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Four-panel full-color movie-score comic, cartoon stand-ins never likenesses. Panel 1: cartoon 1933 Oregon work-camp prisoners under gray sky. Panel 2: wilderness gold-smuggle trek with cartoon packs. Panel 3: theater stub dated September 18. Panel 4: scoreboard showing 91 percent Tomatometer from 46 reviews and Popcornmeter pending.
Four panels: 1933 Oregon work-camp stand-ins, gold-smuggle wilderness beat, theater stub Sep 18, 91% Tomatometer with Popcornmeter pending. Cartoon stand-ins only. · Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Rotten Tomatoes page for The Weight.

Movie Reviews

The Weight sits at 91% Tomatometer from 46 reviews; Popcornmeter pending

What happened

Rotten Tomatoes’ page for The Weight (2026), pulled live for this filing, shows a 91% Tomatometer from 46 reviews. The Popcornmeter is not shown on the page — report it as pending and do not invent an audience percentage, even if artwork invents one. Critics Consensus on RT reads exactly: "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 distributed by Vertical, and opens in theaters September 18, 2026. Synopsis on the page: 1933 Oregon, a work-camp prisoner tempted into smuggling gold through deadly wilderness. Cartoon stand-ins only — never celebrity likenesses.

RT Movie Reviews here recap what the page actually prints: Tomatometer, review count, Popcornmeter only if present, consensus only if present, rating, runtime, studio, date. Scores as RT prints them. Skip politics-adjacent critic asides. Bright wilderness ochre and tomato red. White gutters.

A 91% Tomatometer from 46 reviews beside a pending Popcornmeter is the honest scoreboard for this batch. If the meters move later, that is a later pull. Today’s page has the 46-review tomato at 91%, the posted Critics Consensus quote above, R, 1:55, Vertical, McKinley’s direction credit as printed on RT, and the Sept. 18 theatrical date — and no audience percentage to invent.

Why it matters

The strip is the 91% tomato from 46 reviews, the pending Popcornmeter, the posted Critics Consensus, and the ticket facts. Color on the meter and the stub. White gutters. No celebrity portraits. Readers get the score, the exact consensus sentence, the honest Popcornmeter-pending caveat, and the release facts without wandering into politics.

Conclusion

The Weight sits at 91% from 46 reviews on the Tomatometer, with Popcornmeter pending; Critics Consensus calls it a gripping thriller elevated by Ethan Hawke’s performance and Padraic McKinley’s direction; R, 1:55, Vertical, theaters Sep 18, 1933 Oregon work-camp gold-smuggle tale. Cartoon stand-ins only. Source: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_weight_2026

Source: Rotten Tomatoes