The Tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans. It represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show.
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Fresh
The Tomatometer is 60% or higher.
Rotten
The Tomatometer is below 60%.
Certified Fresh
Movies and TV shows are Certified Fresh with a steady Tomatometer of 75% or
higher after a set amount of reviews (80 for wide-release movies, 40 for
limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows), including 5 reviews from Top Critics.
Audience Score
Percentage of users who rate a movie or TV show positively.
In 1963, Penelope Houston penned The Contemporary Cinema, one of the seminal books on cinema of the late '50s through the early '60s. Between 1956 and 1990, Houston was the editor of Sight and Sound, the renowned journal of the British Film Institute.