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The Rat Catcher

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The Rat Catcher

2023

17m

Comedy

Animation

Drama

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A lesser-known Roald Dahl short story about a professional rodent exterminator.

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Adam Graham

Detroit News

His actors are across-the-board superb...

Rated: A-

Oct 6, 2023

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Sam Adams

Slate

[The] visual presentation and rapid-fire dialogue make [it] instantly recognizable as Anderson's, but [the] tone takes him into territory so unexpected it might be disorienting if his hand were not so sure.

Oct 3, 2023

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Lest viewers become even briefly comfortable with the enchantments of his staging and of his actors’ performances, Anderson jolts them alert with ever more audacious contrivances.

Oct 3, 2023

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Zach Youngs

InSession Film

Marvel at the deft editing of The Rat Catcher.

Jul 3, 2024

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A.S. Hamrah

n+1

In unprecedented total avoidance of cheese in commercial narrative filmmaking, the act of writing and the writers doing it appear in these movies, but Anderson refrains from showing their writing on the screen in superimposition.

Mar 8, 2024

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

...hinges on a brilliantly comic performance from Ralph Fiennes.

Rated: 3.5/4

Nov 2, 2023

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Kalissa H

I really enjoyed the twist ending. I felt sorry for the stop-motion rat though.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/25

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Jens B

Anderson's style fits the original perfectly, Fiennes/Ayoade/Friend are great - but unfortunately I wasn't interested in the story at all. Yes, you can read a lot into it, but you can also just enjoy the stop motion rat and the actors. Like me.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/18/25

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Pranay K

Guess where Ralph Fiennes' inspiration to be the Rat Catcher came from? C'mon, take a shot! Okay, I'll go: Remember Voldemort's fellow Death Eater, Peter Pettigrew? Hehe, that's all I have to say!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/01/24

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Crissy N

Very entertaining. Much different from anything else I've seen recently. I really enjoyed it.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/16/24

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Bruce C

If you like Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl--it's perfect. It's sooooo Wes Anderson. If you don't like Wes Anderson, and creepy fairy tales, like the original Brothers Grimm, pass.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/15/24

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Donald A

It is in this film, the most, seemingly, dialogue-laden of the three shorter Dahl-by-Anderson films, the director shows his trademark irony and, very intriguingly, starkly dark images. I believe that this may be the first time that Anderson has ventured into a concept of this magnitude. I was not disappointed.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/08/24

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Synopsis

A lesser-known Roald Dahl short story about a professional rodent exterminator.

Director: Wes Anderson
Producer: Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales
Screenwriter: Wes Anderson
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: American Empirical Pictures, Netflix, Indian Paintbrush
Genre: Comedy, Animation, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 29, 2023
Runtime: 17m

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