199 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 16, 2026 · last updated Oct 16, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 16 | 5 | 90 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TMDB reviews * | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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We Need to Talk About Kevin received positive reviews. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 74% based on 207 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "We Need to Talk About Kevin is a masterful blend of drama and horror, with fantastic performances across the board (Tilda Swinton especially, delivering one of her very best)." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 68 out of 100 based on reviews from 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert gave the film 4 out of 4 stars and wrote, "As a portrait of a deteriorating state of mind, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a…
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neutral · AI labelView post →I personally believe We Need To Talk About Kevin is the very best of the Home Alone movies.
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neutral · AI labelView post →We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) dir. Lynne Ramsay 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺. 𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑰 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓?
neutral · AI labelView post →- We Need to Talk About Kevin - The Vanishing (orig) - The Rapture - Inside Llewyn Davis…?
neutral · AI labelView post →finally watching ADOLESCENCE. adding it alongside WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN as ‘media that reminds me why i don’t want children’
negative · AI labelView post →Sequel to "We Need To Talk About Kevin" called "2 Bad We Didn't Talk About Kevin"
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN one time in 2012 but it’s one of the films I’ve thought about the most since then
positive · AI labelView post →Might as well just vote for John C. Reilly’s character from We Need to Talk About Kevin
neutral · AI labelView post →Tilda Swinton in Lynn Ramsay's WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2011) Swinton was BOTD in 1960
neutral · AI labelView post →I agree there. Despite being a horrible person off screen, Ezra Miller can actually act with good material, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower are proof of that. I think as you alluded to, the bigger problem was that Snyder’s take on Barry Allen was ill-conceived from the beginning. Ezra may have been a good fit for Snyder’s vision for the character but his vision was Barry Allen in name only. I find it very amusing that the CW managed to do the character so…
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neutral · AI labelView post →Glasgow-born filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. Known for Ratcatcher, We Need to Talk About Kevin and Morvern Callar. Pic: Sarah Lee
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neutral · AI labelView post → We Need To Talk About Kevin What would you do if you found out your kid was completely evil?  Prisoners How would you handle your entire world collapsing?  Jesus Camp Lets brainwash our youth in the name of righteousness.
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neutral · AI labelView post →“And now tonight here to commemorate the 15th anniversary of We Need To Talk About Kevin…”
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neutral · AI labelView post →me reading We Need To Talk About Kevin:
neutral · AI labelView post →We Need to Talk About Kevin was sensationalist garbage. She couldn’t write “fuck” on a dusty venetian blind
negative · AI labelView post →not the point but We Need To Talk About Kevin keeps making me think about how shitty the babadook is
neutral · AI labelView post →77. We Need to Talk About Kevin 🎥 | 1️⃣ yeah some people shouldn’t be parents 9 / 10
positive · AI labelView post →Curious. This is also a deleted scene from We Need To Talk About Kevin.
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neutral · AI labelView post →Yes, Tubi, if there's one movie that screams "movie night!" it's "We Need to Talk About Kevin."
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neutral · AI labelView post →I sure do reference the movie “We Need to Talk About Kevin” a lot as a person who’s never seen it.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness Day 8 - Movie with the greatest acting performance This is a tough one, but I'm going with Tilda Swinton in "We Need to Talk About Kevin". It's a movie that is incredibly disturbing and uncomfortable, but Swinton is spectacular. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfQa...
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neutral · AI labelView post →They should make a movie where Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly play a married couple that otherwise has no characteristics in common with We Need To Talk About Kevin
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neutral · AI labelView post →Whenever I watch a Lynne Ramsay movie and it doesn’t move me much I feel like I’ve failed at female solidarity. Like I remember watching We Need to Talk About Kevin, finding it mixed and it’s like I went “wait…no I’m supposed to like this! I have to like this!”
neutral · AI labelView post →Film library (1264): - Not including Documentaries, which is a separate library 12 Angry Men (1957) 1917 (2019) 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968) 2010 (1984) 28 Days Later (2002) 28 Weeks Later (2007) 28 Years Later (2025) 28 Years Later - The Bone Temple (2026) 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) 300 (2007) A Beautiful Mind (2001) Absolutely Fabulous - The Movie (2016) Ace Ventura - Pet Detective (1994) Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls (1995) A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving…
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neutral · AI labelView post →as I transition from watching one movie to a TV special, I have to wonder, which Muppet would most likely do a We Need to Talk About Kevin? Fozzie pushed too far by the insults? does Pepe have the right scumbag vibe? Lew Zealand picking people off with boomerang fish?
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's first movie is We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) 🍿
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neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) Dir: Lynne Ramsay
neutral · AI labelView post →Gonna watch a family hopecore drama next to soothe my nerves, it’s called We Need to Talk About Kevin
negative · AI labelView post →Having now seen We Need To Talk About Kevin, boy do I have a ton to unpack about why my mom loved this movie so much.
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