorite movie of mine, I worship that film. Air is also up there. But Animals is so ungodly fucking boring that it's hard to believe it was actually directed by Ben Affleck.
negative · AI labelView post →Apparently Matt Damon was supposed to be in Ben Affleck's recent film Animals but ditched it because he was busy with The Odyssey. Considering what I've heard about Animals, Damon seriously chose wisely.
neutral · AI labelView post →A little snack 🥨 and movie 🎬 #nowwatching "Nocturnal Animals"
neutral · AI labelView post →As director of Gone Baby Gone, The Town + Argo, Ben Affleck knows how to make movies, but his latest for Netflix, political thriller Animals, falls short of the mark. A politician takes matters into his own hands after a failed attempt to kidnap his son. 3 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/10/11/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →(Sourced from The Animals of Farthing Wood, Season 3) Casual comic fans when there isn't a Batman cameo in the film:
neutral · AI labelView post →Animals of the surface film.
neutral · AI labelView post →ANIMALS, a film by Ben Affleck, opens Friday at the Paris! When their son is kidnapped, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate and his wife find themselves drawn into a web of deception. Starring Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington, and Gillian Anderson. paristheaternyc.com/film/animals...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the natural horror film, Day of the Animals, for DILF reasons.
neutral · AI labelView post →A 1965 movie that got SUED by Brian Epstein! ‘Go-Go Big Beat' packed 14 bands & 28 songs into one trailer - Lulu, the Animals, the Hollies - then flashed this credit: 'Music by THE BEATLES! Epstein sued over the implication, since the Beatles never appeared in it. Seen this one?
neutral · AI labelView post →I hadn’t watched a movie in about a week and I put on Animals (2026)…. Not the best welcome back to movies choice lol
negative · AI labelView post →This is, oddly enough, one of the themes of the new Ben Affleck Netflix movie ANIMALS. Specially in reference to that phrase too. (Which is so so as a movie overall but pretty decent as a Netflix watch)
neutral · AI labelView post →Monkey de Cat watching TV. He's more of a rocker yam than a couch potato. 😅 #cats #TuxedoCats #pets #tuxies #animals
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