So Josh Wilding’s negative CLAYFACE review has now been removed from Rotten Tomatoes. And yeah, this is where things start getting really fucking weird. Josh saw the movie at a public UK screening. He paid for his ticket. He wasn’t under the press embargo. Rotten Tomatoes accepted the review, let it sit there, and now it’s gone. So who made the call? Because Fandango owns Rotten Tomatoes, and Warner Bros. holds a minority stake in Fandango. Am I saying Warner Bros. definitely called Rotten Tomatoes and told them to pull a negative CLAYFACE review? No. But if I were a betting man, I know where I’d put my money. And even if Warner had nothing to do with it, that still leaves Rotten Tomatoes looking terrible. They approved the review. Josh wasn’t bound by the embargo. Then after a bunch of DCU fans threw a collective shit-fit over a 2.5/5 review, suddenly it disappears? Come on. This is exactly why I put zero value into Rotten Tomatoes. If a review can vanish because of studio pressure, public pressure, internal panic, or some arbitrary embargo concern that didn’t even apply to the critic, then what exactly are we supposed to trust here? At this point the call feels like it’s coming from inside the house.