Rotten Tomatoes

American review aggregator for film and television

Rotten Tomatoes is a website dedicated to reviews, information, and news of movies and television series. The name derives from the vaudeville-era cliché of throwing tomatoes and other products at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad. The company has been owned by Flixster, a Warner Bros. company, since May 2011.

Rotten Tomatoes
Type of site
Film and television review aggregator and user community
Country of originUnited States
Owner
Founder(s)Senh Duong
Key peopleSenh Duong
Patrick Y. Lee
Stephen Wang
URLwww.rottentomatoes.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedAugust 12, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-08-12)
OCLC number48768329
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As of 2021, the website's editor-in-chief is Joel Meares.[5]

History

Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare time project by Senh Duong.[6] His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the US".[7]

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