The Parent Trap | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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What do the Rotten Tomatoes symbols mean? ›

Fresh red tomato. When at least 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, a red tomato is displayed to indicate its Fresh status. Green splat tomato. When less than 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, a green splat is displayed to indicate its Rotten status.

If the positive reviews make up 60% or more, the film is considered "fresh". If the positive reviews are less than 60%, the film is considered "rotten". An average score on a 0 to 10 scale is also calculated.

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, a film has a rating of 100% if each professional review recorded by the website is assessed as positive rather than negative.

Scores of over 60 percent are considered fresh, and scores of 59 percent and under are rotten.

Leave No Trace (2018)

It's not easy for recent movies to get a perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating, given the sizeable amount of reviews that are taken into account. That makes Leave No Trace's feat even more impressive. It's the movie with the most reviews featured (a total of 252) to get a 100% score.

If 60% of reviews are positive, the movie is given a “Fresh” status, but if positive reviews fall below that benchmark, it is deemed “Rotten.” A popular piece of media will typically fall between the 70-90% range, but rarely, a project will receive a 100% score. This means every last review from critics was positive.

The “Tomatometer Rankings” connects to the practice of viewers throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a poor stage performance; the higher the percentage a movie receives, the more “fresh” it is and, at least theoretically, better in the show business world.

The site has faced criticism over the rigid way it reduces reviews into positive or negative ratings, often missing the nuance in critiques. Even if a film or show receives a three-star score, normally implying that it had a mixed reception, Rotten Tomatoes classifies it as a good review.

What movie started Rotten Tomatoes? ›

The first movie reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors.

Popcorn symbol: On the other hand, if you come across a popcorn bucket icon, it signifies that the movie has received a positive audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Six films in total have grossed in excess of $2 billion worldwide, with Avatar ranked in the top position.

Final answer: The tomato symbol next to a movie title in DirecTV indicates that the movie has received positive reviews from critics. The popcorn symbol represents the movie's popularity among audiences.

They take every professional review that can find and count how many of them are positive. Then report that as a percentage. So 74% means that 74% of the reviews on this movie were positive. So Rotten Tomatoes can't be “wrong" because they aren't judging the quality of the movie.

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