{"id":826280,"date":"2026-08-26T09:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826280\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:26:17","slug":"ridley-scotts-the-dog-stars-debuts-official-rotten-tomatoes-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826280\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott’s ‘The Dog Stars’ Debuts Official Rotten Tomatoes Score"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Ridley Scott<\/a> continues to cement himself as one of the legendary directors in movie history<\/a>, he is also ready to release his first movie of 2026, The Dog Stars<\/a>. This movie brings the latest book adaptation to Hollywood, delivering the events of Peter Heller’s book of the same name (released in 2012) as a big-screen adventure. Starring Jacob Elordi (Euphoria), Margaret Qualley (The Substance), and Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame), this movie depicts a post-apocalyptic world and a civilian pilot who confronts external threats away from his home and holds out hope of finding a better life.<\/p>\n

Early reviews for The Dog Stars, ahead of its initial critic screenings, teased another major hit for Ridley, following recent hits like Gladiator II (2024), Napoleon (2023), and House of Gucci. While some were intimidated by Scott’s filmmaking process early in production (particularly Josh Brolin), the team got behind the award-winning director before the trailers teased an intense look into a world ravaged by a pandemic that has wiped out much of humanity. Unfortunately, as its release date inches closer, more reviews have come in that are not necessarily the most positive.<\/p>\n

Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> unveiled its initial Tomatometer score (average positive critics’ score) for Ridley Scott’s newest movie, The Dog Stars. Taking 36 critic reviews into account, as of writing, only 42 of those reviews are positive ahead of its theatrical debut. Should this score hold, it would rank among the 10 worst-rated movies of director Ridley Scott’s career by this metric.<\/p>\n

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Robert Daniels (RogerEbert<\/a>) said it must take “more effort to make a boring post-apocalyptic survivalist action film than to make a good one,” feeling that Scott “must’ve been working overtime” to make it good. August Hammel of AwardsWatch<\/a> felt it was “too crisp and clean” when looking at it as a throwback movie “to harken to the textures of nineties genre programmers,” placing it firmly in the middle of Scott’s movies from a ratings perspective.<\/p>\n

Writing for The Curb<\/a>, Nadine Whitney felt Scott did “nothing to prove” that he still “has the juice to make something that matters enough” to be much more than a streaming movie trying to be a big blockbuster hit. Giving a tough review, AV Club’s<\/a> Monica Castillo described the movie as “messy” and “one of [Scott’s] worst misfires,” even if it was not his “darkest film.”<\/p>\n

While the reviews could still improve before The Dog Stars debuts, these early reactions will not do the film any favors, especially as it faces heavy competition in theaters. Billion-dollar hits like Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day are still holding strong, and Jacob Chase’s Insidious: Out of the Further<\/a> had a strong opening weekend for the horror genre. For now, the jury is still out on whether Scott will be able to call this new movie one of his bigger hits.<\/p>\n

The Dog Stars will debut in theaters on Aug. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAugust 28, 2026<\/p>\n

Runtime<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t119 minutes<\/p>\n

Writers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark L. Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Ridley Scott continues to cement himself as one of the legendary directors in movie history, he is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-826280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}