{{Short description|American review aggregator for film and television}} {{About|the aggregator website|the decentralized social media software CherryPick|Misskey}} {{Infobox website | name = CherryPicks | logo = | url = {{url|https://thecherrypicks.com}} | type = Film and television review aggregator | author = {{Plainlist| *Miranda Bailey *Rebecca Odes }} | launch_date = 2018 }}
The '''CherryPicks''' is a review-aggregation website site for film and television that was founded in 2018 by Miranda Bailey and Rebecca Odes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Angelique |date=2020-09-30 |title=CherryPicks Launches ‘CherryPop,’ a New Podcast on Sex in Movies With Hosts Beandrea July, Meg McCarthy (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/cherry-picks-podcast-beandrea-july-meg-mccarthy-1234785954/ |access-date=2025-10-05 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> The site includes female and non-binary critics, excluding the opinions of male critics to offer a different perspective from sites like Rotten Tomatoes.
== History == Miranda Bailey, who produced the films ''The Diary of a Teenage Girl'' and ''Swiss Army Man'', and Rebecca Odes founded the site in 2018, which was announced at South by Southwest.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gilchrist |first=Tracy E. |date=2018-03-16 |title=A New Women-Only Rotten Tomatoes Set to Launch |url=https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2018/3/16/new-women-only-rotten-tomatoes-set-launch |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=The Advocate |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chavez |first=Danette |date=2018-03-21 |title=New CherryPicks site will feature movie reviews by female critics only |url=https://www.avclub.com/new-cherrypicks-site-will-feature-movie-reviews-by-fema-1823956770 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321192050/https://news.avclub.com/new-cherrypicks-site-will-feature-movie-reviews-by-fema-1823956770 |archive-date=2018-03-21 |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=The A.V. Club}}</ref> It was inspired by the male perspective in film being dominant over its equal number of female critics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rodriguez |first=Ashley |date=2018-03-14 |title=A new kind of Rotten Tomatoes is launching for female critics only |url=https://qz.com/1228935/a-rotten-tomatoes-alternative-called-cherrypicks-emerges-for-female-critics |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=Quartz |language=en}}</ref> Unlike Rotten Tomatoes' option of Fresh or Rotten approval rating, the CherryPicks uses a four level rating system including bowl of cherries, two cherries, one cherry, and the pits.<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Malley |first=Katie |date=2018-03-16 |title=The Glass Ceiling-Smashing All-Female Film Review Site Taking On Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/news/a42371/all-female-review-website-rotten-tomatoes/ |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=Elle |language=en-GB}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://www.thecherrypicks.com/ Official site]
Category:Internet properties established in 2018 Category:American film review websites Category:Online film databases Category:Recommender systems Category:Television websites Category:2018 establishments in the United States
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