{"id":2345010,"date":"2024-09-23T18:27:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suppressed-again-reagan-film-not-showing-up-in-audience-review-site-despite-98-score\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T22:28:04","slug":"suppressed-again-reagan-film-not-showing-up-in-audience-review-site-despite-98-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suppressed-again-reagan-film-not-showing-up-in-audience-review-site-despite-98-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Suppressed Again? &#8216;Reagan&#8217; Film Not Showing Up in Audience Review Site, Despite 98% Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuppressed-again-reagan-film-not-showing-up-in-audience-review-site-despite-98-score%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2345010&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses\u2064 the challenges faced\u200d by the movie &#8220;Reagan,&#8221; a biopic about \u200dthe late U.S. President \u2064Ronald Reagan, starring Dennis\u200b Quaid. Despite receiving a positive audience score \u2063of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has been reportedly &#8220;shadow banned&#8221; \u200con the \u200dplatform, making it difficult for viewers to\u200b find it in theater \u2063rankings. Critics have rated it at only 18%, \u200dcreating \u200dan 81% disparity between audience and critic scores, signaling a significant disconnect between public reception and critical opinion. <\/p>\n<p>The film continues to perform \u200bwell at the box office, having surpassed its production budget of $25 million with earnings of approximately $26.5 million so far. The article\u2063 suggests that the perceived suppression\u2064 of the film\u2019s visibility\u200d may be politically motivated, as there\u200d are \u200dclaims of censorship regarding advertisements on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a> like Facebook, which \u2064initially rejected them for being about \u2064political content. Dennis Quaid pointed out this\u2063 issue, indicating that censorship\u2062 could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-wapo-abc-news-poll-shows-trump-with-commanding-lead-over-biden\/\" title=\"Trump leads Biden by a wide margin in latest WaPo\/ABC News Poll.\">influence electoral outcomes<\/a>. &#8220;Reagan&#8221; has\u2063 emerged\u200b as\u200c a box office\u200d success, championing \u200bthemes of freedom and hope.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The movie &ldquo;Reagan&rdquo; has faced challenges from Big Tech and among film critics, but it&rsquo;s still performing well at the box office three weeks into its run.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the film review site Rotten Tomatoes appears to be shadow banning the biopic about the nation&rsquo;s 40th president, which stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/quaid-will-vote-trump-citing-weaponization-justice-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dennis Quaid<\/a> in the lead role.<\/p>\n<p>If you go to the page and use filters to sort <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/browse\/movies_in_theaters\/sort:audience_highest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies by audience score<\/a>, despite &ldquo;Reagan&rdquo; receiving a 98 percent positive score, you will not see it at all on the page, nor if you look for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/browse\/movies_in_theaters\/sort:newest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies currently in theaters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(According to the site itself, Reagan has over 5,000 verified user reviews, much more than some of the other films that populate these lists.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The new Reagan movie has a 98% audience score on opening weekend<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood critics gave it an 18%<\/p>\n<p>When the critics give it a thumbs down, but the audience gives it a standing ovation &ndash; guess who&rsquo;s out of touch?<\/p>\n<p>Spoiler alert:<\/p>\n<p>it&rsquo;s not the American people <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WJg7Nf86oO\">pic.twitter.com\/WJg7Nf86oO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DC_Draino\/status\/1829914870990705144?\">August 31, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Further, when Apple&rsquo;s Siri is asked, &ldquo;What are the top audience rated movies in theaters right now?&rdquo; the movie &ldquo;Reagan&rdquo; still does not show up.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl4133781505\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Box Office Mojo<\/a>, the film is still very much on the big screen (1,850 of them to be precise), and took in approximately $1.7 million over the weekend, for a total of $26.5 million to date. It has now surpassed the independent film&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-numbers.com\/movie\/Reagan-(2024)#tab=summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported $25 million<\/a> production budget.<\/p>\n<p>Though critics by-in-large have hated the movie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/reagan-movie-surprises-box-office-scores-rating-audiences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audiences have loved it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Reagan&rdquo; appears to have the largest disparity between movie critics and moviegoers on Rotten Tomatoes&rsquo; site, apparently ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/notable-divides-between-audience-critic-scores-on-rotten-tomatoes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collider<\/a> reported the 1999 film &ldquo;The Boondock Saints&rdquo; had previously had the largest divide, with 65 percent.<\/p>\n<p>However, only 17 percent of movie critics liked &ldquo;Reagan,&rdquo; while 98 percent of audiences members have for a difference of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/reagan_2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">81 percent<\/a>, blowing the aforementioned record out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, the left is riled up and trying to suppress the movie because they think it will help Republican candidates&rsquo; chances, including Donald Trump, in the forthcoming November general election.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, before &ldquo;Reagan&rdquo; opened, Quaid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/quaid-tells-rogan-facebook-wont-let-reagan-movie-advertise-political\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> podcast host Joe Rogan that was not allowing the movie to advertise on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Censorship is happening to us through Facebook. banned advertising and a lot of the podcasts. This one will probably be banned on Facebook, as well. It&rsquo;s been over the last couple of months,&rdquo; Quaid said.<\/p>\n<p>The actor explained that initially expressed the reason for its decision is that the content in the film &ldquo;was an attempt to sway an election.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I mean the last time I heard, you know, Reagan was on the ballot 40 years ago,&rdquo; Quaid said, referring to the former president&rsquo;s re-election campaign in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To me, just the act of banning and censoring the material is an attempt to sway an election,&rdquo; the actor further argued.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/51i6R1FPEQk?si=PYTDw7UsKgybN1c4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson reached out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/dennis-quaid-facebook-censoring-efforts-promote-reagan-film-1938308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a> four hours after the outlet published a story about the ban in August saying in a written statement, &ldquo;While there are no restrictions on this page that would prevent the admins from posting, we did identify a handful of ads from this account that were incorrectly rejected. This happened because our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/quaid-tells-rogan-that-facebook-wouldnt-let-reagan-movie-advertise-too-political\/\" title=\"Quaid Tells Rogan That Facebook Wouldn&#039;t Let &#039;Reagan&#039; Movie Advertise: Too Political\">automated systems mistakenly determined<\/a> that content about President Reagan required prior authorization in accordance with our policies for ads about Social Issues, Elections or Politics.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This was a mistake and the restriction on the ads has been lifted.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Reagan&rdquo; continues to overcome all because like the man himself, it includes a message of freedom and hope.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Recently, the review site Rotten Tomatoes seems to be shadow banning this biopic about the 40th president of the United States, featuring Dennis Quaid in the main role. Despite &#8220;Reagan&#8221; achieving a remarkable 98 percent positive audience score, it does not appear on the page when sorting movies by audience ratings or when searching for films currently showing in theaters. The site reports that &#8220;Reagan&#8221; has over 5,000 verified user reviews\u2014significantly more than many other films listed there. <\/p>\n<p>On its opening weekend, &#8220;Reagan&#8221; received a 98% audience score while Hollywood critics rated it only 18%. This stark contrast raises questions about who is truly disconnected from public opinion\u2014spoiler alert: it&#8217;s not the American people. Additionally, when asked by Apple\u2019s Siri for top-rated movies currently in theaters, &#8220;Reagan&#8221; still fails to show up.<\/p>\n<p>According to Box Office Mojo, the film is still being screened in approximately 1,850 theaters and grossed around $1.7 million over the weekend, bringing its total earnings to $26.5 million\u2014surpassing its reported production budget of $25 million. While critics have largely disapproved of it, audiences have embraced it enthusiastically.<\/p>\n<p>The disparity between critic and audience ratings for &#8220;Reagan&#8221; appears to be unprecedented on Rotten Tomatoes; previously held by \u201cThe Boondock Saints\u201d with a difference of 65 percent approval (17% from critics vs. 98% from audiences), \u201cReagan\u201d now boasts an astonishing gap of 81 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Some speculate that left-leaning individuals may be attempting to suppress this movie due to concerns that it could bolster Republican candidates&#8217; prospects\u2014including Donald Trump\u2014in upcoming elections. Prior to its release last month, Quaid mentioned on Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast that they were facing advertising restrictions on platforms like Facebook due to censorship claims regarding their content&#8217;s potential influence on elections.<\/p>\n<p>Quaid pointed out that Reagan was last on a ballot four decades ago and argued that censoring such material itself constitutes an attempt at election manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Newsweek&#8217;s inquiry about advertising bans following their report in August, a spokesperson stated there were no actual restrictions preventing posts but acknowledged some ads had been mistakenly rejected due to automated systems misclassifying content related to President Reagan as needing prior authorization under policies concerning social issues or politics\u2014a mistake they claimed had since been rectified.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately,&#8221;Regan&#8221; continues thriving because like Ronald Reagan himself; it conveys messages of freedom and hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2345011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/reagan-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[41554,6371,5336,4882,5634],"class_list":["post-2345010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-audience-reviews","tag-censorship","tag-film","tag-ratings","tag-reagan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/reagan-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}