Wolfs has earned the best Rotten Tomatoes score for star George Clooney in eight years. The Brad Pitt and George Clooney movie features the stars as a pair of “lone wolf” fixers who find themselves hired to work the same job and are forced to work together in order to get themselves out of a sticky situation. The movie, which was written and directed by Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s Jon Watts, also stars Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Poorna Jagannathan, Richard Kind, and the voice of Frances McDormand.
Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated the first early reviews for Wolfs following the movie’s world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. Out of 11 different critics’ reviews, the movie has earned a Fresh score of 71%. While the score could fluctuate as more reviews are added closer to the official release date, at the time of writing this score is the best for a movie starring George Clooney since the 2016 Coen Brothers movie Hail, Caesar!, which earned a Certified Fresh 86% score.
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In addition to Wolfs reviews earning the star his best score in eight years, the movie marks his only Fresh score as either an actor or a director in that time. Before 2016, his Rotten Tomatoes average looked quite different, with the majority being Fresh scores. Of his 34 scored movies as an actor or director that are listed on the platform from 1988 on, 21 are Fresh and only 13 are Rotten, showcasing how dire his recent streak has been. Below, see a breakdown of the Rotten Tomatoes scores earned by every George Clooney movie released since Hail, Caesar!:
|
Title |
Credit |
RT Score |
|---|---|---|
|
Hail, Caesar! (2016) |
Actor – Baird Whitlock |
86% |
|
Money Monster (2016) |
Actor – Lee Gates |
59% |
|
Suburbicon (2017) |
Director |
27% |
|
The Midnight Sky (2020) |
Director/Actor – Augustine |
49% |
|
The Tender Bar (2021) |
Director |
51% |
|
Ticket to Paradise (2022) |
Actor – David |
56% |
|
The Boys in the Boat (2023) |
Director |
57% |
|
Wolfs (2024) |
Actor – Jack |
73% |
While the George Clooney movies over the past eight years have universally failed to impress critics, the same has not been true of audiences. Although Hail, Caesar! itself has a Rotten audience score of 44% on what has now been dubbed the Popcornmeter, three of his movies between 2016 and the time of writing have won over audiences. Those titles would be The Tender Bar (70%), Ticket to Paradise (87%), and The Boys in the Boat (97%), the latter of which has officially been “Verified Hot” on the Popcornmeter.
It remains to be seen if these early reviews for Wolfs indicate that Clooney’s dismal streak of nearly a decade has reached an end. However, it could be the beginning of a new era of Fresh movies for the star. The next project that Clooney has in the works is a currently untitled movie directed by Noah Baumbach, which could boost his chances at getting a second Fresh score considerably, as Baumbach has been on a Fresh Rotten Tomatoes streak since 2014.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes