The Plague (2025) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Charlie Polinger and starring Joel Edgerton, Everett Blunck, Kenny Rasmussen, Lennox Espy, Lucas Adler, Caden Burris, Elliott Heffernan, ...

The Plague is a psychological thriller film starring Joel Edgerton and Everett Blunck. Discover all about the streaming ...

Nate Richard is a Resource Editor for Collider, a film and television critic, and a part-time amateur filmmaker. He graduated from Ball State University in December 2020 with a Bachelor's degree in ...

Charlie Polinger makes his directorial debut with this psychological drama that first premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The story follows a socially anxious twelve year old boy played by ...

Foreboding title aside, one could reasonably begin watching Charlie Polinger’s “The Plague” and assume that it is a Y.A. coming of age drama— a modern-day “The 400 Blows” or a male “Welcome to the ...

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Writer-director Charlie Polinger makes his feature debut with ‘The Plague,’ mixing ‘Lord of the Flies’ savagery with unsettling physical manifestations. Arriving literally at the tail end of 2025 (and ...

William Golding’s 1954 novel “The Lord of the Flies” strands a group of young boys on an island. There, they must fend for themselves, but in the absence of rules and ethics, they devolve into ...

The undercurrents of adolescent cruelty churn queasily in Charlie Polinger’s stylish first feature, “The Plague.” The title of Polinger’s film might bring to mind Stephen King or recent global history ...