Tender Bar’s Rotten Tomatoes Compared to George Clooney Directed Movies

George Clooney’s newest movie, The Tender Bar, has a “Rotten” 52 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, but how does that compare to the seven other movies Clooney has directed? Starring Tye Sheridan, Ben Affleck, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, The Tender Bar is streaming on Amazon Prime Video with mixed to negative reviews from critics, despite a fairly positive audience review score.

While George Clooney is mostly known for his credits in front of the camera, he’s also directed eight movies since 2002, even earning a nomination for Best Director in the 2006 Academy Awards for Good Night, and Good Luck (for which he also earned a nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won the award for Best Actor). The Tender Bar, adapted from J. R. Moehringer’s 2005 memoir of the same name, is his first time directing Ben Affleck, although they share a Best Picture Oscar (along with Grant Heslov) from 2013 as producers for Argo.

The Tender Bar‘s review scores on Rotten Tomatoes fall below Clooney’s averages in almost every category other than audience score. With a 52 percent Rotten score, The Tender Bar is tied with Leatherheads as the fifth-ranked movie out of the eight movies Clooney has directed and comes in seven points below the 59 percent average. Despite the middling score, The Tender Bar is the highest-rated of the five Rotten scores he’s received.

Between The Tender Bar (52 percent), Leatherheads (52 percent), The Midnight Sky (50 percent), The Monuments Men (30 percent), and Suburbicon (28 percent), Clooney’s movies with Rotten scores on Rotten Tomatoes average 42 percent. On the flip side, his three “Fresh”-rated movies, including Good Night, and Good Luck (93 percent), The Ides of March (84 percent), and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (79 percent) average 85 percent. Meanwhile, The Tender Bar has the third-highest audience score of all Clooney’s movies with 76 percent, coming in just under The Ides of March (77 percent), and Good Night, and Good Luck (83 percent).

While critics were less enthusiastic for The Tender Bar, the 76 percent Fresh Audience Score is a good sign, considering it’s a much stronger indicator of a movie’s total popularity, with all of 2021’s top hits both on streaming and at the box office earning Fresh audience scores, while many of them had Rotten Tomatometer scores. Reviews are ultimately subjective, so these scores merely represent the percentage of people who like his movies (and the majority of his audience does), but The Tender Bar‘s Fresh audience score is a good sign, even if it’s generally considered less prestigious than the coveted Critic Score. Despite the mixed reviews, many of them praise the performances and chemistry of the cast, so even the critics say it has a number of redeeming factors despite the Rotten score.

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