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Does Money Speak? Box office vs the reviews
Who does the box office listen to: The Pros, The Punters or the Spore Score? Inflation-adjusted takings vs the scores.
The Spore Score is one number per film, out of 100: The Pros and The Punters combined, with each review site's habits ironed out. How the Spore Score works.
Does money follow the reviews? We compared 139 films' box office (adjusted to 2025 money) with their Spore Scores. Money agrees: 45; Money's louder than the reviews: 38; Loved, not paid: 40; Money agrees (nobody came): 16.
Money's louder than the reviews
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026): Spore Score 50, made 9.2× its budget
- Scary Movie (2026): Spore Score 37, made 7.7× its budget
- Insidious: Out of the Further (2026): Spore Score 52, made 9.5× its budget
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025): Spore Score 35, made 5.5× its budget
- Iron Lung (2026): Spore Score 57, made 17.1× its budget
- Scream 7 (2026): Spore Score 41, made 4.8× its budget
- Anaconda (2025): Spore Score 49, made 3.0× its budget
- Michael (2026): Spore Score 60, made 5.8× its budget
- Reminders of Him (2026): Spore Score 56, made 3.6× its budget
- Backrooms (2026): Spore Score 69, made 40.1× its budget
Loved, not paid
Loved by the reviews, made under 2× its budget.
- Goodfellas (1990): Spore Score 97, made 1.9× its budget
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026): Spore Score 87, made 0.9× its budget
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026): Spore Score 83, made 0.9× its budget
- Is God Is (2026): Spore Score 81, made 0.3× its budget
- Raging Bull (1980): Spore Score 94, made 1.3× its budget
- The Sheep Detectives (2026): Spore Score 79, made 1.8× its budget
- Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025): Spore Score 76, made 0.8× its budget
- Power Ballad (2026): Spore Score 74, made 0.3× its budget
- Dead Man's Wire (2025): Spore Score 74, made 0.3× its budget
- I Love Boosters (2026): Spore Score 73, made 0.5× its budget