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Four-panel full-color movie-score comic with cartoon stand-ins, not actor portraits. Panel 1: a ripe red tomato meter reading 95 percent from 37 reviews. Panel 2: an empty yellow popcorn bucket labeled 0 verified audience scores. Panel 3: a sticky note with the critics consensus about Hawke and McKinley. Panel 4: a wilderness-adventure movie ticket, The Weight, R, 1 hour 55 minutes, Vertical, opens Sept. 18.
Four panels: a ripe 95% tomato from 37 reviews, an empty popcorn bucket for 0 verified audience scores, a consensus sticky naming Hawke and McKinley, and a Sept. 18 Vertical ticket for The Weight. Cartoon stand-ins only. · Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Rotten Tomatoes page for The Weight.

Movie Reviews

The Weight hits 95% on the Tomatometer ahead of Sept. 18

What happened

Rotten Tomatoes’ page for The Weight, pulled live for this filing, shows a 95% Tomatometer from 37 reviews. The Popcornmeter lists 0 verified audience scores. The Critics Consensus, copied exactly as RT prints it, reads: “The Weight turns a stripped-down tale of desperation into a gripping, hard-hitting thriller, elevated by Ethan Hawke's magnetic performance and Padraic McKinley's assured direction.” The film is rated R, runs 1 hour 55 minutes, is listed as Adventure and Mystery & Thriller, and is dated to open wide Friday, September 18, 2026, from Vertical. Padraic McKinley directs. Ethan Hawke stars as Samuel Murphy. The site’s synopsis, as printed, is the plot line this recap will not rewrite into a fan wiki: in Oregon in 1933, Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp; Warden Clancy tempts him with early release if he smuggles gold through deadly wilderness, betrayal festers, and Murphy questions how far he will go to see his child again. Those credits, that runtime, that rating, that tomato number, that audience zero, and that consensus sentence are what the page shows this morning.

A 95 from 37 reviews is a critic-side snapshot before the wide date. Zero verified audience scores is the pre-opening bucket, not a claim that nobody liked it and not a claim that the Popcornmeter is broken. The strip is the ripe meter, the empty popcorn, the consensus sticky, and a ticket. Color on the tomato, the bucket, the note, the stub. White gutters. Cartoon stand-ins, not actor portraits. Movie Reviews here recap what RT actually prints: Tomatometer, review count, audience score, consensus, rating, runtime, studio, date.

Why it matters

The Weight is the adventure-thriller wide date on the near calendar. Readers get the numbers without a made-up blurb. The consensus is doing specific work: stripped-down desperation, gripping hard-hitting thriller, Hawke’s magnetic performance, McKinley’s assured direction. That is the line the site wants quoted, so that is the line this recap quotes. Certified-fresh math is RT’s business. What this filing needs is the printed 95, the printed 37, the printed zero on the Popcornmeter, the printed consensus, and the Sept. 18 Vertical ticket.

R and 1:55 are the label on the stub. Vertical is the studio on that same stub. This recap is not a spoiler sheet, not a box-office guess, and not a substitute critic essay. It is a scoreboard copy of https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_weight_2026 as the page stood for the Monday batch. The comic’s last panel is the ticket. The first three are the meters and the consensus.

Conclusion

The Weight sits at 95% from 37 reviews, 0 verified audience scores, consensus praising Hawke and McKinley, R, 1:55, Vertical, opens Sept. 18. The strip is a 95% tomato, an empty popcorn bucket, a consensus sticky, and a Friday ticket. Those scores are RT’s, copied as printed, not guessed. Source: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_weight_2026

Source: Rotten Tomatoes