"The Glass Castle," 2017, 49 percent rotten
#A long way home rotten tomatoes movie#
Not a great movie by any means, but hardly one that belongs in the same category as DC's two biggest failures, "Man of Steel" and "Batman v. When the cast is just allowed to read Ayer's dialogue and let it sink or swim on its own, the movie usually succeeds. Margot Robbie nails the character of Harley Quinn, Will Smith is both charming and surprisingly vulnerable as Deadshot, and the titular Squad itself has excellent chemistry. This is not to say the movie isn't flawed, but aside from the wretched Joker scenes, the rest of the film itself is actually pretty entertaining. There is a gritty and fun sensibility to the movie that makes up for the plot holes (of which there are an abundance) and weird editing (you can tell that director David Ayer had planned more extensive backstories for the villains, which were then cut to ribbons by the studio). This movie is no masterpiece, but it deserves much better than the critical trouncing it got.
Let's not even talk about having Bryce Dallas Harper running for her life in heels just because she happens to be a woman. Setting the new movie in a functional theme park was a great idea, but instead of focusing on dinosaurs chowing down on customers in modern facilities, it only includes a brief scene featuring such an attack before reverting to the jungle setting that had been done to death in the previous three films. Even worse, "Jurassic World" did absolutely nothing with a fantastic premise. The first film advanced public knowledge of paleontology.
In many ways, the film was a step back from its 1993 predecessor - the CGI-ified dinosaurs looked much less convincing than those in the original, and the plot conveniently ignored scientific advancements (such as the discovery that many dinosaurs had feathers). It's understandable why it pulled in nearly $1.7 billion at the box office, given that it was a much-hyped sequel to a beloved classic, but the critical acclaim a little baffling. To answer at least some of those questions - and deliver a little cinematic justice - here's a list some of the most egregious cases in which the site either maligned a good film or elevated a bad one.īe honest: "Jurassic World" sucked.
Yes, that's absurd - but it does raise valid questions about whether the website's black-or-white, win-or-lose mentality unfairly disadvantages movies that happened to fall on the wrong side of the critical consensus or overly rewards films that just so happened to get a few mildly positive reviews. Last year, fans of the movie "Suicide Squad" circulated a petition attacking Rotten Tomatoes for designating the film as "rotten" due to its overwhelmingly bad reviews. Moviegoers too have been laying into the site. As Hollywood tries to make sense of its current box office slump, producers, actors and directors have been pointing at the critical aggregator, which quantifies movie reviews and deems Tinseltown's beloved properties as either "fresh" or (gasp!) "rotten." Rotten Tomatoes has been catching a lot of heat lately.
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