Andrew Garfield's 65% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Epic Officially Hits Streaming

The Oscar-nominated director Paul Greengrass has made critical and commercial underperformers in the past, but rarely both at once. While Jason Bourne, his 2016 reboot of the action franchise, received mediocre reviews, it was a major box-office hit. On the other hand, while his breakout movie Bloody Sunday received phenomenal reviews, it was a non-performer at the box office. However, in 2010, Greengrass made a movie that fell short of expectations both critically and commercially: the Iraq War thriller Green Zone, starring Matt Damon. Now, he has delivered arguably his biggest disappointment — a movie that lost more than 90% of its theatrical footprint in two weeks, only to be released digitally immediately afterward.

Universal has vowed to give films longer theatrical windows, but its subsidiary Focus Features waited only 17 days before making Greengrass' latest film available to rent and purchase at home. The film was released in more than 2,000 theaters in September, following a confused marketing campaign that briefly declared it a Robin Hood adaptation. It's currently playing in roughly 220 theaters domestically. As a piece of intellectual property, Robin Hood appears to have been cursed; there have been as many as three box-office duds made about the character since 2010 — Ridley Scott's big-budget adaptation starring Russell Crowe, an action-packed version starring Taron Egerton, and a dark character study headlined by Hugh Jackman. That said, an MGM+ series adaptation released in 2025 was received warmly.

Paul Greengrass' New Movie Features an Eclectic Cast

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Greengrass' movie, starring Andrew Garfield, doesn't overtly identify itself as a Robin Hood adaptation. However, it certainly makes references to the legend toward the end. We're talking about The Uprising, which grossed only around $6.5 million domestically. Also featuring Jamie Bell, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, and Jonny Lee Miller, the movie received mediocre reviews and is now sitting at a 56% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website's consensus reads, "Paul Greengrass' cinéma vérité-styled medieval epic draws most of its potency from the evergreen rage of wealth inequality, but its mingling of history and myth proves more awkward than enlightening." According to FlixPatrol, The Uprising is already showing promising signs following its digital debut. It's currently the number-two movie on the domestic iTunes chart, behind only Coyote vs. Acme. It's also ranking on the Amazon chart, which is topped by The End of Oak Street. The Uprising will be released theatrically in the United Kingdom this month.