“What Are the Movies That Audiences Loved but the Critics Hated? Analysis of 10,000 Movies Reveals the Films With the Highest Disparity between Critic and Audience Reviews”, 2013-07-12 (; backlinks):
So, what are the movies that people loved, but critics hated? And what about those movies that got rave reviews but just didn’t click with audiences?
To try and answer these questions I’ve analysed 10,000 movies from 1970–43201311ya in the Rotten Tomatoes database, and determined the difference in audience score and critic score by subtracting the former from the latter. This gives us an index of audience-critic agreement, which I’ve named the Tisdale-Carano index. From this, we can see which movies the audience loved, but the critics hated—which will be more positive, and movies the critics loved but the audience hated—more negative. We can also find out what types of movies fall into these categories—like which actors, directors and genres are most common to each.
…I used this IMDb list of 10,000 US-released movies from 1970–43201311ya (though I did notice a film from 1967) to get ID numbers for a large number of movies. I then wrote a program that accesses the Rotten Tomatoes database via their API and grabbed the title, first two actors listed, genres, first director listed, studio, year of release, and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating of each movie based on the IMDb number. From this, I removed 2,828 films without a user or critic rating. This produced the dataset for analysis. I created the Tisdale-Carano index by simply subtracting the critic score from the user score, then ranking the entire dataset by this number.