Metacritic score seems strange
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Virus
WhatsInAUserID — 14 years ago(November 09, 2011 05:22 AM)
I know Metacritic uses a weighted average, but I still don't see how they came out with 19/100 for this film. Austin Chronicle and The A.V. Club both gave the film a 0, but the other fifteen reviews range from 20 to 60. The average of the scores would be 28/100. Are the Austin Chronicle and The A.V. Club's ratings so valued that their scores can drag it down that much? The only other thing I can think of is that Metacritic deduct more when a 20/100 relates to a 1/5 review where 1 is the lowest score a film can receive from that publication.
For reference, here are all the scores:
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
50
Entertainment Weekly
Staff (Not credited)
42
Film Threat
Tom Meek
30
L.A. Weekly
Nicole Campos
30
The New York Times
Lawrence Van Gelder
30
Variety
Joe Leydon
30
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
30
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
25
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
25
USA Today
Andy Seiler
25
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
25
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
0
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/virus/critic-reviews