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Tag: Rotten Tomatoes

  • Entertainment Media Attacks Nerdrotic, The Critical Drinker, and Fans in General Over The Acolyte

    Entertainment Media Attacks Nerdrotic, The Critical Drinker, and Fans in General Over The Acolyte

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    Alex Gherzo
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    The entertainment media is taking up defensive positions around The Acolyte, and they’re coming for anyone who doesn’t like it… which appears to be pretty much everyone outside of the entertainment media. Looper targeted Nerdrotic and the Critical Drinker in a video which has since been taken down, although Gary has the receipts: Now, I’ve…

  • Is Hollywood Manipulating Rotten Tomatoes Scores?

    Is Hollywood Manipulating Rotten Tomatoes Scores?

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    Alex Gherzo
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    Your suspicions about the legitimacy of Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer were correct – according to Vulture, at least. In an article released on its website today (and which will be featured in the September 11 issue of New York magazine), Vulture discusses the various problems with the review aggregator site in terms of how it operates and…

  • Netflix’s Squid Game is Catching Fire

    Netflix’s Squid Game is Catching Fire

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    Don Khan Swaylo
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    Set to become the most popular non-English series in Netflix history, the Korean-language series Squid Game is a transcendent success that the world is embracing. The hyper-violence permeating the nine-episode thriller has taken over the streaming platform since its release on Friday, September 17th. It is the first K-drama to snag the top spot on…

  • Captain Marvel, Rotten Tomatoes and Your Consumer Rights

    Captain Marvel, Rotten Tomatoes and Your Consumer Rights

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    Spike
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    Pop culture has never been through so much in so little time. The entertainment industry, in general, can’t seem to control the news anymore. Corporatism’s ugly side in these businesses is becoming unmasked like never before. Comic books, video games, trading cards, movies, TV shows… there are no survivors. Intersectional identity cults seem to be…

  • Rotten Tomatoes and the Standards of Criticism

    Rotten Tomatoes and the Standards of Criticism

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    Alex Gherzo
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    Rotten Tomatoes is once again in the news, this time because it is revamping its criteria for determining which critics will be included in the site’s much-cited Tomatometer. The focus will now be on getting “innovative thinkers and commentators who have seized on new platforms, developed their own sites and publications, or forged strong freelance…