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IMDb rating 6.4
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Critic rating 5.3

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Critic Tasha Robinson
rated 5

...visually busy adventure thriller about a Victorian literary hero plagued by a criminal mastermind.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Peter Bradshaw
rated 6

...there's some gruesome drama and Cusack is on decent form.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Lisa Brygger
rated 5

...en habil men også noget kønsløs film.

Read full review at Cinemazone

Cast & Crew

James McTeigue
Director
Brendan Gleeson
As Colonel Hamilton
Kevin McNally
As Maddux
John Cusack
As Edgar Allan Poe
Sergej Trifunović
As Salty Sailor
Pam Ferris
As Mrs. Bradley

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The Raven (2012) is a crime thriller film that fictionalizes the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life. The movie takes place in 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, where a series of murders takes place, and the killer uses Poe's stories as inspiration for the crimes. Poe (played by John Cusack) collaborates with Detective Emmett Fields (played by Luke Evans) to solve the case and find the killer. The film features an all-star cast, including Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, and Jimmy Yuill. The plot twists and turns as Poe and Fields race against time to solve the murders, leading to a thrilling conclusion. The movie was directed by James McTeigue and written by Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Raven include The Poughkeepsie Tapes, And Soon the Darkness, You Belong to Me, Shuttle, The Neighbor, Kidnapped (2010).

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The Raven was released in theaters on April 27, 2012.