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Thanks to online ratings, it's easier than ever to know whether or not a movie is worth watching. A quick Google search brings up plenty of websites offering their opinions on the latest films. The three most popular are IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic.
- 8 IMDb Features You May Have Overlooked
It'll come in handy for when you play your next movie-based...
- 8 IMDb Features You May Have Overlooked
- Criteria For “The Best”
- Imdb, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango, Or Metacritic?
- Fandango’s Users Love Movies Too Much
- The Verdict: Use Metacritic’s Metascore
- Few More Words
Making such a recommendation is a lot like saying “this is the best place to look for a movie rating,” which is an evaluative statement, resting on some criteria used to determine what is better, what is worse or worst, and what is best, in this case. For my recommendation, I will use one single criterion: a normal distribution. The best place to l...
Now that we have a criterion to work with, let’s dive into the data. 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 Metacri...
One reason for this choice is that the distribution of Fandango’s movie ratings is the furthest from that of a normal one, having that obvious skew towards the higher part of the movie ratings spectrum. The other reason is the cloud of suspicion around Fandango left by Walt Hickey’s analysis. On October 2015, he was also puzzled by a similar distri...
All in all, I recommend checking the metascore whenever you are looking for a movie rating. Here’s how it works, and its downsides. In a nutshell, the metascore is a weighted average of many reviews coming from reputed critics. The Metacritic team reads the reviews and assigns each a 0–100 score, which is then given a weight, mainly based on the re...
To sum up, in this article I made a single recommendation of where to look for a movie rating. I recommended the metascore, based on two arguments: its distribution resembles the most a normal one, and it is the least correlated with the Fandango rating. All the quantitative and the visual elements of the article are reproducible in Python, as it i...
Feb 16, 2021 · If you're a fan of The Stand (book, old miniseries, or new miniseries), take a look at the old cast vs the new cast in this quick comparison.
Oct 24, 2017 · We compared how IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic rate their movies. While the ratings differ, they all have one thing in common: a bias toward men
This is definitely one of the best movies I've watched in quite some time. John Leguizamo played a great role as the school teacher and chess coach. I'm so used to seeing him in side roles in dark and shadowy films but his acting as a teacher and chess coach was really good.
Sep 4, 2020 · Critical Thinking. 117 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 2020. Odie Henderson. September 4, 2020. 6 min read. In the press materials for “Critical Thinking,” producer Carla Berkowitz drops this line about her reaction to reading the true story that inspired the film: “The image and story was haunting and I felt like I had a quantum shift in my ...
Mar 10, 2021 · However, it’s important to note that audience reviews have a different rating system than those described for critics, one that is universal and easier to aggregate. All audience reviews must score the film in question out of 5 stars.
