Commercial success and quality ("good movie") are obviously very different things. Critics care about the latter. Quality is hard to quantify, but that's no exc

Commercial success and quality ("good movie") are obviously very different things. Critics care about the latter. Quality is hard to quantify, but that's no excuse to take such a poor proxy as sales. If you want to test whether Rotten Tomato scores are meaningful, I say you'd have to test whether they are meaningful to a particular individual with particular tastes; i.e., test the correlation of someone's judgments against a critic's.