Why not trust the ratings of movies on IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

Often the choice of the film turns into a real emotional shock. First we have to accept the fact that none of the streaming services, you are subscribed to, no desired pattern. Then you start to choose from the three movies that never were going to see, but which are the only more or less decent option.

To choose the best one, you open Google and check out the rating. Three hours later, realizing that the information in the Network too different, you know, it's too late to start watching, and you decide to revise the "Friends" or "Rick and Morty."

Why ratings on specialized sites are so different? Can we trust them at all? To answer these questions, we need to compare the valuation techniques of films of each of the services.

IMDb

On IMDb movie can get up to 10 points. Assessment by the ordinary users, not critics. Any registered person can evaluate each picture once, giving it from 1 to 10 points. Then voices revised to irrelevant data such as the recently registered users were not included in the film exhibiting the overall ranking.

Films of the "Top 250" are evaluated a little differently. This takes into account evaluation only those users who vote regularly.

The majority of voting on IMDb - is a male person, so in the ratings there is a significant preponderance of movies aimed at men.

List of 10 best paintings of all time according to IMDb looks like this:

1. "The Shawshank Redemption".
2. "Godfather".
3. "The Godfather 2".
4. "The Dark Knight".
5. "12 Angry Men".
6. "Schindler's list".
7. "Pulp Fiction".
8. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."
9. "Good bad evil".
10. "Fight club".

Rotten Tomatoes

On Rotten Tomatoes film measured at a 100-point scale based on user reviews averaged professional critics. If the picture is 60 points or more, then it gets a fresh red tomato. If the score is lower, the tomato is issued rotten.

The best films are listed as "Certified Fresh tomatoes» (Certified Fresh). On this film there is usually a minimum of 80 reviews of the critics, and the rating falls below 75. Each picture also has a user rating, but it is much less important.

The major ratings Rotten Tomatoes reviews counted only approved reviewers. It is the journalists who write for the well-known sites, magazines and newspapers.

All a bit complicated by the fact that the site takes into account the number of reviews of the film. "The Wizard of Oz" with an average rating of 99 is higher than 111 critics of "Citizen Kane", which has an average of 100 points from 75 reviewers.

You've probably already guessed that the vast majority of the approved critical site - men.

List of the best films according to Rotten Tomatoes:

1. "The Wizard of Oz".
2. "Citizen Kane."
3. "The Third Man".
4. "Away".
5. "Mad Max: Road rage".
6. "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."
7. "All About Eve."
8. "Puzzle".
9. "Metropolis".
10. "Godfather".

Metacritic

Metacritic also put films up to 100 points on the basis of reviews from critics. The site itself converts text and numbers of reviews in its scale, and then further revises assessment, resulting in some surveys affect the final ranking more than others.

The service has no public list of recognized critics, but here you can learn from what publications collected data. The list is updated regularly, but Metacritic does not say why allow to evaluation of some publications and ignores others.

Unlike Rotten Tomatoes, the site evaluates the picture on the basis of a much smaller number of reviews. Therefore, strange fluctuations in the ratings here are more common.

Service focuses on the media, rather than specific reviewer, so in this case to calculate the gender balance is almost impossible. Nevertheless rating of "Citizen Kane", the most highly otsenonnogo film on Metacritic, based on 10 surveys of men and only two women.

The best pictures in the ranking Metacritic:

1. "Citizen Kane."
2. "Godfather".
3. "Casablanca".
4. "Adolescence."
5. "Three Colors: Red".
6. "Singin 'in the Rain."
7. "Moonlight".
8. "Pan's Labyrinth."
9. "Hoop Dreams."
10. "My Left Foot."

Why should ignore sites kinoreytingami

It is unlikely that you will be able to find objective ratings of the mentioned sites. On each of these preference is given to man's opinion.

As an example, take the main movie IMDb - «The Shawshank Redemption." His score of 9.3 points is based on the votes of approximately 1.86 million users of the site. 1.2 million of these voices - men. Despite the fact that the service is trying to cope with the excessive influence of certain demographic groups, on the males often have more than 70% of the vote. However, they prefer paintings on male threads or a large number of women in the lead roles.

Rating of "Sex and the City" clearly demonstrates the division of votes, the audience IMDb. more than 29 thousands of men made the film an average rating of 5.8, and 43 000 women were awarded it an average score 8,1. As a result of averaging the scores obtained score of 7.4, but a final rating on site - 7.

Rotten Tomatoes With the situation is similar. American actress Meryl Streep (Meryl Streep) in 2015 accused the service that he gives preference to male critics. Then in the list approved by the reviewers were 168 women and 760 men. According to a study conducted in 2016 by University of California in San Diego, only 27% "best critics" on the site were female.

On Metacritic detailed data are not available. Nevertheless, many sources have the same platform as that of the Rotten Tomatoes. Therefore, in case it is probably about the same things.