Anne Hathaway Just Earned One Of Her Best Rotten Tomatoes Scores Ever

Summary

• Anne Hathaway’s new movie
  The Idea of You
  earned a Certified Fresh score of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
• The movie has earned the star her best Rotten Tomatoes score in five years and tied for her second best score ever.
• Despite her career being dominated by low Rotten Tomatoes scores, Hathaway has had major successes as well.

The Idea of You has earned Anne Hathaway one of her best Rotten Tomatoes scores ever. The Harry Styles-inspired romance movie, which is based on Robinne Lee’s novel of the same name, stars Hathaway as single mother Solène Marchand, who stumbles into a whirlwind romance with boy band superstar Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine). The ensemble cast of the movie also includes Ella Rubin, Reid Scott, Jordan Aaron Hall, Jaiden Anthony, Raymond Cham Jr, Annie Mumolo, and Perry Mattfeld.

Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated an official score for the Anne Hathaway age-gap romance after its Prime Video premiere. With 59 critics weighing in, The Idea of You has earned a Certified Fresh score of 88%, marking the star’s best score in five years since 2019’s Dark Waters (89%). The score also marks star’s second-best Rotten Tomatoes result of all time, tied with the 88% critic scores for Brokeback Mountain and 2002’s The Cat Returns (in which she provided a voice for the English dub).

Anne Hathaway’s Rotten Tomatoes History Explained

The Idea of You Is Something Of An Outlier In A Career With Many Rotten Titles

Anne Hathaway is a generally well-regarded actor by the Hollywood establishment, having been nominated for two Oscars and winning one for her portrayal of Fantine in the 2012 musical Les Misérables. However, her career is dominated by Rotten Tomatoes splats. So far, movies starring Hathaway have earned 26 Rotten scores and 15 Fresh scores, not counting the 2013 documentary Girl Rising (80%), for which she was the narrator. Below, see every Hathaway movie that has earned more than 80% on the review aggregator platform:

While the Idea of You star has triumphed with her new romance title, generally her rom-coms such as Valentine’s Day (18%), Bride Wars (10%), and Love & Other Drugs (49%) have been poorly received by critics. The same is true for franchise and family movies including The Princess Diaries (49%), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (26%), Alice Through the Looking Glass (29%), and Ella Enchanted (51%). Additionally, her lowest scores ever belong to the thriller The Last Thing He Wanted (5%) and the dramedy Don Peyote (7%).

While Hathaway has had patches of her career where her movies have struggled to connect with critics, audiences don’t always agree. They have given Fresh audience scores to several of her Rotten movies including The Princess Diaries, The Intern, Becoming Jane, and Get Smart. It remains to be seen how The Idea of You performs with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, but if they agree with critics’ assessment, the movie could usher in a new era of success for the star, whose upcoming projects include the Michaela Coel melodrama Mother Mary and the David Robert Mitchell sci-fi movie Flowervale Street.

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Source: Rotten Tomatoes