A New Aggregation Site Wants to Be the All-Female Rotten Tomatoes

There’s no question that Rotten Tomatoes has become a force to be reckoned with in the movie industry. The review aggregation site has become a powerful influencer on audience opinion — though it’s still up in the air whether it impacts box office at all. But there’s one problem: the top Rotten Tomatoes critics are […]

The ‘Heathers’ TV Show is a Rotten, Misguided Riff on the Original Movie

(This review was written before the Paramount Network made the decision to delay the premiere of Heathers until later this year. As the pilot episode is still available on the network’s site, we have made the decision to run the review.) Michael Lehmann’s 1988 high school masterpiece Heathers, with a laser-sharp script by Daniel Waters, […]

‘Paddington 2’ is the Best Reviewed Movie of All Time on Rotten Tomatoes (For Now)

Paddington 2, a film about a very polite bear who has to face-off against Hugh Grant in a bunch of wigs, is now the best reviewed movie of all time on Rotten Tomatoes. For now. This will change! But at this very moment in time, the film has held fast to its 100% rating. Let’s […]

‘Paddington 2’ is the Fourth Film to Score 100% on Rotten Tomatoes With Over 100 Reviews

The year has just begun, but one film has already netted the coveted “best reviewed film of the year” classification: Paddington 2. The film currently has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 196 positive reviews. This makes Paddington 2 the second family film in history, and the fourth film overall, to remain at 100% with over […]

The State of the Food Industry Is Rotten

If Netflix’s Chef’s Table is a delectable exercise in the art of haute cuisine food porn, Rotten, its newest docuseries, is more of an appetite suppressant. Over six episodes, the show tackles a variety of afflictions blighting the food industry, from a glut of diluted Chinese honey undercutting American beekeepers to mafiosi-like power grabs in […]

Subway’s ‘mystery meat’ and ‘mushy and rotten vegetables’ destroyed the ‘Eat Fresh’ advantage it spent years building

Joe Raedle/Getty Images Subway is facing declining sales and hundreds of store closures.  The chain — which long promoted an “eat fresh” philosophy — has failed to keep up with American consumers’ demands for local ingredients. Franchisees and workers said that locations can only get one or two shipments of produce a week, sometimes resulting […]

Why you need to see ‘Lady Bird’ — the best-reviewed movie of all time on Rotten Tomatoes

A24 Writer-director Greta Gerwig crafts an authentic high school movie with “Lady Bird.” The movie isn’t just becoming a box-office hit, but is the best-reviewed movie of all time on Rotten Tomatoes. A big reason for that is the performance by Saoirse Ronan, who delivers a role that is one of the best ever in […]

Daily Podcast: Star Wars, Wolverine, MoviePass, Netflix, Millennials, Lady Bird, Rotten Tomatoes

On the December 12, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film Senior writer Ben Pearson and /Film writers Chris Evangelista and Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest news, including Star Wars: The Last Jedi reviews and box office tracking, what the Disney-Fox deal might mean for Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Some […]

Rotten Apple 🍎

One of the most alarming security bugs to ever plague a major computer operating system is also one of the dumbest. First discovered by Turkish developer Lemi Orhan Ergin, the vulnerability lets anyone log into any computer running macOS High Sierra — the most recent Apple operating system released — just by typing “root” for […]