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IMDb leaves it up to the user to decide how to rate a movie. Many people seem only able to give ratings of either 1 or 10, which is why you'll often see peaks in the vote histogram there. Most other people are still biased towards the lowest and especially highest scores.
- Criteria For “The Best”
- Imdb, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango, Or Metacritic?
- Fandango’s Users Love Movies Too Much
- The Verdict: Use Metacritic’s Metascore
- Few More Words
Making such a recommendation is a lot like saying “this is the best place to look for a movie rating,” which is an evaluative statement, resting on some criteria used to determine what is better, what is worse or worst, and what is best, in this case. For my recommendation, I will use one single criterion: a normal distribution. The best place to l...
Now that we have a criterion to work with, let’s dive into the data. There are a lot of websites out there that come up with their own movie ratings. I have chosen only four, mainly based on their popularity, so that I could get ratings for movies with an acceptable number of votes. The happy winners are IMDB, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacri...
One reason for this choice is that the distribution of Fandango’s movie ratings is the furthest from that of a normal one, having that obvious skew towards the higher part of the movie ratings spectrum. The other reason is the cloud of suspicion around Fandango left by Walt Hickey’s analysis. On October 2015, he was also puzzled by a similar distri...
All in all, I recommend checking the metascore whenever you are looking for a movie rating. Here’s how it works, and its downsides. In a nutshell, the metascore is a weighted average of many reviews coming from reputed critics. The Metacritic team reads the reviews and assigns each a 0–100 score, which is then given a weight, mainly based on the re...
To sum up, in this article I made a single recommendation of where to look for a movie rating. I recommended the metascore, based on two arguments: its distribution resembles the most a normal one, and it is the least correlated with the Fandango rating. All the quantitative and the visual elements of the article are reproducible in Python, as it i...
My ideal rating scale (if I were to have one) would be that everything mediocre or bad or utterly terrible gets an equal score of 0 and 1-5 represent different levels of appreciation for a movie, with 1 being something I quite like and 5 being something I absolutely adore without reservation.
Oct 24, 2017 · We compared how IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic rate their movies. While the ratings differ, they all have one thing in common: a bias toward men
Nov 21, 2018 · Many of us rely on movie reviews to help us answer this age-old question. But how can we trust these reviews to be accurate? “72%” on Rotten Tomatoes; “6.4” on IMDB; “43” on Metacritic ...
Sep 19, 2017 · As of this writing, mother! is at 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, 75 on Metacritic, 6.8/10 on IMDB, and an abysmal F CinemaScore. The movie is obviously (mostly) well received by critics and some audiences, but its extreme and unnerving style was very disruptive and troubling to many audience members.
Aug 24, 2020 · Thanks to online ratings, it's easier than ever to know whether or not a movie is worth watching. A quick Google search brings up plenty of websites offering their opinions on the latest films. The three most popular are IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic.
