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The percentage is based on the film's reviews aggregated by the website and assessed as positive or negative, and when all aggregated reviews are positive, the film has a 100% rating.
What does the rotten tomato icon mean? ›
When at least 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, a red tomato is displayed to indicate its Fresh status. When less than 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, a green splat is displayed to indicate its Rotten status.
How does rotten tomato score work? ›
If the positive reviews make up 60% or more, the film is considered "fresh". If the positive reviews are less than 60%, the film is considered "rotten". An average score on a 0 to 10 scale is also calculated.
What does the popcorn mean on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score
The Audience Score is designated by a popcorn bucket. The score is the percentage of users who have rated the movie or show positively.
Is 90% on Rotten Tomatoes good? ›
As the reviews of a given film accumulate, the Rotten Tomatoes score measures the percentage that are more positive than negative, and assigns an overall fresh or rotten rating to the movie. Scores of over 60 percent are considered fresh, and scores of 59 percent and under are rotten.
Is 99% Rotten Tomatoes good or bad? ›
The 99% Club: An Ode to the Almost-Perfect Movie
The 99% Club: You'll find it, way past 98% on the Tomatometer, but just before 100%. Inside, a coterie of cinema's practically-finest, movies promising an experience beyond most others – movies that are almost perfect.
Is higher or lower better on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
The “Tomatometer Rankings” connects to the practice of viewers throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a poor stage performance; the higher the percentage a movie receives, the more “fresh” it is and, at least theoretically, better in the show business world.
What Rotten tomato score is bad? ›
A high rating on Rotten Tomatoes is good. The scores range from 0% to 100%, one hundred being the best and zero being the worst. If a movie's score is equal to or above 60%, the movie is considered “fresh”, while if it is below 60% it is considered “rotten”.
Why are Rotten Tomatoes called Rotten Tomatoes? ›
The name Rotten Tomatoes itself came to Senh after watching Jean-Claude Lauzon's coming-of-age fantasy Léolo, wherein a woman believes she is impregnated by tomatoes.
What was the worst rated movie ever? ›
The corpse of Inspector Clay (Tor Johnson) attacks Eros (Dudley Manlove) in the 1957 Ed Wood classic Plan 9 from Outer Space. Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space, a science fiction film about aliens resurrecting the dead, was labeled the "Worst Film Ever" by The Golden Turkey Awards in 1980.
If 60% of reviews are positive, the movie is given a “Fresh” status, but if positive reviews fall below that benchmark, it is deemed “Rotten.” A popular piece of media will typically fall between the 70-90% range, but rarely, a project will receive a 100% score. This means every last review from critics was positive.
Can you get a 0 on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films that every surveyed critic considered bad have a 0% rating. As of 2023, only 40 films with 20 reviews have received this rating.
Which is better, IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes? ›
IMDb has tons of information about the movie and the people involved with it, to include the entire cast and crew, but IMDb does not have reviews. For reviews, we go to Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic. RT collects more reviews than Metacritic, but breaks down the critics as either liking the film or not liking the film.
What is the most reliable movie rating site? ›
What Is the Most Reliable Movie Rating Site?
- Metacritic. ...
- Letterboxd. ...
- CinemaScore. ...
- Criticker. ...
- FilmAffinity. ...
- The Movie Database (TMDb) ...
- Flixster. ...
- Mubi. Mubi is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor.
Is it rare to get 100% on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
This means every last review from critics was positive. Close to 480 films with at least 20 reviews have achieved a 100% score, with many coming very close. Greta Gerwig's “Lady Bird” had a 100% rating with 196 positive reviews before a critic submitted a negative one, knocking it down to 99%.
Does any show have 100 Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Other recent series with multiple seasons in the 100% club: The Good Place, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, One Day at a Time, Veep, Fleabag, Jane the Virgin, and Feel Good. Only Murders in the Building season 1 has the most reviews on its perfect 100% score.
Is a 97% good on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
So when a movie such as “Black Panther” gets a certified “fresh” 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, we interpret it as a film that is near perfection, while a film such as last year's “The Emoji Movie” that lands around 9 percent, must be a steaming pile of garbage.
Why is Rotten Tomatoes so bad at rating? ›
The Big Picture. Rotten Tomatoes' main problem is its lack of nuance, sorting movies into good or bad without considering detail or redeeming qualities. Studios have used Rotten Tomatoes to their advantage, manipulating early reactions and scores to boost audience numbers and box office success.