0 Rotten Tomatoes Score
Shortly after it was released, WandaVision rose the charts to become the best-rated Marvel Studios property on Rotten Tomatoes. Now that more reviews have been filed, WandaVision has dropped from its spot atop the rankings and is currently tied in second place alongside Avengers: Endgame and Iron Man on the review aggregator. At it's best, WandaVision fielded a 97-percent Certified Fresh rating. Now, that's been reduced to 94-percent Certified Fresh.
Holmes & Watson currently has a 0% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The comedy, which is the third project that Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have teamed up for, is getting torched by critics. Dave Chappelle takes on gun culture, the opioid crisis and the tidal wave of celebrity scandals in a defiant stand-up special filmed in Atlanta.
Black Panther once sits alone atop the charts, with a near-perfect 96-percent. In the case of the Ryan Coogler feature, just 19 of the 517 reviews filed have been deemed 'Rotten.' With WandaVision, 146 reviews have been added to the site, of which 12 are 'Rotten.'
The show's also fairing a bit worse with audiences. The fan-controlled 'Audience Score' currently sits at 79-percent with over 1,500 fans offering their two cents. That would place it 20th on the list of combined films and television shows set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Black Panther and Jessica Jones also have Audience Scores of 79-percent.
The site's Critics Consensus reads, 'Part loving homage to TV history, part off-kilter mystery, WandaVision is a wonderfully weird and strikingly bold step into the small screen for the MCU - and a perfect showcase for Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany.'
ComicBook.com's Brandon Davis gave it a near-perfect four-and-a-half-star rating in his review.
'Fortunately, WandaVision is tremendously entertaining, weird, fun, and dark -- which is enough to warrant audiences coming back for more, Marvel fans or not,' Davis said in his review. 'While it is all contained to this brave, bold commitment to a new format, the feeling of something larger being at play is hugely interesting and drives an insatiable desire to know more. How it all pays off and whether or not the fun, dark, slow burn was worth it? Well, we will have to keep watching to find out.'
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Though some have argued that boiling a movie down to a single aggregated number does a disservice to cinema as a whole, Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer is an undeniably useful and influential tool for both audiences and those in the business of making movies.
A 'Rotten' score (below 60%) can be the kiss of death for a movie's box office prospects, to the extent that studios will typically screen bad films at the very last minute to keep that low Tomatometer from audiences for as long as possible.
While there are countless terrible movies released every year which plumb the depths of the Tomatometer, it takes a very special amount of effort to actually score 0%, where not a single critic who watched the film found it even a passably entertaining three-star effort.
Hell, even Manos: The Hands of Fate, widely believed to be one of the worst movies ever made, recently crept up to 7% after scoring a positive retrospective review, so quite how awful does a film have to be to land the illustrious zero?
Well, in the case of these 15 movies, each infamous for being universally savaged by critics, their sheer entertainment value - ironic or not - makes it hard to accept their 0% scores, and while they don't necessarily need to be re-evaluated by critics en masse, they probably deserve at least a mildly positive review or two.
Make no mistake: these 15 films are, by any typical filmmaking standard, bad. Relative to just about everything else that has 0%, though, they're enjoyable or interesting enough that they deserve at least a small sliver of praise...
