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11.05.2021 - 19:31 / variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRotten Tomatoes is continuing on its quest to grow into something substantially bigger than its Tomatometer movie and TV rating scores.On Tuesday, the website — owned by NBCUniversal’s Fandango — expands its entertainment footprint with the launch of The Rotten Tomatoes Channel, a new over-the-top streaming service that will initially debut on on The Roku Channel.
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The backstory: Orson Welles’ 1941 classic Citizen Kane was once the 100% rated champion of Rotten Tomatoes. However, some crank added a negative review from 80 years ago, lowering its score to 99% on the website.
review that ended Paddington’s month-long reign as the best-reviewed movie of all time, at least by the review aggregator’s metric. “Citizen Kane,” the film that many consider Orson Welles’s magnum opus, previously held the honor until an 80-year-old Chicago Tribune review claiming it “failed to impress” resurfaced in April.
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Citizen Kane was knocked off the top spot.After a negative review from The Chicago Tribune, published on May 7, 1941, resurfaced on the platform recently, Citizen Kane lost its 100 per cent score – with Paddington 2 now surpassing its score.Now, Rotten Tomatoes has collated a list dubbed “The 100% Club”, in which every film has exclusively ‘Fresh’ reviews rather than ‘Rotten’.Every film has at least 40 reviews, and ranges from Charlie Chaplin comedies to recent Oscar-nominated documentaries and
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weighted ranking, which also factors the number of reviews for each flick, still ranks “Citizen Kane” at No. 3 on the all-time list, behind “Black Panther” (2018) and “It Happened One Night” (1934) in the legitimate No.
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People will think "what I tell them to think," Charles Foster Kane famously declared in Citizen Kane. And for decades, many critics and film scholars thought Orson Welles' 1941 film was hands-down the Best Movie Ever Made.
Paddington 2 has become the highest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes after Citizen Kane slipped from its 100 per cent rating.The Orson Welles classic, which is widely heralded as one of the greatest films of all time, lost its perfect score after review from 80 years ago was added to the site.The 1941 film now has a 99 per cent rating on the review aggregator, which means that Paddington 2 has surpassed its score.The beloved live action sequel debuted in 2017 to huge acclaim, and soon amassed a 100