The Certified Fresh thing means you have to be over 75% when you hit a certain amount of reviews (I think it's 80 for wide release and 40 for limited release); more reviews can come in and lower the rating, and this also means movies with well over 75% can still not be considered "Certified Fresh" (for instance, the The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is 100%, but only has 13 reviews), and I guess it's even technically possible to be both "Certified Fresh" and "Rotten" at the same time, though not very likely.
I ran into some snags with Rotten Tomatoes own list, since they originally ran it in 2018 with movies under 20 reviews (the highest rated movie then was a direct-to-video Resident Evil animated movie that got a three night showing at one American theater and had a rating of 50% from 6 reviews), and I was mostly going off of memory from that. Green Reaper pointed out that technically The Power of Us is also Fresh, but it has only five reviews and also we can go way into the weeds arguing over whether the other Pokemon movies are adaptations of video games or of the Pokemon anime and then get into an argument whether it even counts as a fully theatrical release or not (Jerry Beck doesn't even list it in the addendum for pseudo-theatrical animated releases on Cartoon Research's Animated Movie Guide) and if it doesn't, should direct-to-video movies count or not, and am I being to America-centric making that argument (because it probably actually did get a full release in Japan). So, the words "well-reviewed" were added to the lede to cover it (and I can't remember if "widely-released" was in the original headline or not, but if so, we're still technically correct).
But, anyway, yeah, I think video game adaptations have a long way to go before they get that "Certified Fresh" certificate.
The Certified Fresh thing means you have to be over 75% when you hit a certain amount of reviews (I think it's 80 for wide release and 40 for limited release); more reviews can come in and lower the rating, and this also means movies with well over 75% can still not be considered "Certified Fresh" (for instance, the The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is 100%, but only has 13 reviews), and I guess it's even technically possible to be both "Certified Fresh" and "Rotten" at the same time, though not very likely.
I ran into some snags with Rotten Tomatoes own list, since they originally ran it in 2018 with movies under 20 reviews (the highest rated movie then was a direct-to-video Resident Evil animated movie that got a three night showing at one American theater and had a rating of 50% from 6 reviews), and I was mostly going off of memory from that. Green Reaper pointed out that technically The Power of Us is also Fresh, but it has only five reviews and also we can go way into the weeds arguing over whether the other Pokemon movies are adaptations of video games or of the Pokemon anime and then get into an argument whether it even counts as a fully theatrical release or not (Jerry Beck doesn't even list it in the addendum for pseudo-theatrical animated releases on Cartoon Research's Animated Movie Guide) and if it doesn't, should direct-to-video movies count or not, and am I being to America-centric making that argument (because it probably actually did get a full release in Japan). So, the words "well-reviewed" were added to the lede to cover it (and I can't remember if "widely-released" was in the original headline or not, but if so, we're still technically correct).
But, anyway, yeah, I think video game adaptations have a long way to go before they get that "Certified Fresh" certificate.