It’s always exciting to hear a movie you’re looking forward to is critically acclaimed, but a movie review isn’t the end-all be-all to determine if it’s good.

In reality, there are plenty of times that critics and audiences aren’t aligned, with moviegoers preferring films that some critics dislike.

To compile this list, we’ve compared each movie’s Critic Score on Rotten Tomatoes with the audience score. These are the films that moviegoers enjoyed far more than critics.

Bad Boys II

Critic Score: 24%
Audience Score: 78%

Bad Boys II is just more Bad Boys, which isn’t a bad thing. It’s exactly what audiences wanted, something that rang true with 2020’s Bad Boys for Life and 2024’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Both sequels have a 96% audience score.

Tommy Boy

Critic Score: 41%
Audience Score: 90%

The Chris Farley/David Spade comedy is peak physical comedy that ranks among the best in the ’90s.

Tommy Boy was so popular that the duo ran it back in Black Sheep.

Super Troopers

Critic Score: 36%
Audience Score: 90%

Not every joke in Super Troopers lands, and this was one of the biggest critiques from critics.

There are still plenty of jokes to not only deliver a hilarious comedy but also help launch the comedy troupe Broken Lizard to mainstream success.

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Venom

Critic Score: 31%
Audience Score: 80%

Maybe we were spoiled by the Spider-Man movies, both the Sam Raimi films and the Tom Holland movies in the MCU.

Venom is nowhere near as good, but then again, it’s Venom on the big screen. It’s silly, it’s mindless, and it’s a lot of fun!

Uncharted

Critic Score: 41%
Audience Score: 89%

My biggest issue with Uncharted is that there’s plenty of potential here; the video games the movie is based on are already pretty cinematic!

Instead, it falls into the trappings of far too many mainstream blockbuster films. It didn’t resonate with critics or fans of the video game franchise, but audiences ate it up.

Jurassic World Dominion

Critic Score: 29%
Audience Score: 77%

The problem with Jurassic World Dominion is that it’s too reliant on nostalgia.

If you ask me, we didn’t even need Jurassic World, let alone its own trilogy, but hey, we got to see the original cast again. Audiences loved that, though, so what do I know?

The Boondock Saints

Critic Score: 26%
Audience Score: 91%

Despite a tepid at best response at the box office and from critics, The Boondock Saints has become a beloved cult classic over the years.

Its popularity helped spawn a sequel in 2009.

Grandma’s Boy

Critic Score: 15%
Audience Score: 85%

Grandma’s Boy is a perfect example of movie reviewers being nowhere near the target audience.

It’s an excellent chance for Adam Sandler’s co-stars, most notably Allen Covert, to shine. It’s stupid, yes, but stupid comedies can be great.

National Treasure

Critic Score: 46%
Audience Score: 76%

It’s nice to know I’m not the only person who thinks National Treasure is a perfect movie.

Okay, perfect may be stretching it, but when your premise is “Nic Cage steals the Declaration of Independence,” you know what you’re getting into. It’s silly, stupid fun, and I loved every second of it.

We’re The Millers

Critic Score: 48%
Audience Score: 76%

It felt like the 2010s marked a stark difference in opinion for comedies between critics and fans.

We’re the Millers is an excellent example, suggesting that audiences are far more in tune with what makes a successful movie over critics.

The Greatest Showman

Critic Score: 56%
Audience Score: 86%

Critics argue that The Greatest Showman is all spectacle and no substance.

Yet that’s what audiences love about it: they were thoroughly entertained by the movie’s showmanship, pun not intended.

But I’m a Cheerleader 

Critic Score: 43%
Audience Score: 75%

The biggest issue from critics with But I’m a Cheerleader in 1999 was that they didn’t feel like it was saying enough with its message.

Over time, audiences have been proven right; the film has gone under a critical reassessment, being called one of the best lesbian comedies of all time.

Grown Ups

Critic Score: 10%
Audience Score: 62%

By the 2010s, critics became tired of Adam Sandler. Any goodwill he had earned with the positively received Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore was long gone.

Yet, there’s a reason why Sandler’s comedy career is still going strong today: audiences are more than happy to keep tuning in.

Hotel Transylvania

Critic Score: 45%
Audience Score: 72%

Okay, critics liked this Adam Sandler animated comedy a little more than Grown Ups, but it still has a negative rating.

What did audiences think? Well, for starters, the Hotel Transylvania franchise has grossed $1.38 billion at the worldwide box office.

Harlem Nights

Critic Score: 27%
Audience Score: 80%

Perhaps critics expected more from Harlem Nights. I get it; Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor co-starring in a comedy seems like a dream come true.

You have to argue if they had a bone to pick with Murphy, though. In an interview with Nancy Collins, he said that he felt like critics “went extra mean on it because it was me. I guess they viewed it as someone with an ego out of control doing all these things.”

Joker 

Critic Score: 68%
Audience Score: 89%

To be fair, critics didn’t hate Joker. They didn’t like it as much as audiences, though, who absolutely loved the film.

At least critics were right about the sequel!

Transformers

Critic Score: 57%
Audience Score: 85%

I’m not here to say that critics will never appreciate a Transformers movie. Transformers One has an 89% on Rotten Tomatoes!

Michael Bay’s Transformers adaptation from 2007 is not that kind of movie. It’s meant to be a loud, flashy summer blockbuster, and it excels at that.

Armageddon

Critic Score: 43%
Audience Score: 73%

Similarly, Michael Bay’s 1998 blockbuster Armageddon is one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies.

Does it take itself a little too seriously at times? You bet, but that’s part of the fun.

Twilight 

Critic Score: 48%
Audience Score: 72%

I cannot see a world where this discrepancy could have ever been avoided.

Twilight is what it is. It’s never going to win awards for quality, but my god, was it ever popular.

Man of Steel

Critic Score: 57%
Audience Score: 75%

Most critics were ho-hum on the anticipated Zack Snyder Superman movie, Man of Steel.

To be honest, the same is true for a large number of fans, but the people who like the movie really, really like it.

Captain America: Brave New World

Critic Score: 46%
Audience Score: 76%

Part of me really wonders if the current crop of Marvel movies is as bad as critics say, or if audiences are just fatigued.

Brave New World is an intersting conundrum in this regard, seeing as even though audiences preferred it to critics, it failed to register the pre-Infinity War box office numbers we used to expect from the MCU.

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