Netflix has the magical ability to take even explicitly scary movies and make them the most-watched offering in United States for a while, at least based on the success of its subscription base. That’s exactly what happened with Trigger Warning, Jessica Alba’s extraordinarily criticized action. Shoot No. 1 on the Top 10 Movies list for more than a week, but no more.
Instead, a new movie replaced it with A-list stars and at least better reviews. But not intelligent criticism. It’s certainly not smart. It would be A Family Affair starring Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman and Netflix favorite Joey King. Kidman plays her mother and King is the assistant to her movie star boss, Efron.
None of those films are good, by any means. Trigger Warning has a pretty shocking score of 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, but even worse, a 15% viewership score, which rarely happens when something is already that low. People are going to have to hate this movie, and as much as I’d love to see Jessica Alba’s revival, I’m not going to see this movie with such low scores.
A Family Affair does a little better, but not by much. It also received some low ratings, 44% from critics and again, a decline even from 34% of the audience, even though there are still plenty of critics. It’s not unusual for No. 1s to look terrible, but we were recently lucky enough that Hit Man was No. 1, a true 96% comedy starring Glenn Powell, even though it’s now at No. 9.
The rest of the list are the most popular children’s movies: Minions, Home, Shrek, and Boss Baby. And, of course, Super Mario Bros. , which I think hasn’t left this list for about 4 months.
A high-profile new authorized film is The Flash, lately number 3, and for some, the film that was something of a last gasp of the DCEU. I wouldn’t say it’s worse than Black Adam or Shazam 2, yes, but it was a core member of Justice League, a very clever adaptation of Supergirl and Michael Keaton’s Batman return. And it still wasn’t smart, hampered in part by bad CGI in a movie that Array needed smart CGI. The definitive series full of cameos It’s one of the worst things I’ve ever noticed in a superhero movie.
A Family Affair will most likely remain at No. 1 for a while given its star power. Maybe as more reviews come in those scores will be overlooked, however anecdotally my wife left this movie about 20 minutes in so I’m not so sure.
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