{"id":11643,"date":"2011-04-18T19:25:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T18:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11643"},"modified":"2013-04-01T18:08:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T17:08:54","slug":"2011-so-far-critics-metacritic-imdb-rotten-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/18\/2011-so-far-critics-metacritic-imdb-rotten-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: The Verdict So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Using data from three major movie websites we try to analyse how good the films have been during the first quarter of 2011.<\/p>\n

To begin with we entered every film listed on the Wikipedia entry for 2011 in film<\/a>, which means every film that has got a US release from January 1st to March 31st.<\/p>\n

Then we checked out what score each film got on the two major review sites Metacritic<\/a> and Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To balance out critical opinion with the views of the wider cinema-going audience we also added the IMDb<\/a> user rating and then combined all these scores to give each film a mark out of 100.<\/p>\n

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We had five bands which correspond to each score, marked Excellent (100-80),\u00a0Good (80-60),\u00a0Average (60-40),\u00a0Bad (40-20) and\u00a0Awful (20-0).<\/p>\n

So, after entering all this data into a spreadsheet we came up with an average score for each film and then arranged them in ascending order:<\/p>\n

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You can download a larger version of this graphic here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The general picture seems to be that average films rule the roost (47%) and that good ones (25%) just about outweigh the bad (20%), three films were deemed excellent (8%) and there were no awful films.<\/p>\n

A few points that struck me looking at the data:<\/p>\n