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numbers are not without meaning. (Yes, the collective wisdom nailed it: Suicide Squad is terrible.
[Ed Note: So twisted.]) But the algorithm has the unintentional side effect of disproportionately
rewarding a certain kind of movie: A safe, focus-tested project engineered to court the largest
possible audience. When it comes to Rotten Tomatoes, it’s better to make a competent, crowd-
pleasing movie with mass appeal than a risky movie some will love and some will hate. The most
obvious example is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which—over 15 movies to date—has never had
a movie dip below that fabled 60 percent threshold: Not The Incredible Hulk (67 percent), not Iron
Man 2 (72 percent), and not Thor: The Dark World (66 percent). Here are seven questions that many
people have about Rotten Tomatoes, and review aggregation more generally — and some facts to
clear up the confusion. The truth is that neither Rotten Tomatoes nor the critics whose evaluations
make up its scores are really at fault here, and it’s silly to act like that’s the case. The website is just
one piece of the sprawling and often bewildering film landscape. You can buy this royalty free stock
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represents the percentage of critics who felt mildly to wildly positively about a given film. The
downside of this strategy, however, is that it encourages critics to instinctively gauge a studio’s level
of confidence in a film based on when the press screening takes place. 20th Century Fox, for
instance, screened War for the Planet of the Apes weeks ahead of its theatrical release, and lifted the
review embargo with plenty of time to spare before the movie came out. The implication was that
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consensus before we even get to the theatre (saving us a ton of food and money). However, there is
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comments yet! Add one to start the conversation. Most critics who are serious about their work
make a good-faith effort to approach each film they see with as few expectations as possible. But it's
hard to have much hope about a movie when it seems obvious that a studio is trying to play keep-
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better movie, there wouldn’t be such a disconnect. But somehow, I suspect that younger ticket buyers
— an all-important demographic — lacked nostalgia for 25-year-old lifeguard TV show, and thus
weren't so sure about seeing Baywatch in the first place. Likewise, I doubt that a majority of
Americans were ever going to be terribly interested in the fifth installment of the Pirates of the
Caribbean franchise (which notched a 30 percent Tomatometer score and a 64 percent audience
score), especially when they could just watch some other movie.
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approach each film they see with as few expectations as possible. But it's hard to have much hope
about a movie when it seems obvious that a studio is trying to play keep-away with it. And the more
studios try to game the system by withholding their films from critics, the less critics are inclined to
enter a screening devoid of expectations, however subconscious. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes
— the site that aggregates movie and TV critics’ opinions and tabulates a score that’s “fresh” or
“rotten” — took on an elevated level of importance. That’s when Rotten Tomatoes (along with its
parent company Flixster) was acquired by Fandango, the website that sells advance movie tickets for
many major cinema chains. 3 Let’s put the flaw in the Rotten Tomatoes system into practical terms.
To be clear: Wonder Woman’s 94 percent rating doesn’t mean that the movie is a 94 out of 100, just
as Baywatch’s 18 percent rating doesn’t mean that the movie is an 18 out of 100. It means that 95
percent of critics thought there was more to admire about Wonder Woman than to dislike about it,
and that 18 percent thought there was more to admire about Baywatch than to dislike about it. (Of
course, there’s also selection bias in the critics that Rotten Tomatoes actually counts in that
calculation—but for the sake of simplicity, we’ll put that aside.) I know for me, the ubiquitous nature
of a Rotten Tomatoes score has made me feel like they hold more weight than they once did. But do
they really hold more weight? How is the score actually calculated? And how are critics curated?
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common for distributors to roll out such films slowly, opening them in a few key cities (usually New
York and Los Angeles, and maybe a few others) to generate good buzz — not just from critics, but
also on social media and through word of mouth. The result, they hope, is increased interest and
ticket sales when the movie opens in other cities. Consider, for example, the case of the
aforementioned Emoji Movie. I and most other critics hoped the movie would be good, as is the case
with all movies see. But once the screening invitations arrived in our inboxes, we pretty much knew,
with a sinking feeling, that it wouldn’t be. The tell was pretty straightforward: The film’s only critics'
screening in New York was scheduled for the day before it opened. It screened for press on
Wednesday night at 5 pm, and then the review embargo lifted at 3 pm the next day — mere hours
before the first public showtimes. New Release For Rotten Tomatoes Articles Logolounge Únase a
nosotros en las redes sociales y manténgase al tanto. The truth is that neither Rotten Tomatoes nor the
critics whose evaluations make up its scores are really at fault here, and it’s silly to act like that’s the
case. The website is just one piece of the sprawling and often bewildering film landscape. On the
whole, Rotten Tomatoes' numbers are not without meaning. (Yes, the collective wisdom nailed it:
Suicide Squad is terrible. [Ed Note: So twisted.]) But the algorithm has the unintentional side effect
of disproportionately rewarding a certain kind of movie: A safe, focus-tested project engineered to
court the largest possible audience. When it comes to Rotten Tomatoes, it’s better to make a
competent, crowd-pleasing movie with mass appeal than a risky movie some will love and some will
hate. The most obvious example is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which—over 15 movies to
date—has never had a movie dip below that fabled 60 percent threshold: Not The Incredible Hulk
(67 percent), not Iron Man 2 (72 percent), and not Thor: The Dark World (66 percent). We accept all
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in the gladiatorial arena of the box office: giving thumbs-up to movies that will go on to massive box-
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blamed the relative box-office failures of both Baywatch and the latest Pirates of the Caribbean
movie on critics, with Rotten Tomatoes being singled out as the source of the problem:
The website reports a record number of certified fresh movies this year Of course, I still don’t
understand why a website devoted to collecting movie reviews really needs an audience score at all.
If it were up to me, I wouldn’t include one. But it’s not! And so now there isn’t just one audience
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thumbs-up to movies that will go on to massive box-office grosses, or crushing movies that, uh,
won’t. Earlier this week, Deadline quoted sources that blamed the relative box-office failures of both
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Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. For audience members who want to
make good moviegoing decisions, the best approach is a two-pronged one. First, check Rotten
Tomatoes and Metacritic to get a sense of critical consensus. But second, find a few critics — two or
three will do — whose taste aligns with (or challenges) your own, and whose insights help you enjoy
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Down Rotten Tomatoes Over Bad Reviews Mainly, it’s easy. You’re buying movie tickets on
Fandango, or you’re trying to figure out what to watch on Netflix, so you check the Rotten
Tomatoes score to decide. It’s simple. That’s the point. Baywatch ended up with a very comfortably
rotten 19 percent Tomatometer score, compared to a just barely fresh 62 percent audience score. But
with apologies to The Rock, who I’m sure is a very nice man, critics aren't weather forecasters or
pundits, and they’re not particularly interested in predicting how audiences will respond to a movie.
(We are also a rather reserved and nerdy bunch, not regularly armed with venom and knives.) Critics
show up where they’re told to show up and watch a film, then go home and evaluate it to the best of
their abilities. The list includes expected choices like "Mad Max: Fury Road" and lesser known
critical darlings like the vampire comedy "What We Do in the Shadows" Similarly, if the
Tomatometer score ever falls below 70%, it will lose this status. Because the Rotten Tomatoes
ratings system is so general, RT certified fresh consideration gives the site more objective credibility.
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Tomatoes (and other audience-driven scores, like the ones at IMDb) naturally skew very positive, or
sometimes very negative if there’s any sort of smear campaign in play. There’s nothing inherently
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they would have gone to see anyhow, and some of which they would’ve never chosen to see if their
editors didn’t make the assignment — their opinion distribution should theoretically be more even,
and thus the critical Rotten Tomatoes score more “accurate.” Still, studios certainly seem to believe
the score makes a difference. Last summer, studios blamed Rotten Tomatoes scores (and by
extension, critics) when poorly reviewed movies like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No
Tales, Baywatch, and The Mummy performed below expectations at the box office. (Pirates still
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website, one with increased power because the media now uses the fresh ranking as a catch-all for
critical consensus, with said percentage score popping up when you buy tickets from Fandango or
rent the title on Google Market. But it is not magic. At worst, the increased visibility of the site is
being used as an excuse by ever-pickier moviegoers to stay in with Netflix or VOD. Vince Staples Is
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release, and as a result, people purchasing advance tickets might buy them before there are any
reviews or Tomatometer score to speak of. Thus, in spite of there being no strong correlation between
negative reviews and a low box office, its first-weekend box returns might be less susceptible to any
potential harm as a result of bad press. (Such close timing can also backfire; critics liked this
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reviews to measurably boost its opening box office.)