'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' Letterboxd Score Revealed
Early reactions to 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' are very positive.
After one full day of release, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour has a very solid score on Letterboxd, the film-logging app/website for movie fans. The concert movie captures a performance from Swift's ongoing Eras Tour stadium concerts, and it seems the translation from real life to screen is winning over fans. The 15,111 Letterboxd users who've seen the movie on opening night (as well as during Wednesday's L.A. premiere or the Thursday night preview screenings) have given the movie an average rating of 4.45 out of 5. (You can head to Fandango to find local movie times for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.)
There are obviously some caveats to Letterboxd ratings. There's no verification system to show that users actually saw the movie, meaning some Swifties could leave positive reviews and some haters could leave negative reviews without watching the Sam Wrench-directed film. Plus, some Letterboxd users like leaving joke ratings and reviews. Regardless of the outliers, it's a pretty good snapshot of what film fans think of a flick.
Taylor Swift's: The Eras Tour's 4.45 average number comes from:
- 11,987 five-star reviews
- 1,052 four-and-a-half-star reviews
- 1,225 four-star reviews
- 299 three-and-a-half-star reviews
- 215 three-star reviews
- 50 two-and-a-half-star reviews
- 38 two-star reviews
- 17 one-and-a-half-star reviews
- 31 one-star reviews
- 197 half-star reviews
One of the top reviews, from a user named Tyler, reads, "this was nothing short of a religious experience." Another review, from a fan named Molly, reads "the greatest concert film of all time was made."
Other Letterboxd fans used their reviews to mourn the songs from the Eras Tour setlist that Wrench cut for the movie version of the stage show, which captures cuts from all of Swift's albums. One user joked, "who suffered more me because the archer, cardigan, long live, and seven were cut, or jesus christ?" A second quipped, "at least the tiktok live streams never cut out cardigan."
Will Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour's Letterboxd score go down once more general audiences see it? That could happen. However, there will surely be plenty of Swifties who continue to watch the movie in theaters (and eventually at home) for a long time to come. We imagine they'll continue to rave over the movie.
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour has the same Letterboxd rating as Swift's 2018 concert movie, Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour. Her 2015 concert movie, The 1989 World Tour Live, has a 4.26 rating, and 2020's Taylor Swift: City of Lover has a 4.28 rating.
As for how it compares to other high-profile concert movies, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour currently ranks higher than Beyonce's Homecoming (4.25), The Band's The Last Waltz (4.14), David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (4.1), Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace (3.92), Michael Jackson's This Is It (3.83), Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same (3.83), Jay-Z's Fade to Black (3.57), Ariana Grande's Excuse Me, I Love You (3.55), The Rolling Stones' Shine a Light (3.53), Jonas Brothers' The Concert Experience (3.32), and Justin Bieber's Never Say Never (2.57). However, it ranks behind Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense (4.65), which is currently back in movie theaters after being remastered.
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which was filmed during Swift's August concerts at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, is currently showing at theaters around the U.S. You can buy tickets via Fandango using this link. If you'd like to try and see Swift's Eras Tour concert live and in-person, you can search for tickets worldwide via Ticketmaster.