What is the Metascore for The Plague?

The Plague has a Metascore of 79 out of 100 on Celluloid.

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The Plague

Directed by Charlie Polinger · 2025

Quick Verdict

The Plague (2025) has a 75% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

75%

Celluloid Score Recommended

Averaged from 5 sources

100% Critic Score

60% Audience

79 Metascore

★★★½☆ Letterboxd 3.5

6.5 IMDb /10

Watch Trailer

Runtime: 2h 10m
Cast: Joel Edgerton , Everett Blunck , Kayo Martin , Kenny Rasmussen

Is The Plague worth watching?

Yes — The Plague earns a 75% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

Critics Consensus

Charlie Polinger turns a boys' summer swim camp into a pressure cooker of cruelty and shame, using queasy, chlorine-soaked atmosphere to transform ordinary preteen social panic into something genuinely nightmarish.
Celluloid Critics Consensus

Critics (100%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (60%).

What is The Plague about?

In the summer of 2003, at an all-boys summer water polo camp, socially anxious twelve-year-old Ben struggles to fit in amidst a ruthless social hierarchy....