‘Black Panther’ Was The Best-Reviewed Movie of 2018, According to Rotten Tomatoes

Don't forget the child sacrifices under Planet Hollywood. 

What...? My Spider sense is telling me: Sham! BP was not even the best reviewed CBM 2018.

Spider-Verse had 97 % Tomatometer too, but a higher Critics Average Score of 8.8/10 (BP: 8.2/10) and much higher audience score of 94% (BP only 79%). No to speak of Spider-Verse winning Golden Globes...and it not having the boosting Disney & Diversity Bonus.

May I assume that the latter factors were the deciding ones. Based on facts the clear winner 2018 is Spider-Verse.

Sorry I got bored. TL;DR = Rotten Tomatoes should publish their formula for ranking movies with different amounts of critical reviews.  I would change the order of best reviewed of 2018 and change top 5 of 67 superhero movies list.  

I didn't know they've been doing the Golden Tomato for 20 years now. That's what we need more circle jerks to make everyone argue. Taking a look at the stats Into the Spider-verse seems to be the anomaly.

Here is the top 5 of 2018:

1: Black Panther:
CRITICS SCORE
97% at 8.2/10 From 444, 430 good/14 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
79% at 4.1/5 from 84,175 ratings.

2: Mission Impossible Fallout:
CRITICS SCORE
97% at 8.3/10 From 376, 365 good/11 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
88% at 4.3/5 from 13,472

3: Blackkklansman:
CRITICS SCORE
95% at 8.3/10 From 369, 352 good/17 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
82% at 4/5 from 7,105


4: Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse:
CRITICS SCORE
97% at 8.8/10 From 324, 314 good/10 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
94% at 4.6/5 from 9,886


5: A Star is Born
CRITICS SCORE
90% at 8.1/10 From 443, 398good/45 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
81% at 4.1/5 from 15,304


If you are going to try and adjust the ratings based off the amount of critical reviews for each movie then they need to show how they did it. The only thing we get on the Golden Tomato page is this:



It's not very transparent is it? It's the same formula they use to come up with the Top 67 Super Hero Movies of all time. And we all know what a cluster fuck that is. By all rights Logan should be higher rated than Wonder Woman on that list. It may be just me, but I feel the Rating should be weighted more than the percentage. It very well might be that way, but we have no way of knowing. Also the Incredibles 2 should be higher ranked than Wonder Woman imho based off the stats.

1: Black Panther:
CRITICS SCORE
97% at 8.2/10 From 444, 430 good/14 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
79% at 4.1/5 from 84,175 ratings.

2: Wonder Woman:
CRITICS SCORE
93% at 7.6/10 From 410, 381 good/29 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
88% at 4.3/5 from 125,839 ratings.

3: Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse:
CRITICS SCORE
97% at 8.8/10 From 324, 314 good/10 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
94% at 4.6/5 from 9,886

4:The Incredibles 2:
CRITICS SCORE
94% at 7.8/10 From 331, 310 good/21 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
86% at 4.2/5 from 16,103 

5:Logan:
CRITICS SCORE
93% at 7.9/10 From 371, 345 good/26 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
90% at 4.3/5 from 90,900 ratings.

Now to the crux of the problem. Just looking at the raw data it seems that Into the Spiderverse should be the number 1 rated movie of 2018 and the number 1 on the list of 67 superhero movies.  I think the problem we run into is that Into the Spider-verse has fewer reviews compared to all the movies I've put the data up. (The Top 5 of 2018 and Top 5 Superhero movies) Something with Rotten Tomatoes' formula puts a strong emphasis on total number of reviews. That's my best guess, I shouldn't have to guess, but RT has to keep something proprietary it seems. We know that the 2018 best reviewed list is locked in. Looking at the total number of reviews for other animated films, there is only a very small chance for more reviews to come in for Spider-man. I pulled the top 10 Animated films of a list of 100 from RT. I did this to grab the number of reviews for each movie: Into the Spider-verse 324, Inside Out 347, Coco 308, Paddington 2 216, Incredibles 2 331, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 47, Toy Story 2 163, Zootopia 268, Up 290,Toy Story 3 299, and Finding Nemo 262 It's pretty safe to say that Into the Spider-verse is stuck in it's current position on the Superhero Movies list. That list will stay the same until we add Captain Marvel, Shazaam, End Game, Hellboy, etc,

After comparing the stats, I think the RT ranking for top 5 Superhero Films should be:

1: Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse:
CRITICS SCORE
97% at 8.8/10 From 324, 314 good/10 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
94% at 4.6/5 from 9,886

2: Black Panther:
CRITICS SCORE
97% at 8.2/10 From 444, 430 good/14 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
79% at 4.1/5 from 84,175 ratings.

3:Logan:
CRITICS SCORE
93% at 7.9/10 From 371, 345 good/26 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
90% at 4.3/5 from 90,900 ratings.

4:The Incredibles 2:
CRITICS SCORE
94% at 7.8/10 From 331, 310 good/21 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
86% at 4.2/5 from 16,103

5: Wonder Woman:
CRITICS SCORE
93% at 7.6/10 From 410, 381 good/29 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
88% at 4.3/5 from 125,839 ratings.


After looking at the stats the top 5 rated movies of 2018 should be:


1: Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse:
CRITICS SCORE
97% at 8.8/10 From 324, 314 good/10 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
94% at 4.6/5 from 9,886

2: Mission Impossible Fallout:
CRITICS SCORE
97% at 8.3/10 From 376, 365 good/11 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
88% at 4.3/5 from 13,472

3: Black Panther:
CRITICS SCORE
97% at 8.2/10 From 444, 430 good/14 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
79% at 4.1/5 from 84,175 ratings.

4: Blackkklansman:
CRITICS SCORE
95% at 8.3/10 From 369, 352 good/17 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
82% at 4/5 from 7,105

5: A Star is Born
CRITICS SCORE
90% at 8.1/10 From 443, 398good/45 bad
AUDIENCE SCORE
81% at 4.1/5 from 15,304

I doubt anybody will read this or make it to this point. If you did then I'm sorry I got Bored.

I think they basically only took the (only binary) Tomatometer (without average reviews meter etc) and put that through a Bayasian method (statistical) filter, and based on sheer review numbers BP was best reviewed -which would explain it.

It's a very selective criteria, but at least that would make sense. 

I studied to become a teacher many years ago. At the last moment I went from Educational Social Studies degree to a pure History Degree. I switched with 1 semester to go. By that time I had taken all my education courses. I got cold feet as my Student Teacher assignment got nearer. So after my 1st semester senior year(fall semester), but before Student Teaching (spring semester) I switched to History. I had all the History courses taken for my Major. All the Education, Sociology, Economics, and Psychology Courses I took counted as my electives and Liberal Arts Structure. Also all my art classes went toward my Art Minor. In the end I just had to take 5 classes that second semester to graduate on time. One of those was the Senior Thesis Class. Where we had to pick a thesis and research it all semester. Part of the grade was what we discussed in class about our evidence. The other part was the actual Thesis. You really didn't have to worry about normal stuff that goes along with large research paper. By the time you turned it in. The whole class has poured over your paper over and over again. After 3 months you got so tired of your paper and everyone elses paper it was pathetic. Basically, you were researching it, doing many presentations each day. The rest of the class was your sounding board and proofreaders.



This is why Rotten Tomatoes not presenting the way they scored bothers me so much. Any time in the Education, Psychology, Economics, and Sociology courses we came up with a metric, rubric, system of scoring we had to show our work. The reasoning behind the metric/rubric was just as important as the results. When switching over to pure history the process was even more important. You had to constantly site your sources and keep yourself from subconsciously plagiarizing while paraphrasing. I hope I never have to see another APA footnote or MLA Annotative Bibliography again in my life.



So that's why it erks me so that they don't explain their scoring system. I am half convinced they do it to keep some proprietary hold on the ranking. It just seems shady without that explanation. The Original IMDB was that way with it's top 250. You know they are weighting the variables in someway but not 100% sure how.