Examining the Critic-Audience Divide
Warner Bros.' latest additions to the superhero genre have had a tough time with the critics. In the previous five years their only film to have gained over 50% on Rotten Tomatoes' ' tomatometer ' (a score based on hundreds of critics' opinions) has been last year's Wonder Woman . Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Suicide Squad (2016) and most recently Justice League (2017) all received overwhelmingly negative critical responses. Yet, interestingly, each have overall positive Rotten Tomatoes audience scores . Justice League 's reaches 76%, for instance, compared to 40% on the tomatometer. Clearly opinions differ between critics and audiences (by a whopping 36% in this case). But why is this? Firstly, let's bear in mind that reviews are, by nature, based on subjective individual opinion. Impressions of 'good' or 'bad' stem from personal experience (which is unique for all of us) therefore labelling any ...
