We’ve limited the movies to theatrical releases only, which does keep out the home animated fare that’s been giving DC adaptations a good name whenever the DCEU stumbled. Moving beyond the strictly superhero element of DC Comics, this guide will also feature the adapated works from DC imprints Vertigo ( V for Vendetta, The Losers), Paradox Press ( Road to Perdition, A History of Violence), and WildStorm ( Red, Red 2).
(And well before those upstart punks Marvel Comics to boot!) You’ll find them all in in our guide to every DC Comics movie ranked by Tomatometer, along with other significant greats like Swamp Thing, Green Lantern, and Shazam.īut the world of comic book publishing is nothing if not vast, a constellation of multiverses, retcons, annuals, and imprints.
These are some of the staple titans of DC Comics the world has come to adore over the past 80 years, especially as they made the leap from page panel to silver screen and TV in the ’50s and ’60s. Love & Friendship (2016)Ĭritic score: 97 percent 20.(Photo by Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Collection) All DC Comics Movies Ranked Backcountry (2015)Ĭritic score: 93 percent 19. About a Boy (2002)Ĭritic score: 93 percent 17. It Comes at Night (2017)Ĭritic score: 93 percent 15. Strong Island (2017)Ĭritic score: 100 percent 13. Starfish (2019)Ĭritic score: 90 percent 12. Forsaken (2016)Ĭritic score: 36 percent 11. We Are Still Here (2015)Ĭritic score: 95 percent 9. Spy Kids (2001)Ĭritic score: 93 percent 8. Gloria Bell (2019)Ĭritic score: 91 percent 7. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)Ĭritic score: 91 percent 6. American Outlaws (2001)Ĭritic score: 14 percent 5. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)Ĭritic score: 97 percent 4. Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)Ĭritic score: 100 percent 3. Knock Down the House (2019)Ĭritic score: 100 percent 2. See the top 20 list below, and read more about the data here. If there’s an overall takeaway from this data, it’s that critical acclaim definitely doesn’t guarantee that you’re going to enjoy a film-and choosing a guilty pleasure over Citizen Kane (1941) is totally justified.
Professional reviewers found it unimaginative and forgettable, giving it a below-average grade of 42 percent.
Father-son duo Donald and Kiefer Sutherland teamed up for the 2016 Western Forsaken, which entertained audiences enough to receive an 87 percent rating. However, there are a few crowd-pleasers that critics didn’t embrace. The Rian Johnson-directed Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), for example, earned a glowing 91 percent rating from critics, but it apparently failed to live up to George Lucas’s legacy in the eyes of most moviegoers-its audience score is just 43 percent.
Audiences disagreed with those critics by a full 82 percent, awarding it an abysmal 18 percent.įor 17 of the 20 films on the list, the story looks similar: Critics gave them a gold star, while audiences were unimpressed. To critics, it was a flawless work of visual journalism worthy of a rare 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The top spot went to Knock Down the House, a 2019 Netflix documentary about four working-class women who ran for Congress, including New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. To discover which films are the most divisive, RAVE Reviews compiled Rotten Tomatoes's "Top 100" lists from 17 different genres into one massive collection of 967 films, and then ranked them in order of how large the difference was between the critic score and the audience score. With the rise of online review aggregators that feature ratings from both professionals and the general public, it’s become only too easy to see just how giant those discrepancies can be.
It’s always disappointing to find out that critics consider one of your favorite movies to be an utter gaffe from beginning to end-and it’s just as strange to hear industry experts fawn over a flick that you thought was the snooze-fest of the century.