Can you trust Metacritic?

Mate, Metacritic is nothing more then a fancy word for an “Average score” and has absolutely everything to do with the average score and absolutely nothing to do with trustworthy. The higher the average score, the more reviewers liked the game, the lesser the score, the less reviewers liked the game.

Is Metacritic reliable for movies?

Metacritic aggregates reviews of movies and TV shows, plus video games and music albums. It’s one of the best sites for gamers, but it can give you a good idea on the quality of movies too.

Does Rotten Tomatoes really matter?

It gathers together the published reviews it can find for a movie, and produces an average of the reviewers’ rating. Rotten Tomatoes does not award its own rating. Just because a movie has a high rating on Rotten Tomatoes, doesn’t tell you what Rotten Tomatoes thinks of it. Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t think anything.

How are movies rated on Rotten Tomatoes?

The Rotten Tomatoes rating system uses a scale better known as the “The Tomatometer.” This represents the percentage of positive reviews for a given film or show. The Tomatometer score is calculated after five reviews. A green splat indicating rotten status, is displayed when less than 60\% of the reviews are positive.

What is the best movie critic site?

Top 10 Film Review Websites

• 1) Roger Ebert.
• 2) Guardian.
• 4) Yahoo! Movies.
• 5) IMDB.
• 10) Film.com.

What is Metacritic score?

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critic’s fame, stature, and volume of reviews.

What is a good rating on Rotten Tomatoes?

Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes gives films a score out of 100 based on the averaged reviews of professional film critics. If a film gets a rating of 60 or more it gets a ‘fresh’ red tomato on the site.

What are the best websites to get movie ratings?

There are a lot of websites out there that come up with their own movie ratings. I have chosen only four, mainly based on their popularity, so that I could get ratings for movies with an acceptable number of votes. The happy winners are IMDB, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic.

How are movie ratings calculated on IMDb?

On IMDb, all films are given an overall rating out of ten. In a roundabout way, these ratings are derived from votes submitted by IMDb users, not movie critics. All registered IMDb users can submit a single rating – a number between one and ten – for any film on the website.

What is a ‘fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes?

Rotten Tomatoes gives films a score out of 100 based on the averaged reviews of professional film critics. If a film gets a rating of 60 or more it gets a ‘fresh’ red tomato on the site. Less than 60 and it gets a rotten tomato.