Find Movie Reviews At Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes ( http://www.rottentomatoes.com/) is a search engine for movie reviews. There are about a gabillion reviews here for about a gabillion movies, and its navigation makes it easy to use.

Start with the front page. You'll find capsule information for recent movies -- top movies, top rentals, new video/dvd, etc. Most film names are preceded by an icon -- a tomato icon means the movie's been getting mostly good reviews, while a splat icon means it's been getting mostly bad reviews. (The splats seem to be prevalent.)

Click on a movie and you'll get a summary page about it. Production information (plot synopsis, cast, director, etc.) is on the left side of the screen. The rest of the screen is mostly concerned with posting snippets of reviews along with the splat/tomato icons and a "tomatometer" that provides the good/bad review percentage. Click on a review excerpt and you'll get taken to a frame page that provides access to dozens of movie reviews (the movies I looked at had several dozen reviews each.)

Okay, back to the site's front page. Click on the movies tab at the top of the screen and you'll get a page with recent movie information and a search engine for movies, allowing you to choose them by genre, tomatometer (90% and above, 80% and above, etc) and rating. If you want a more advanced search, visit the search page at http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/ and you can also include keyword search and narrow your search by decade. Reviews go very far back but don't necessarily have reviews; Marie Dressler's silent film "Tillie Wakes Up" is listed but has no reviews. On the other hand, 1922's Nosferatu has six reviews.

There's a separate section of this site devoted to videos/DVDs and a very active message board. Excellently designed site, plenty here for the movie buff. Worth a look.

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