10 films of 2024 that critics and audiences completely disagree on

2024 has produced some films that critics and audiences can’t seem to agree on, and their Rotten Tomatoes scores highlight the way they’ve divided opinion. Rotten Tomatoes gives two soundtracks for a film. The “Tomatometer” score measures critical opinions based on published reviews, while the newly revamped “Popcornmeter” score offers a way for audiences to record their own opinions. It often happens that these two soundtracks are very close to each other, but some films break the system.

Most of the time, if there’s a big difference between the Tomatomer score and the Popcornmeter score, it’s because a movie is a simple crowd pleaser that critics don’t care about. Critics are more focused on the craft of a film and the ideas behind it. Many people think so too, of course, but most audiences rate a film based on how entertaining it is. Films like Venom: The Last Dance and End with us exposed the gap between critics and audiences in 2024.

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Venom: The Last Dance

Tomatometer: 41% – Popcorn meter: 81%

Venom: The Last Dance There’s a huge gulf between the Tomatometer score and the Popcornmeter score, but Sony wouldn’t have worried about the negative reviews. All Poison the film has so far had a similar difference of opinion between critics and audiences, starting with the 50% difference from the 2018 film Poison. Critics and audiences never agree on Tom Hardy Poison filmsso it’s likely that the final film in the trilogy will continue that trend.

Venom: The Last Dance offers more exciting symbiote action scenes and also revives the strangely charming dynamic between Eddie Brock and Venom. Tom Hardy’s performance is central to most of the film’s positive points. Critics may have turned up their noses at the unrefined nature of the Poison trilogy, but Venom: The Last Dance sets up the future of Sony’s Spider-Man universe with the hope that it can turn things around.

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Lady Teia

Tomatometer: 11% – Popcorn meter: 56%

As soon as the first trailer was released, Lady Teia became the target of online ridicule, with clumsy expository dialogue like “He was in the Amazon with my mother when she was researching spiders shortly before she died.” getting meme treatment on social media. Lady Teia it soon dropped to a dismal 11% Tomatometer score, showing how critics poked holes in the plot, characters, and action scenes.

Lady TeiaThe big divide between critics and audiences is interesting, because there is a difference of more than 40%, but neither group classifies the film as new. The only lesson is that the public decided that Lady Teia It wasn’t as bad as many people prepared for. Although no one claims that it is a masterpiece, critics may have been overly harsh, not allowing themselves to appreciate the film’s good qualities.

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Types of kindness

Tomatometer: 72% – Popcorn meter: 48%

Straight from the end of his Oscar-nominated sci-fi film Poor thingsYorgos Lanthimos has teamed up with Emma Stone once again to Kinds of kindness, a comedy anthology film steeped in Lanthimos’ quirky and surreal style. Did not receive equivalent reviews Poor things, or other great hits by Lanthimos, The favorite and The Lobster, but it’s still rated fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. The public, on the other hand, gave it a terrible rating.

It often happens that the public is more forgiving of films, so it is relatively rare to see a Popcornmeter score that is much lower than the Tomatometer score. Kinds of kindness, like most anthology films, it’s a bit uneven in its execution. However, critics are more likely to appreciate the ideas behind it. The low Popcornmeter score proves that audiences have been less forgiving of Lanthimos’s experimental style on this occasion.

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Fly me to the moon

Tomatometer: 65% – Popcorn meter: 90%

Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson’s retro romantic comedy received mixed reviews from critics, but audiences offered a much kinder assessment. From 1960s charms to light-hearted humor, Fly me to the moon It’s a crowd pleaser with precision engineering. It helps that it’s led by two of the most charismatic movie stars in the business. Its 90% Popcornmeter score marks it as one of the most popular comedies of the year.

It’s not a big surprise to see Fly me to the moon it scored big with audiences, considering that romantic comedies often win over audiences. Fly me to the moon it also benefits from the fact that there have been so few feel-good romantic comedies in recent years that pass basic watchability standards. In this way, Fly me to the moon it’s a throwback to the 2000s style, despite the 1960s setting.

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Despicable Me 4

Tomatometer: 56% – Popcorn meter: 87%

Until 2024 Despicable Me 4, Critics and audiences seemed to be aligned in their opinions of the Despicable Me films. However, Despicable Me has a wide divide, giving it the lowest Tomatometer score in the franchise and the highest Popcornmeter score in the franchise, excluding the Minions spin-offs. Depending on who you ask, Despicable Me It’s either the best or the worst film so far.

Placing the Minions films on the one hand, the Despicable Me the franchise has been steadily falling on the Tomatometer since its first entry. However, the public response tells a completely different story. Although assessments target Despicable Me 4With the overwrought plot, weak villain, and lack of emotional development, audiences seem satisfied with the minions’ cartoony physical comedy and Steve Carell’s expressive voice acting.

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End with us

Tomatometer: 56% – Popcorn meter: 90%

End with us is the first film adaptation of one of Colleen Hoover’s novels. Hoover has gained quite a following in recent years, in part due to her popularity on BookTok, so a film adaptation of her was only a matter of time. End with us grossed close to $350 million at the box office on a budget of just $25 million, highlighting the extent of Hoover’s influence.

The types of people most likely to watch End with us and reviewing it online are those who are already familiar with the story, so it’s not a shock to see it scoring so high on Popcornmeter. Fans praised the faithful adaptation, as well as Blake Lively’s performance in the lead role. Film critics are less likely to have such affection for the source material, so their reviews have been more mixed.

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Red

Tomatometer: 33% – Popcorn meter: 90%

Dwayne Johnson movies are usually designed to appeal more to audiences than film critics, so it shouldn’t be a surprise to see this Red is much more popular among the general public. This continues a trend that can be seen in some of his other big box office hits. Black Adam and Red Warning it also has terrible Tomatometer scores and excellent Popcornmeter scores, and those are just a few of its films from recent years.

The real surprise about Red not that it was ridiculed by critics, but that So far it has struggled at the box office. The gigantic $250 million budget was always going to cause problems, but Red It was still expected to have a stronger start considering the combined star power of Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans. It may still improve as Christmas approaches, but its critical response will remain rotten.

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Don’t move

Tomatometer: 73% – Popcorn meter: 38%

Don’t move is another film that critics liked more than the public. The Netflix horror film follows a woman trying to escape a serial killer as a paralytic agent slowly shuts down her body. It’s an interesting premise, but most critics and audiences disagree about the execution. Don’t move received some positive reviews praising the tense atmosphere and the performances of Kelsey Asbille and Finn Wittrock.

The public was generally less positive about Don’t move, giving it an abysmal score of just 38%. What critics saw as tension, audiences saw as boredomand what critics considered an intriguing concept, audiences saw as a missed opportunity. Don’t move It is by no means disliked by audiences and is worth watching for fans of the horror genre who want to make up their own mind.

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Harold and the Purple Pencil

Tomatometer: 28% – Popcorn meter: 91%

Harold and the Purple Pencil received a lot of criticism before it was even released, thanks to the decision to transform the main character of Crockett Johnson’s children’s book into a full-grown adult. Shazam star Zachary Levi plays an adult Harold in a mix of live action and animation that critics resoundingly dismissed. Harold and the Purple Pencil It was also a box office bomb, failing to recoup its $40 million budget.

Harold and the Purple Pencil is an adaptation of a 1955 children’s book, so it’s not exactly the most exciting material for a new film. However, despite its poor box office performance and woeful reviews, Harold and the Purple Pencil has a healthy score on Popcornmeter. It’s also been a hit on streaming platforms latelysuggesting that audiences are much more enthusiastic about it than critics.

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Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Tomatometer: 65% – Popcorn meter: 96%

THE Bad Boys The franchise has never been very popular with critics, but the last two films have at least avoided the beating the originals took over 20 years ago. Bad Boys and Bad Boys II they were both rotten, although they were successful with the public, both reaching 78% on Popcornmeter. Since the franchise was resurrected by Adil El Arbi and Bilal Fallah replacing Michael Bay, its reputation with both critics and audiences has improved.

Although Bad Boys: Ride or Die may have a higher Tomatometer score than Michael Bay’s first two films, it’s still far more popular with audiences. Although it received average reviews Audiences ranked it as one of the best action films of 2024, above likes Dune: Part Two, Ape Man and The Beekeeper. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s comedic chemistry is as charming as ever, and the plot allows for some creative action sequences, like the alligator-themed amusement park shootout.