Fandango Blames Inflated Movie Scores on Computer Glitch

Computer problem with site’s fan movie ratings is being fixed, a spokesman tells TheWrap, though ratings are consistently higher than other movie sites

A sizable number of movies have received higher than deserved ratings on the online movie-ticket broker Fandango, but the NBCUniversal owned site is blaming a computer glitch.

The overly generous scores afforded certain films a small half-star uptick, a Fandango spokesperson said.

“We recently discovered a bug on our desktop website that has resulted in a small error, less than a half-star rounding, in the summary rating for some of the movies,” the rep told TheWrap Thursday. “The bug is limited to our website only and the average rating for all movies is correctly presented on all our mobile apps.

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