15 Films Critics Got Right (But Audiences Got Wrong)

Rotten Tomatoes: 20% (Average rating: 4.0)

IMDb: 6.6

The Book of Henry, alongside The Emoji Movie, was more or less the worst film of 2017. Hollow, misjudged, offensive and featuring a terrible plot that'll have you going "WTF?!" the whole way through, TBOH goes beyond terrible. It's transcendent. As it should go without saying, a 6.6 rating (that's higher than Kill List) is definitely not accurate. At all.

This rating isn't quite as damaging as some of the others, since TBOH is almost recommended given that it's an unintentionally hilarious movie to rival The Room, but it is certainly far too generous to what is a real cinematic turkey.

Audiences do often like sentimental films such as this (as similarly displayed by the critic-audience divide regarding The Notebook), but that still doesn't explain how this got a remotely decent audience score. While the emotional beats could be endearing, the film brings new meanings to the word "misjudged" and it's a film which only gets even more ridiculous, stupid and offensive as it goes along.

This IMDb score could be explained by people rating it highly because they enjoyed it as an unintentional comedy and it's true that the film is an undeniably fascinating viewing that will leave you in hysterics, but since The Room, Sharknado and The Wicker Man (2006), which are all unintentionally hilarious cult classics, has ratings of 3.6, 3.3 and 3.7 respectively, that explanation doesn't really add up.

Basically, there's no solving this one.

Should Be Rated: 5.1