Jennifer Lawrence’s new film, Mother!, has received the worst possible rating on audience-based rating website, CinemaScore. Since 2002, there have been only 12 films with such bad ratings, reported Hindustan Times.
According to the report, the other films that received F rating are 2002’s George Clooney sci-fi remake, Solaris, 2012 Brad Pitt-starrer, Killing Them Softly and 2006’s Nicolas Cage horror film, The Wicker Man. CinemaScore polls opening day audiences with a report card in which they write their feedback on the movie. Based on the feedback the rating varies from A to F.
Cinemascore rating can impact the box office collection of films. Director Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! was produced on a budget of $30 million and it has collected approximately $8 million in its opening weekend.
The film’s audience rating is contradictory to what the critics are saying. The film has got decent 69 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
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“This is an interesting case of what appears to be a total disconnect between the critics, who have been fairly receptive, and audiences who are collectively giving Mother!, ” said comScore’s Paul Dergarabedian told The Hollywood Reporter. “The trailer paints a very strange and purposely equivocal portrait of the film and audiences who may have been expecting one type of movie-going experience got something quite different and have chosen to scold the film with a stunningly low approval rating.”