Rotten Tomatoes

American review aggregator for film and television

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Rotten Tomatoes is a website that collects reviews of movies and TV shows from critics and audiences, then combines them into overall scores to help people decide what to watch. It matters because these aggregated scores have become influential in shaping public opinion about entertainment and can significantly affect a film or show's commercial success.

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Official website: www.rottentomatoes.com

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Alexa rank: 405
inception: 1998-08-19
Commons category: Rotten Tomatoes (website)
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terms of service URL: www.fandango.com/terms-and-policies
social media followers: 396000

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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film Léolo.

Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Versant's (then NBCUniversal’s) Fandango ticketing company. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango.