FAQs
To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.
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 a good score on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
When at least 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, a red tomato is displayed to indicate its Fresh status. 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 spilled popcorn mean? ›
A tipped over popcorn bucket indicates that less than 60% of users have given it a 3.5 or higher.
Is there a movie with 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 20 reviews have received this rating.
Is a 97% good on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
The average Rotten Tomatoes user will see a 97 percent score as nearly a masterpiece. “It has to be good,” they might say, or commercials will tell them, “It's the best-reviewed movie of the year!”
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.
What is the longest film ever? ›
The longest film ever made, according to Guinness World Records, is "The Cure for Insomnia" (1987), directed by John Henry Timmis IV.
What is the popcorn on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
This score, according to Rotten Tomatoes, portrayed by a popcorn bucket, is the percentage of all Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster users who have rated the movie positively. If the movie has +3.5/5 stars, it's gotten a positive rating and the movie is portrayed by a full popcorn bucket.
Why are Rotten Tomatoes called Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film Léolo.
There's a full popcorn bucket for any film that receives 60% or higher positive reviews from audience members while a spilled popcorn bucket denotes a film where less than 60% of reviewers scored the film positively.
Why was popcorn banned in 1920? ›
Popcorn used to be banned in movie theaters because of the noise people made when they ate it. What's True: Many early movie theaters did not allow their patrons to consume snacks like popcorn during the shows ...
What is the most reliable movie rating site? ›
What Is the Most Reliable Movie Rating Site?
- Metacritic. ...
- Letterboxd. ...
- CinemaScore. ...
- FilmAffinity. ...
- The Movie Database (TMDb) ...
- Flixster. ...
- Criticker. ...
- Mubi. Mubi is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor.
What does the tomato on Peaco*ck mean? ›
Movie thumbnails may include a red-tomato, "fresh" rating but don't display a score if the movie is rated "rotten." You can see the score for any movie with a Rotten Tomatoes rating, alongside the audience score, after selecting it.
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 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. ...
Is 99% Rotten Tomatoes good or bad? ›
The 99% Club: An Ode to the Almost-Perfect Movie
The 99% Club: You'll find it, way past 98% on the Tomatometer, but just before 100%. Inside, a coterie of cinema's practically-finest, movies promising an experience beyond most others – movies that are almost perfect.
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.