something that almost everybody misunderstands about Rotten Tomatoes
Except for a few of the very biggest critics, the ones Rotten Tomatoes could not do without, we critics ourselves choose our own pullquote and Fresh/Rotten score…
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question of the day: Is there any chance in Hades that ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ could get an Oscar nom for Best Picture?
I think it’s so remote a possibility as to be preposterous. And no, the Return of the King sweep is not an apt comparison.
more embargo idiocy (re ‘Bad Teacher’)
I started to think Sony, at least, was beginning to get it. But apparently not…
question of the day: If Chuck Norris and Jennifer Love Hewitt aren’t the worst Hollywood actors, who are?
Have you seen Slate’s Hollywood Career-o-Matic? This hilarious tool collates data from Rotten Tomatoes to assess who is a great actor, actress, or director based upon the Freshness ratings of their films. Its usefulness is questionable, though…
Osama bin Laden on Twitter; no black people at the royal wedding, duh; DVD sales are plummeting; more: leftover links
Plus: Where are the women of summer? Is ‘Doctor Who’ violating a new BBC ban on product placement? Is ‘Glee’ turning kids gay?
wait, what? Warner Bros. now owns Rotten Tomatoes
Net content is getting more and more consolidated into corporate hands. This cannot be a good thing…
another mysterious U.K. embargo: ‘Hanna’
It makes no damn sense at all. There are already reviews up at Rotten Tomatoes!
question of the day: What was the most underrated or underappreciated movie of 2010?
Mine must be Agora, which my fellow critics ignored and audiences never had a chance to find…
‘Harry Potter’ beats up ‘Star Wars’; Michael Caine, psychic author; TV getting gayer; more: leftover links
Plus: the deaths of Stephen J. Cannell, Sally Menke, Gloria Stuart, and Tony Curtis; Armond White is at it again (and so are his adversaries); Chris Noth thinks critics killed Sex and the City; and on and on…
me on Movie Review Intelligence
I am delighted to announce that starting with this week’s new releases, my reviews will be featured at Movie Review Intelligence. MRI is a review aggregator similar to Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, though it uses a somewhat different metric to award overall grades. Like Metacritic, its selection of critics is quite selective, and it’s a … more…
