Context

Movies' data is stored on several popular websites, but when it comes to critic reviews there is no better place than Rotten Tomatoes. This website allows to compare the ratings given by regular users (audience score) and the ratings given/reviews provided by critics (tomatometer) who are certified members of various writing guilds or film critic-associations.

Content

In the movies dataset each record represents a movie available on Rotten Tomatoes, with the URL used for the scraping, movie tile, description, genres, duration, director, actors, users' ratings, and critics' ratings. In the critics dataset each record represents a critic review published on Rotten Tomatoes, with the URL used for the scraping, critic name, review publication, date, score, and content.

Acknowledgements

Data has been scraped from the publicly available website https://www.rottentomatoes.com as of 2020-10-31. Since the data takes a few days to be scraped from the website, there is no full consistency between some fields of the movies and critics datasets such as "tomatometer_count", "tomatometer_top_critics_count", "tomatometer_fresh_critics_count", and "tomatometer_rotten_critics_count" of the movies dataset compared to all records included in the critics dataset, which has been scraped first.

Inspiration

To provide detailed information in regards to movies' critic reviews and the users' vs critics' ratings, and it can be combined with other movie datasets publicly available (FilmTV, etc.).