[sfsylvester]

Causation vs Correlation.

My own belief is that the majority of those who rate films online tend to be of a younger demographic. As members of the Academy themselves get younger, it's not completely outside the realms of possibility that the two tastes become more aligned.

[jasonmp85]

Rotten Tomatoes is an aggregator of published reviews for a given film. While they do expose an "audience score", that's not what people are talking about when they say something has e.g. a 95 on Rotten Tomatoes. It's the percent of e.g. well-known newspaper, internet, and broadcast film critics who react positively to a given film.

[the_watcher]

Scores on Rotten Tomatoes are almost always referring to the "Top Critics" score, which aggregates reviews of actual film critics. It's not just Yelp for movies.