Posted on 10/17/2021 9:42:29 AM PDT by bitt
Citing "unusual voting activity," the film reference site says it's applying "alternate weighting calculation" to friendly portrait of polarizing COVID czar "to preserve the reliability of our rating system."
ocumentary film tracking Dr. Anthony Fauci's medical career from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19, is creating controversy away from the big screen.
"Fauci," from NatGeo and Magnolia Pictures, hit select theaters Sept. 10 before getting a Disney+ release earlier this month. The documentary lets disparate figures like President George W. Bush, U2's Bono and Bill Gates praise the
Infectious disease specialist.
The studios failed to make the documentary's box office figures available to film industry sites or JustTheNews.com. The vast majority of studios, large and small, routinely share that data, as NatGeo and Magnolia have done on previous releases.
Movie fans then noticed RottenTomatoes.com, arguably the biggest review aggregator site on the web, didn't initially feature any "audience" reviews of the film.
Mainstream film critics saluted "Fauci," although most admitted the film served up a hagiography of the 80-year-old bureaucrat. Once audiences started weighing in on the film at Rotten Tomatoes, though, the results were withering. Professional critics gave "Fauci" a 92% "fresh" score, while audiences gave it just a 2% — or "rotten" — rating.
A similar pattern emerged at IMDB.com, a major film and TV reference destination. "Fauci's" audience rating, on a scale from 1-10, hovered around 1.8. This week, however, the site altered its review algorithm. Now, the audience review tally is a more robust 5.8.
A quick glimpse at the review breakdown, provided by the site, shows the overwhelming number of audience critics gave the film a one-star rating.
The site now features this explanation:
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Yup. When I REALLY need to know the facts I always turn to Bone-Oh. Gates, clintoon and boosh? Not so much. :-}
A movie with this title should be a box office smash!
I wonder how they decided to give him a mediocre 5.8 rather than just giving him a 10.0?
If they want to get a 10.0 they need to have the movie end with Fauci declared guilty of crimes against humanity in a Nuremberg 2.0 trial—and put in an arena with 100,000 screaming fans while a lion tears him to pieces.
Now _that_ would be entertainment!
Fauci is a “hero” to the Left because they think he helped to bring down Trump.
Maybe you are refering to IMDBPro? Basic IMDB is free and you can get ratings, trends, bio information on actors, reviews, etc.
Is Fauci even tall enough to look into the camera?
Everything that is in Pro used to be free.
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