i didn't know this discussion was going on but the crux of the problem is that aggregators are not arbiters of critical consensus as per wp agg when rotten tomatoes says a movie has received positive reviews this is not a statistical fact its sample is not exhaustive not least because it is limited to english language reviews only and its criteria for assigning scores is set according to its own discretion i e they carry out a survey and provide their own interpretation of the data even drawing the conclusion that the movie has received generally positive reviews is putting spin on it because what we really mean is that rotten tomatoes regards of the reviews they sampled to be positive we as editors should not be extrapolating their results to the film's entire critical reception unless they explicitly do this themselves which they don't