the powers that be may have spiked the numbers but I’m only seeing
15%/22% on rotten green tomatoes
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_circle_2017/
Regretfully, I can’t find where the score came from. I thought I had seen a 93% red on Rotten Tomatoes. Perhaps that was a mistake.
I scanned the one star reviews on Amazon and Imdb and I couldn’t tell whether they were orchestrated or not. I have done a more systematic job on books in the climate area and the orchestration is clear, e.g., Michael Mann’s The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.
Are there any tools out there that allow you to determine whether reviews are essentially faked?
I could believe that the film is poorly executed—but has any rotten tomatoes score ever legitimately registered that low before? That looks indeed like a defensively-stuffed ballot box. Though again, that doesn’t mean the film is well done.