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Tomb raider film rotten tomatoes12/30/2023 One thing I really like about this film is that it portrays Lara as an ordinary person and it shows that you don’t need to have superpowers to be a badass hero. She delivers food, has many friends and occasionally goes to her local boxing ring. Tomb Raider begins with Lara in a big city. With her sharp-wits and cunning fighting skills, Lara is able to break past anyone or anything that stops her from achieving her goal. Lara Croft, the daughter of a fierce adventurer, goes on an expedition to an island called Yamatai, to locate her father and unearth the goddess of death, Himiko. I’m an ecstatic fan of the films and especially the video games, so when I first saw the trailer for this film, I knew I had to watch it. Fans were surprised to not see Angelina Jolie, but luckily, Alicia Vikander made an exemplary substitution as Lara Croft. Tomb Raider hasn’t been on the silver screen for a while, but on March 16th the remake of Tomb Raider was released. Of course, now that I've written this, I'm sure I'll end up hating The Kitchen while proclaiming Angry Birds Movie 2 to be an even better video game movie than Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Tomb Raider (2019), Detective Pikachu and Rampage.Tomb Raider is an adaptation of the rebooted 2013 video game of the same name. Or, and here's a crazy idea, you can actually read some of the reviews posted on the site, which was kinda the point in the first place. Regardless of my own critical opinions (for what it's worth, Annabelle: Creation > The Glass House), if we're going to rely on Rotten Tomatoes to the extent that we currently do, we really need to at least take the five seconds to click that "more info" button and glance at the average score for any given film. Using the Tomatometer as the lone designation for critical consensus paints an unfinished and occasionally inaccurate portrait. If you think about what critics do, I would argue that this is somewhat the opposite of how it's supposed to work. Or, as we saw in 2017, helping the horror prequel over the adult drama. Our (arguably) lazy obsession with the Tomatometer, in terms of its actual function and the conventional wisdom that a 95% fresh means the movie is considered 9.5/10 by most critics (obviously not so, unless it's Paddington 2 which deserved its 13/10 average critic rating), ends up helping the kid-targeted video game-based animated sequel while hurting the R-rated, star-driven, female-led crime drama. Nor is it Sony's fault for knowing full-well that most folks would only look at the Tomatometer when deciding that, yes, Angry Birds Movie 2 was the best-reviewed video game movie of all time. This is not remotely the fault of Rotten Tomatoes, as they present all of the information users need to make informed decisions. We've seen this before, like in August of 2017 when Annabelle Creation entered theaters with an (at the time) 71% fresh while The Glass Castle opened concurrently with a 43% rotten score despite both films earning identical 6.10/10 average critic scores. If one were only to glance at the Tomatometer, they'd get the impression that Angry Birds Movies 2 was a very good animated comedy while The Kitchen was a basement-level awful mob drama. That's essentially a ten-point difference in average critic ratings but a 52-point difference in "fresh/rotten" ratings. However, its average critic rating is currently at 4.54/10, meaning on average critics rated the film essentially at 45.5% while rating Angry Birds 2 at 55.5%. Andrea Berloff's adult-skewing drama (which I'm seeing earlier this afternoon) was pronounced dead on arrival when it opened with a 21% "fresh" score.
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