A Monster Calls
AI Woke Score
No detectable agenda — story first.
confidence: high
Audience Score
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The Verdict
A faithful, deeply emotional adaptation of Patrick Ness's novel about a boy coping with his mother's terminal illness. It contains essentially no identity messaging — its themes are grief, truth, and childhood pain, all folded organically into the story. Clean across every axis.
What the AI Flagged
Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.
Identity Swaps
0No established characters are race- or gender-swapped; this is an original story from Patrick Ness's novel.
Girlboss & Male Demotion
5No male-demotion messaging; the protagonist is a young boy navigating grief.
LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content
0No LGBTQ+, trans, or non-binary content present.
DEI Casting
5Casting reflects an ordinary contemporary setting with no quota-driven choices.
Preachiness
8The film delivers emotional lessons about grief and truth, but these are woven into the story, not activist sermons.
- The monster's parables teach Conor about complex human truths
Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West
3No framing of masculinity, whiteness, or the West as villainous.
Source Betrayal
5Faithful adaptation of Patrick Ness's novel with no identity-driven changes.
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Cast & Crew
Lewis MacDougall
Conor
Sigourney Weaver
Grandma
Felicity Jones
Mum
Toby Kebbell
Dad
Ben Moor
Mr. Clark
James Melville
Harry
Oliver Steer
Sully
Dominic Boyle
Anton
Jennifer Lim
Miss Kwan
Max Gabbay
Steven
Ghislain Barrois (Executive Producer) · Álvaro Augustín (Executive Producer) · J. A. Bayona (Director) · Sandra Hermida (Executive Producer)
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