{"id":10094,"date":"2025-09-11T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/10094\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:30:08","slug":"colin-farrells-new-film-scores-65-on-rotten-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/10094\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Farrell’s New Film Scores 65% on Rotten Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ballad of a Small Player<\/a> has debuted with an underwhelming Rotten Tomatoes score. Directed by Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave), his new film stars Colin Farrell as a high-stakes gambler hiding out in Macau who, as his past mistakes and mounting debts catch up with him, crosses paths with a kindred spirit who may hold the key to his redemption.<\/p>\n

Led by Colin Farrell, the cast also includes Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)<\/a>, Fala Chen, Deanie Ip, BAFTA nominee Alex Jennings, Jason Tobin, Adrienne Lau, Alan K. Chang, and Margaret Cheung. Ballad of a Small Player’s script was written by Rowan Joff\u00e9, co-writer of 28 Weeks Later, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne.<\/p>\n

Following its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and recent screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, Ballad of a Small Player has debuted with a 65% score from the critics on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. The movie only has 17 reviews at the time of writing, so its score should fluctuate as more are published.<\/p>\n

Ballad of a Small Player will have a limited theatrical release in the United States on October 15 and in the United Kingdom on October 17, before streaming on Netflix<\/a> on October 29, so it won’t have an audience score on Rotten Tomatoes until then.<\/p>\n

What Ballad Of A Small Player’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Means For The Movie<\/p>\n

On the surface, Ballad of a Small Player’s Rotten Tomatoes score means that its reviews are mostly positive. Many critics are praising Colin Farrell’s performance<\/a> as daring and magnetic, and Edward Berger’s direction as stylish and trippy. However, there is a significant number of detractors who argue that the film is shallow, ultimately lacking the emotional depth to match its flashy allure.<\/p>\n

As a result, its score is somewhat underwhelming, considering the stellar scores for Edward Berger’s previous two films, Conclave (93%) and All Quiet on the Western Front (90%), which were nominated for 17 Academy Awards combined, winning five. Colin Farrell also has an Oscar nomination for The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), which created a fair amount of Oscar buzz for their collaboration on Ballad of a Small Player.<\/p>\n

Our Take On Ballad Of A Small Player’s Rotten Tomatoes Score<\/p>\n

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Colin Farrell in Ballad of a Small Player<\/p>\n

With a slightly underwhelming score, this could end up killing some of the Oscar buzz for Ballad of a Small Player. While Colin Farrell’s intense and unhinged performance could easily earn him another nomination, it seems unlikely that Ballad of a Small Player earns Oscar nods nearing the double digits, as did All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave.<\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 15, 2025<\/p>\n

Runtime<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t101 Minutes<\/p>\n

Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEdward Berger<\/p>\n

Writers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRowan Joffe, Lawrence Osborne<\/p>\n

Producers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew James Wilkinson, Elle Gibbons, Mike Goodridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballad of a Small Player has debuted with an underwhelming Rotten Tomatoes score. Directed by Edward Berger (All…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-10094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}