Oscar Isaac has just earned his best Rotten Tomatoes audience score in history with his new religious movie. Isaac is an Emmy-nominated actor who is known for taking on roles in a variety of genres in projects with a huge range budget levels. After his breakout in the 2013 Coen Brothers movie Inside Llewyn Davis, which he followed by continuing to star in a number of indie and arthouse movies, he starred in a variety of mᴀssive blockbusters including playing Poe Dameron in the newest Star Wars trilogy and the тιтle character in X-Men: Apocalypse.
Overall, the star has found a great deal of critical and commercial success, with his projects collectively grossing more than $7.9 billion in theaters. Many Oscar Isaac movies and TV shows have received glowing reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. While some of these тιтles are smaller productions like the 2009 war movie Balibo (100%), others were also commercially successful in addition to earning glowing scores, such as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (95%) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (93%).
The King Of Kings’ Debut Audience Score Is Stellar
The Movie Has Received Glowing Audience Reviews
2025’s The King of Kings has received glowing reviews from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. The new animated movie is adapted from the Charles Dickens children’s book The Life of Our Lord and features Dickens (Kenneth Branagh) as a character in the framing narrative, telling the story of Jesus Christ (Oscar Isaac) to his son Walter (Roman Griffin Davis). The star-studded voice cast of the movie also includes Uma Thurman as Catherine Dickens, Pierce Brosnan as Pontius Pilate, Forest Whitaker as Peter, Ben Kingsley as High Priest Caiaphas, and Mark Hamill as King Herod.
The King of Kings was helmed by South Korean visual effects pioneer Seong-ho Jang in his directorial and screenwriting debut.
Now that The King of Kings is playing in theaters, Rotten Tomatoes has aggregated more than 250 verified audience ratings to give it an official Popcornmeter score. While it could fluctuate as more reviews are added, at the time of writing, it has a near-perfect 97% score with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5. While there are not yet enough reviews for the movie to be considered Verified H๏τ by the platform, this score falls well within that range, which bottoms out at 90%.
It also marks Oscar Isaac’s best audience score ever, beating 2023’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (94%), which is so far his only Verified H๏τ тιтle other than 2021’s Dune (90%) across both movies and television projects.
Our Take On The King Of Kings Record
Its Audience Is Relatively Small And Self-Selecting
One possible reason for The King of Kings breaking this record for Oscar Isaac movies is its relartively small number of viewer ratings. To compare, Across the Spider-Verse has more than 10,000 verified ratings. In addition to attracting smaller audiences, faith-based movies tend to specifically court a religious demographic that is more inclined to have positive reactions, rather than general audiences. This is exemplified by the fact that Rotten Tomatoes’ first official crop of Verified H๏τ movies was jam-packed with faith-based movies such as I Still Believe, Jesus Revolution, and Overcomer when they launched the badge in 2024.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
