Anya Taylor-Joy’s New Apple TV+ Monster Movie Debuts With Solid, But Not Glowing Rotten Tomatoes Score

The new monster movie starring Anya Taylor-Joy has received its first reviews from critics. Taylor-Joy is an actor who is no stranger to critical success, having had her breakout role in the 2015 Robert Eggers horror movie The Witch, which earned a Certified Fresh score of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes and remains her highest-rated movie on the review aggregator platform. However, she has earned even higher scores from her television work, having starred in the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit (96%) and played a supporting role in seasons 5 and 6 of Peaky Blinders (the latter of which earned 100%).

So far, Anya Taylor-Joy movies have earned Rotten Tomatoes splats on only a few notable occasions, with тιтles such as the long-gestating X-Men spinoff The New Mutants (36%), and the AI horror-thriller Morgan (38%). The vast majority of her movies have been Certified Fresh, which means they have met a threshold of both review quanтιтy and overall score which means that Rotten Tomatoes has mathematically determined their ratings to be definitively positive. This roster includes the Jane Austen adaptation Emma. (86%), the prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (90%), and the horror satire The Menu (88%).

The Gorge Has Debuted On Rotten Tomatoes

Its Score Is Reasonably Solid

Apple TV+’s The Gorge has received an official score on Rotten Tomatoes. The upcoming Apple TV+ movie stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Top Gun: Maverick‘s Miles Teller as a pair of elite snipers hired to protect either side of a gorge and protect their towers from the monstrous menace it contains. The movie was directed by The Black Phone‘s Scott Derrickson from a screenplay by The Tomorrow War‘s Zach Dean.

The Gorge also stars Sigourney Weaver, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, and William Houston.

Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated an official score for the movie from 42 different critics’ reviews. While the score could still fluctuate as more reviews are added, The Gorge has debuted with 64% at the time of writing, which is solidly Fresh, though it is only 4% above the 60% Fresh threshold. The overall average score is also middling, at 5.9 out of 10, with critics generally agreeing that the stars have remarkable chemistry but finding fault with some of the more rushed or generic elements of the screenplay.

What This Means For The Gorge

It Ranks Low For An Anya Taylor-Joy Movie


Drasa stares intently at Levi as he gives her a faint smile in The Gorge

While mixed-positive The Gorge reviews have not prevented the movie from debuting with a Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score, it hardly makes a dent when compared to other Anya Taylor-Joy тιтles. In fact, a 64% score sees it rank No. 10 out of the 19 movies featuring the actor that have received Rotten Tomatoes scores, putting it in the lower half of her filmography. However, it remains to be seen how audiences respond, as all but two movies above it have lower audience scores than critic scores, so it could become one of her top тιтles in the eyes of viewers.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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