The gulf between critics and audience has never been wider just look at Melania's Rotten Tomatoes score

"If you've started to feel like you're living in an entirely different reality from most of the world, there's a good chance that it's because you've been looking at the Rotten Tomatoes page for the Melania Trump documentary. There you will find two diametrically opposed numbers. First is the official Rotten Tomatoes score the one aggregated across published reviews by professional critics which sits at a minuscule 11%."

"Even so, the disparity between the brutal reviews that Melania received (The most depressing experience I have ever had in the cinema Mark Kermode) and the glowing public reviews (Every red blooded American needs to see this movie to recognise the grace, sophistication and power of Flotius [sic] Jackie) is enough to give you whiplash. Who could be wrong here? Is it the liberal press, relishing an opportunity to land a hit on an unpopular president by trashing his wife's expensive vanity project?"

Rotten Tomatoes displays sharply divergent scores for the Melania Trump documentary: a critics' aggregate of 11% versus a verified-audience rating of 98%. The verified rating is limited to ticket buyers, while an all-audience section shows a more mixed reaction. The gap exemplifies a longstanding chasm between critical and popular opinion, with examples of award-winning small films versus big box-office successes. The disparity includes harsh professional reviews alongside glowing public endorsements and has prompted speculation about coordinated or fake audience reviews. The 87% difference constitutes the largest recorded gap between critical and popular scores.

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