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Four-panel full-color movie-score comic, cartoon stand-ins never likenesses. Panel 1: 93% Tomatometer from 40 reviews. Panel 2: Popcornmeter still light, not yet a verified audience score. Panel 3: Critics Consensus sticky quoting The Weight as a gripping hard-hitting thriller. Panel 4: ticket The Weight R 1h 55m Vertical theaters September 18 2026.
Four panels: 93% tomato from 40 reviews, Popcornmeter still light badge, Critics Consensus sticky, Vertical R 1h55m Sep 18 ticket. Cartoon stand-ins only. · Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Rotten Tomatoes page for The Weight (2026).

Movie Reviews

The Weight sits at 93% on the Tomatometer from 40 reviews

What happened

Rotten Tomatoes’ page for The Weight (2026), pulled live for this filing, shows a 93% Tomatometer from 40 reviews. The Popcornmeter is still light on the page — Coming Soon / not yet a verified audience score — and this desk does not invent an audience number. The Critics Consensus block on the page 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 directed by Padraic McKinley, is distributed by Vertical, and opens in theaters September 18, 2026. Cartoon stand-ins only — never celebrity likenesses.

RT’s synopsis, as printed, follows Samuel Murphy in 1930s Oregon, torn from his daughter and tempted with early release if he smuggles gold through deadly wilderness. Movie Reviews here recap what RT actually prints: Tomatometer, review count, audience meter status, consensus if present, rating, runtime, studio, date. Scores as RT prints them. Skip politics-adjacent critic asides.

A 93% Tomatometer with the Popcornmeter still unfilled is the scoreboard for this batch. If the meters move later, that is a later pull. Today’s page has the consensus block, the R rating, the 1:55 runtime, Vertical as distributor, and McKinley as director. Those credits go in as printed. Stick to the meters, the consensus sticky, and the URL.

Why it matters

The strip is the 93% tomato, the still-light popcorn badge, the consensus note, and the ticket. Color on the meters and the stub. White gutters. No celebrity portraits. Readers get the score, the honest Popcornmeter status, the consensus sentence, and the release facts without wandering into politics.

Conclusion

The Weight sits at 93% from 40 reviews with the RT Critics Consensus as printed, Popcornmeter still light / not yet verified, R, 1:55, Vertical, theaters Sep 18, Padraic McKinley directing. Source: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_weight_2026

Source: Rotten Tomatoes