'Lady Bird' Is Now The Best Reviewed Movie In Rotten Tomatoes History
Huffington Post- “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age film about a teen with a penchant for Dave Matthews Band, puffing on fiberglass and throwing herself out of the occasional moving car has broken a Rotten Tomatoes record.
According to the film review aggregation site, the story of Christine McPherson’s (Saoirse Ronan) senior year of Catholic high school has a 100 percent score after 170 positive reviews — “and counting,” the site notes. The high rating maintained over the number of reviews make “Lady Bird” the best-reviewed movie of all time on the site.
The previous record holder was 1999?s “Toy Story 2,” which held a 100 percent score after 163 reviews.
I haven’t seen Lady Bird yet. From what I’ve read about it, I’m gonna absolutely love it. Definitely sounds like an awesome movie. When I saw the Rotten Tomatoes hotstreak it was on, however, I instantly thought of my man Armond White. I needed Armond to rain on this movie’s parade.
If you don’t know who Armond White is, or just need your memory refreshed, he’s a contrarian movie critic who lives to piss people off. He knows what he’s doing 100%, too, with this smug look on his face.
I first discovered him when he ruined the 100% Fresh Rotten Tomatoes rating of ‘Get Out’, and I wrote this blog that Allison Williams posted on her insta (sup):
I took a look back at his track record, and was enthralling. He hated Moonlight, La La Land, Manchester By The Sea, and just about everything else ever nominated for Best Picture. Grown Ups, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, though? Cinematic masterpieces. He LOVES the First Amendment, too.
I couldn’t wait for Armond’s hitpiece on Lady Bird to show up, and went to his critic page to see if I could set up some kind of push notification system when I saw this…
What the fuck, Armond?! That’s not what we do here. Good movies are bad and bad movies are good. Calling good movies good is just gonna get you lost in the shuffle, and if you don’t like that, it’s called criticism. Get used 2 it. Thanks 4 reading.
