20 Terrible Movies That Do NOT Deserve Their Fresh Rotten Tomatoes Scores

Score: 69% (Average Score: 6.90/10)

Consensus: Impeccably mounted but occasionally bombastic, Les Misérables largely succeeds thanks to bravura performances from its distinguished cast.

Les Miserables is a very unsuccessful adaptation of a much-loved musical. To be fair, the performances are mostly strong (although Russell Crowe is very weak) and the production design is stunning, but those elements are hard to appreciate when the rest of the film is so ineffective.

Tom Hooper's direction is clunky, the music is surprisingly weak, it's far, far too long, and any real dramatic power is pretty much non-existent.

Yes, some like it more than your writer did, but Les Miserables generally seems to be a fairly divisive film, especially among fans of the musical, so it's incredibly odd that this not only got a good score here, but also earned a staggering eight Oscar nominations, including (cue the eye rolls) Best Picture. In fact, it even won for Best Sound Mixing despite the many problems with it on an aural level.

Many of the other weaker Best Picture nominees from the 2010s, such as The Help, War Horse, The Theory of Everything, Vice and Bohemian Rhapsody, do have some substantial positive qualities, and therefore you can just about understand them managing to get a fresh score on the site, but not this one. The flaws are simply too big to justify it getting a fresh score or doing so well at the Oscars.

Deserved Score: 40-59%.