FAQs
To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.
Is a higher or lower rotten tomato score better? ›
The website keeps track of all the reviews counted for each film and calculates the percentage of positive reviews. 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".
What do the Rotten Tomatoes symbols mean? ›
Fresh red tomato. When at least 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, a red tomato is displayed to indicate its Fresh status. Green splat tomato. When less than 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, a green splat is displayed to indicate its Rotten status.
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 considered the best movie of all time? ›
Citizen Kane (1941), starring and directed by Orson Welles, has topped several international polls, including five consecutive decades at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics. Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country.
What movies have gotten a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
10 Nearly Perfect Movies With a 99% Score on Rotten Tomatoes
- 3 'Paddington 2' (2017)
- 4 'On the Waterfront' (1954) ...
- 5 'All About Eve' (1950) ...
- 6 'The Third Man' (1949) ...
- 7 'How to Train Your Dragon' (2010) ...
- 8 'Goldfinger' (1964) ...
- 9 'Lady Bird' (2017) Directed by Greta Gerwig. ...
- 10 'Finding Nemo' (2003) Directed by Andrew Stanton. ...
What is a perfect Rotten tomato score? ›
If 60% of reviews are positive, the movie is given a “Fresh” status, but if positive reviews fall below that benchmark, it is deemed “Rotten.” A popular piece of media will typically fall between the 70-90% range, but rarely, a project will receive a 100% score.
Are Rotten Tomatoes reviews biased? ›
The scoring system of Rotten Tomatoes is heavily biased due to genre bias, selection bias, time bias, and recency bias.
Why is it called Rotten Tomatoes? ›
The name Rotten Tomatoes itself came to Senh after watching Jean-Claude Lauzon's coming-of-age fantasy Léolo, wherein a woman believes she is impregnated by tomatoes.
What does spilled popcorn mean in movies? ›
The spilled popcorn container means audiences didn't find the movie appealing.
The tomato symbol next to a movie title in DirecTV indicates that the movie has received positive reviews from critics. The popcorn symbol represents the movie's popularity among audiences.
What does the popcorn mean on movie ratings? ›
If the movie has +3.5/5 stars, it's gotten a positive rating and the movie is portrayed by a full popcorn bucket. That's a negatively rated movie. If the movie receives less than 3.5 stars, it's gotten a negative rating and the movie is portrayed by a tipped over popcorn bucket.
What is the lowest Rotten Tomato score? ›
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 more than 20 reviews have received this rating.
Who owns the Rotten Tomatoes website? ›
In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were acquired by Fandango (which is owned by Comcast). Warner Bros. retains a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango.
Are there any 100% shows on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Other recent series with multiple seasons in the 100% club: The Good Place, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, One Day at a Time, Veep, Fleabag, Jane the Virgin, and Feel Good. Only Murders in the Building season 1 has the most reviews on its perfect 100% score.
What Netflix movie is rated 100 Rotten Tomatoes? ›
- #1. His House (2020) 100% #1. ...
- #2. Miss Juneteenth (2020) 99% #2. ...
- #3. The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020) 99% #3. ...
- #4. Under the Shadow (2016) 99% #4. ...
- #5. Godzilla Minus One (2023) 98% #5. ...
- #6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) 97% #6. ...
- #7. Dolemite Is My Name (2019) 97% #7. ...
- #8. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) 97% #8.
Is 90% 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.