Everything Will Be OK

Everything Will Be OK

Directed by Don Hertzfeldt

Produced by Bitter Films

200617 min7.6 / 10

A surreal, darkly comic animated short that uses nightmare logic and existential dread to explore meaninglessness and mortality through one man's unraveling.

A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life… or lack thereof.

Questions people ask

  • Is Everything Will Be OK sad? Yes, very. More sad than 91% of films.

  • Does Everything Will Be OK end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 83% of films.

  • Is Everything Will Be OK scary? Yes. More frightening than 76% of films.

  • Is Everything Will Be OK easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is Everything Will Be OK violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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.

91/ 100

Cinnamon Score

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

There is almost nothing else like this.

Rarity89

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise94

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love90

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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