IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered
IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered
A new report details how a PR firm paid off critics to post positive reviews of 2018 drama Ophelia on Rotten Tomatoes, prompting scrutiny over the reviews aggregator.
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Yeah no shit, RT end IMDb have been review shills for years, completely worthless
Yeah, I've seen it too. Anybody got good suggestions for alternatives?
Check out Letterboxd. But the star rating system is used a bit differently than you might be used to, like an average move will get a 3/5 stars, and that’s not a “bad” score. Just took me a bit getting used to
Forget aggregators. Find a couple critics you usually agree with. People have different tastes.
The issue is that every site uses the same critics to aggregate scores from. That being said I like using metacritic since you can view it by audience rating, and excluding the anti-woke, incel brigades on some media it usually aligns pretty well with what score I'd personally give a movie.
Metacritic has fallen out of favor in recent years. I know for videogames, it's basically downright hated by the community at large and not trusted as a source of truth.