explanation of why this happens:
its not that critics are vastly different in opinion to the average person, its that the numbers there are calculated differently.
A "tomatometer" score of 90% doesnt mean the average critic score was 9/10
it means that 90% of critics scored the movie "positively". that could mean 9 critics scored a move 6/10 and one scored it 4/10 or it could mean that 9 critics scored it 10/10 and one scored it 4/10, either way both would be labeled as a tomatometer score of 90%.
This means an absolutely "meh" movie that got super average reviews that were generally "it was already, 6/10" would be scored better on critical review than a movie that had a handful of critics that hated it scoring like 1 or 2 out of 10 while the rest gave glowing massive recommendations of 10/10.
4 1/10 scores, a 4/10 score, and 5 10/10 scores will be scored as a 50% critic rating
but 6 6/10s and 4 4/10s scores as a 60%.
its not that critics are vastly different in opinion to the average person, its that the numbers there are calculated differently.
A "tomatometer" score of 90% doesnt mean the average critic score was 9/10
it means that 90% of critics scored the movie "positively". that could mean 9 critics scored a move 6/10 and one scored it 4/10 or it could mean that 9 critics scored it 10/10 and one scored it 4/10, either way both would be labeled as a tomatometer score of 90%.
This means an absolutely "meh" movie that got super average reviews that were generally "it was already, 6/10" would be scored better on critical review than a movie that had a handful of critics that hated it scoring like 1 or 2 out of 10 while the rest gave glowing massive recommendations of 10/10.
4 1/10 scores, a 4/10 score, and 5 10/10 scores will be scored as a 50% critic rating
but 6 6/10s and 4 4/10s scores as a 60%.