10 Acclaimed Recent Movies That Audiences HATED
Critics and audiences totally disagreed about these movies.
Though movie studios would naturally prefer for all of their movies to get sky-high ratings from critics, it's also fair to say that a towering Rotten Tomatoes score is never a pure guarantee that a film is also going to hit with audiences.
While there's plenty of overlap between the tastes of critics and general viewers, there are also areas where they simply down align, resulting in films which might garner a strong critical consensus, only to fall flat with audiences at large.
And over the past year, these are the 10 movies which saw the biggest chasm between critical and viewer opinion, as critics lavished them with praise while general audiences were considerably less impressed.
In many instances it's worth noting that poor or dubious marketing is clearly to blame, with audiences being sold a different film from the one they actually paid to see.
Unsurprisingly this is less of a problem for critics who, more often than not, aren't opening their wallets to watch movies.
Regardless of which "side" you consider to be correct in each of these cases, these 10 movies all caused a massive schism between pundits and punters...
10. Babygirl
Though Nicole Kidman's new erotic thriller Babygirl wasn't universally raved-about by critics, it nevertheless scored a sturdy 76% on the Tomatometer, with even those who were lukewarm on the film generally praising Kidman's terrific central performance.
Yet general audiences were decidedly less enamoured with Babygirl, which was marketed as something of a kinky, sexually charged drama - basically a more upmarket, "classy" version of Fifty Shades of Grey.
But that isn't really what Babygirl is - it's a far more grounded and sedate film about power and pleasure that's decidedly less explicit than many likely expected.
That'd certainly explain why its Rotten Tomatoes audience score currently sits at a paltry 48% - the exact same figure the third and final Fifty Shades film got, notably - and landed a mediocre "B-" CinemaScore.
Nothing will make audiences turn against a movie faster than being sold one thing and presented with another, and that's exactly what happened here, even though with the right expectations Babygirl is a rock solid movie.