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audience scores vs critic scores

Audience Score vs Critic Score

Note about Rotten Tomatoes data

Rotten tomatoes doesn't publish data archives and is stingy with their api keys. The data used here is from kaggle (temporarily mirrored here). It contains some guy's output from scraping rotten tomatoes 5 months ago and has 16,636 movies.

Results

Popular (n≥50) movies with higher audience scores

Title	Critic score	Critic reviews	Audience score	Audience reviews
Stonewall (2015)	10	73	85	3185
Grind (2003)	8	74	79	52887
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)	16	114	87	89152
Grandma's Boy (2006)	16	63	85	226207
Madea Goes to Jail (2009)	27	51	96	44752
Madea's Family Reunion (2006)	25	57	94	40200
House of D (2004)	10	102	73	9692
Step Up (2006)	20	105	83	615661
The Life of David Gale (2003)	19	157	81	60889
Shaft (2019)	32	119	94	7725
Sweet November (2001)	15	98	76	94618
Because I Said So (2007)	4	157	65	507111
Peppermint (2018)	12	141	72	3023
Beyond Borders (2003)	14	103	72	32084
The Covenant (2006)	4	73	62	399893
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)	11	55	69	362797
The Wash (2001)	8	50	65	10789
Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)	12	51	69	16971
Crossover (2006)	2	64	59	102531
Jigsaw (2017)	33	87	90	29249
Meet The Browns (2008)	33	58	90	29769
Stomp the Yard (2007)	25	89	82	467981
Supercross (2005)	5	74	62	47223
The Darkest Minds (2018)	16	134	73	2656
Bad Boys II (2003)	22	181	78	501580
Bright (2017)	28	109	84	19145
Gods and Generals (2003)	8	121	64	9350
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002)	13	55	69	79041
Raise Your Voice (2004)	15	85	71	383399
The Dirt (2019)	39	70	95	6493

Popular (n≥50) movies with higher critic scores

Title	Critic score	Critic reviews	Audience score	Audience reviews
Knock Down the House (2019)	100	86	17	2686
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)	97	66	38	188
Let the Sunshine In (Un beau soleil intérieur) (2018)	86	138	30	589
The Souvenir (2019)	90	157	34	397
XX (2017)	70	60	19	2475
Results (2015)	84	95	36	3568
Willow Creek (2014)	81	57	33	7777
Gloria Bell (2019)	91	192	44	516
Spy Kids (2001)	93	127	46	427343
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)	91	454	44	212350
The Forbidden Room (2015)	96	67	49	2403
Little Woods (2019)	96	92	51	169
Madeline's Madeline (2018)	88	116	43	336
Night Moves (2014)	86	148	41	12214
Starfish (2019)	91	57	46	99
A Quiet Passion (2017)	92	169	48	4606
Big Game (2015)	78	88	34	8953
The Mercy (2018)	74	81	30	332
It Comes At Night (2017)	87	242	44	19690
The Fits (2016)	97	106	54	2274
Hail, Caesar! (2016)	86	349	44	40649
The Last Winter (2007)	76	50	34	5314
The Loneliest Planet (2012)	73	64	31	5310
Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language) (2014)	88	78	47	3622
Antz (1998)	93	92	52	651914
Certain Women (2016)	91	185	50	5431
High Life (2019)	83	208	42	725
Hold the Dark (2018)	72	81	31	1133
In Fear (2014)	82	57	41	8733
Mr. Turner (2014)	97	191	56	16280

All movies with higher audience scores

Title	Critic score	Critic reviews	Audience score	Audience reviews
96 Souls (2017)	0	6	95	140
Hating Breitbart (2012)	0	9	92	803
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? (2016)	0	11	92	379
The After Party (2018)	0	5	89	386
Home (2011)	0	5	86	1884
Fall (1997)	0	7	84	1115
Sparkle (1976)	10	10	91	4578
A Violent Separation (2019)	10	10	90	30
All Relative (2014)	10	10	90	865
Mysteries Of The Jesus Prayer (2011)	20	5	100	20
In God's Hands (1998)	0	6	79	2628
Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)	0	7	79	6007
The Music of Silence (2018)	0	16	79	109
Cover (2007)	0	12	78	1552
America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)	8	24	84	11806
Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)	4	28	80	13761
Out Cold (2001)	8	49	84	47221
Playback (2012)	0	6	76	2062
Belly (1998)	13	16	88	34253
Stonewall (2015)	10	73	85	3185
An Acceptable Loss (2019)	13	31	87	77
Live At The Foxes Den (2013)	0	5	74	94
Modigliani (2004)	4	24	78	4758
State Property (2002)	0	12	74	6504
Breaking & Exiting (2018)	0	6	73	107
Facing the Giants (2006)	13	24	85	88206
Shottas (2006)	19	16	91	10262
The Brooklyn Banker (2016)	20	5	92	92
Grind (2003)	8	74	79	52887
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)	16	114	87	89152

All movies with higher critic scores

Title	Critic score	Critic reviews	Audience score	Audience reviews
Outside the Law (2001)	86	7	0	87
Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray (2017)	100	6	17	31
Knock Down the House (2019)	100	86	17	2686
Vengeance Valley (1951)	100	5	20	912
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)	100	46	22	1477
Traffic Stop (2018)	100	8	23	49
Daisy Miller (1974)	100	7	24	163
Amy Schumer Growing (2019)	79	14	4	71
Angel Rodriguez (2006)	83	6	11	115
Hangman (2016)	100	6	29	124
Something to Sing About (1937)	100	5	31	102
Stations of the Elevated (2014)	100	8	33	124
Alien Raiders (2009)	100	6	34	2184
Lyle (2015)	100	8	34	160
My Life's In Turnaround (1994)	86	7	20	22
Salvage (2009)	86	7	20	462
The Final Wish (2019)	89	9	23	265
Chris Rock: Tamborine (2018)	100	23	35	260
Experiment Perilous (1944)	100	6	35	188
Frankenstein (2016)	100	8	35	172
See You Yesterday (2019)	95	37	30	132
Estranged (2016)	100	6	36	110
Fred Won't Move Out (2012)	71	7	7	102
One Cut, One Life (2015)	100	11	36	192
Penance (2009)	80	5	16	304
Sex Addict (2008)	100	5	36	1266
Casting About (2007)	63	16	0	354
Sidekick (2005)	100	14	37	311
Bluebeard (1944)	100	12	38	798
Babylon (2019)	100	25	38	125