A recent study by BacanaPlay determined that Rotten Tomatoes has the most reliable and fairest film rating database when compared with IMDb and Metacritic. But Rotten Tomatoes isn’t perfect.
Thank goodness it offers both a critics rating and an audience score. Often it will certify a movie as “fresh” or recommended by the critics, that I will not like. Recent examples include “She Dies Tomorrow,” “Zola” and “The Green Knight.” In two of those cases, the low audience rating should have been a tip-off to avoid the movie.
I tend to side with the audience rating now. Critics often will recommend a movie just because it’s different or has some social message they agree with.
Rotten Tomatoes does well with covering big Hollywood releases. But it falls short when it comes to aggregating reviews for independent and foreign films.
It also does a mediocre job with television shows. That could be because there are fewer professional reviewers and more shows amid the “peak TV” trend now.
Many foreign shows on Netflix rarely get reviews posted on Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes probably needs to cast a wider net for international reviewers. Otherwise, consumers are flying blind.
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Report: Rotten Tomatoes Named Best Movie Rating Database (MediaPlayNews; April 27, 2022)
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