Rotten Tomatoes’s Tomatometer, the most overrated metric in entertainment, is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked and yet has Hollywood in its grip. “Rotten Tomatoes is something the studios can game. So they do,” says filmmaker Paul Schrader.
How Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, and Ayo Edebiri came together to make “Bottoms,” a movie about two lesbian teen losers who start an after-school fight club under the auspices of sisterhood but actually do it just so they can get laid.