Sia‘s controversial new film Music has landed a lower Rotten Tomatoes score than panned 2019 movie Cats.The singer’s film received backlash before its release this month, notably over the casting of neurotypical actor Maddie Ziegler as a nonverbal autistic character.Sia has also faced a backlash for how she has responded to criticism over the project, and a petition from Autism rights activists to have the film cancelled has received over 20,000 signatures.Reviews have slated Music on the whole, with some critics calling it “offensive” and “insulting”.
At the time of writing the film holds a 17 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, lower than Cats‘ 20 per cent.On Metacritic, the film has a Metascore of 25, indicating “generally unfavourable.
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