White critics wrote 82 percent of the reviews and critics from underrepresented racial/ethnic backgrounds authored 18 percent. Of the 19,559 reviews evaluated, 22.2 percent were written by females, with 77.8 percent crafted by male critics 3.5 males to every 1 female reviewer. The report uses reviews of the 100 top grossing films of 2017 posted on the site Rotten Tomatoes to assess gender and race/ethnicity of critics, finding that reviewers are overwhelmingly white and male. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative to investigate inclusion among film reviewers, and examines access and opportunity for film critics. The report, titled ∼ritic’s Choice? is the first from Associate Professor of Communication Stacy L. But as audiences look to critical reviews to determine if these movies are worth the ticket price, what perspectives are available? A new study from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism reveals that the film reviewers are unlikely to be as diverse as the casts they are critiquing. Films like Crazy Rich Asians, The Spy Who Dumped Me, BlacKkKlansman and The Happytime Murders are poised to provide a much-needed dose of diversity to theaters this summer.

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