You probably need to do some data cleaning and validation before drawing any conclusions. A fair number of critical darlings are somewhat topical movies about c

You probably need to do some data cleaning and validation before drawing any conclusions. A fair number of critical darlings are somewhat topical movies about current relevant social issues and they can be subject to review bombing by audiences, often audiences that don't even see the film. I'm not sure if IMDB really does much about that. Rotten Tomatoes at least stopped letting you review a movie before it was possible to see it after Captain Marvel had thousands of bad reviews before it even came out, but they still don't verify you saw the movie. They surface verified reviews closer to the top, but the ratings from unverified raters still count. This was, of course, much less of a thing in 2000 than in 2019.