Boy Kills World is helping to reverse a dismal Rotten Tomatoes trend for one of its stars. The action-comedy movie follows the title character Boy (Bill Skarsgård) as he enacts bloody revenge on the people who killed his family in a violent post-apocalyptic future. The ensemble cast of the movie also includes Happy Death Day‘s Jessica Rothe, Downton Abbey‘s Michelle Dockery, X-Men‘s Famke Janssen, District 9‘s Sharlto Copley, Stranger Things‘ Brett Gelman, Old Spice commercial star Isaiah Mustafa, and the voice of Bob’s Burgers‘ H. Jon Benjamin.
Rotten Tomatoes has calculated an official critic score for the movie during the weekend of the Boy Kills World release. While it could still fluctuate as more reviews are added, at the time of writing, 73 reviews have been aggregated to give the movie a Fresh 64% score. This makes it only the third Famke Janssen movie since 2009 to earn a Fresh score on the platform, alongside her appearances in 2013’s The Wolverine (71%) and 2022’s Door Mouse (75%).
While the movie Boy Kills World has added to her roster of Fresh titles, there is still a way to go if Janssen hopes to reverse this Rotten trend more permanently. While her early career featured a more even blend of Fresh and Rotten titles, after her trio of Fresh scores with Turn the River (62%), The Wackness (71%), and Taken (60%) between 2007 and 2008, 20 of her subsequent movies have received Rotten scores, overwhelming the trio of Fresh movies that she has made in the meantime. Below, see the scores for every Famke Janssen movie since 2009:
Now that the Skarsgård movie has earned Janssen her second Fresh score in two years, it seems like her Rotten Tomatoes prospects are turning around. However, it remains to be seen if this comes to fruition. The only upcoming movie in which she is set to appear is the sci-fi horror title The Experiment opposite Rhona Mitra and Stefanie Martini. The movie was announced in 2022, however, so the fact that it does not yet have a release date may not speak to distributor confidence in the project.
The more likely Fresh prospect for the Boy Kills World star is her upcoming television project, the Netflix crime miniseries Amsterdam Empire. However, she has had fewer problems earning strong scores for her TV appearances, as her recent shows The Capture, When They See Us, The Blacklist, and How to Get Away With Murder have all received scores over 60%. On the movie front, it is difficult to discern when her next Fresh title may come.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes