Now You See Me, Louis Leterrier, Jessie Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Melanie Laurent, Marc Ruffalo, Zac Ephron, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson

Top 5: 2013 Movies I Liked That Rotten Tomatoes Didn’t

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I see a lot of movies.  I average 70 a year, but that can easily creep into the 85-90 range in busy years.  Mostly I see them to review them and because, heck, I like movies.  But knowing what to see in the theater and what to give a chance on rental or streaming is tricky business and that’s in large part the purpose of movie reviews.  For the last decade plus, my go-to guide to get a general idea of the quality of a film has been Rotten Tomatoes.  If you’ve never heard of it, www.rottentomatoes.com is a site that takes all the “qualified” reviewers that it has sanctioned from media outlets all over the world, averages their scores together and comes up with a “tomato-meter number”.  This is, essentially, the percentage of the  polled reviews which were positive.  So if a movie has a 88% RT rating, that means 88% of the reviews were positive.  It’s been a good guide, but this year, I don’t know what happened.  Perhaps they changed their metrics or started to  include more idiot bloggers (I mean what idiot would write a movie blog?), but the disparity between what I’ve liked and their ratings has been enormous on some films.  These five stand out because I have them pretty good reviews and their RT ratings are all below 60% (considered a bad review for RT).  I’ll spot them Man of Steel because there are many schools of thought on it and even I had to see it twice before I came to like it, but the other four?  Come ON!

1. Now You See Me – RT: 50%; Me: 9.5/10
Now You See Me, Louis Leterrier, Jessie Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Melanie Laurent, Marc Ruffalo, Zac Ephron, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson

2. Parkland – RT: 49%; Me: 8.75/10
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3. Man of Steel – RT: 56%; Me: 8.5/10

Man of Steel, Superman, DC, DC Comics, Henry Cavil

4. Oblivion – RT: 54%; Me: 7.5/10

Andrea Riseborough, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, Olga Kurylenko, Jack Harper, Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Melissa Leo, Joseph Kosinski, Tron Legacy, Olbivion, movie, movie review, review,

5. Dead Man Down – RT: 38%; Me: 7.0/10
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