Maybe movies have improved—or at least grown closer to critics' liking—or maybe the rise reflects changes in the makeup of Rotten Tomatoes' pool of reviewers. Over the next year, the site said, it added more than 600 new critics, the majority of whom were women. Whatever the reason for the increasing scores, there's no evidence of greater negativity that could be turning off ticket buyers (which probably doesn't displease Fandango). The site bestows a "Fresh" rating on any movie with a 60 percent score or higher, and the average movie now clears that threshold. Many critics found the film boring and lacking in action until the final act. They also said the ending was confusing and terribly thought out, leading to a film that felt a little bit messy and didn't have the pure visceral excitement of other Statham or Li films.
To study the potential link between the box office and Rotten Tomatoes, we gathered budget and box office data for almost 5,000 movies dating back to 1990 and joined it to genre and Rotten Tomatoes score information from the Open Movie Database. Our first finding is that the average Rotten Tomatoes critic score has increased over time. It premiered in South Korea and was released internationally on May 19, 2021, and in the United States on June 25. The film received mixed reviews with praise for the stunts and Lin's direction, but criticism for its unrealistic action sequences and formulaic script.
F9 set several pandemic box office records and grossed over $710 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2021. The original The Fast and the Furious followed up-and-coming FBI operative Brian O'Connor tasked with infiltrating an illegal street racing gang in Los Angeles suspected of robbing trucks carrying valuable cargo while out on the open road. The film would go on to become one of the biggest box office hits of the summer and launch the global action movie franchise. It's not the worst, it's not even that bad, but the fact is every time I see it there's only a handful of parts I end up remembering from it.
Racing through the tunnels is cool, Dom's quest for revenge has power, and the confrontation boiling into brotherhood between him and Brian is interesting. That being said, the actual plot is weirdly convoluted with a villain who's just not that interesting, and there's a surprising amount of down time. I'm not opposed to drama in these movies, but in this case it's just not handled that well and can get a little boring. It was meant to bridge the gap between the Fast movies as street racing films to action heist films, and it ultimately accomplishes that.
If you're doing a marathon of the films it's narratively important, but it's not one that I feel the need to go back to for any other reason. As a Rotten Tomatoes-certified film critic, Akhil has reviewed over 150 movies and TV shows in over half a decade at Gadgets 360. When he is not completely caught up with new film and TV releases, Akhil can be found reviewing football video games, keyboard apps, fitness bands, and smart home devices. In his free time, you will find Akhil immersing himself in virtual worlds, as he perpetually attempts to check off stuff on his endless watchlist. Rotten Tomatoes aggregates reviews to give movies and shows ratings on a scale of 0 to 100%.
The site calculated the ranking of major franchises by finding the average score of all the films in a movie series. To be included in the ranking, franchises needed to have a minimum number of five movies, as well as a new release in the past three years to qualify—which explains why Christopher Nolan's popular Dark Knight trilogy is not on the list. Ever since she landed the role of Wonder Woman, it's been hard to remember a time when Gal Gadot wasn't practically a household name. Over the years, the actress shored up her resume with roles in the Fast and Furious franchise and other big budget action movies, like Knight and Day. Now the summer of Gal is finally upon us, as Wonder Woman is set to hit theaters on June 2.
The day—and more women-only screenings (cry about it, misogynists!)—can't come soon enough. Explosions, girls wearing skimpy dresses and illegal drug races - that's pretty much all to expect from this movie. Like its sequels, this movie is made especially for people who are intersted in cars and action movies, especially the male ones. But for all the other viewers, out of the target group, there is not much to see.
It desperately tries to connect the sequences of car races and action with a storyline, the script is very poorly written and has questionable messages. It is a story of friendship, yes, but the movie makes it look like being befriended with a gangster is an excuse of letting him do anything. Women are nothing more than the male protagonist's accessoirs, rather than having any personality or any contribution to the plot. Films on Rotten Tomatoes are given a "Tomatometer" score out of 100 per cent, based on how many critics give the film a positive review. For example, Cruella's 74 per cent means that roughly seven out of every 10 critics on the site thought the villainous fashionista's origin story was at least worth a watch. Barely overtaking the second film is Fast & Furious, the fourth installment in the franchise was released in 2009 and reunited much of the original cast.
The film marked the franchise beginning to shift from its street racing roots and more into the vehicle-based action that would catapult the series to greater heights commercially as the gang reunited to stop a new drug lord south of the border. "What would be a 2 star film is saved by 4 star action, hence our 3 stars overall," Simpson wrote. "Fast and Furious 9's high-octane set pieces really are terrific fun and even led to spontaneous bursts of applause in our cinema audience." The ninth installment in the series about strong family ties and high-octane car racing, Universal's "F9" has raised the bar on ridiculous action sequences and "soap opera drama," critics say.
F9is crossing the $100M mark in eight days, making it the fastest movie to cross that mark during the pandemic, bestingA Quiet Place Part II's 15-day journey to that milestone. Note the above figures can change as we go throughout the weekend.Purge Foreverlooks to be hitting its 3-day projection spot-on withBoss Baby 2ahead of its $15M 3-day projection. Remember that title is also available on the Peacock streaming service. Eighty percent of the U.S./Canadian exhibition's 5,88K theaters are open and operating. Owing to the fact that F9 is one of the major releases since the pandemic, the box office did well on its opening weekend, ushering in an estimated 70 million USD.
Besides this, fan response also seems to be positive, as audience ratings account for 84% on Rotten Tomatoes. Movie and television review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has revealed its best and worst scored franchises—and, unsurprisingly, the nine-part Harry Potter saga leads the rankings with an impressive average movie score of 84%. Global News downloaded every available film review score since the dawn of cinema from Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and IMDB using the OMDb API. We restricted our analysis to the past 22 years, since Rotten Tomatoes has been around since 1998. It's possible the website uses a different method for ingesting reviews from older releases that would make pre-1999 comparisons challenging.
Based on suggestions from David A. Gross, we also restricted our analysis to wide releases, which we define as any film that was released to at least 1,000 theatres in the U.S., according to Box Office Mojo. Our findings roughly match those of Gross, who has been independently tracking average Tomatometer scores among wide releases for years. Global News also looked at average movie review scores for wide releases on Metacritic, a competing online review aggregator, and IMDb, an online database of movie and TV info. More critics on the site have meant more movie reviews contributing to each film's score.
The top 10 highest-grossing films in 2009 had an average of 278 reviews per film. For these critics, the company employs a team of curators, seven in all, who read hundreds of reviews a week and mark them fresh or rotten based on their interpretation. If the review is on the fence, multiple curators will read it, and if it's really unclear they will contact the reviewer for clarification. Along the same lines, Nash notes that Disney, Warner Bros., and other studios have gravitated toward "review-proof" action-oriented event films that attract audience attention based on buzz and marketing. Action movie earnings are the least closely associated with review scores, maybe because when people just want to see stuff blow up, they're willing to lower their standards in certain respects. Comedies and horror movies—particularly the latter—are far more consistent with the critical consensus.
A perfectly scored action movie's earnings might double its budget, but a perfectly scored comedy can quadruple its budget, while a perfectly scored horror flick can beat its budget by 10 or 20 times, which has bolstered Blumhouse's bottom line. Fast & Furious 6 has a critics score of 70% on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic score of 61. The film currently has an audience score of 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, the highest-rated film in the franchise based on that metric. Critics felt that the car racing action was a marked improvement over its immediate predecessor but decried the plot as overly formulaic, and its new cast as relatively uncharismatic in comparison to the original film's characters.
Unfortunately, although the producers' heads are ringing with cash signs, the critics aren't singing the same praises. Early reviews for the picture were very enthusiastic, but its foreign premiere received a more mixed response from critics. Despite its initial "Fresh" rating of 67 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, individuals who saw F9 in theatres over the weekend have voiced their opinions, and the film now has a "Rotten" rating of 59 percent on the review aggregate.
Reviews are already starting to hit for Universal's F9, and while there are only 5 reviews thus far, the film is currently holding a 60% rating on the Tomatometer. There are 3 fresh reviews so far and they describe it as "exhilaratingly ridiculous", "outta control", and "gloriously ludicrous", which is what you've come to expect from a movie that straps a rocket onto a car and sends it flying into the sky. The two negative reviews also highlight the energy, but one says "it goes through the motions" while another highlights it is running out of ways to top itself "based on the often dull, always bloated results here".
The Fast and Furious saga has had its critical highs and lows since the first film was released two decades ago. The films center on Dominic Toretto and his family and his chosen family. At first, the action films largely concerned illegal street racing and heists, but have grown to include high-stakes global missions that have turned the beloved scrappy racers into spies.
At the time this article is being written, F9'sRotten Tomatoes rating is 59 percent, putting it just barely in the rotten category. However, that rating has oscillated quite a bit, shifting from fresh to rotten and back again several times. After the U.S. premiere, many more reviews poured in, pulling the overall rating down. And as the stunts got crazier for Dom , Brian , Letty and the whole F&F-in' family, critics were just as willing to go along for the ride. It was finally the fifth Furious film that earned the franchise's first Fresh. And since then it's been on a skyward trajectory, like a souped-up Karmann Ghia ramping off an Arrakis sandworm and barrel rolling between a fleet of nuclear dirigibles (you know we're heading in this direction).
Furious 7 reached a high emotional crescendo in the wake of Walker's death, while follow-up F8 saw a dip, though stayed in the Fresh lane. Viewers were more kind to it, as the film made $40.7 million globally at theaters. The film also did well on DVD making $28 million thanks to the strength of its two leading men.
Many viewers point out that the fight sequence in the third act is stunning and contains all the action you would expect from Jet Li. " That slogan is especially appropriate for this movie, a wild blend of high fantasy, time-traveling, the late Sean Connery in all of his Scottish (even though he's Spanish?) glory, and loads and loads of '80s action movie camp. Queen provides the soundtrack for this wild movie about an immortal Scottish swordsman who must journey to kill his one final remaining immortal enemy to become The One Highlander. Journalism ethics remains a hot topic today, but it has never been fictionalized better than in Nightcrawler.
Lou Bloom is a stringer who will go to any lengths necessary to capture raw footage on his camcorder and sell it to the local TV station in Los Angeles. Bloom isn't above manipulating the crime scene or even taking a larger personal stake in the action if it maximizes his recordings — not to mention his leverage over Nina, the morning news director. Ethics are cast aside by the power of the almighty dollar, reminding the audience "if it bleeds, it leads." Jake Gyllenhaal is as compelling as ever in a film that was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. It's garnered such a favorable reception, that it has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes. Collider reports that the director's cut release will include more than an hour of bonus material, and that this new version is 7 minutes longer than the theatrical release. After skipping the second and third movies, Diesel reprised his role as Dom Toretto in the fourth movie, simply titled Fast & Furious, which saw the franchise rebooted as a straight action series.
This one was a pretty generic action movie; the franchise wouldn't go above and beyond until Fast Five. It's no longer a franchise, it's a genre in its own right; a cinematic sandbox in which the on-screen action can constantly shift over time. In that regard it's perhaps most similar to MGM's long-running Bond movies than any of its contemporaries, a series that like Fast & Furious has seamlessly morphed to accommodate changing times, tastes and trends. And it's not just film studios that freelance critics need to be wary of. In the age of social media, angry movie fans have also grown into a force to be reckoned with. Roughly half of all reviews added to Rotten Tomatoes are self-submitted, which means that the critic or publication specifies whether their review is fresh or rotten, using whatever criteria they like.
For another reviewer that threshold might be a C, or a B-, or 2/4 stars. Moviegoers were left scratching their heads this spring when Paddington 2, a children's film about an anthropomorphic bear, overtook Citizen Kane on Rotten Tomatoes, cementing the sequel's status as one of the best-reviewed films on the site. How is it that a movie featuring a CGI bear — albeit a great movie — overtook one of the greatest films of all time? It seems to be a trend on Rotten Tomatoes; movie review scores on the site have been creeping upward for a decade, according to data compiled by Global News. Average Rotten Tomatoes scores vary by budget and genre, and lumping all movies together may obscure meaningful, critic-driven differences in earnings within one genre or within a budgetary range.
To account for those confounding factors, we used a generalized additive model, adjusting for budget and genre . If a movie was classified as belonging to multiple genres, such as action and comedy, it counted in both buckets. The chart below, which adjusts for budget and genre, shows that on the whole, Rotten Tomatoes scores are associated with higher profit margins , especially at the extremes. The most poorly received film in the franchise to date, 2003's 2 Fast 2 Furiousis the only main installment to not feature original star Vin Diesel at all.
Instead, the sequel focuses on Paul Walker's Brian O'Connor, disgraced from allowing Dominic Toretto to escape in the original film and relocating to Miami where he continues to engage in illegal street racing. Teamed with Tyrese Gibson's Roman Pearce, the duo is enlisted to infiltrate and bust a drug trafficking organization. Here are all the films in the series to date, ranked by averaging professional critics' scores from review aggregate sites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes are listed as well but do not affect the ranking, instead, offering a comparison of how audiences and professional critics view each installment. The Fast and Furious franchise has never aimed for critical acclaim since its inception in 2001, instead opting for dependably thrilling and large-scale action sequences.
After four critically panned installments, the series began to turn things around with Fast Five, which garnered its first "Certified Fresh" rating of 77 percent. Fast & Furious 6 received a 70 percent "Fresh" rating, Furious 7 received an 82 percent "Certified Fresh" rating, while both Fate and Hobbs & Shaw received "Fresh" 67 percent ratings. "The whole world has this excitement about this movie coming out, but for those who have been with the franchise, it's even more special," Diesel told EW.
As for why the film keeps changing between rotten and fresh, that's mainly due to the particular score it holds. Rotten Tomatoes categorizes any film at or above 60 percent as fresh, and any film under it as rotten. Since F9 has wound up right at the percent spot, any additional review can change the overall consensus on the site. One positive review can knock it back up to fresh, then a negative review or two can bring it back down, all because of how RT chooses to categorize fresh and rotten.
Guns Akimbo is more than just the movie that launched 1,000 Daniel Radcliffe memes. It's also one of the wildest action comedies to come along in years. Radcliffe stars as Miles Lee Harris, a keyboard warrior who angers the big players behind Skizm, a literal online deathmatch. To retaliate against Miles, Skizm's masterminds bolt guns to his hands and force him to take on the game's deadliest player, Nix . And to force his cooperation, the bad guys also kidnap Miles' ex-girlfriend, Nova . Miles is far from a conventional action hero, but through a strange mixture of luck and accidental skill, he creates his own legend in the game.
Ben Stiller co-wrote, directed, and starred in Tropic Thunder, an unabashed parody of almost every action film that came before it. Stiller plays Tugg Speedman, a faded action star who is signed to appear in a new film alongside controversial method actor, Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), comedian Jeff Portnoy , and the rest of the misfit cast. Director Damien Cockburn simply can't get these goofballs under control. That's why he drops them into a real warzone while hoping that the experience will shape them up.
Instead, Tugg and the guys soon find themselves in actual danger, even though they initially believe that it's all part of the movie they're shooting. For fans of the AMC series Breaking Bad, this flick is the epilogue they've been waiting for to address the unanswered question of what happened to Jesse Pinkman. For others who might not have seen Breaking Bad, it's still a fabulous film about a young man on the run from a clearly sordid past. It wraps Pinkman's story up with a nice little bow and delivers plenty of cameos and throwback references from the original series to make it a worthwhile watch for any fan who has been missing the show. When Chloe dares to dream of the world outside the four walls of her home, the girl's wishes are more than granted after discovering she possesses supernatural powers. She is one of thousands of gifted human beings known as Abnormals, a massive population of so-called freaks that the government is hunting.
