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		hitekker on Jan 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The reviewer’s fallacy: when critics aren’t critic... Barely related: Rotten Tomatoes summaries feel like they've been paid for. Sure, if a movie is rotten, they'll trash it. But when a movie is barely fresh, they seem to accord it more praise than the critics gave themselves. I don't have a particular instance in mind so I'd be curious if anyone else has noticed this.

cf498 on Jan 22, 2018 [–]

I dont think its that straight forward, but there have been instances lately where they behaved rather calculated

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-rotten...

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