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Çatlı

Item: Çatlı
Rating: 2.5
Author: Kaiser Khan

Directed by Deniz Enyüksek · 2026 · Last reviewed July 13, 2026

Answer Summary

Çatlı (2026) earns a 65% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Audiences (81%) responded more warmly than critics (54%).

Quick Verdict

Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, Letterboxd, IMDb). See how we calculate scores.

65%

Celluloid Score Recommended

Five-source breakdown

54% Critic Score

81% Audience

★★★☆☆ Letterboxd 3

6.4 IMDb /10

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Runtime: 2h 1m
Cast: Vedat İnceefe , Eren Vurdem , Ömer Kurt , Engin Benli , Şiva Behrouzfar , Turgay Tanülkü

Official theatrical poster for Çatlı (2026)

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Why this score?

Critics were divided or negative (54%).
General viewers mostly liked it (81%).
Celluloid Score 65% averages these 4 public rating sources — our own composite, not a third-party trademark score.

Best for

Crowd-pleaser seekers — audiences liked it more than critics

Not ideal for

Viewers who only watch top-tier, 90%+ rated films

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Is Çatlı worth watching?

Yes — Çatlı earns a 65% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

Critics Consensus

Reception has split sharply along the same lines as its subject's legacy: many praised Vedat İnceefe's committed lead performance and the film's handsome period recreation, while detractors found the script hagiographic and dramatically thin, making it one of the more polarizing Turkish releases of the year.
Celluloid Critics Consensus

Audiences (81%) responded more warmly than critics (54%).

What is Çatlı about?

A biographical drama tracing a formative chapter in the life of Abdullah Çatlı, the controversial figure at the center of one of modern Turkey's most notorious political scandals. The film follows Çatlı's flight abroad after the 1980 military coup and his years operating in the shadows of Europe, where loyalty, ideology, and survival repeatedly collide. Told largely from his own perspective, it dramatizes the choices that would later make his name inseparable from Turkey's deep-state controversies.