Abstract
This article reports the results of an analysis of patterns of “agreements” and “disagreements” among 45 professional critics' ratings of over 1300 films. These ratings—awarded along a scale from 0 to 5 stars—were examined, first, to determine whether increases in the sheer number of critics rating a film was associated with its average rating; second, to determine whether the number of ratings was more or less related to levels of agreement among critics' ratings; and third, to determine whether certain types of films (genres) were more likely to produce ratings agreement than others. Chi-square tests supported the contention that film genres were not distributed proportionally in subsets of films with very high and very low levels of ratings agreement, ranging, for example, from most agreement for horror films, to least, for dramas.
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