Simon Brew Nov 16, 2017

As Rotten Tomatoes holds back its Justice League score to launch a podcast, where does an aggregated score fit into film conversation now?

The level of influence that Rotten Tomatoes is exerting over modern day movies is up for (seemingly constant) debate, but the reverence that’s being paid to the scores the aggregator service spits out of its algorithms certainly seems to be growing. To the point now where Rotten Tomatoes will hold back one of the pieces of information for which people visit the site, to use to help launch its own services.

It’s the latest development in a year that’s seen the review aggregation site increasingly shift into the spotlight. Its audience profile has certainly risen, but against that, many filmmakers are increasingly dissatisfied by the way in which their work of often many years is distilled down to a number, that...