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Not even Jennifer Lawrence could win over CinemaScore audiences with mother! Her new WTF film with director (and current boyfriend) Darren Aronofsky earned a dreaded F from the movie polling company after Friday night screenings.
'mother!' had a positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes (69 percent of critics gave the film a positive review), but audiences revolted against Aronofskys film, which mixes broad religious allegory with home-invasion horror and ends with a sequence of shocking, R-rated violence. The overall rejection might have something to do with how the film was marketed, as CinemaScore founder Ed Mintz explained in a 2016 interview about his company.
As generally are good, Bs generally are shaky, and Cs are terrible. Ds and Fs, they shouldnt have made the movie, or they promoted it funny and the absolute wrong crowd got into it, he said.
CinemaScore grades films based on reactions from moviegoers at the start of opening weekend at theaters across North America and Canada with a ballot of six questions. Other movies with an F grade include Andrew Dominiks 'Killing Them Softly', Richard Kellys 'The Box', 'I Know Who Killed Me' with Lindsay Lohan, William Friedkins 'Bug', Greg McLeans 'Wolf Creek', Steven Soderberghs 'Solaris', and Robert Altmans 'Dr. T and the Women'.
So, mother!s F grade doesnt necessarily mean its dead in the water upon arrival, but rather its a reflection of how the first audiences are responding to the works high concepts compared with the movie promised via its trailer. Critics are still figuring it all out.