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And of course the problem with combining the ratings is that not everybody is working from the same standards.
Some critics review every movie against Citizen Kane, while another will review it against the genre or against what it is trying to be (Ebert claims to do this, thus what some people consider overly generous reviews; Crank may not be a good movie on the full spectrum of all movies but it could be a well above average action movie).
So I find RT and Metacritic interesting (I find all statistics interesting) but not necessarily useful. It is of know use to me to know that the critic for the Podunk Advertiser-Gazette didn't like X without the context of knowing how he approaches movie criticism.
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