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To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.
Why is it called Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Rotten Tomatoes is a website dedicated to reviews, information, and news of movies and television series. The name derives from the vaudeville-era cliché of throwing tomatoes and other products at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad. The company has been owned by Flixster, a Warner Bros.
What happened to Rotten Tomatoes? ›
In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango Media. Warner Bros retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango.
What does 100 Rotten Tomatoes mean? ›
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. This means every last review from critics was positive.
What is the most sweetest tomato? ›
'Sun Sugar': The tangerine-orange fruits of 'Sun Sugar' are some of the sweetest, tartest, and best tasting around. The disease-resistant, indeterminate vines will stand up to fusarium wilt and tobacco mosaic virus, and they produce long trusses of crack-resistant fruits.
What does the popcorn mean on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Rotten audience score. When less than 60% of users give a movie or TV show a star rating of 3.5 or higher, a tipped over popcorn bucket is displayed. No audience score yet. If a title has not released yet or there are not enough reviews to generate an Audience Score, a gray faded popcorn bucket is displayed.
Why is Rotten Tomatoes misleading? ›
The number doesn't tell you how much they liked it, and the number is skewed by some people accidentally raising their left hand instead of their right hand, and a few people who liked it but refused to raise their hand because they wanted to change the outcome of the vote, and then everyone watching this vote assumes ...
Does Disney own Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Rotten Tomatoes, owned by Warner Bros.
Why can't you trust Rotten Tomatoes? ›
How trustworthy is Rotten Tomatoes? A new report from New York Magazine suggests that Rotten Tomatoes scores can be easily manipulated, alleging specifically that a public relations firm, Bunker 15, has paid low-level, often self-published reviewers for positive write-ups as a way to game scores.
Is there a 0% Rotten Tomatoes? ›
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.
Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Fandango, which is a joint venture of majority owner NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast, and minority owner Warner Bros., which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
What is the #1 best movie ever? ›
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
What is the longest movie ever made? ›
Cinématon
A 151-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It is considered to be the longest film ever released. 9,000 minutes (150 hr / 6 days, 6 hours).
What is the highest grossing movie of all time? ›
Six films in total have grossed in excess of $2 billion worldwide, with Avatar ranked in the top position.
What is a #1 tomato? ›
''U.S. No. 1'' consists of tomatoes which meet the following requirements: (a) Basic requirements: (1) Similar varietal characteristics; Page 3 2 (2) Mature; (3) Not overripe or soft; (4) Clean; (5) Well developed; (6) Fairly well formed; and, (7) Fairly smooth.
What are the grades of tomatoes? ›
The grades are mostly based on the condition and the quality of the fruits and not specifically on their size. However, on the basis of the size of the fruits three grades are formed: small (<100 g), medium (100-255 g) and large (> 255 g).
Is the higher the rotten tomato rating the better? ›
A high rating on Rotten Tomatoes is good. The scores range from 0% to 100%, one hundred being the best and zero being the worst. If a movie's score is equal to or above 60%, the movie is considered “fresh”, while if it is below 60% it is considered “rotten”.
What show has the highest rotten tomato? ›
Only Murders in the Building season 1 has the most reviews on its perfect 100% score. The collective opinions of 107 critics puts it ahead of all other 100% seasons — the more critics' opinions weighed, the more valuable that perfect score is.