[Robert DeLong]

The one & only critic is the box office, and always has been.

There have been numerous movies that were trashed by the critics that nonetheless became box office sensations.

[YogicCowboy]

My Rotten shorthand: If left number < right number, I consider seeing; if left number > right number, I usually avoid.

Left = film critics. Right = actual, functional human beings.

(It is a propos they made the communist propagandists the left number.)