Reptile | 2023 | R | – 5.6.8

Why is “Reptile” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “language, violence and some nude images.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several kissing scenes, references to infidelity, an inflatable sex doll, a painting of a topless woman, a very bloody dead body, numerous photos of injuries on a dead woman’s body, a few gunfire exchanges leaving dead and bloody bodies, and nearly 40 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When a real-estate agent (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) is found brutally murdered in an empty house, a veteran detective (Benicio Del Toro) realizes that both her current boyfriend (Justin Timberlake) and her former husband may be suspects, but may also be involved in a conspiracy within his own police department. Also with Eric Bogosian, Alicia Silverstone, Domenick Lombardozzi, Frances Fisher, Ato Essandoh, Michael Pitt, Karl Glusman, Mike Pniewski and Catherine Dyer. Directed by Grant Singer. [Running Time: 2:14]

Reptile SEX/NUDITY 5

 – A man carrying an inflatable sex doll rubs it on the back of another man’s head; the second man yells before signing it as a gift for another man. A painting depicts a topless woman (we see bare breasts).
► A woman lies in bed sleeping and wearing underwear and a tank top that reveal her legs and partial bare buttocks. A woman undresses in a locker room and we see her bare back, her bra strap and a long tattoo down her spine. Two women wear bandeau swimsuits and swim laps (we see cleavage, bare shoulders and legs to the hips). Women wear low-cut tops and dresses in several scenes revealing varying amounts of cleavage and bare shoulders. A shirtless man answers his door (we see his bare chest and abdomen).
► A man and woman kiss and embrace in several scenes. A woman caresses a man’s arm and bandaged hand while they lie in bed clothed. A man embraces a woman from behind and kisses the back of her neck; she rebuffs his advances and he makes a sexually suggestive remark. Two women flirt with a man at a bar.
► A man at a party seems to be looking at several women in attendance and another man tells him to pick one (implying for sex), but the man declines. A man becomes suspicious of his wife having an affair with another man; we see them talking in a few scenes (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). A man says that a woman he was having an affair with was “technically still married.” A man insists that he will never get married, and later says that he is engaged. A man and woman talk about when they lost their virginity. We hear autopsy results that indicate that a dead woman had sex before she died. A man says that he and a woman were sleeping together. A man says that after proposing to a woman, the woman’s mother told him to have his sperm tested for potency.
► Men and women square dance in a few scenes and a man smacks a woman on the clothed buttock in one scene and she yelps. A woman poses on a floor where another woman was found murdered while a man takes photos of her.

Reptile VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A man enters an empty house and searches for a woman that is supposed to be there; he finds her dead, covered with blood and with a sharp object still in her body.
► A man shoots another man in the head and we see blood spurt. Two men point their weapons at each other; they both shoot and one man is struck (he moans and says that he can’t feel his legs). A man is shot at the top of a flight of stairs by someone unseen (we see blood spurt), and he falls down the stairs (we see his bloody body later). A man takes a police officer’s gun, shoots a couple of times, jumps through a window and is shot in the back by another officer; the man is later found dead, with a very bloody wound on his back. A man has a nightmare that another man shoots him in the abdomen (we see blood on his shirt and hands), and then shoots him again off-screen.
► We see numerous crime photos of a woman with many injuries and we hear that she was stabbed over 30 times and the weapon was lodged in her pelvis. Photos of a dead woman’s hands with wounds on them are shown several times and it is suggested that some of the bruising is from bite marks. A dead body in a morgue is shown with a bullet hole in his chest as a technician takes a dental impression.
► A woman wakes up to noises in her house and we later see her holding a gun on a man on his knees outside the house and a bullet hole in an above ground swimming pool next to him. A man and a woman are pulled over by police at night; the driver puts his handgun under his leg on the seat as the officer approaches his window. A man holding a knife behind his back finds another man in his apartment and the second man threatens him. A man opens his door to another man, who blocks the door with his foot when the other man tries to close it. A man sees someone suspicious at a funeral and follows him through the area but does not find him. A man wearing boxing gloves punches a wall repeatedly.
► A man yells for a man and woman to leave a house when he finds them taking photos where a woman had been found murdered. A man is shown in a CCTV video seated on a bus and cutting a lock of hair from a woman seated in front of him; we are told that the man collects human hair to use in his “art.” A man wakes up to loud pounding sounds in his house that resemble gunshots. A distorted reflection of a woman’s face is seen in a mirror.
► A woman finds a snakeskin under a flowerpot when she cleans an empty house for a showing. A man pulls a cover over a dirty and leaf-filled swimming pool. A woman describes a disturbing dream she had and another woman tells her that she had the dream because she is hiding something. A man confronts a woman about not showing up for an event and he goes to sleep in another room. A woman describes seeing someone at a crime scene and says that he walked “sorta funny.” A painting depicts a woman with angel wings, something taped across her mouth and human hair attached to the canvas. During a counseling session, a man describes his youth and a nightmare where he is unable to pull the trigger of his gun. A woman says that she was fleeced.
► A man becomes suspicious of his wife having an affair with another man and he threatens the man in one scene. We hear that a man committed suicide with a gun. Mourners gather grieving at a funeral. A man warns another man that if he doesn’t get married, he will die alone. We hear that a man could undergo an expensive stem cell procedure to treat an illness.
► A man is shown with a bandage on his hand and he says it’s from a kitchen accident; we later see his hand with stitches. A man is fingerprinted and a few people are swabbed for DNA.

Reptile LANGUAGE 8

 – About 37 F-words, 4 sexual references, 15 scatological terms, 3 anatomical terms, 1 mild obscenity, name-calling (tough guy, crazy, narc, hooker, prostitute, liars, devil, crook, creepy, clown), exclamations (milk it, oh boy), 1 religious profanity (GD), 9 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus Christ, oh my God, Holy [scatological term deleted], Jesus). | profanity glossary |

Reptile SUBSTANCE USE

 – Police find 13 kilos of heroin in a house, a man finds a box of what looks like marijuana in a dresser drawer, and we hear that someone sells heroin and cocaine. People drink liquor and wine in a restaurant, men drink beer and play poker in a few scenes, people drink liquor and wine with dinner, and a man and a woman drink glasses of wine. A woman says that she was outside smoking a cigarette (we do not see her smoking).

Reptile DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Real Estate, drug smuggling and dealing, money laundering, Multiple Sclerosis, foreclosure, infidelity, corruption, gambling, bribery, medal of valor.

Reptile MESSAGE

 – Even experienced investigators can be confused by numerous red herrings.