Right, you see that a lot with animated films, it seems: they're almost all pretty good, so they get a lot of positive reviews, but not a lot of outright glowing ones. But again, this is fine as long as you're not asking the number (and to be clear, I'm talking about the number, not the fresh/rotten dichotomy) to do more than rule out whether or not it's terrible.
I think it's a useful number if you don't ask it to do too much, basically, particularly if you apply a little common sense to the rating of any film with any ambition. It's not good for any one specific film, particularly anything off the beaten path, but for culling the massive number of options into something more manageable for closer inspection, I still find it fairly useful.
I think it's a useful number if you don't ask it to do too much, basically, particularly if you apply a little common sense to the rating of any film with any ambition. It's not good for any one specific film, particularly anything off the beaten path, but for culling the massive number of options into something more manageable for closer inspection, I still find it fairly useful.