Cole Smithey's reviews - if you could even call them reviews, are terrible. The quality of his reviews have deteriorated faster than Chris' mental health. They are the equivalent of reading a fortune cookie. They contain no detail on any of the important plot points or acting. They simply contain his mostly unedited thoughts on American society. He often criticizes a film for being "pro-war" even if the film is anti-war. The most obvious example is the infamous Toy Story 3 review whereupon he claims the presence of toy soldiers is an endorsement of the War On Terror. In addition he claims the plot line of Dune is pro-war, even though the author Frank Herbert wrote it as an explicitly anti-war novel.
Let's go to a more recent review he's done. In his review of "Everything Everywhere All at Once", he calls it insufferable, overwrought, racist, stupid, not clever, muddled, propaganda, and clueless. He doesn't go in depth at all about how the film is all of the adjectives that he describes. He describes none of the plot, except that it includes several Lesbian main characters. Other than that, he includes a paragraph complaining about how EEAATO won many Oscar awards. I assume the only reason he gave it a negative review is because he wanted rage clicks after he saw that it won many Oscar awards, including best picture.
In one of his few positive reviews of a positively reviewed movie by other critics, "American Murderer", he gives a slightly more in-depth fortune cookie review. He says it's a "gritty true crime thriller that takes no prisoners." He compliments the casting positively. He states "Tom Pelphrey confirms his status as an actor of substance..." which provide a more detailed attributes he likes in actors. In addition he says "...but it delivers the goods with efficiency and style." He compliments the writing, sadly not in detail. This may be an odd film to mention the review of, but it's one of the few recent positive films he's given that other critics agree with, that isn't a political or an art film.
Smithey infamously has terrible tastes. He thinks Freddy Got Fingered is a subversive masterpiece, while at the same time hating Toy Story 3, comparing scenes in the film to the Holocaust. This is doubly humorous when you realize that Smithey thinks he's "The Smartest Film Critic In The World". A claim so laughable that even Roger Ebert mocked it. He uses and misuses the English language to make him seem more highbrow by using large and complex words, most of which he uses incorrectly. His old reviews of Freddy Got Fingered and Toy Story 3 would be considered gold if he wrote it in 2023. At this point, he clearly doesn't care. Reading his film reviews have been rather illuminating. It proves that Rotten Tomatoes doesn't care about the inherent quality of a review, but rather connections and political beliefs. Chris would ironically be a better film reviewer as he actually cares about most of the media he rants and raves about. This is only a cursory look at the surface, as reading the full Rotten Tomatoes page is akin to reading an out of touch hipster forced to be compulsively contrarian, and stroking his ever growing ego.