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GenreComedy, Drama & Sci-Fi
RatedR
Runtime2 hr 18 mins
ReleasedDecember 10, 2021
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorAdam McKay
StarringLeonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan
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Don't Look Up (2021)
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| Don't Look Up's Details | |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama & Sci-Fi |
| Rated | R |
| Released | 12/05/2021 (New York City); 12/10/2021 (United States); 12/24/2021 (Netflix) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 2 hr 18 mins |
| Budget | $75M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Don't Look Up's Interests | |
| General | Comets, cable news, press conferences, viral clips, a sky nobody looks at. |
| Music | Nicholas Britell, plus Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi with "Just Look Up." |
| Movies | Dr. Strangelove (1964). Same end of the world, fewer phones. |
| Television | Any morning show. Weather, celebrity gossip, and maybe the apocalypse. |
| Heroes | Kate Dibiasky. Said it out loud on live TV. |
| Don't Look Up's Crew | |
| Director | Adam McKay |
| Writers | Adam McKay, Adam McKay (story), David Sirota (story) |
| Producers | Adam McKay, Kevin Messick |
| Cinematography | Linus Sandgren |
| Music | Nicholas Britell |
| Edited By | Hank Corwin |
| Production | Hyperobject Industries, Bluegrass Films |
| Distributed By | Netflix |
Being told you’re the problem for 138 minutes is a lot, even when the people doing the telling are movie stars. Don’t Look Up has a single joke, everyone in charge is too vain to notice the end of the world, and it plays that joke on loop until the satire turns into a lecture. Some of those stars are great. Leonardo DiCaprio’s nervous professor melting down on live TV is the best scene, Jennifer Lawrence does exasperated better than anyone alive, and Mark Rylance’s tech billionaire is so soft-spoken and creepy that he steals the whole thing. Jonah Hill is a menace as the President’s son, in a good way. But the movie keeps winking at you so hard it forgets to be funny. A 5.8 because the cast is having a blast and the message is louder than the jokes. $126 says you pause it halfway to check the news and instantly regret it.
What works: Leonardo DiCaprio’s TV meltdown, Mark Rylance’s eerie tech billionaire, and a cast clearly having a blast.
What doesn’t: It repeats one joke for 138 minutes and keeps telling the audience it’s dumb instead of trusting it to laugh.
Who it’s for: People who like loud political satire and don’t mind being lectured a little.
Spoilers
The plan to break up the comet for its valuable minerals fails, and the comet hits Earth. Randall shares a last dinner with family and friends, while the rich escape on a spaceship and land on a new planet with a hungry surprise waiting.
Astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) spots a brand new comet, and her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), runs the numbers: it is headed straight for Earth and big enough to end basically everything. They have about six months. They take the news to the White House, where President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her son and chief of staff Jason (Jonah Hill) mostly care about the midterms. So they try morning TV, where hosts Brie (Cate Blanchett) and Jack (Tyler Perry) keep it light. Adam McKay directs. One hundred thirty-eight minutes, one very big rock.
Anyone who checks the sky before checking their phone.
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Dr. Randall Mindy |
| Jennifer Lawrence | Kate Dibiasky |
| Meryl Streep | Janie Orlean |
| Cate Blanchett | Brie Evantee |
| Rob Morgan | Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe |
| Jonah Hill | Jason Orlean |
| Mark Rylance | Peter Isherwell |
| Tyler Perry | Jack Bremmer |
| Timothée Chalamet | Yule |
| Ron Perlman | Colonel Benedict Drask |
| Ariana Grande | Riley Bina |
| Kid Cudi (credited | his real name Scott Mescudi) as DJ Chello |
| Himesh Patel | Phillip Kaj |
| Melanie Lynskey | June Mindy |
| Michael Chiklis | Dan Pawketty |
| Tomer Sisley | Adul Grelio |
| Paul Guilfoyle | US Air Force Lieutenant General Stuart Themes |
| Robert Joy | Congressman Tenant |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +320 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $792K; Profit / loss (est.) -$112.1M; Rotten Tomatoes 56%; box office chart updated; RT 56% (305 reviews); Metacritic 49 / 100; IMDb users 7.1 / 10 (683,602 votes); movie.guru score 6.0.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 17 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.