Joey King’s latest movie, UglyGot a fairly poor critical score on Rotten Tomatoes. Directed by McG, the movie stars King as Tally Youngblood, who lives in a world where a mandatory operation makes everyone beautiful and eliminates their physical differences. The Ugly Cast also includes Brianne Tju, Chase Stokes, Laverne Cox and Keith Powers.
On Rotten tomatoesThe movie’s current score has been revealed, and it’s not great. At the time of publishing this article, The film sits with an approval rating of 20% based on 20 reviews. No critical consensus has been given, but many reviews have discussed how unoriginal the film feels, and criticized its underdeveloped social commentary. The score is expected to fluctuate as more reports get tabulated.
Uglies continues Joey King’s obscure trend on rotten tomatoes
King has starred in many nasty YA films.
While Ugly Boasting an impressive cast of young actors, it follows a streak of poorly received films for Joey King. The 25-year-old actor is best known for starring in Netflix The Kissing Booth Trilogy with Jacob Elordi and Joel Courtney. like Ugly, The franchise is based on Beth Reekles’ trilogy of books of the same namewhich achieved wide success.
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Although the movies were all massive commercial hits on the streaming service, they weren’t critical darlings and were even criticized by one of their stars, Elordi, calling them “Ridiculous.” The first movie currently has an approval rating of 15% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 13 reviews. There was not much improvement on parts two and threewhich have an approval rating of 29% and 24%, respectively.
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Joey King movies |
Critical RT score |
Audience RT score |
|---|---|---|
|
Zeroville (2019) |
23% |
38% |
|
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) |
29% |
38% |
|
The Kissing Booth 3 (2021) |
24% |
19% |
|
The one in between (2022) |
64% |
77% |
|
The princess (2022) |
62% |
44% |
|
The bullet train (2022) |
53% |
76% |
|
A family affair (2024) |
35% |
30% |
|
Despicable Me 4 (2024) |
56% |
88% |
|
Ugly (2024) |
20% |
55% |
King has also starred in many critically panned movies, including Move on, Stonewall, Slim Manand recently, A family affairwhich co-stars Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman. However, she also starred in many critically acclaimed movies, including The Conjuring, Ramona and BeezusAnd Crazy, stupid, love. unfortunately, Ugly It doesn’t look like one of those movies and adds another crucial thread to King’s expansive filmography.
Source: Rotten tomatoes