A Change for Rotten Tomatoes Ahead of <em>Captain Marvel</em>

In the world of film criticism, there’s one inviolable rule: You can’t offer an opinion on a movie you haven’t seen. But on Rotten Tomatoes, the review-aggregating website that wields serious influence over many theatergoers, that rule was broken all the time. , any site user could leave a review and rating for a film before its release date, something that would affect the movie’s “audience score” (though not the official critical score that determines whether a film is labeled “fresh” or “rotten”). Then, on February 25, Rotten Tomatoes a series of changes, the most significant of which