Netflix Movies Critics Hated and Fans Loved in 2022

Tyler Perry’s latest Madea adventure, A Madea Homecoming, was released in February.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic’s Score: 36%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 62%

“A Madea Homecoming” follows Madea’s great-grandson Tim’s graduation from college, but when the entire Simmons and Brown families come together, a secret is revealed that threatens to ruin their happy reunion. increase.

“‘Homecoming’ is much the same. The characters are single-note, and the actors portray them as such. Madea continues to be the center of attention,” Craig D. Lindsay wrote in The AV Club.

However, like all other “Madea” films, its fans seem to far outnumber its critics, with much higher audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes.

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“Scrooge: A Christmas Carol” is another animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”

Rotten Tomatoes Critic’s Score: 38%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 68%

In one of two “A Christmas Carol” adaptations this year, Scrooge is voiced by Luke Evans, Olivia Colman is the Ghost of Christmas Past, Trevor Dion Nicholas is the Ghost of Christmas Presents, Jonathan Pryce is voiced by Jacob Marley, Johnny Flynn provides the voice of Bob. Cratchit.

Nell Minnow of RogerEbert.com called the film “unwatchable”.

However, many other viewers disagreed with that assessment, as 68% of viewers actually enjoyed the film.

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“Purple Hearts” was a huge hit with Netflix subscribers this summer, but not so much with critics.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic’s Score: 35%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 69%

In “Purple Hearts,” Sofia Carson plays Cathy, a young diabetic musician, and Nicholas Galitzine plays Luke, a US Marine who has been sober for two years. Cathy can’t afford insulin and Luke still owes money to a former drug dealer, so they hate each other almost immediately at first sight, but with plans to get married, Cathy takes out insurance, Allow Luke to receive a higher salary. as she is married.

“The whole script is a bingo card full of politicized stereotypes,” wrote Aja Romano of Vox.

However, the film was a huge hit on TikTok and was one of the biggest hits of the year for Netflix, reaching number three on the 2022 most-watched list.

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According to fans, “Along for the Ride” is a sweet love story about two insomniac teens.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic’s Score: 57%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 69%

Based on Sarah Dessen’s novel of the same name, Along for the Ride tells the story of fresh high school graduate Oden (Emma Pathallow) traveling to the beach town of Colby to spend the summer with her father. is. While wandering Colby’s nightlife, she meets Eli (Belmont Cameri), who becomes her mysterious nighttime friend.

“Oden’s aloofness remains confusing throughout, a flat void at the heart of a story that calls for an element of charisma,” wrote Adrian Horton of The Guardian.

However, fans of Dessen’s novel disagreed, with audiences giving the adaptation a 70% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Mila Kunis plays the editor in “Lucky Girl Alive” and seems to have a perfect life, but she hides a dark past.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic’s Score: 42%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 72%

Lucky Girl Alive is a film adaptation of Jessica Noll’s novel of the same name. Kunis stars as Ani, a female magazine editor who is engaged to a wealthy man named Luke (Finn Wittrock). But when a documentary filmmaker shows up asking to talk about her past – she was the victim of a mass shooting in high school – Ani’s illusions of her perfect life begin to crack.

Todd McCarthy of Deadline wrote, “Despite it’s formulaic nature, the narrative is rife with the persistence of guilt for past questionable behavior and how people deal with it even after the fact.” I’m facing something that I’m struggling with.

The critics gave it only a 42% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so maybe fans of the novel were big fans of the adaptation. Viewers score him 30% higher.

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Critics weren’t persuaded by “Persuasion,” but some Jane Austen fans were.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic’s Score: 31%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 73%

Dakota Johnson stars as Anne Elliott, a 26-year-old single woman still reeling from her broken engagement to Frederick Wentworth, played by Cosmo Jarvis. When she reunites seven years after the two broke up, she wants to know if Anne feels the same way.

“‘Persuasion’ seems embarrassed by its source material, or at least seems intent on dressing it up for viewers who may not be able to handle a more moderate pace. increase.

Audience scores, however, suggest that some viewers responded more positively to the updated version of the text, breaking the fourth wall, and so on.

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While some critics were bored with “The Day Shift” starring Jamie Foxx, others were more entertained.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic’s Score: 57%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 76%

In “Day Shift,” Fox plays vampire hunter Bud. Bud must return to the vampire hunting union to secure enough money to support his ex-wife and daughter. Union leader Big John, played by Snoop Dogg himself, pairs Bud with a union representative named Seth, played by Dave Franco, to ensure Bud follows strict union rules. Hijinks follow.

“The cinema equivalent of paint-by-numbers, this is shoot-by-numbers, stab-by-numbers, bleed-by-numbers, which also guarantees boredom by numbers,” writes Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe. .

But even if that was what the critics thought, some audiences disagreed.It was the 10th most-watched movie on Netflix this year.

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In “Slumberland,” Jason Momoa plays a goat-horned dream-world crook.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic’s Score: 38%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 86%

In “Slumberland,” Momoa as Flip and Marlowe Berkley as Nemo, a young girl who is sent to live with her uncle after her father goes missing at sea and she struggles to make friends in the real world. are paired. Instead, she dreams of Slumberland and has a fantastical adventure with Flip and the others.The film is based on her 1900s comic strip “Little Nemo In Her Slumberlands.”

“Playing like an amalgam of Monsters, Inc.” This family-friendly fantasy, like Inception, thankfully keeps audiences awake, but it doesn’t lure us into a dreamy feeling either. wrote Courtney Howard of The AV Club.

But apparently, many audience members it was As you can see from the high ratings, I was drawn into the world of Flip and Nemo.

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Critics didn’t outright dislike “A Jazzman’s Blues,” but they didn’t react as positively as audiences did.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic’s Score: 68%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 87%

Tyler Perry’s film tells the decades-long story of Bayeux (Joshua Boone) and Leanne (Soleá Pfeiffer), two star-crossed teens who fall in love in the 1930s Deep South. Over the years, Rian’s parents disapproved of Bayou and the two were separated, but they never forgot each other.

“Despite the embellishments, this definitely remains a Tyler Perry movie. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad,” wrote Carlos Aguilar of the Los Angeles Times.

However, like “Madea”, it was flooded with Perry fans, recording 87%.

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“The Gray Man” is one of the highest-grossing Netflix movies ever made, and has paid off for viewers.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic’s Score: 46%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 90%

Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Léger-Jean Page, Jessica Henwick, Ana de Armas, Billy Bob Thornton, and Alfre Woodard star in the film adaptation of Mark Greaney’s novel of the same name.

Gosling plays CIA agent Court Gentry, aka Sierra Six. He is labeled a traitor after it is revealed that his new boss, Carmichael (Paige), is trying to eliminate the Sierra Program and its assassins. Carmichael then enlists the unhinged Lloyd Hansen (Evans) to track down Six and take him out for good.

“It’s a big, loud, explosive adrenaline rush. A live-action spin on the old MAD Magazine comic ‘Spy vs. Spy.’

But enough people watched and enjoyed ‘Gray Man’ for Netflix to order a sequel, even if the critics didn’t quite love the movie. When A spin-off work set in the same universe.

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