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Brett Ratner recently called Rotten Tomatoes "the worst thing that we have in today’s movie culture," which are some fightin' words from the guy who directed X-Men 3 and once had a cameo in Entourage (Season Three, Episode 19, if anyone's interested). While that's perhaps a sliiiiight over-exaggeration, RT's methods are reductive and certainly warp the idea of the value of certain movies. Here are six times our go-to movie review aggregator didn't quite do its job.

1. MacGruber (Rotten Tomatoes score: 47%)

It happens a lot: a big, weird comedy movie comes out, gets dismissed, tanks horribly at the box office, and is consigned to "cult movie" status for the rest of its days. All the same, MacGruber represents the very pinnacle of a movie that has this life cycle.

It's easy to see why MacGruber didn't connect with critics initially: It is vulgar, it is violent, its titular lead "hero" is inept and cruel to the point of being irredeemable. Still, lean into the tone and you'll find one of the tightest, funniest action-movie parodies of all time. I mean it! Will Forte is one of the great comedy actors we have working today, and he plays MacGruber with absolute shallow fearlessness. Not many other actors would sign on for a role this... bold. MacGruber was an experiment that paid off in every way. Except, you know, critically and financially, but who cares about that stuff.

2. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Rotten Tomatoes score: 37%)

Make no mistake, Tokyo Drift's cultural resurgence owes a lot to the renaissance of the Fast and Furious franchise as a whole. It's unlikely we'd be kindly revisiting this low-budget blatant cash grab if it weren't for the spate of great, increasingly expensive movies that came afterwards. What should have been a death knell for the dated series instead became a turning point, and not for nothing, either. Tokyo Drift as a standalone movie hits familiar beats but it is, in every frame, in ever line, more self-aware, fun, and exciting than it has any right to be. It's also the only movie in the franchise where anyone actually... learns a skill, instead of being introduced already as an all-action grandmaster. More to the point, Sung Kang's performance as Han Seoul-Oh (who dies during the film) was so good and cool, the next three movies in the franchise are technically PREQUELS to Tokyo Drift, for no other reason than his inclusion.

MacGruber was an experiment that paid off in every way. Except, you know, critically and financially, but who cares about that stuff.

3. Bad Boys 2 (Rotten Tomatoes score: 23%)

Bad Boys 2 represents the pinnacle of Michael Bay's filmmaking career, which is both a ringing endorsement and sad thing to accept. It is a dumb, shockingly violent action film that nevertheless today is regarded as one of the most important in the entire genre, for better and worse.

4. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (Rotten Tomatoes score: 33%)

Another maligned cult comedy with a gloriously committed lead actor and setpiece after bonkers setpiece. It's aged well, in that it is so universally silly and ignorant it will never really be out-of-step, and I defy ANYONE to tell me the robot rhino scene does not deserve, at the very least, six Oscars.

5. Magic Mike XXL (Rotten Tomatoes score: 63%)

Sure, this movie just about ekes out a "fresh" rating, but still lags very far behind its predecessor's 81%, despite being superior in every way. Magic Mike XXL is the ultimate in low-stakes, high-reward filmmaking. The plot is minimal, the conflicts are bare and quickly resolved. This is not a movie of intensity, but rather a singularly satisfying piece of art focused on nothing but the, excuse me, magic of human relationships, forever friends and new acquaintances alike. It is a film fully concerned with making each and every one of its characters feel good, and rather than being bland, it makes for one of the most fun, affecting films about a group of men in recent history. If you need any more convincing, here is this, the single best scene in film history:

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