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Critics are increasingly out of touch with moviegoers, as films are categorized as “crowd pleasers” and “critics favorites,” according to a new analysis.
So movies that critics liked, like 2019’s AdAstra starring Brad Pitt as an astronaut, aren’t always fan favorites. While Venom, which fans loved, was criticized by critics.
Stephen Follows, a film statistician and film producer, published the study on his website.
Stephen Follows, a film statistician and film producer, published a study on his website that looked at 10,499 films released between 2000 and 2019 in an investigation of the differences in how fans and critics perceive them.
Follows compared each movie’s IMDB score, an average of the fan ratings, with those of the critical score aggregator Metacritic.
“We can see that there is a very rough trend that the public and critics generally agree on. That being said, many movies show deviations from the trend line, ‘wrote Follows on his website.
He noted that the worse the criticism of a movie by critics, the more deviation can be seen from the fan ratings.
La La Land, a critical favorite, received a Metascore of 94 from critics, though it only earned 8/10 stars from IMDB fans.
scored a low Metascore of 35 while earning 6.7 / 10 fan stars on IMDB
‘It’s interesting to see the agreement in the’ good ‘quadrant. The two groups seem to be more in agreement when talking about extremely good movies, ” Follows wrote.
DailyMail.com has contacted Follows for more information and additional comments on their analysis.
Follows noted that movies loved by fans, called ‘crowd pleaser’, were often hated by critics. Movies that adored critics, “dear critics,” were often looked down upon by fans.
The Times of London noted that a critical favorite, Ad Astra, received a fan rating of just 6.5 / 10 and was rated ‘alarmingly bad’ by users on IMDB, while it received a Metascore of 80/100.
The film stars Brad Pitt as astronaut Roy McBride who sets out on a mission through the solar system to discover the truth about his missing father. New York critic Richard Brody hailed it as “an instant classic of intimate cinema.”
Other critical favorites include La La Land and Gravity, the Times of London reported.
The 2016 film La La Land received a Metascore of 94, though it garnered only 8/10 stars from IMDB fans. Meanwhile, 2013’s Gravity received a Metascore of 96 and seven Oscars, with just 7.7 stars from fans.
Crowd-pleasing Sweet November earned a 6.7 / 10-star rating on IMDB, but has a Metascore of just 27
Audience fan Snatch received 8.3 / 10 stars on IMDB with a Metascore of 55 from critics
The Dark Knight, which received a whopping 9/10 stars on IMDB, scored a low Metascore of 84
Some of the crowd-pleasers include Sweet November, The Dark Knight, Venom, and Snatch, according to the London Times.
In Venom, Tom Hardy stars a failed reporter who is linked to an alien entity in a movie based on the Marvel comics. The film’s sequel, Venom: Let There Be Change, is scheduled for a September release.
It received a low Metascore of 35 and earned 6.7 / 10 stars from fans on IMDB.
Christopher Nolan’s Batman sequel The Dark Knight, starring Heath Ledger as the Joker, received a whopping 9/10 stars on IMDB with a Metascore of just 84.
Sweet November, the 2001 film starring Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron, earned a 6.7 / 10 star rating on IMDB, but has a Metascore of just 27.
The Follows study concluded that there has been a strong correlation between audience ratings and film critics’ ratings in the past, but that “a desynchronization that has occurred quite consistently over the past two decades.”
The Butterfly Effect, another crowd pleaser, scored 7.6 / 10 stars on IMDB and a low Metascore of 30.
Beloved critic Gravity received a Metascore of 96 and seven Oscars, with just 7.7 stars from fans.
It found that among the factors that influence the discrepancies are the budget and genre of a film.
According to Follows: action, suspense and science fiction films could be called “complacent”, while westerns, historical films and documentaries are “critical favorites”.
“In summary, critics and audiences disagree more about low-budget movies, while a greater number of low-budget movies are released in theaters,” he determined.
While the Follows study reviewed the differences between the Metacritic and IMDB scores, previous articles have examined the discrepancies between the critics and audience scores on another site: Rotten Tomatoes.
Searching for the most divisive film of all time, RAVE Reviews determined that Knock Down The House, a documentary about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign for Congress in 2018, had the largest discrepancies between critics and audiences.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus Says: “A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Pivotal Election, Tear Down the House should be fascinating to viewers of all political persuasions.”
The 2019 film, which received a perfect 100% from critics, had received an audience score of just 18%, which has since dropped to 10% since that study was released.
