F1: The Movie has dethroned an iconic Brad Pitt thriller with a new Rotten Tomatoes record after 26 years. From the director and co-writer of Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski and Ehren Kruger, the new racing movie stars Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a nomadic driver-for-hire who returns to Formula One after a 30-year absence to team up with a rookie driver on the fictional APXGP team.

Just like Top Gun: Maverick before it, F1: The Movie has received glowing reactions from critics and audiences alike, sporting an 83% score on Rotten Tomatoes. F1: The Movie reviews praise Pitt’s magnetism and Kosinski’s kinetic direction, delivering a stylish and old-school action movie all the way to the finish line.

Likewise, audiences love Pitt’s effortless charm and consider F1: The Movie a thrilling, high-octane spectacle that demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible. Released in theaters on June 27, F1: The Movie originally debuted with a nearly perfect 99% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, but that was still early on and was likely to fluctuate.

F1: The Movie Beats Fight Club To Have Brad Pitt’s Highest Audience Score On Rotten Tomatoes

It Boasts A 97% Score

F1: The Movie has officially beaten Fight Club to have Brad Pitt’s highest audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. At the time of writing, F1: The Movie has a 97% audience score with over 10,000 verified ratings. Released in 1999, Fight Club has a 96% audience score with over 250,000 ratings.

Directed by David Fincher and based on the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club stood as Brad Pitt’s highest audience score on Rotten Tomatoes for the past 21 years, as the audience score feature was only added in 2004. Still, it speaks very highly of how much audiences love Pitt’s new racing movie, F1.

Is F1: The Movie Better Than Fight Club?

They’re Very Different Movies, But Audiences Enjoy Them Equally

While F1: The Movie and Fight Club are vastly different films – one a sleek, high-octane sports drama and the other a gritty, psychological cult classic – their Rotten Tomatoes scores suggest they’ve resonated about equally with viewers. One is built on speed, adrenaline, and teamwork – and the other on chaos, idenтιтy, and rebellion. Despite their contrasts, critics and audiences have responded to both with near-identical enthusiasm.

With F1: The Movie currently holding a 97% audience score and Fight Club just behind at 96%, it’s clear that both will have a lasting impact, albeit in very different cinematic lanes. Critics are similarly split by a razor-thin margin, with 83% for F1: The Movie and 81% for Fight Club. Is one better than the other? Maybe not, but they’re both bound to be Pitt’s most iconic roles for good reason.