Oscars best film, according to Rotten Tomatoes

A film can live or die based on its critical acclaim and reviews. Online casino guide Japan-101, looked at the films that are up for best picture at the 2023 Oscars and combined these with Rotten Tomatoes rating to reveal the best rated.  

• Top Gun: Maverick has the highest overall rating on Rotten Tomatoes at 97.5% 
• Triangle of Sadness has the lowest audience rating of 70% 
• Three of the ten films have an overall rating above 90% 

Oscar Best Picture Nominees (2023)	Critics’ Rating	Audience Rating	Average
Top Gun: Maverick	96	99	97.5
Everything Everywhere All at Once	95	88	91.5
All Quiet on the Western Front	91	90	90.5
The Fabelmans	92	83	87.5
The Banshees of Inisherin	96	75	85.5
Elvis	77	94	85.5
Women Talking	91	80	85.5
Avatar: The Way of Water	76	92	84
Tár	91	73	82
Triangle of Sadness	72	70	71
2022 Winner: CODA	94	91	92.5

At the top is Top Gun: Maverick. The Top Gun sequel film, centred around Cruise’s naval aviator character originated in 1986, aired to much anticipation and appeared to have managed not to let fans down due to its audience rating of 99% – the highest of all the films. 

Everything Everywhere All at Once comes in second flying behind Top Gun: Maverick. A film about a Chinese immigrant trying to save the multiverse as different versions of herself garnered an impressive 95% from critics and 88% from audiences, resulting in an overall 91.5%. 

Coming in third in the list of Oscars nominees is All Quiet on the Western Front. The only film to be released on Netflix, is about a group of friends from Germany who enlist to serve in the First World War, came very slightly behind Everything Everywhere All at Once with 90.5%. 

The audience rating and the critics’ rating are the closest together of all the films at 91% and 90% respectively.

Rounding out the top four is The Fabelmans. Based on Steven Spielberg’s childhood, the film has a critics’ rating of 92% but an audience rating of just 83%, causing the overall rating to be 87.5%.

With the largest gap between the two ratings, The Banshees of Inisherin came fifth with an overall Rotten Tomatoes rating. Starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as friends with a complex relationship in a remote island off the coast of the west of Ireland, this film has an overall rating of 85.5%, made up of the 96% from critics and 75% from the audience.

Next up is Elvis. Matching The Banshees of Inisherin’s overall 85.5%, Elvis seems to have been more favorable with the audience than the critics. It has an audience rating of 94% while the critics’ rating was just 77%.

Following Elvis is Women Talking, featuring Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Frances McDormand, it’s about women living in a devout commune attempting to bring their abusers to justice.

Just like Elvis and The Banshees of Inisherin, Women Talking has an overall Rotten Tomatoes rating of 85.5% due to its 91% critics’ rating and 80% audience rating.

Avatar: The Way of Water, another sequel to feature this year coming 13 years after its 2009 origin film, just missed out on coming bottom thanks to its 92% audience rating, which lifted its 76% critics’ rating, the lowest of all the films, to 84% overall.

Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as an orchestral conductor, just missed out on coming bottom with 91% and 73% as its critics’ and audience rating, bringing its overall to 82%. 

Finally, Triangle of Sadness struggled to make it up to 80% with an overall rating of 71.  

The film, about expectations of the super-rich and what ensues when a trip goes horribly wrong, got 70% amongst viewers and managed just 72% from critics.

Last year’s winner, CODA, a film about a hard of hearing family trying to survive in a hearing world, had 92.5% overall. If it’s any sort of indication of winners, it suggests Everything Everywhere All at Once would be this year’s winner with just 1% separating them.

If it’s the audience’s choice though, All Quiet on the Western Front and Avatar: Way of Water are in equal contention, with 90% and 92%, respectively, in comparison to last year’s winner CODA having 91%. 

A spokesperson for Japan-101 said: “It’s interesting how much the ratings vary from film to film. Often audience might look at a rating to determine if they’ll watch a film – the higher a rating, the more successful it’s likely to be.

“All the films average quite highly, though a 26.5% gap between Triangle of Sadness and Top Gun: Maverick is quite significant.

“Based on last year’s winner though, neither are in contention as the data indicates that Everything All at Once and All Quiet All at Once are most likely to win.

“If the audience’s chose the best and worst films it’s clear things would be very different to the critics’ choices.”  

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