The Solely Daniel Day-Lewis Film That Has A Excellent Rotten Tomatoes Rating

I am going to give ’em one factor: Rotten Tomatoes has been spectacular at branding. They’ve in some way satisfied most people that the Tomatometer rating must be the end-all, be-all reply of whether or not or not a movie is value watching (and we might have Roger Ebert responsible for that). In fact, an terrible lot of nuance is misplaced within the ceaselessly misunderstood creation of that rating — a lot that we have argued up to now that Rotten Tomatoes is a large contributor to the downfall of movie criticism. (And do not forget about the truth that some Rotten Tomatoes scores have been artificially manipulated.)

On this case, sure, “A Room With a View” does technically have the highest-rated rating of any Daniel Day-Lewis movie. However because the movie got here out in 1985, lengthy earlier than the invention of the web, that specific rating is aggregated from solely 35 critiques — most of which had been revealed within the 2000s as retrospectives wanting again on the film. That makes evaluating its Tomatometer quantity to extra trendy movies like “Phantom Thread” or “Lincoln” — which have a relatively big 358 critiques and 290 critiques, respectively — considerably extra sophisticated. With a a lot larger variety of critics weighing in on extra trendy entries in any filmography, there are of course extra alternatives for deviation from what Rotten Tomatoes considers to be “recent.”

After simply having rewatched Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” for the primary time since I noticed it in theaters, I was blown away yet again by the staggering, towering efficiency Day-Lewis provides in it. I believe a reputable case might be made that it is among the many greatest performances of all time — and the remainder of the movie round it’s fairly rattling nice, too. That film at the moment has a 91% recent ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, aggregated from 246 critiques. So is “A Room With a View,” with its 100% ranking from 35 critics, a “higher” movie than “There Will Be Blood”? No quantity of number-crunching will ever have the ability to definitively decide one thing that subjective — and I hope you will be a part of me in embracing the gray space the place all of the nuance lives.