The problem with Rotten Tomatoes scores is that people want to treat them as a measure of how good a film is...it&#x27;s a natural tendency considering it&#x27;s a score on a continuum. But what Rotten Tomatoes scores actually represent are a measure of what percentage of people a film will please enough to give a positive review. Just like the <i>The World&#x27;s Funniest Joke</i> [1] (which most people find &quot;meh, kinda funny&quot;), a movie can rate very highly on Rotten Tomatoes without rating very highly on anyone&#x27;s list of movies.<p>But most of the films we&#x27;ll enjoy are more polarizing. A smaller group of people will really like the film and a sizable group will dislike it. As such, Rotten Tomatoes is a really terrible way to choose a good movie and a really great way to avoid bad ones.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;World%27s_funniest_joke" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;World%27s_funniest_joke</a>