Besides IMDb, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes are the top two websites to which people turn to see aggregate scores of movies' ratings but, whereas IMDb's scores are based on users' ratings, Metacritic's and Rotten Tomatoes' main scores are based on reviewers' ratings. The basic idea is the same but ratings are sometimes different because their methodologies differ; of these two, which has more influence over the movies you choose to see?
I am sometimes influenced by one or more specific critics' thoughts on a film but I don't give any weight to scores from Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic.
Rotten Tomatoes
(Rotten Tomatoes weights its rankings depending on how many reviews a film has. That’s why 'The Wizard of Oz' with an average score of 99 from 111 reviews beats 'Citizen Kane,' which h…
Metacritic
(Metacritic works a bit like Rotten Tomatoes but its aggragate score is based on ratings that are weighted in a way that gives some, supposedly more renowned, reviewers and publications mor…
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On average, how early or late do you arrive to the movie theater to watch a given movie screening at said cinema? Book your movie ticket here:
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We all have a favourite film(s), and because it's our favourite we tend to love all aspects of it, but if you were to choose the main reason, what would you pick?
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