Meryl Streep Rips Rotten Tomatoes for ‘Infuriating’ Lack of Female Critics

“If the Tomatometer is slighted so completely to one set of tastes that drives box office in the United States, absolutely,” star of “Suffragette” says

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Meryl Streep is taking movie review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes to task for a lack of female film critics.

Streep said that she counted up all of the male and female film critics on the site, which she said is often used by people to determine which movies toย see.

“There are 168 women. And I thought that’s absolutely fantastic, and if there were 168 men it would be balanced,” Streep said in an interview with The Daily Beast.ย “If there were 268 men it would be unfair but I would be used to it, if there were 360, if there were 4 … actually there are 760 men who weigh in on the Tomatometer.”

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