The CinemaScore is one of the major factors studios use to determine how well a movie will perform at the box office. Unlike Rotten Tomatoes, which calculated ratings based on the official reviews of critics, CinemaScore ratings are determined by polling ordinary moviegoers. The ratings can fall anywhere from A+ to F, and it's pretty rare for a movie to be so universally disliked that it earns the dreaded "F" rating.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened with mother!, the latest film from director Darren Aranofsky. But Aranofsky isn't alone. Several other big-name directors have seen their worked slammed with an "F" CinemaScore. From Solaris to Wolf Creek, here are some other films that placed at the very bottom of CinemaScore's rankings (whether they deserved it or not).
CinemaScores aren't always a perfect determination of how a film will fare at the box office, but in the case of mother! it seems to be pretty dead-on. The film opened to a less-than-expected $7.5 million this past weekend, even as Stephen King's IT continues to shatter all sorts of box office records.
Still, mother! is well worth a viewing for any Aronofsky fan. Check out our review to see why we said, "Although Darren Aronofsky's mother! can be an exceptionally frustrating film, one never doubts that behind it there is a vision of what it all means."
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