The power of Beyoncé: Obsessed made a lot of money this weekend, so if you're following the fortunes of badly-reviewed movies, add it to your list. Sony Pictures
by Linda Holmes
Remember our chart from last week, showing Rotten Tomatoes scores against box office for the first four months of the year? Technically speaking, there was one weekend left to go at that point, and now that we're through it, we can see that there's going to be one more dot (of the Paul Blart: Mall Cop variety) showing a very low critics' score paired with very strong box office.
The Beyoncé Knowles thriller Obsessed, also starring Idris Elba and Ali Larter, took in about $28.5 million this weekend. Its RT score? A not-so-blistering 30 out of 100.
In second place was the fighting movie Fighting at $11.4 million, and The Soloist, with Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. (RT score: 61) made less than $10 million.
This one weekend doesn't mean the hypothesis is accurate that all the well-reviewed movies are tanking and all the badly-reviewed movies are thriving, but it doesn't hurt.
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