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This is why Metacritic could be considered more accurate. While Rotten Tomatoes takes each movie review as binary--bad or good, Metacritic puts a number estimat
by insickness 9y ago
This is why Metacritic could be considered more accurate. While Rotten Tomatoes takes each movie review as binary--bad or good, Metacritic puts a number estimate on each review between 1 and 100--bad to good--and then averages those in.
- shalmanese 9y agoRotten Tomatoes is the Electoral College to Metacritic's popular vote. For all the things bad about the Electoral College, one good thing about it is that it produces more definitive results. It's a lot easier to make a decision to go see a 96% RT movie than a 8.1 MC and conversely, to avoid a 12% RT movie vs a 4.1 MC. If I'm looking for nuance, I'll got to metacritic but if I'm just looking as a gut check, the RT score is much more helpful.