The biggest hit movies on HBO Max in 2021 that came out as part of Warner Bros. simultaneous release strategy

Released: February 12Max opening weekend viewership: 653,000 householdsUS box office: $5.4 millionGlobal box office: $6.8 million (No. 15)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 96%What critics said: Judas and the Black Messiah can't do everything. What it accomplishes is nevertheless quite something. It is a bittersweet compliment to what's here that we end the film wishing it'd done even more. — Rolling StoneReleased: June 11Max opening weekend viewership: 693,000 householdsUS box office: $29.9 millionGlobal box office: $$43.9 million (No. 8)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 94%What critics said: Jon M. Chu and Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical now stands as a celebration of [the] community's remarkable perseverance. — The RingerReleased: September 17Max opening weekend viewership: 693,000 households (Friday through Sunday)US box office: $10.3 millionGlobal box office: $14.3 million (No. 13)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 57%What critics said: As a director, Eastwood keeps his tone almost primordially simple; not for Macho are the murky moral calculations and defined character arcs of The Unforgiven, American Sniper, or even Gran Torino. — Entertainment WeeklyReleased: November 19Max opening weekend viewership: 707,000 households (Friday through Sunday)US box office: $14.3 millionGlobal box office: $24.8 million (No. 11)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 91%What critics said: Green's King Richard isn't a great movie, but it doesn't need to be when the characters are this warm, and its message is so earnest. — PolygonReleased: September 10Max opening weekend viewership: 933,000 householdsUS box office: $13.4 millionGlobal box office: $34 million (No. 9)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 76%What critics said: None of this is especially scary, but, if you're patient, Wan delivers the kind of hilariously sick climax that only a sadist would spoil. — New York TimesReleased: October 1Max opening weekend viewership: 1 million householdsUS box office: $8.2 millionGlobal box office: $12.7 million (No. 14)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 71%What critics said: The movie was, to borrow an image from the 'Pine Barrens' episode, like sucking ketchup packets. — Boston GlobeReleased: May 14Max opening weekend viewership: 1.2 million householdsUS box office: $7.3 millionGlobal box office: $23.4 million (No. 12)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 62%What critics said: Those Who Wish Me Dead could have risen to meet Jolie's ability. But the film reflects the industry's lack of imagination for an older female action star. — The AtlanticReleased: February 26Max opening weekend viewership: 1.2 million householdsUS box office: $14.1 millionGlobal box office: $46.0 million (No. 7)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 31%What critics said: Very young kids might find some enjoyment in the brightly hued, fast-paced mania of it all, but those with any real affection for the pair of violently opposed animals will leave unimpressed. — GuardianReleased: January 29Max opening weekend viewership: 1.4 million householdsUS box office: $15.2 millionGlobal box office: $29.8 million (No. 10)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 45%What critics said: It's a movie that's constantly on the verge of developing into something as intense and haunting as writer/director John Lee Hancock wants it to be, but it never achieves its goals, especially in its final half-hour. — RogerEbert.comReleased: June 4Max opening weekend viewership: 1.6 million householdsUS box office: $65.6 millionGlobal box office: $202 million (No. 3)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 55%What critics said: Three films into this series (and eight into the overall 'Conjuring' franchise), it's not shocking that creative wells are starting to run a little dry, though that doesn't lessen the sting of this particular disappointment. — IndiewireReleased: October 22Max opening weekend viewership: 1.9 million householdsUS box office: $106.3 millionGlobal box office: $390 million (No. 2)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 83%What critics said: Denis Villeneuve's new big-screen adaptation underlines why generations have been fascinated by the story. — VoxReleased: July 15Max opening weekend viewership: 2.1 million householdsUS box office: $70.5 millionGlobal box office: $162.8 million (No. 5)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 25%What critics said: Corporations handing a bag of unrelated IP and ordering screenwriters to come up with a story around them is the template for most studio filmmaking now, if not all of contemporary existence. — SlateReleased: August 6Max opening weekend viewership: 2.8 million householdsUS box office: $55.8 millionGlobal box office: $167.4 million (No. 4)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 90%What critics said: The gloriously unhinged James Gunn keeps Margot Robbie, John Cena and a top cast of crazies firing on all cylinders and turns a botch job original that was the worst movie of 2016 into the down-and-dirty whirlwind it was always meant to be. — ABC NewsReleased: March 31Max opening weekend viewership: 3.6 million households (based on Wednesday through Sunday)US box office: $100.5 millionGlobal box office: $467.9 million (No. 1)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 75%What critics said: Freed from the obligation to try and be anything more meaningful than it is, Godzilla vs. Kong ekes out its biggest triumphs when it embraces silliness and spectacle. — MashableReleased: March 31Max opening weekend viewership: 3.8 million householdsUS box office: $42.2 millionGlobal box office: $83.6 million (No. 6)Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 54%What critics said: Another paltry reminder that Hollywood has abandoned the sincere pleasure action films provide: pointing a camera at a person in motion to showcase their beauty and savagery. — Vulture

The biggest hit movies on HBO Max in 2021 that came out as part of Warner Bros. simultaneous release strategy

15. "Judas and the Black Messiah"

14. "In the Heights"

13. "Cry Macho"

12. "King Richard"

11. "Malignant"

10. "The Many Saints of Newark"

9. (tie) "Those Who Wish Me Dead"

9. (tie) "Tom and Jerry"

7. "The Little Things"

6. "The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It"

5. "Dune"

4. "Space Jam: A New Legacy"

3. "The Suicide Squad"

2. "Godzilla vs. Kong"

1. "Mortal Kombat"