Hulu’s New Sci-Fi Film Has Critics & Audiences Very Divided On Rotten Tomatoes

Critics and audiences don’t agree on Hulu’s new science-fiction film Within the Blink of an Eye.

The movie weaves between three interconnected tales that happen over 1000’s of years, as they comply with neanderthals within the distant previous, a researcher within the current day, and a scientist on a spaceship within the twenty fifth century. Rashida Jones and Daveed Diggs play the modern-day characters, whereas Kate McKinnon portrays the scientist sooner or later.

On Rotten Tomatoes, Within the Blink of an Eye has a “Rotten” 18% rating from critics and a “Contemporary” 78% rating from audiences. The critics’ rating is predicated on 38 evaluations, the primary of which got here after the film’s premiere on the Sundance Movie Pageant on January 26, 2026, and extra had been added nearer to the Hulu streaming debut on February 27. The viewers rating comes from greater than 50 scores.

Emedo Ashibeze writes in ScreenRant‘s Within the Blink of an Eye overview that, aside from Thomas Newman’s rating, Ola Maslik’s manufacturing design, and Ole Bratt Birkeland’s cinematography, “These are the one landmarks stopping anybody from forgetting this sci-fi mess in as a lot time because it takes to blink an eye fixed.” As for the interconnected tales and character improvement, he notes that “the presentation of this message doesn’t sting effectively sufficient to justify skin-deep characters.”

Alissa Wilkinson feels equally in The New York Instances‘ overview, acknowledging that the film’s narrative construction and transitions between the three tales limits the characters’ improvement and the viewers’s funding in them: “There’s simply not sufficient area given to those characters to develop into full beings, or for us to know the total import of their actions earlier than we’re whisked away elsewhere.”

Lots of the viewers evaluations on Rotten Tomatoes argue that the vital reception is just too harsh and that the shortage of character improvement will not be as essential because the film’s essential and thought-provoking message. Additionally they word that the movie has a slower tempo in comparison with different sci-fi motion pictures, however the three tales finally tie collectively in a satisfying and emotional approach.

Andrew Stanton, who has labored on quite a few Pixar movies, is the director of Within the Blink of an Eye. That is the primary live-action film he has directed since Disney’s John Carter in 2012, which underperformed on the field workplace. For Pixar, Stanton has helmed A Bug’s Life, Discovering Nemo, Wall-E, Discovering Dory, and the upcoming Toy Story 5. In tv, he has directed episodes of Stranger Issues, Higher Name Saul, Legion, Tales from the Loop, For All Mankind, and 3 Physique Drawback.

The vital response to Stanton’s Pixar motion pictures and the tv sequence he has directed has been overwhelmingly constructive, however between Within the Blink of an Eye and a 52% critics’ rating and 60% viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes for John Carter, his live-action motion pictures have been extra divisive.