The company's reputation is marred by significant skepticism regarding the integrity of its ratings and reviews. Customers express concerns about perceived manipulation of scores and a lack of transparency, leading to distrust in the site's credibility. While some users appreciate the platform for its design and ease of access to information, many feel that professional critics dominate the discourse, often overshadowing genuine audience opinions. Additionally, frustrations arise from account management issues and the removal of negative reviews, which detracts from customer satisfaction and suggests a need for improved transparency and responsiveness in customer service.
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This website is bought and paid for by Disney. Ghostbusters 2016? Captain Marvel? The Last Jedi? These movies are actually rated far worse than RT would have you believe, but the website actively engages in manipulating and covering up reviews to get the best rating possible. As a result, Rotten Tomatoes is just an advertisement masquerading as a review site.
In order to find some time for general relaxation or perhaps additional learning, I accepted the offer to watch films at my own request. And? The result is neutral. Each subsequent film had no final result. It was not interesting.
Rotten Tomatoes might be fun for rating and reviewing movies and TV shows, but only the critics' opinions are actually listened to and not ignored. If you really want your opinion to matter, go to a different review site. It's an okay website.
Just think about it... Who nowadays can trust ratings of a web site like this? People love different movies. In a past few years everyone just stopped looking for reviews or ratings because it has no point anymore. You like something - you watch it. It's all simple.
Rotten Tomatoes "audience score" is now manipulated and artificially boosted to make bad movies look good. Unfortunately the never ending need for corporate profits killed what was once a useful resouce. Now all we have is IMDB and other other less slick options.
I signed up with my internet name and it used my real name! I could not change it and tried to delete my account, but found that you have to call an 800 number, wait a long time, and then call again, and again, and again. I can't think of another website that I have encountered since maybe 1998 that made me call to cancel my account. As far as the ratings go, it is widely known that the professional reviewers are mostly male and that they suppress reviews on a whim. Not recommended or reliable.
It doesnt allow to make up your own mind. Too much of a influence without sense of direction. My daughter has no remorse in changing points of view of what was thought to her because defending something she only has learned through this site. BAb Bad
Unless you click further, which few actually do, they do not show you the complete ratings. They only show you ratings of those who bought movie tickets in a certain fashion. In addition, it is thought that they artificially change ratings by removing ratings.
The expert reviews are very biased here compared to other sites like IMBD. It is quite often to see a movie get nearly full marks as an expert, but a rotten score from the users, and vice versa. This is almost always political, such as if it is a feminist movie (see reviews for Taking Down the House, versus Chapelle's Sticks and Stones).
The reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are frequently purged of negative reviews and favorable critic reviews are promoted. This is likely done because there is a motivation to avoid negative reviews due to financial considerations. In short, if they let you see that a movie has a ton of bad reviews, you are less likely to go see it and the movie doesn't make much money. There is little doubt that movie houses and studios pay RT to prop up inferior products for the sole pursuit of making money.
Rottentomatoes has long since lost it's way, it used to be a group of true critics that actually cared for thier fellow fans, no more, now sliding any money thier way will make it keel over to try and help whatever company, and does anyone else find it odd that everytime they love a movie the general fandom hates it, and everytime they hate a movie, the general fandom loves said movie? I think it's time for a career change rotten tomatoes as your failing at doing anything correct anymore, what happened to your self edecate? Did you at least let the fans have thier opinion? Nope because now your deleting reviews from 'nonprofessional' critics who happen to be better at doing your job then you will ever be.
I use to think that this was a good site till it ruined an unbelievable movie that I would have rated atleast a b+ and this site gave it like 20%... Over the years I have leaned not to trust this site as the "Critics" apparently do not know what they are talking about. I have learned over time to look at the Google Reviews of the movie as it is real people that have watched the movie or show and either liked it or thought it was terrible.
Dont trust this site for your movies.
Rotten tomatoes has constantly downgraded movies that are actually pretty good. I think it's their political views, they don't go by the average viewers thoughts about if they actually liked a movie
I`m an international student and at first it was a bit hard for me to do some tasks. This site in particular helped me understand some movies (or just copy a review for the task, who am I tricking.). Anyway its pretty useful
I'll be short, I just wanted to say that I hate rotten tomatoes (horror) movie review site which is composed by allegedly horror movie expert veterans, who for the most part have absolutely not a clue what good horror movie looks like, or a bad one for that matter. They have absolutely no credibility, zero zilch, nada when it comes to horror movie opinions. I can't even consider seriously anything they say. And so in the world of horror movies, they shouldn't even have a say. Nobody should listen to them, they are pure trash to avoid like the plague. Apart from a tiny few exceptions of reviewers whom I agree with, each time I read their review previews makes me want to punch the wall and grab my machete and go for a walk around Camp Crystal Lake searching for new blood... Ironically, they don't know it yet, but the rotten tomatoes are all waiting for them.
Great site to read about movies before spending money going to see one or renting one.
However, I suggest reading many reviews, both from the community and from the well known reviewers since there will always be people who both like and dislike a movie. Multiple times I have seen a movie that had great reviews but thought it was awful and vice versa.
Good luck and hope you find a good one!
Nobody but nobody ever reads Rotten Tomatoes to find a good movie. Uplifting for the perversion and diminishing for entertainment is their group philosophy...
Try to leave a review for the Leftist Agenda Political "FILM" Immigration Nation - I dare you. It's a bunch of propaganda for the Democrats who want to destroy our entire country! I live in Texas and I can ASSURE YOU, that immigration is RUINING our cities, neighborhoods, and states with VIOLENT CRIMES - AGAINST CHILDREN! F YOU, Libs and F YOU Rotten Tomatoes!
Negative reviews of movies are frequently removed - despite their accuracy and depth, as this site is owned by the movie industry. For example, I wrote a few paragraphs about how I had a disdain for She-Hulk, pointing out its lack of humor and the countless continuity errors the show made. Couldn't find it as a regular user when I went out of my way to search for it.
That's why you never see reviews with more than 3 sentences on the site, because actual in-depth reviews that make the movie industry look bad in any way - with evidence behind their claims, as little as the violations cannot be allowed. Just the biggest haters, who you can label as salty biased fanboys of rival properties (why it's not purged) and the biggest fans are what you see of reviews.
Never do you see a review in the middle, there is always a big divide. "Babylon" (2022) has most of its reviews with the score in the middle, but the actual score summaries either paint it as the worst thing to ever hit theaters or an artistic masterpiece that only an absolute creative visionary could make. The same thing happened with "The Whale" and "The Apology" - the site is an absolute joke, even when most reviews are in the middle it somehow finds a way to showcase only the supposed catastrophes of a film or the grand victories in every review, with the tone seemingly switching to see as if everybody was watching a different movie.
I loved this movie. It was heart warming, funny, and very nostalgic for me. I highly recommend this movie for an enjoyable, entertaining experience.
Funny how some sites claim that Rotten Tomatoes is an unknown and unpopular website. They're pretty established with a huge database of movie reviews.
Answer: Once they used to be one of the last nonbiased or money grabbing websites left where they let anyone comment, now? Now they delete your comment the second they are offered a penny by big corperations
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