Rotterdam 2025: What The Audiences Liked Best
Three weeks ago, Rotterdam wrapped up its International Film Festival, and a few days after that they published the final results of their audience ratings, which is always a highlight for me. As the saying goes, everybody is a critic, and at film festivals that is especially true. People who are paid to watch films may have a different definition of 'time well spent' than people who actually PAY to watch films, so I hold the audience ratings in high esteem.
Judging was done electronically: whenever a screening ended, the ticket buyers would receive an email with an invite to vote, with the following choices:
5: -very good
4: -good
3: -fair
2: -bad
1: -very bad
This system is of course flawed, as any rating of art is prone to be. While some things can be judged objectively (like technical merits), films consist of so much more, that subjective factors like tastes or preferences end up influencing the score just as much.
Therefore, though I love lists like these, you shouldn't put too much weight on the actual positions on the chart. The scores are often so close that the difference may have been one single vote. Maybe you could have made the difference, with a rating based on love or hate!
One thing I can say with a degree of certainty: any movie which ends with a higher mean average than 4.000 out of five is either a general crowdpleaser, or has marketed itself so well that it attracted precisely its perfect audience. So let's go to the list...
Judging was done electronically: whenever a screening ended, the ticket buyers would receive an email with an invite to vote, with the following choices:
5: -very good
4: -good
3: -fair
2: -bad
1: -very bad
This system is of course flawed, as any rating of art is prone to be. While some things can be judged objectively (like technical merits), films consist of so much more, that subjective factors like tastes or preferences end up influencing the score just as much.
Therefore, though I love lists like these, you shouldn't put too much weight on the actual positions on the chart. The scores are often so close that the difference may have been one single vote. Maybe you could have made the difference, with a rating based on love or hate!
One thing I can say with a degree of certainty: any movie which ends with a higher mean average than 4.000 out of five is either a general crowdpleaser, or has marketed itself so well that it attracted precisely its perfect audience. So let's go to the list...
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