Couple that with the fact that Netflix recently reported an explosion in viewership for the film over the holidays, and it’s pretty clear that Netflix seems to have a metric for success that’s based more on populist accessibility than critical accolades.
In the quest for a global audience, Reed Hastings doesn’t put all of his eggs in the English-speaking critic basket.
The critic-audience divide on Bright is almost as vast as it can get.
Despite the film’s abysmal 26% rating from professional reviewers, the gritty fairy tale was received much more positively by average viewers and currently has an 86% audience score over at RT.