It’s vital to recollect what a Rotten Tomatoes ranking actually represents: The common of a set of particular person scores from many various movie critics. It’s not a grade. It’s not one thing decided by a gaggle of critics who get collectively in a room and collectively resolve on a quantity. It’s additionally not a measure of ardour; on Rotten Tomatoes a 100 doesn’t imply an ideal film. It means one hundred pc of critics agree a film is a minimum of okay.
Some cinephiles hate Rotten Tomatoes. (I’ve met just a few of them in my travels currently.) And that’s their perogative. Personally, I feel if you happen to perceive what that Tomatometer quantity means, there’s all the time one thing attention-grabbing about it. (Perhaps not as attention-grabbing as truly clicking by means of and studying among the evaluations that make up that quantity, however that’s a dialog for one more time.)
For instance, it’s usually fascinating to match a Rotten Tomatoes rating to the broader fame of a film on-line, particularly as a title ages. Generally, a movie that will get a middling response on its preliminary launch grows right into a traditional. Different instances, a film turns into a monster hit and solely later do folks mirror and query what they noticed in it within the first place.
Each situations can yield Rotten Tomatoes scores that are fairly shocking. The 25 movies beneath all match the invoice, whether or not as a result of they maintain a ranking a lot increased — or a lot decrease — than you’ll anticipate.
Motion pictures With Stunning Rotten Tomatoes Scores
You is perhaps shocked by the scores that these films received from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
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