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>>tortil+(OP)
Not really surprising, this is just confirmation of what's been apparent for a while - Audience score is an accurate estimate of the movie, and the tomatometer (the critic score) basically just reflects the political correctness / marketing budget of the movie.

>>genera+Ag2
IMO audience score is more of a proxy for movie quality minus movie expectations. A lot of niche genre films do okay because 1: the only people who watch them are enthusiasts and 2: nobody goes in with high expectations to begin with. If everyone watched them and reviewed them they'd do much worse.

For a mainstream example, take Fast X. It's an objectively stupid movie with a great audience score - because it's exactly what it says on the tin! Nobody is confused about what they're watching. Nobody thinks they're going to get terrific drama or romance or suspense. They're going to get the 9th sequel to a comedy action movie about dudes driving cars.

>>Abraha+Nr2
Yeah, the audience score is in no way an accurate measure of quality because it is provided by a self-selected group of people who both paid for the movie and went online to rate it. The end result is that a lot of movies viewed as failures will have high audience ratings as long as they can reach some small passionate audience. Just looking at some current movies:

Blue Beetle: 78% critics, 92% audience

Gran Turismo: 63%, 98%

Elemental: 74%, 93%

Meg 2: 29% 73%

Haunted Mansion 38%, 84%

Indiana Jones: 69%, 88%

Little Mermaid 67%, 94%

Those audience scores are not "more accurate" in any way. People who are forced to see these movies like them less than people who chose to see it.

There also really isn't anything currently that fits into "the political correctness / marketing budget of the movie" claim of OP. It seems like they are just buying into cultural war nonsense. The closest I can find is Barbie and its critic score is 5% higher than the audience score, so not much of a gap.

>>slg+jz2
The one useful aspect is that if you only care about the scores of movies you were already interested in, the audience score actually is quite accurate. If you already know "I am the sort of person who might pay to watch the little mermaid" then you can have good confidence you'll like it based on the audience score.