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Rotten Tomatoes Removes Audience Rating For Star Wars: The Acolyte After Leslye Headland And Media Complain About Review Bombing. Rotten Tomatoes has become a functionally useless website now more than ever, as audiences have been censored from posting what they think about Star Wars: The Acolyte.

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Rotten score. Will (2024) is just another WWII movie. It's not a bad movie. But it's not doing anything to push the medium, and the areas where it attempts to are more exhausting than impactful.

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The show is doing fairly well, but not great. The Acolyte's viewership is apparently lower than any other show bar Andor. Now, it's worth stressing that doesn't mean The Acolyte is a failure; Lucasfilm has already commissioned Andor season 2, proving 208 million is fine.

Since some reports connected this flood of bad scores to the show's diverse cast and LGBTQ+ themes—er, “lesbian space witches”—there's been debate about whether the poor reviews were coming from hom*ophobic, racist, or misogynist corners of the fandom.

To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.

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Will (also referred to as Wil) has been picked up by Netflix and is set to be released globally on January 31st, 2024. Set in Antwerp, Belgium, the new WWII movie tells the story of an auxiliary policeman working during the Nazi occupation.

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What is the Audience Score? The Audience Score, denoted by a popcorn bucket, represents the percentage of users who have rated a movie or TV show positively.

As the reviews of a given film accumulate, the Rotten Tomatoes score measures the percentage that are more positive than negative, and assigns an overall fresh or rotten rating to the movie. Scores of over 60 percent are considered fresh, and scores of 59 percent and under are rotten.

The Acolyte sports an 85% on Rotten Tomatoes—with critics—but is faring far worse with fans, who have bombed the series to a green pulp. 13% may be lower than this show deserves—I'd put it right there with Obi-Wan and Boba Fett personally—but I can't blame fans for being angry.

The Acolyte did appear during its premiere week at number 7 with 488 million minutes viewed. The next week, it fell to 370 million minutes. Viewership clearly continued to drop between weeks three and four, so much so that it landed outside of the top ten.

So, why is The Acolyte getting hate? Well, the short answer is: many feel the show doesn't fit into the rest of the franchise's canon and are unhappy with some of the creative choices being made – and the LGBTQ+ cast.

Despite this strong initial showing, The Acolyte had a steep dropoff when its third episode premiered the following week, with viewership for the first two days decreasing 22%. The fourth episode dropped even farther with a 9% decrease in views from episode 3.