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A phony cult leader (Dave Foley) hires a jobless trailer-park denizen (Zack Ward) to help him carry out his plot to save his compound from closure. Meanwhile, Osama bin Laden and his minions plan...
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Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | May 23, 2008. Maitland...
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After a rogue agent kills their boss, rival spies kill one...
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Postal (2007) Tomatometer: 8%. Critics Consensus: “An...
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Recommendations. Five hipsters working at an LA postal shop deal with crazy customers and ruin everything.
Jerk Reviews. One might declare Jerk a rare, perfect fusion of text & its visualization . . . of brutality & its burlesque . . .of the absurd intertwined with an undeniable element of damnable ...
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The rising scores come as Rotten Tomatoes has forged close financial ties with the movie industry. The website, launched in 1998 by three recent Berkeley grads, was purchased by Warner Bros. in 2011. And in 2016, Comcast (which also owns NBCUniversal) acquired a 70 per cent stake through a deal that turned Rotten Tomatoes into a division of the tic...
Meares hasn’t crunched the numbers himself, but speculates that if Tomatometer scores have risen, it may be due to broader shifts in the media industry. “Over the last 20, 15 or even 10 years, the way that criticism has operated in the world has changed.” When Rotten Tomatoes started in the late-1990s, most professional film critics worked as full-...
While movie audiences are growing more diverse, film criticism has long been dominated by white men. Looking at the top 100 films in 2017, a USC Annenberg reportfound that 82 per cent of the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes were written by white critics, and 78 per cent by men. Male critics are consistently more harsh than women when it comes to reviewin...
More critics on the site have meant more movie reviews contributing to each film’s score. The top 10 highest-grossing films in 2009 had an average of 278 reviews per film. By 2019, that number had risen to 445 reviews per film. If you are feeling particularly studious and want to browse the 541 reviews that makeup Avengers: Endgame’s 94 per cent ra...
Global News also looked at average movie review scores for wide releases on Metacritic, a competing online review aggregator, and IMDb, an online database of movie and TV info. Between 2009 and 2019, average Metacritic scores for wide releases, which are out of 100, increased to 56 from 49, or by 7 per cent. In contrast, Rotten Tomatoes scores rose...
Anyone old enough to remember Siskel & Ebert & the Movies can recall how often the two critics used to disagree with each other. Two critics, five opinions, as the old joke goes. Now imagine trying to get upwards of 500 critics to reach a consensus. That’s exactly what the Tomatometer attempts to do. Gorber believes a great deal of nuance is lost w...
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