The 6 Movies That Have Acheived Rotten Tomatoes' Two Main Awards In 2024

There are only six movies from 2024 that have earned two important distinctions from Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes is a review aggregator web site that awards movies with percentage scores that reflect how many of a title's reviews are positive. The Tomatometer, which tabulates a movie's reviews from approved critics, deems a title to be "Fresh" if it 60% or more of its reviews are positive and "Rotten" if 59% or less are positive. Movies that are generally higher than 75% and meet other qualifying criteria earn a badge that determines them to be Certified Fresh.

As of August 21, the site's audience score, which has long been a part of the site's functionality, has become the Rotten Tomatoes Popcornmeter. This change, which is accompanied by more strict regulations of how the audience score is tabulated, comes with a new badge that allows movies to be Verified Hot, which is the Popcornmeter's complement to the Certified Fresh badge. This badge can be applied to theatrical movies with a certain number of verified reviews from users who purchased tickets through Rotten Tomatoes' partner Fandango.

2024 Only Has 6 Movies That Are Certified Fresh & Verified Hot So Far

Critics And Audiences Agree On Both Blockbusters And Smaller Releases

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Of the list of more than 200 titles that are officially Verified Hot, only six titles from 2024 are also Certified Fresh movies on the Tomatometer. Those titles are the summer blockbusters Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Inside Out 2, the sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two, and the faith-based dramas Ordinary Angels and Cabrini. Ordinary Angels boasts the highest Popcornmeter score while Dune: Part Two is the most beloved by critics. Below, see the Tomatometer and Popcornmeter scores for all six titles:

There are many other 2024 movies that were Verified Hot, but no other titles earned the distinction of also being Certified Fresh. Many were officially Fresh, but did not have high enough scores to be Certified, such as Bad Boys: Ride or Die (65%), Fly Me to the Moon (65%), Gran Turismo (65%), Land of Bad (67%), and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (69%). However, quite a few Verified Hot titles had also earned Rotten splats from critics on the Tomatometer, including Harold and the Purple Crayon (25%), It Ends with Us (57%), and Bob Marley: One Love (45%).

Cabrini Has The Best Combined Certified Fresh & Verified Hot Rotten Tomatoes Score

The Faith-Based Movie Has Tomatometer and Popcornmeter Scores Above 90%

The movie with the best combined Rotten Tomatoes scores is Cabrini, the biopic of missionary Francesca Cabrini. Its audience score reflects the fact that many faith-based movies skew toward performing well on the Popcornmeter because they generally have a self-selecting audience of users seeking out movies with affirming messages that align with their own faith. However, that factor combined with critics' celebration of the direction, cinematography, and Cristiana Dell'Anna's lead performance led the movie to earn a dazzling combined score of 188, beating out Dune's 187 by a hair.