American review aggregator for film and television From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Type of site | Film and television review aggregator and user community |
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Country of origin | United States |
Owner |
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Founder(s) | Senh Duong |
Key people | Senh Duong Patrick Y. Lee Stephen Wang |
URL | www |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | August 12, 1998 |
OCLC number | 48768329 |
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As of 2021, the website's editor-in-chief is Joel Meares.[5]
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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