All the Empty Rooms

All the Empty Rooms

Directed by Joshua Seftel

Produced by Smartypants Pictures, Artemis Rising

202534 min7.2 / 10

A solemn documentary meditation on absence and loss, using intimate domestic spaces to confront the human cost of gun violence.

A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.

Questions people ask

  • Is All the Empty Rooms sad? Yes, very. More sad than 99% of films.

  • Is All the Empty Rooms easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is All the Empty Rooms scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Is All the Empty Rooms violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Does All the Empty Rooms end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 64% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

76/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Distinctly its own thing.

Rarity83

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise70

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love75

How much audiences actually like it

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Like All the Empty Rooms

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Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like All the Empty Rooms, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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