'Michael's Audience Score Proves Critics Wrong on Rotten Tomatoes

Music biopics tend to live or die on whether audiences actually feel the performer at the center of them, and that’s always going to be especially true with a figure as huge and contested as Michael Jackson. Michael was never likely to arrive quietly, and it definitely hasn’t. The film has taken a bruising from critics, with a mixed-to-poor critical reception on Rotten Tomatoes, but regular moviegoers are seeing it very differently. That split has now become one of the story’s biggest talking points.