[alexilliamson]

I used to religiously research movies on RT - with a lot of success in my mind. With the user rating, the critic rating, and the "top" critic rating, you can infer a surprising amount about who is going to like any given film, and you learn over time where you fall on the critic/top critic/audience graph.

Recently, however, it seems like more (imo undeserving) movies that are "just ok" - like decent, but nothing special, romantic comedies and big blockbusters - are scoring above 90%. I might be being curmudgeonly about it, but I've nearly stopped checking it because it feels like there's no information there. My theory is that this started happening once Roger Ebert died... without such a leader in the field, no one is willing to say they didn't like a film unless it's obviously very bad.