{
  "id": 8240565,
  "title": "Resident Evil films: From 36% to 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, how the panned billion-dollar franchise finally won",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/resident-evil-films-from-36-to-96-on-rotten-tomatoes-how-the-panned",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-18T10:45:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/resident-evil-films-from-36-to-96-on-rotten-tomatoes-how-the-panned-billion-dollar-franchise-finally-won-1.500679450"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Here's the Resident Evil paradox in one sentence: Critics have spent two decades calling this franchise borderline unwatchable, and it just kept making more money than most 'respectable' movies dream of. The recent film has done the unthinkable: It has 96 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes. Zach Cregger, the man behind Barbarian and last year's Oscar-winning smash Weapons (a $270 million global hit off…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}