13 glowing reviews of reviled movies

polygon.com:

A great critic writes what they see, what they hear, what they taste, what they feel — consensus be damned.

There’s as much curiosity as judgment involved in dissecting art (or art-like product), and the pursuit of a pure reaction means that sometimes you’re the only one who loves a real stinker. If 200 people loathe Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, at least one person will call it “cutting-edge and undeniably powerful” and mean it. It’s not trolling to be on the other side of the line; it’s the balance of the universe.

Spicy takes grow naturally in the wild, and when found in Rotten Tomatoes’ forest of common opinion, they offer an especially delectable taste. So to honor those who stood alone in their praise of reviled — and in some cases, vilified — movies, we took a look at both recent and legendary critical bombs to find Tomatometer-rocking dissent.

Year: 2022
Tomatometer score: 29%

The consensus: “Overly long and soullessly engineered”; “A shameful triumph of corporate greed”; “An extinction-level event for the franchise”; “Watching Jurassic World: Dominion, you might find yourself starting to feel just a little sorry for the people who made Jurassic World: Dominion.”

The glowing defense: “Professional raptor trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt reprising his dinosaur-whisperer hero from Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) promises one of his now-adult ‘students,’ Blue, that he will find and rescue her adorable baby clone, Beta, who has been dino-napped by some nasty poachers. This serves as one of the outrageously fun plots in Colin Trevorrow’s insanely suspenseful, breathlessly action-packed, Indiana-Jones-inspired sequel Jurassic World: Dominion, a nostalgia-fueled, emotionally exhaustive capper for the Jurassic World trilogy that began in 2015 [...] There’s something else that makes Dominion unusually special. Like a classic Frank Capra film, Dominion believes in the basic goodness of the common person.” — Dann Gire, Daily