10 Most Divisive Movies Of 2024
These polarising movies split audiences firmly down the middle.
It's always nice when basically the whole world agrees that a movie is awesome, but some of the most interesting films are in fact those that end up splitting audiences firmly down the middle.
It'd be a boring existence if we all had the same opinion on every movie we watched, but more than any other films in recent times, this lot left audiences squabbling amongst themselves about their perceived merits (or lack thereof).
These 10 movies simply couldn't get viewers to agree on whether they were any good or not, and in a way we love them for that.
Each of them had audiences debating whether the films achieved their goals and, moreover, whether those goals were actually aligned with what the vast majority of people paid their hard-earned cash to see.
From bolder-than-bold sequels that did the last thing fans ever expected, to follow-ups that were perhaps too reverent to what came before, and a few Oscar-courting dramas that took some potentially alienating swings, these movies are without question the most polarising released over the last 12 months.
Love 'em or hate 'em, these films sure as hell got people talking...
10. A Quiet Place: Day One
Being a prequel to A Quiet Place, it was naturally expected that Day One would expand the mythology of the sci-fi horror franchise and dig deep into how the alien invasion kicked off.
And so, general audiences were left somewhat miffed that the film, written and directed by Michael Sarnoski (Pig), was instead a more introspective and surprisingly tender, character-driven prequel that had shockingly little interest in firmly explaining much about the aliens and their arrival on Earth.
Though Day One is certainly plenty suspenseful, it's clear that Sarnoski was far more concerned with crafting an emotional character study rather than shaping the character work around wall-to-wall set-pieces.
As a result, Day One posted by far the lowest audience score of the three A Quiet Place movies to date, with some calling it "boring," even if for many, this more restrained approach actually made it the best of the trilogy.
A phenomenal, even Oscar-worthy central performance from Lupita Nyong'o sure didn't hurt either.