Is IMDb or Metacritic better?
It’s clearer that the IMDb’s distribution is extremely skewed toward the higher part of the average ratings, while the Metacritic’s METASCORE ratings have nearly balanced distribution. I recommend checking the Metacritic’s METASCORE whenever you are looking for an accurate movie rating. If the positive reviews are less than 60%, the film is considered rotten. Previously, an average score on a 0 to 10 scale was also calculated.The average Rotten Tomatoes user will see a 97 percent score as nearly a masterpiece. It has to be good,” they might say, or commercials will tell them, “It’s the best-reviewed movie of the year!On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films that every surveyed critic considered poor have a 0% rating. As of February 2026, only 44 films with either a critic’s consensus or more than 20 reviews have received this rating.Films with a Tomatometer score above 60% receive a fresh label; anything below this threshold is branded rotten.