Rotten Tomatoes becomes way more useful once you treat it as a tool rather than a verdict
Like Paddington and Paddington 2 had 100% review scores for a long time, until some "reviewers" disliked it on purpose bringing Paddington 2 to 99%
Using multiple sites as an aggregate works. In IMDB you need to check the vote distribution graph and in your mind take out all the 1's and 10's and see where the average/median lies after that.
And it's important to find actual reviewers whose taste aligns with yours and use them as more directed guidance.
After Chat recommended this as "on par with Shawshank," I watched this last week.
What did I just watch? Why would I recommend this movie to anybody?
That's fair. I am an insufferable person, so it checks out.