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Film critics and audiences famously don’t agree on movies, if they ever do.
But while there are movies that audiences love and critics hate, sometimes the opposite is true too.
There are movies that critics couldn’t get enough of but audiences outright hated.
But believe it or not, that’s not always the case.
Here, we list 32 of the all-time greatest movies that apparently only critics dug and audiences actually hated.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has a 73% with critics versus a 57% with audiences.
The two embark on a road trip to play a high-stakes poker game in New Orleans.
The movie has a 91% critics rating and a 55% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Yet somehow, audiences haven’t taken to Meatballs like a plate of spaghetti.
Despite the broad appeal of both Reitman and Murray, only critics have shown love for Meatballs.
Spring Breakers (2012)
Spring breaker forever!
On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has a 68% critics' score and a 38% audience score.
Praised New York Times' A.O.
After all these years, Captain Marvel still only has a 49% audience score on the platform.
War of the Worlds (2005)
Although H.G.
It’s tense and violent but stays propelled by its focused story about family and reconciliation.
Tom Cruise stars as an estranged father who must reunite his kids with their mother during an alien invasion.
Audiences were less enthralled by the movie’s ambiguity, however, with only a 44% audience score.
Ad Astra (2019)
17.
Audiences, meanwhile, were less than charmed; just 48% of audiences gave it a positive review.
Colossal (2016)
You’d think audiences would be sold on Anne Hatahway psychically controlling a giant monster.
But that wasn’t the case with Nacho Vigalondo’s black dramedy Colossal.
Soon, Hathaway finds she has a psychic connection to a Godzilla-like creature terrorizing South Korea.
While critics were mostly impressed by Dillard’s trickery behind the camera, audiences weren’t as much.
Their lives change when a stranger (Gina Rodriguez) gets wrapped up in their business.
Audiences, however, apparently wanted a reverent movie and criticized Johnson’s decisions as stepping on their childhoods.
The Last Jedi ultimately split the Star Wars fandom in twain.
Meanwhile, audiences aren’t as invested, with just 44% of audiences on its side.
On Rotten Tomatoes, Relic has a score of 92% with critics, but 51% with audiences.
But audiences couldn’t latch onto Possessor as well, with an audience score of just 59%.
You could not ask for a better American film to showcase it."
On Rotten Tomatoes, 89% of critics were enchanted by The Green Knight.
Meanwhile, only 50% of audience members felt the same way.
