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  • Author(s): VAN ZUYLEN-WOOD, SIMON (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Wired. Feb2020, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p32-37. 6p. 1 Color Photograph.
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    • Subject Terms:
      FILM reviewing; FILM criticism
    • Abstract:
      Time film critic Stephanie Zacha- rek bemoans the site's inability to reckon with "an amazing performance in a terrible film." Understood as a shorthand for film quality, the Tomatometer, as Alison Willmore, a critic at New York, puts it, is actually a measurement of "consensus". film criticism as popularity contest. "I've noticed over the last year that Certified Fresh is more important for studios and filmmakers", he says, referring to the little badge movies get if the Tomatometer is 75 percent or higher for a minimum of 40 film reviews. The AMC movie chain - the largest in the country - displays the Tomatometer on its websites, but only next to movies that are Certified Fresh. [Extracted from the article]
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