Sound of Freedom | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.

The movie Sound of Freedom, about child trafficking and the people combating it, is directed by Alejandro Monteverde, produced by Eduardo Verástegui and stars Jim Caviezel, all three Catholics, has a very Christian message about modern day realities. “Sound of Freedom settles on a tone of piety.

Neeson's wildly popular save-a-kid-from-foreign-sex-traffickers movie Taken was panned by critics, but Sound of Freedom got a positive 72 percent critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 99 percent positive rating from viewers.

100% score merely indicates that all critics (whose reviews were used to score the movie) gave it an overall positive rating. For example, the movie Paddington 2 got a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics meaning all their reviews were overall positive, but their average score out of 10 was 8.75.

Citizen Kane (1941) stood at number 1 for five consecutive polls, with 22 votes in 1962, 32 votes in 1972, 45 votes in 1982, 43 votes in 1992, and 46 votes in 2002. It also topped the first two directors' polls, with 30 votes in 1992 and 42 votes in 2002.

One of the primary points of contention revolves around the film's portrayal of child trafficking. Experts, including Erin Albright, a former fellow for the Department of Justice's anti-trafficking task force, argue that the depiction is inaccurate and sensationalized.

As the credits roll at the end of the film, U.S. audiences saw a timer on the screen counting down to a "special message" which was actor Jim Caviezel, who plays Ballard, urging the audience to tell people about the film but also to "pay it forward" and buy tickets for others who might not be able to afford their own ...

Likely Based On Glenn Beck, Who Has A Radio Show

In Sound of Freedom, millionaire Pablo Delgado is the financial backer for Ballard's mission and helps out as much as he possibly can. Delgado is likely based on Glenn Beck, an American political commentator who loaned Ballard the money he needed for the sting operation.

Disney told Factchequeado media that, before acquiring Fox – which originally had the rights to the production, – there was an agreement for the distribution of the film only in Latin America, and that later the director of “Sound of Freedom” bought the rights. They did not refer to the fact as a “rejection.”

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“Sound of Freedom” was based on a true story but contains dramatized elements. Filmmakers took creative license in portraying the different ways that children can be trafficked, including in shipping containers.

What to Know. Sound of Freedom is an effective and suspenseful call to action against human trafficking, yet not free of issues in its depiction of the sensitive subject matter. Sound of Freedom is a powerful film with strong performances and an important message.

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Other recent series with multiple seasons in the 100% club: The Good Place, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, One Day at a Time, Veep, Fleabag, Jane the Virgin, and Feel Good. Only Murders in the Building season 1 has the most reviews on its perfect 100% score.

Because it's “relatively” easy to get a 100% score after that first handful of reviews (five is the minimum count for a movie to get its Tomatometer), every film listed here has at least crossed the Certified Fresh threshold. Then we sorted them by movies with more reviews featured higher up.