The raw data behind the story "Be Suspicious Of Online Movie Ratings, Especially Fandango's" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fandango-movies-ratings/. contains every film that has a Rotten Tomatoes rating, a RT User rating, a Metacritic score, a Metacritic User score, and IMDb score, and at least 30 fan reviews on Fandango.

fandango

Format

A data frame with 146 rows representing movies and 23 variables:

film

The film in question

year

Year of film

rottentomatoes

The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score for the film

rottentomatoes_user

The Rotten Tomatoes user score for the film

metacritic

The Metacritic critic score for the film

metacritic_user

The Metacritic user score for the film

imdb

The IMDb user score for the film

fandango_stars

The number of stars the film had on its Fandango movie page

fandango_ratingvalue

The Fandango ratingValue for the film, as pulled from the HTML of each page. This is the actual average score the movie obtained.

rt_norm

The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system

rt_user_norm

The Rotten Tomatoes user score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system

metacritic_norm

The Metacritic critic score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system

metacritic_user_nom

The Metacritic user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system

imdb_norm

The IMDb user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system

rt_norm_round

The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star

rt_user_norm_round

The Rotten Tomatoes user score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star

metacritic_norm_round

The Metacritic critic score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star

metacritic_user_norm_round

The Metacritic user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star

imdb_norm_round

The IMDb user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star

metacritic_user_vote_count

The number of user votes the film had on Metacritic

imdb_user_vote_count

The number of user votes the film had on IMDb

fandango_votes

The number of user votes the film had on Fandango

fandango_difference

The difference between the presented Fandango_Stars and the actual Fandango_Ratingvalue

Source

The data from Fandango was pulled on Aug. 24, 2015.