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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
Agreed, but you can infer a lot with it.

My favourite way of judging movie quality is checking what kind of movie goers hate it and why.

>>mpsprd+tE2
This does not always work. For example: Knock Down The House started off with an excellent audience score and stayed that way for about a year...until Tucker Carlson mentioned it on his show and then it plummeted to its current score. So how can you infer whether the quality is good?

>>nebula+VH2
you sample bad reviews from users and read them. You can most of the time filter it out the classic noise:

-Pretentious watchers hating on summer blockbuster movies

-Political things and review bombs

About your specific example Steam comes to mind, they have a great review timeline feature that allows to filter out review bombs.

>>mpsprd+FR2
I suspect the negative reviewers got what they wanted: they feel better because they 'helped' in damaging someone they hate in some small way and anyone who just glances at it would pass on the film.

One feature that would be nice would be a filter to filter out reviewers based on certain criteria

-only one review

-only has reviews on certain films

-account life is less than specific threshold

That DB query is probably too expensive to run on a free site though. An app that scrapes the RT reviews and filters out based on this criteria has been on my list of things to build.