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This basically means Rotten using it's dumbass "evaluating system" a movie which got reviews ranging from 4.5 to 6 out of 10 can get a 100% "tomatometer" if Rotten thinks all those reviewers liked the movie while another movie which also got 4.5 to 6 out of 10 can get a 0% "tomatometer" if Rotten thinks all those reviewers disliked the movie.
- 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...
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Aug 31, 2017 · Rotten Tomatoes also lets audiences rate movies, and the score is often out of step with the critical score. Sometimes, the difference is extremely significant, a fact that's noticeable because ...
Tar has a 94% on RT and Thor Ragnarok has a 93% on RT as an example. But Tar has a 90 on metacritic and Thor Ragnarok has a 74 on metacritic. Black Panther 1 has a 88 on metacritic though. I love the nuance you get from that. The critic average is distinct from the regular score & more similar to Metacritic though.
Oct 24, 2017 · Matt Reynolds. Culture. Oct 24, 2017 3:00 AM. You should ignore film ratings on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. We compared how IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic rate their movies. While the...
Aug 2, 2023 · If one thing is clear, Rotten Tomatoes drudges up strong opinions on both sides of the debate. But just how useful is this controversial site? Do people actually consult with Rotten Tomatoes before purchasing a movie ticket they’ve been eyeing? How often does a bad Rotten Tomatoes score correlate to a poor box office reception?
Mar 10, 2021 · Rotten Tomatoes deems that all critics meet a set of eligibility guidelines that are meant to exemplify that this person or publication is influential (and experienced) enough to write well-articulated reviews. They do this through an application-based system with some of the requirements being: you must have been writing reviews for at least ...
