Russell Crowe's Netflix Thriller 'Unabomber' Ties His Lowest Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score in 21 Years

Russell Crowe's new Netflix thriller Unabomber has received a 32% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, tying with 1995's Virtuosity as his third-lowest audience rating in over two decades. The biopic, starring Jacob Tremblay as Ted Kaczynski and Crowe as Harvard researcher Henry Murray, earned a 22% critics' score. Reviewers criticized its uneven two-timeline narrative structure and historical inaccuracies, including a gender-swapped FBI character played by Shailene Woodley. The Discovery Channel's 2017 series Manhunt, also streaming on Netflix, achieved 93% critic and 92% audience scores. Unabomber marks Crowe's first starring Netflix role, following mixed 2026 releases including The Weight and Beast.