A Fresh Take On Rotten Tomatoes

A Fresh Take On Rotten Tomatoes

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Critics agree this summer’s movies sucked. Hollywood has blamed poor sales on the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes. Can online movie reviews actually hurt the box office, or should the industry just focus on making better movies? Our guests are Daniel Loria, executive director and chief strategist at the trade publication Box Office Media, Brooks Barnes, who covers Hollywood and the film industry for the New York Times and Ann Hornaday, movie critic for The Washington Post.