Reception
Reviews were mixed. Rotten Tomatoes tallied 58 reviews from critics (with 25 listed as positive and 23 listed as negative) to give The Faculty a 52% rating, calling it a 'rip-off of other sci-fi thrillers'. Metacritic gave 'The Faculty' a score of 61.
The Faculty was viewed on 2,365 screens its opening weekend, debuting at #5 in the US, making $11,633,495. Its eventual domestic gross was $40,283,321.
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“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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