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130 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Nov 1, 2026 · How this works
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The Weight is a 2026 drama thriller film, directed by Padraic McKinley, starring Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe and Julia Jones.
- 107 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span May 22, 2025 to Oct 31, 2026
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Critics, per Wikipedia
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of 142 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "The Weight turns a stripped-down tale of desperation into a gripping, hard-hitting thriller, elevated by Ethan Hawke's magnetic performance and Padraic McKinley's assured direction." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
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Reactions
60 of 130 · most liked first"The main character, Ethan Hawke‘s Samuel Murphy, might be Steinbeck’s plainspoken Tom Joad reimagined as an action hero...Hawke understands that in movie acting, sometimes the best approach is to let your face do the talking." Review of The Weight. Excellent film. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
positive · AI labelView post →Here’s the thing about THE WEIGHT. It’s a movie I feel like I could confidently recommend to *anyone*. Old, young, smart, dumb, indifferent, snobby or vulgarian. It’s sort of a miracle — a great survival thriller but so, so much more. www.vulture.com/article/the-...
positive · AI labelView post →I wish I knew the logic behind certain distribution plans. example: The Weight got rave reviews at Sundance. then Vertical bought it. they released it with virtually no marketing and it bombed miserably, despite being one of the year's best movies. how do these companies stay in business?
neutral · AI labelView post →#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday September has been a slow and, tbh, not a great movie month for me. Still one left over from previous week. The Weight was good but didn't live up to the hype for me.
neutral · AI labelView post →#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky #letterboxdFriday #film Enjoying the films of the Cindependent Film Festival. Outside of that, I enjoyed both The Weight and Heart of the Beast. I don't think you could go wrong with either
positive · AI labelView post →Saw THE WEIGHT last night. I was blown away. We only saw it because nothing else caught our eye; we hadn't even seen a trailer. Seriously, catch this one if you can before it disappears.
positive · AI labelView post →The old-fashioned, character-driven action-drama THE WEIGHT is the kind of movie that will be praised because "they don't make 'em like this anymore." But, honestly, they don't, and Ethan Hawke is superb.
positive · AI labelView post →My #LastFourWatched films Game Night (2018) The Weight (2026) Hope (2026) The Telephone Box (1972 short film) #filmsky #letterboxd #LetterboxdFriday
neutral · AI labelView post →THE WEIGHT (2026) Streaming: October 20, 2026 PVOD (Apple, Amazon, Fandango, etc.) #TheWeight whentostream.com/ethan-hawke-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Code for $15 dollars off! Anyone with a Fandango account can use it!! This code is basically a free movie where I live. I hope all y'all give it a go. Two of my favorite actors and it looks to be a crime film. #FilmSky #RussellCrowe #EthanHawke #TheWeight
neutral · AI labelView post →Big stars and big action in Padraic McKinley’s grounded directorial debut The Weight; it's like William Friedkin's Sorcerer without the trucks. Russell Crowe enlists Ethan Hawke to smuggle gold across rivers, bridges and Depression-era varmit country. 4 out of 5. film-authority.com/2026/10/07/t...
positive · AI labelView post →can someone just tell me what "the new stuff" in Avengers: Endgame is? I like the movie but I'm not going to see it again. I wanna go see The Weight.
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Weight" by The Band in Arizona mostly to remake that shot from Easy Rider. "The Magnificent Seven" film score through West Texas. "Walcott" by Vampire Weekend around Marshfield Mass. "Sweet Baby James" by James Taylor whenever I'm on the Mass Pike eastbound at night.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Weight is the rare movie this decade that knows the difference between action and suspense and has plenty of both. It’s Wages of Fear meets Emperor of the North Pole.
positive · AI labelView post →MusicChallenge #EmojiSounds Day 18. 🔞The Band - "The Weight" from the film "Easy Rider." Rated "X" on original release. youtu.be/HEFdLY58kZ8
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh wow - the director of THE WEIGHT is doing SICARIO 3.
neutral · AI labelView post →Alright the race is on to get ready for our movie this afternoon. We are off the see The Weight with Ethan Hawke & Rusty (our nickname for Russell Crowe). Depression era flick. I will be back later to post voter results & new match up for Killer Covers. POPCORN! As ET would say "Be Good"! 👽
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie lovers shouldn’t “weight” to see “The Weight” IMO👍
positive · AI labelView post →THE WEIGHT sounds like Dad Movie Heaven. I dunno if it'll get to MASTER AND COMMANDER levels of Dad Movie, but I'm eager to find out.
positive · AI labelView post →there's a movie out called The Weight and yet it's somehow not about Glim fwomping on top of you -:(
neutral · AI labelView post →Sun. aft movie - The Weight dir. Padraic McKinley (1st feature) w/ Ethan Hawke/Rusty (Russell Crowe). 93% Rotten Tomatoes. I agree. All around such a solid movie. Very gripping, I actually shouted out - very tense, overall cast really solid. It is based in some historical fact. Highly recommend! 👍
positive · AI labelView post →Now seated for The Weight. I've been looking forward to this one #Filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Hope (2026) Colony (2026) The Weight (2026) #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
neutral · AI labelView post →.@robertwickens joins me to talk about his new documentary, The Weight of Speed, produced by Mark Wahlberg's film company, the start of a new IMSA season at Long Beach with @DXDTRacing, and his ambitions to do more in the sport. youtu.be/9jbL5zUjnwE
neutral · AI labelView post →#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday THE WEIGHT was a pleasant surprise with a great ending. Gorgeous photography too. THE GENERAL is my 4th B. Keaton film. Disappointed - though technically perfect, esp. for its time. But the Lost Cause bs tainted it and it just wasn’t as funny as the other 3.
positive · AI labelView post →So much fun! And can I recommend basically every single track off of the 2026 documentary Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World), directed by @questlove.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →#BlueMoon star Ethan Hawke came to the Sundance Film Festival premiere of THE WEIGHT in a look that says loud and clear that his Oscar campaigning style is going to go its own way tomandlorenzo.com/2026/01/sund...
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday I just saw The Weight earlier tonight and it's excellent. Prison On Fire is possibly the best prison movie that I have personally seen. Tremors remains perfect and the Arrow 4K is fantastic. A Colt Is My Passport is one I got to see on the big screen and yeah, it rules.
positive · AI labelView post →THE WEIGHT. good movie
positive · AI labelView post →We used to get movies like THE WEIGHT 📽️ every week! This kind of competent, action-heavy filmmaking where every character is a distinct person should be delighting us so much more often. Also, in an apocalypse I'm going to Ethan Hawke's house movieswetextedabout.com/the-weight-r...
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched The Weight! 🎬🔥 I really enjoyed this movie! Ethan Hawke delivers a fantastic performance, bringing so much emotion and intensity to his character. Russell Crowe is equally impressive, commanding every scene he's in. Both actors really make the movie worth watching.
positive · AI labelView post →#lookandsee #musicchallenge #musicsky #artsoundtrack Day 331: My favorite song from the film ❤️ The Weight by The Band youtu.be/HEFdLY58kZ8?...
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Weight (D:Padraic McKinley, 2026) "We’re in charmingly old-school territory here (Paul Newman vehicles have been referenced in promo interviews), an unpretentiously direct matinee movie told without much seasoning added on top."
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW VIDEO! Movie Review: The Weight youtu.be/DbhQnhGFrAM
neutral · AI labelView post →Last week: @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social joins us to analyze Padraic McKinley's period quest movie THE WEIGHT, and how it weighs up to an obvious companion piece, William Friedkin's 1977 trauma classic SORCERER. Both feature desperate men on dangerous missions: omny.fm/shows/filmsp...
neutral · AI labelView post →Cinema double bill today, seeing The Weight and Digger #filmsky 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Really hoping The Weight comes to cinemas here. Sam Hazeldine looks so incredibly handsome in the pics and teasers of that movie 😌
neutral · AI labelView post →Hot take: Kathryn Bigelow has never made a bad movie, except for “The Weight of Water,” but she smuggled a good half-movie with Sarah Polley into that one, so not even that one’s really a loss. Gnight BlueSky.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE WEIGHT is an unexpected delight, with the great Ethan Hawke in a bona fide Movie Star Performance 🔥. An old-fashioned genre film with a modern sensibility, it's the very definition of A Good Time At The Movies.
positive · AI labelView post →Vertical's THE WEIGHT is an exceptionally taut film--from start to finish--with tense, crackling performances from the entire cast. Especially Ethan Hawke, who physically and emotionally inhabits his demanding character. One of the best of his career. Not to be missed.
positive · AI labelView post →Got the trailer for HEART OF THE BEAST before THE WEIGHT last night and are we required to do a "sad soldier and his sad dog" movie at least once a year now?
neutral · AI labelView post →THE WEIGHT is a movie designed to make me specifically hoot and holler. All-time performance by Ethan Hawke. Shades of Sorcerer, Deliverance, 3:10 to Yuma, and even Predator. Insane this isn't playing in more theaters or getting more marketing, I should not have had to drive to Jersey for this.
positive · AI labelView post →The tough, unflinching THE WEIGHT mixes a prison drama with a wilderness thriller and pulls it off, with excellent performances from Hawke and Crowe. My review at @moviefone.bsky.social: www.moviefone.com/news/movie-r...
positive · AI labelView post →What else would you be doing on a day off but watching a western. #nowwatching The Weight.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw The Weight yesterday, and in spite of an awesome cast and a really interesting premise, the whole thing just fell flat for me. There were a couple incredible scenes that the rest of the film just did not hold up to
negative · AI labelView post →If you're able to see "The Weight" in a movie theater, I highly recommend it. It is very good. It feels like the kind of old fashioned suspenseful adventure films that we no longer get. Ethan Hawke and the entire cast are excellent.
positive · AI labelView post →Seated to see THE WEIGHT and saw trailer for Jimmy Stewart film. 😳
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World). Great documentary about Earth, Wind & Fire, focused on Maurice White
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of The Weight (2026) boxd.it/gCaemZ
neutral · AI labelView post →THE WEIGHT is good. But it made me wonder about the tiny details that make the difference between a film that is good and a film you'd really urge someone to go see
neutral · AI labelView post →Thanks Meesh you too! We are going to see a movie tomorrow - The Weight with Ethan Hawke and Rusty (we call him Rusty but Russell Crowe).
neutral · AI labelView post →Man oh man, The Weight was a banger. Huge, huge fan of that movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Ah another entrant into this years' "we're going to show you the trailer but not the actual film" competition. Did anyone else have The Weight screened anywhere near them or was it just for inhabitants of London?
neutral · AI labelView post →The more i sit with it, the more i think Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is my favorite movie of the year, so far. In similar fashion, I already want to rewatch The Weight.
positive · AI labelView post →why not simply make a movie adaptation of "The Weight of Blood"? It's Carrie, but not Carrie and it's updated with a new twist on it. it's win-win for everyone in involved. i don't get it, man.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE WEIGHT (2026) I was going to say that this is exactly the kind of mid-budget film that has been missing from Hollywood, but I checked and its actually low-budget?! Looks amazing, A-list stars, and the temptation of gold in an isolated forest—pure movie magic! #365Movies 367
positive · AI labelView post →Every time I watch a feature film in 2026. No. 193, “The Weight” (2026) this evening at Showcase Cinema de Lux #Leicester – Showcase’s latest Secret Screening. www.imdb.com/title/tt10794054/ #MyMovies2026 #TheWeight ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
positive · AI labelView post →Oops! I got a game over! I guess that's what I get for my lukewarm hot take on the seemingly beloved new Resident Evil movie. Cinema Playground Journal looks at that, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, The Weight, Tiny Fugitives, and more! mst3krifftrax.blogspot.com/2026/09/cine...
neutral · AI labelView post →Check out the new poster for The Weight. Details here https://bit.ly/4w0S17X #TheWeight #film #EthanHawke #RussellCrowe
neutral · AI labelView post →A Talent for Murder - The Only Living Pickpocket in New York - The Weight robinhoodradioondemand.com/podcast/film...
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