The Screen Score: Blue Hour Radio

The trade notices reached for the same two words on release: slight, and charming. Six weeks later the film is still selling seats, and the audience figure has moved twenty-three points from where it opened.

Something is happening in the room that did not happen at the press screening. Usually that is word of mouth on a comedy. Here it looks more like recognition.

When the room is ahead

A rising audience score against a static professional one is the most interesting shape this system produces. It generally means a film is doing something for a specific audience that a general critical read is not built to catch.

We will revisit this one at twelve weeks. If the audience figure holds above eighty-five, the professional score is the number that was wrong.