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Summer 2024’s biggest movies ranked by Rotten Tomatoes score

Chris Tilly
The heroes of Inside Out 2.Disney/Pixar

We’re coming to the end of the summer season, which makes now a good time to look back and see what movies critics were loving – and what they were hating – via Rotten Tomatoes score.

The two biggest and most talked about movies of summer 2023 were also critical darlings, with Barbie and Oppenheimer receiving positive reviews pretty much across the board.

But Barbenheimer was something of an outlier, as the sequels, prequels, remakes, and reboots of summer are frequently panned, and rarely in the conversation when it comes to end-of-year lists.

To see how recent blockbusters fared at the box office, you can check out our list of 2024’s most successful movies. While the following is what critics thought using the Tomatometer.

The best and worst movies of summer 2024

Below is a list of summer 2024’s biggest movies in descending order, via the ‘critical consensus’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.

We’ve also added some of the season’s horror releases, as several delivered blockbuster returns (Longlegs even became Neon’s biggest film ever). Which is why we recently asked if horror movies are the new summer blockbusters.

Not only is Inside Out 2 the top-reviewed movie of 2024’s summer offerings, but it’s now one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, with a haul of $1.46 billion (though it could be threatened by Deadpool & Wolverine’s box office takings).

That’s where the summer movies are at right now, and we’ll add Alien Romulus when reviews hit this week (August 16).

Before then, here’s more new movies releasing this month, as well as Dexerto’s best reviewed films of 2024.

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