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From 2011 to 2016, Time Warner owned Rotten Tomatoes outright through digital distribution service Flixster, which its Creator/WarnerBros Entertainment division acquired that year in an unrelated effort to improve movie-viewing options.[[note]]Very suspicious..., but no more so than when the classic movie review TV show, ''Series/SiskelAndEbert'', was distributed by Creator/{{Disney}}'s Buena Vista[[/note]] Fandango, a 30/70 joint venture between [=NBCUniversal=] and [=WarnerMedia=], now owns both RT and Flixster.

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From 2011 to 2016, Time Warner owned Rotten Tomatoes outright through digital distribution service Flixster, which its Creator/WarnerBros Entertainment division acquired that year in an unrelated effort to improve movie-viewing options.[[note]]Very suspicious..., but no more so than when the classic movie review TV show, ''Series/SiskelAndEbert'', was distributed by Creator/{{Disney}}'s Buena Vista[[/note]] Fandango, a 30/70 joint venture between [=NBCUniversal=] Creator/{{NBCUniversal}} and [=WarnerMedia=], Warner Bros. Discovery, now owns both RT and Flixster.
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An enormously popular and influential filmsite that links to movie reviews across North America. The RT site then flags the reviews as either skewing positive ('fresh') or negative ('rotten') and gives the film an overall percentile rating based on how many there are of each type. For example, a movie with nine positive ratings and one negative would receive a 90%. If the reviewer also has a grading system beyond the fresh/rotten scale, then the percentage is averaged into the 'Average Rating' grade cleverly hidden beneath the Tomatometer. Movies with a rating of 60% or over are officially dubbed 'Fresh' marked with a red tomato/dot, those below are consigned to the 'Rotten' pile with a green splat/dot.

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An Rotten Tomatoes is an enormously popular and influential filmsite site founded in 1998 that links to movie reviews across North America. The RT site then flags the reviews as either skewing positive ('fresh') or negative ('rotten') and gives the film an overall percentile rating based on how many there are of each type. For example, a movie with nine positive ratings and one negative would receive a 90%. If the reviewer also has a grading system beyond the fresh/rotten scale, then the percentage is averaged into the 'Average Rating' grade cleverly hidden beneath the Tomatometer. Movies with a rating of 60% or over are officially dubbed 'Fresh' marked with a red tomato/dot, those below are consigned to the 'Rotten' pile with a green splat/dot.
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The coveted "Certified Fresh" rating is only given to a movie which has a certain number of reviews[[note]]80 for wide-release movies, 40 for limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows[[/note]], five of which must be from "top critics", and have an overall rating of at least 75%. Once "Certified Fresh," a movie keeps that designation unless the rating later drops below 70%. Even rarer are the 100% and 0% ratings, which are given out to so few films that Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes dedicated]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes articles]] listing the comparatively minuscule percentage of movies that currently maintain these distinctions.

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The coveted "Certified Fresh" rating is only given to a movie which has a certain number of reviews[[note]]80 for wide-release movies, 40 for limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows[[/note]], five of which must be from "top critics", and have an overall rating of at least 75%. Once "Certified Fresh," a movie keeps that designation unless the rating later drops below 70%. Even rarer are the 100% and 0% ratings, which are given out to so few films that Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} Website/{{Wikipedia}} has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes dedicated]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes articles]] listing the comparatively minuscule percentage of movies that currently maintain these distinctions.
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The coveted "Certified Fresh" rating is only given to a movie which has a certain number of reviews[[note]]80 for wide-release movies, 40 for limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows[[/note]], five of which must be from "top critics," meaning well-known critics like Creator/RogerEbert, and have an overall rating of at least 75%. Once "Certified Fresh," a movie keeps that designation unless the rating later drops below 70%. Even rarer are the 100% and 0% ratings, which are given out to so few films that Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes dedicated]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes articles]] listing the comparatively minuscule percentage of movies that currently maintain these distinctions.

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The coveted "Certified Fresh" rating is only given to a movie which has a certain number of reviews[[note]]80 for wide-release movies, 40 for limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows[[/note]], five of which must be from "top critics," meaning well-known critics like Creator/RogerEbert, critics", and have an overall rating of at least 75%. Once "Certified Fresh," a movie keeps that designation unless the rating later drops below 70%. Even rarer are the 100% and 0% ratings, which are given out to so few films that Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes dedicated]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes articles]] listing the comparatively minuscule percentage of movies that currently maintain these distinctions.
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Can be found [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ here]]. Has been [[SpinOff spun off]] into a TV show on Current TV, simply titled ''Series/TheRottenTomatoesShow''.

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Can The website, which can be found [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ here]].here]], was first launched in August 1998: the first film featured on the website was ''Film/YourFriendsAndNeighbors''. Has been [[SpinOff spun off]] into a TV show on Current TV, simply titled ''Series/TheRottenTomatoesShow''.
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The coveted "Certified Fresh" rating is only given to a movie which has a certain number of reviews[[note]]80 for wide-release movies, 40 for limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows[[/note]], five of which must be from "top critics," meaning well-known critics like Creator/RogerEbert, and have an overall rating of at least 75%. Once "Certified Fresh," a movie keeps that designation unless the rating later drops below 70%. Even rarer are the [[HundredPercentAdorationRating 100%]] and [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating 0%]] ratings, which are given out to so few films that Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes dedicated]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes articles]] listing the comparatively minuscule percentage of movies that currently maintain these distinctions.

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The coveted "Certified Fresh" rating is only given to a movie which has a certain number of reviews[[note]]80 for wide-release movies, 40 for limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows[[/note]], five of which must be from "top critics," meaning well-known critics like Creator/RogerEbert, and have an overall rating of at least 75%. Once "Certified Fresh," a movie keeps that designation unless the rating later drops below 70%. Even rarer are the [[HundredPercentAdorationRating 100%]] 100% and [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating 0%]] 0% ratings, which are given out to so few films that Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes dedicated]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes articles]] listing the comparatively minuscule percentage of movies that currently maintain these distinctions.

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