“The disparity between critic and audience scores, as well as relentless accusations of bias by conservative readers, highlights the flaws in the [Rotten Tomatoes] system,” Carrick claims. “Mirroring the ‘wokeism’ that increasingly permeates the work of filmmakers, many critics artificially reward activism over quality. Consider that films will no longer be eligible for Academy Awards if they fail to meet race, ethnic, gender, and sexual orientation quotas,” he says.
Aside from evaluating films on an aesthetic level, Carrick explains whether its “woke quotient is distractingly high, tolerable, or not there at all,” with each movie receiving a rating of “Woke,” “Woke-ish,” and “Non-Woke.” You can probably figure out which ones he likes to recommend: from, almost every title to attain a “Worth It” recommendation to date has also been deemed “Non-Woke.