Moviegoers are having very negative reactions to Jennifer Lawrence’s latest movie,Mother!, according toCinemaScore, which currently has the movie at an F rating. TheDarren Aronofsky directed moviehas been getting trashed by audiences, but praised by critics, leading to a huge divide between audience and critic with the polarized reviews. Could it be that moviegoers are beginning a backlash against Jennifer Lawrence?
Jennifer Lawrenceis an acclaimed, Academy Award winning actress who was once the highest paid actress in the world two years ago. The 27-year old actress can pretty much do whatever she wants, but it’s beginning to look like her fans do not want to see her in horror movies. 2012’sHouse at the End of the Streetwas panned by critics and is seen as a commercial failure when compared to Lawrence’s other work, which still earned a lot of money and was in a neck and neck battle withEnd of Watchfor the number one position at the box office, but ended up at number two.
CinemaScore has been polling audience reactions to Hollywood movies for nearly 40 years and is considered to be a trusted source for audience reactions to movies to many movie fans.Mother!currently has an F, which is obviously the worst grade that a movie can earn. Comparatively,American AssassinandITboth have a B+ rating on the site. Other movies with an F grade include Andrew Dominik’sKilling Them Softly, Richard Kelly’sThe Box,I Know Who Killed Me, which starred Lindsay Lohan, William Friedkin’sBug, Greg McLean’sWolf Creek, Steven Soderbergh’sSolaris, and Robert Altman’sDr. T and the Women. The audience reactions are mirrored over at Rotten Tomatoes where the movie currently has a 43% approval rating from moviegoers. But critics have been a lot more forgiving, with some going on to praiseMother!and Jennifer Lawrence’s performance.
Mother!starsLawrence and Javier Bardemas a newlywed couple living in the middle of nowhere. Their marital bliss is interrupted when two unexpected guests, a man (Ed Harris) and his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer), arrive at their door. The movie has been compared toRosemary’s Babyby some critics, who admit that while the movie is good, that it does not warrant repeated viewings, which is a lot better than audiences have reviewed the movie. On the other hand, CinemaScore did giveThe Emoji Moviea B, so maybe this grading scale has been hacked.
The F grading from CinemaScore does not mean that the movie is doomed, but those reviews and grade certainly don’t help its case either. Perhaps the fan that Jennifer Lawrence got into a drunken bar fight with while filmingMother!in Budapest hacked the CinemaScore website after she poured all of that beer on him. Whatever the case may be, it just looks like J-Law fans don’t want to see her in horror movies anymore.
