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Science Fiction, Drama  •  2026  •  98 min

Mare's Nest (2026)

Mare's Nest poster

Mare's Nest (2026)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.1

Overview

Mare's Nest follows Moon, a girl moving through a world where adults have vanished, meeting children who perform, gift, and philosophize their way through civilizational collapse. Based on a Don DeLillo play, the film is an experimental British science fiction drama more interested in wonder than survival mechanics. The Leans Progressive label fits because the story frames the adult-free world as a space of reinvention rather than tragedy, treating child-led communal arrangements as possibility rather than warning. Climate-induced collapse sits as the implied backdrop, and the film treats new social forms among survivors as the natural, even hopeful, response. Traditional family structure is absent by design, not accident.

Starring Cast

Moon Guo Barker

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Leans Left
Confidence: Medium

The film's central subject of a climate-induced apocalypse and children's navigation of its ruins anchors it in progressive environmental concerns; the narrative frames the problem as civilizational collapse from human-driven disaster and champions solutions of wonder, communal play, and new societal forms among survivors.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: Medium

The film centers on a young girl's journey through a post-apocalyptic world inhabited solely by children, featuring a mixed-ethnicity ensemble of young performers in an experimental, visually driven narrative about survival, language, and climate themes.

Secondary

Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: Medium

The film depicts a post-apocalyptic world entirely devoid of adults, where children form primitive tribal communities and explore new ways of living and social order. This central premise celebrates alternative, child-led arrangements over any traditional family structures, with parental absence enabling autonomy and reinvention rather than loss or critique.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low

The film depicts a young girl navigating a post-apocalyptic world populated solely by children, focusing on themes of survival, nature, performance, and societal reinvention without any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or narratives.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

The film centers on a young girl named Moon navigating a post-apocalyptic world populated solely by children. No transgender characters or themes appear in the narrative or cast descriptions.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

Original film inspired by DeLillo's gender-neutral one-act play The Word for Snow, featuring newly created child characters including protagonist Moon, a girl, with no legacy figures recast across genders.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Original speculative film with newly created child characters in a post-apocalyptic world; no source material establishes prior racial depictions for any roles.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low

Not depicted in the film.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.1

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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5.3
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N/A

Critic Ratings

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9.0
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N/A

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