• RobotsLeftHand@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    This is your regular reminder that a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes means that 20% of reviewers liked the movie. The RT score represents chance that a reviewer liked it, not overall weighted score or how much they enjoyed it.

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      2 hours ago

      Yes it’s odds that you will like the movie going in.

      Besides, aggregate scores are hard to work with.

      The best thing you can do, when dealing with critics imo, is to find a critic with similar sensibilities to you, and then figure out the things they like.

      If a critic hates car chases and you love them, it doesn’t matter what the score is, because you can see them score it low for car chases and use that information. What matters more than score with critics is consistency.