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DramaThrillerComedy Berlinale 2024 · Silver Bear – Best Leading Performance

A Different Man

Directed by Aaron Schimberg · 2024 ·

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Answer Summary

A Different Man (2024) earns a 75% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Critics (89%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (68%).

Quick Verdict

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

75%
Celluloid Score Recommended

Five-source breakdown

89% Critic Score
68% Audience
78 Metascore
★★★½☆ Letterboxd 3.6
6.9 IMDb /10
Runtime
1h 52m
Cast
Sebastian Stan , Renate Reinsve , Adam Pearson

🏆 1 award win · 3 nominations — Won Best Actor – Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes 2025

Why this score?

  • Majority of critics rated it fresh (89%).
  • General viewers mostly liked it (68%).
  • Metascore is generally favorable (78/100).
  • Celluloid Score 75% averages all five public rating sources — our own composite, not a third-party trademark score.

Best for

  • Viewers who want a well-regarded drama, thriller, comedy pick
  • Critics' darlings — stronger with reviewers than general viewers

Not ideal for

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    Is A Different Man worth watching?

    Yes — A Different Man earns a 75% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

    Critics Consensus

    A wickedly ironic identity puzzle that lets Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson play cruel games with vanity and self-worth — squirmy, funny and unexpectedly profound.

    Celluloid Critics Consensus

    Critics (89%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (68%).

    What is A Different Man about?

    An aspiring actor with facial neurofibromatosis undergoes an experimental cure and remakes himself as a handsome stranger — only to watch another man with his old condition effortlessly claim the life he wanted, in a slippery fable about identity, envy and the face we mistake for a self.

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