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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 59 Rotten Tomatoes mean? ›
The 59% Club: An Ode to the Almost-Fresh Movie
Here, “close” means a movie that was in striking distance of being marked Fresh on the Tomatometer. A 60% score is what you need to be Fresh, and all the movies featured in this list are exactly one percentage point away: They are the members of The 59% Club.
What is the highest Rotten Tomatoes score? ›
To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.
What does 100 Rotten Tomatoes mean? ›
Welcome to the 100% Club, where every movie isn't necessarily perfect, but their Tomatometers are. A place where all the critic reviews are Fresh, as far as the eye can see, without a Rotten mark to disrupt all the 1s and their attendant 0s in the percentage scores.
What is a decent Rotten Tomatoes score? ›
When at least 60% of users give a movie or TV show a star rating of 3.5 or higher, a full popcorn bucket is displayed to indicate its Fresh status. When less than 60% of users give a movie or TV show a star rating of 3.5 or higher, a tipped over popcorn bucket is displayed to indicate its Rotten status.
Is 20% Rotten Tomatoes good or bad? ›
Rotten Tomatoes Rating System
A red tomato score indicating its fresh status, is designated when at least 60% of the reviews are positive. A green splat indicating rotten status, is displayed when less than 60% of the reviews are positive.
Is 0% good 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.
Is 7 percent 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.
What is considered the best movie of all time? ›
Citizen Kane (1941) stood at number 1 for five consecutive polls, with 22 votes in 1962, 32 votes in 1972, 45 votes in 1982, 43 votes in 1992, and 46 votes in 2002. It also topped the first two directors' polls, with 30 votes in 1992 and 42 votes in 2002.
Now, there's one more score that depicts divides between movie critics and fans, the Audience Score. This score, according to Rotten Tomatoes, portrayed by a popcorn bucket, is the percentage of all Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster users who have rated the movie positively.
What is the longest film ever? ›
The longest film ever made, according to Guinness World Records, is "The Cure for Insomnia" (1987), directed by John Henry Timmis IV.
What movies made the most money of all time? ›
Top Lifetime Grosses
Rank | Title | Lifetime Gross |
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1 | Avatar | $2,923,706,026 |
2 | Avengers: Endgame | $2,799,439,100 |
3 | Avatar: The Way of Water | $2,320,250,281 |
4 | Titanic | $2,264,750,694 |
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How to understand Rotten Tomatoes? ›
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.
Does Disney own Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Rotten Tomatoes, owned by Warner Bros. and NBC, part of Fandango Media, a movie ticketing company.
Is a 70% 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 it better to have a high or low score 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 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.
How does IMDb work? ›
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