
Frank Mullin
Analysis and tallies abound on MovieReviewIntelligence.com.
Confused by contradictory reviews of new movies? The website
moviereviewintelligence.com could be your savior. Created by longtime movie executive
David A. Gross '79, the site gathers reviews from all over and then analyzes and tallies them. After Tim Burton's
Alice in Wonderland
opened this winter, for instance, you could see that it received 64.3
percent positive reviews, but that they were somewhat mixed. Highbrow
media—think NPR, the
Wall Street Journal, and
The New York Times—were less enthusiastic (48.7 percent positive) than such publications as
People and
Time
(68.9 percent positive). After a decade of research, Gross launched the
site in 2009, and it's now available as an app for the iPhone or iPod
Touch. Gross says it's the site he craved when he was marketing movies.