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Solace

Name: Solace
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025-12-31
Rating: 10

Drama5m

🍅24%

🍅

24%

Tomatometer

🍿

45%

Popcornmeter

10.0

TMDB

Storyline

A grieving man aimlessly wanders the streets of Liverpool in search of solace.

Trailers

Solace - A Short Film

Details

DirectorsAnton Braholli, Oscar Brierley

ReleasedDec 31, 2025

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guide12AGB

Cast

Ahmed Al-Muqbali

Unnamed Man

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

1 fresh · 6 rotten

Critics consensus

“Solace boasts a talented cast and a somewhat intriguing premise, but they're outweighed by a plodding story that teeters between tired clichés and ludicrous twists.”

24% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Tomris Laffly

RTNew York Magazine/VultureJan 4, 2017

Solace isn't a Silence of the Lambs sequel in which Hopkins gets to reprise the role of Hannibal Lecter. But he comes pretty damn close in this ludicrous murder mystery, which is stuck somewhere between a bad season of Dexter and a dated crime flick.

Glenn Kenny

RTRogerEbert.comDec 16, 2016

The directorial pyrotechnics keep Solace from "dragging" in a narrative sense; the very real boredom it nonetheless elicits is more existential.

Jeannette Catsoulis

RTNew York TimesDec 15, 2016

Staggeringly silly and visually disordered, this unfortunate misfire has been kicking around Europe and elsewhere for a couple of years under different titles, and it's easy to see why.

Allen Adams

RTThe Maine EdgeFeb 13, 2019

Solace, a film that had the foundation in place to be an OK movie only to squander it all on recycled tropes and strained dialogue and clichéd twists.