I also rather trust the algorithm to see what is a good movie and what is not. In my case the collected ratings of the experts, not the users. Current example: http://cannes-rurban.rhcloud.com/Sundance2015 There are some outliers, typical "festival hits", which only relate to festival specialists, but they are easily detectable, with a "10%" human bullshit detector. Like last years Godard at Cannes, 2012 Leos Carax,…
Rotten Tomatoes' rating, mentioned in the article as scoring THE BRONZE as 10% (though the RT now says 18%), is also a collection of professional reviewers' ratings.
Exactly. Almost everybody agrees that The Bronze is shit, you can trust the collected experts in big numbers. But you also need the standard deviation to filter "special audience" flicks, like festival masturbation, horror or erotic movies, which are targeted to a very narrow audience.