Critics Say You Should Skip 'Justice League'
by EG
Review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes tried to milk the suspense around the release of Justice League this week, keeping the movie's aggregate score a secret until the day before the movie hit theaters. Now the reviews are in, however, and it doesn't look good for Justice League. The film's aggregate score is marginally better than that of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice but much, much lower than that of Wonder Woman.
Justice League is shooting for opening-weekend ticket sales of more than $100 million, which would put it roughly on a par with last month's release of Thor: Ragnarok. If the film is as unlikable as critics say, though, that might be a hard milestone to reach.
The reviews are in, and now, so is the Rotten Tomatoes score.
Justice League has been given a 43 percent score from the online review aggregator, 24 hours after reviews hit. That puts it in the middle of pack of the five films in Warner Bros.' DC universe so far.
The delayed score came courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes' new Facebook show See It/Skip It, which hits online late Wednesday nights. Rotten Tomatoes has begun holding back scores for some films and television shows so they can be revealed at the end of each episode, and this is the third time a score has been held for the Facebook show.
The DC films have enjoyed both Rotten Tomatoes success (this summer's Wonder Woman earned 92 percent) and suffered low points (2016's Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice's 27 percent and Suicide Squad's 26 percent). Man of Steel, the 2013 Superman film that kicked off the shared universe, earned a middling 55 percent.
This current Justice League score can be expected to fluctuate as more reviews come in and are tabulated.
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