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63-570: (Redirected from Five Stars ) [REDACTED] Look up 5-star in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Five star , 5 star or ***** may refer to: Quality grading system [ edit ] Five star grade in a Star (classification) system, such as for films, TV shows, restaurants, and hotels Hotel rating Restaurant rating UEFA stadium categories Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Music [ edit ] Five Star ,

126-474: A "worthless" movie. Roger Ebert occasionally gave zero stars to films he deemed "artistically inept and morally repugnant." Scheuer's guide calls "one and a half star" films "poor", and "one star" films "bad". Not all film critics have approved of star ratings. Film scholar Robin Wood wondered if Sight and Sound readers accepted "such blackening of their characters." Jay Scott of Canada's The Globe and Mail

189-453: A 2002 Indian Tamil film Five Star Production , a Thai film production company 5Star , a UK TV channel owned by Channel 5 The Five Star Stories , a series of 1986 manga Five Star Thieves , a 1994 Egyptian film Computer games [ edit ] SSI's Five Star series of wargames, of which Panzer General was the first Businesses and organisations [ edit ] Politics [ edit ] Five Star Movement ,

252-584: A British pop/R&B group, formed in 1983 Five Star (album) , by Five Star (1990) The Five Stars , a Samoan musical group The Five Stars, a 1950s American vocal group, with "Atom Bomb Baby" featured in The Atomic Cafe and Fallout 4 Five-Star (album) , by Yuki (2007) Five Stars (Myname album) , 2014 Five Stars (Higher Brothers album) "5 Star" (Yo Gotti song) (2009) 5-Star (Stray Kids album) (2023) Film, radio and television [ edit ] Five Star (film) ,

315-727: A chocolate bar produced by Cadburys Five Star Krishna , Indian actor See also [ edit ] Five-pointed star V Star (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Five Star All pages with titles beginning with Five star All pages with titles beginning with 5 Star All pages with titles beginning with 5 star All pages with titles beginning with 5* All pages with titles beginning with Five-Star All pages with titles beginning with Five-star All pages with titles beginning with 5-Star All pages with titles beginning with 5-star All pages with titles beginning with The Five Star Flag of China , also known as

378-453: A film critic used a star-rating system to grade movies. "The one-star review of The Port of Missing Girls launched the star system, which the newspaper promised would be 'a permanent thing.' According to film scholar Gerald Peary , few newspapers adopted this practice until the French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma "started polling critics in the 1950s and boiling their judgment down to

441-540: A five-star rank in two of its military services. By a Congressional Act of 24 March 1903, Admiral George Dewey 's rank was established as admiral of the Navy , a rank which was specified to be senior to the four-star rank of admiral and was equal to admiral of the fleet in the British Royal Navy . Admiral Dewey was the only individual ever appointed to this rank, which lapsed with his death on 16 January 1917. Admiral of

504-525: A game or stage's difficulty (such as in the SNES version of Street Fighter II and its updates), or to rate the attributes of a selectable character or, in sports games , a team. Restaurant guides and reviewers often use stars in restaurant ratings . The Michelin system reserves star for exceptional restaurants, and gives up to three; the vast majority of recommended restaurants have no star at all. Other guides now use up to four or five stars, with one-star being

567-539: A political party in Italy Flag of China , a five-star red flag Businesses [ edit ] Five Star Bank (disambiguation) , several American commercial banks Five Star Bus Company , in the Philippines Five Star Publishing, the fiction imprint of Gale (publisher) Five Star Service Guarantee, a customer service campaign of U.S. Bancorp Five Star school supplies, a sub-brand of

630-412: A purely mathematical basis, 2 1/2 stars would be the dividing line between good and bad on a 0–5 scale. Common Sense Media uses a scale of one to five, where 3 stars are "Just fine; solid" and anything lower is "Disappointing" at best. There is no agreement on what the lowest rating should be. Some critics make "one star" or a "half-star" their lowest rating. Dave Kehr believes that "one star" indicates

693-552: A rating. Star ratings are also given out at stand-up comedy performances and theatre productions. Star ratings are given at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe , the largest arts festival in the world. Since 2010, the British Comedy Guide has collected over 4,300 reviews of around 1,110 different acts, across 83 different publications in the form of a star rating. The use of star ratings is controversial because

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756-458: A scale of zero to three stars, representing O'Brien's notion of their "literary permanence." He further listed stories with a ranking of three stars "in a special 'Roll of Honor.'" In this list, O'Brien attached an additional asterisk to those stories that he personally enjoyed. Oliver Herford 's essay Say it with Asterisks , quips "Never, I think, were a mob of overworked employees so pitifully huddled together in an ill-ventilated factory as are

819-465: A staff car, does display five stars. Promotion to the ranks of admiral of the fleet and marshal of the Royal Air Force is now generally held in abeyance in peacetime with exceptions for special circumstances. Promotion to the rank of field marshal was generally stopped in 1995 as a cost-cutting measure but is still made in some cases. As of 2024 the most recent appointments to five-star ranks were

882-413: A star as a restaurant rating in 1926, which was expanded to a system of one to three stars in 1931. In 1915, Edward O'Brien began editing The Best American Short Stories . This annual compiled O'Brien's personal selection of the previous year's best short stories. O'Brien claimed to read as many as 8,000 stories a year, and his editions contained lengthy tabulations of stories and magazines, ranked on

945-488: A star rating to rank the safety of transportation. EuroRAP have developed a Road Protection Score which is a scale for Star Rating roads for how well they protect the user from death or disabling injury when a crash occurs. The assessment evaluates the safety that is 'built into' the road through its design, in combination with the way traffic is managed on it. The RPS protocol has also been adapted and used by AusRAP, usRAP and iRAP. Euro NCAP awards 'star ratings' based on

1008-466: A star rating, with a bullet reserved for movies that the magazine didn't like." The highest rating any film earned was five stars. The British film magazine Sight and Sound also rated films on a scale of one to four stars. Some critics use a "half-star" option in between basic star ratings. Leonard Maltin goes one further and gives Naked Gun 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 : The Final Insult a 2 + 1 ⁄ 3 star rating. Critics do not agree on what

1071-743: A substantive Australian five-star rank. William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood , a British Army officer who commanded the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War , was appointed to honorary five-star rank in the Australian Military Forces corresponding to his promotion to field marshal in the British Army in 1925. King George VI , Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , and King Charles III have held all three Australian five-star ranks in an honorary capacity, and have been

1134-572: Is a Polish Army five-star rank. There are today no living marshals of Poland, since this rank is bestowed only on military commanders who have achieved victory in war. The last appointment was in 1963 to Marian Spychalski . Different from most other countries, the marshals ( Army and Air Force ) and admirals of the fleet ( Navy ) of Portugal are not identified by five stars, but by four golden stars, in comparison with generals and admirals who are also identified by four stars, but in silver. Five-star appointments—and not ranks—were however foreseen in

1197-467: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Star (classification) Similar systems have been proposed for electing politicians in the form of score voting and STAR voting . Repeated symbols used for a ranking date to Mariana Starke 's 1820 guidebook, which used exclamation points to indicate works of art of special value: ...I have endeavored... to furnish Travellers with correct lists of

1260-616: Is no longer awarded. Under Article VII, Section 18 of the constitution, the president holds the position of commander-in-chief, which is not considered and recognized to be a five-star rank. Emilio Aguinaldo , the first president of the Philippines, held the title generalissimo and Ministro Mariskal and is considered as the first commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines . Historically, five-star ranks were held by field marshals . US Army General Douglas MacArthur

1323-684: Is not properly a rank but a "military dignity". The only full capitán general is currently His Majesty the King of Spain, the last not-royal appointment (honorary) was in 1994 to Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado . The rank of capitán general is currently bestowed also to several images of the Virgin Mary , among them la Virgen de Butarque, la Virgen del Pilar, la Virgen de Guadalupe, Nuestra Señora de los Reyes, la Virgen de los Desamparados (this one properly capitana generalísima ), la Virgen de la Serra, la Virgen del Canto y la Virgen de los Remedios. The latest appointment

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1386-518: Is usually held by only a very few officers during wartime . In times of peace, it is usually held only as an honorary rank . Traditionally, five-star ranks are granted to distinguished military commanders for notable wartime victories and/or in recognition of a record of achievement during the officer's career, whether in peace or in war. Alternatively, a five-star rank (or even higher ranks) may be assumed by heads of state in their capacities as commanders-in-chief of their nation's armed forces. Despite

1449-576: The Detroit Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department , their respective heads wear five-star ranks. The timing of the first seven appointments was to establish both a clear order of seniority and a near-equivalence between the Army and Navy services. In 1949, Arnold was honored by being made the first, and to date only, General of the Air Force. He is the only American to serve in

1512-464: The commander-in-chief of Defence Services (CinCDS). It was created during the expansion of Armed Forces structure in 1990, and the first person to hold is Saw Maung promoted by himself directly from general to senior general on 18 March 1990. Admiral ( Dutch : Admiraal ) is theoretically the highest possible military rank in the Royal Netherlands Navy , although this five-star rank

1575-609: The royal family or to four-star generals or admirals during wartime only. After World War II, the latest surviving marshal of Romania was King Michael I , who was bestowed this rank on May 10, 1941 (the national day of Romania). He died in December 2017. Five-star ranks were used by the former Republic of Vietnam Military Forces during the Vietnam War , from 1955 to 1975. The ranks were changed in 1964 to resemble US ranks more closely. The rank only bestowed to Lê Văn Tỵ Since 1922 it

1638-651: The "death doughnut". Roger Ebert used a thumbs-down symbol. Other critics use a black dot . Critics also do not agree on what the lower ratings signify, let alone the lowest rating. While Maltin's and Scheuer's guides respectively explain that lowest rated films are "BOMB(s)" and "abysmal", British film critic Leslie Halliwell instead writes that no star "indicates a totally routine production or worse; such films may be watchable but are at least equally missable." Like Halliwell and Dave Kehr, film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum believes one-star films have some merit, however unlike Halliwell, Rosenbaum believes that no stars indicate

1701-458: The Asterisks in this Sweatshop of Twaddle." Literary editor Katrina Kenison dismisses O'Brien's grading systems as "excessive at best, fussy and arbitrary at worst." Book reviewers generally do not use a star-rating system though there are exceptions. The West Coast Review of Books rates books on a scale of one ("poor") to five ("superior") stars. According to editor D. David Dreis, readers love

1764-693: The Five-star Red Flag "Five stars rising in the East" armband , an Eastern Han (25–220) to Western Jin (265–316) era Sichuan brocade armband Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Five star . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Five_star&oldid=1214506450 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1827-616: The Marshal of France ( Maréchal de France ) and the Admiral of France ( Amiral de France ), and are nominally 7-star "dignities" (there is no 6-star rank). As of late 2023, there have been 342 Marshals of France, of which 78 have been appointed since the Napoleonic revival of the office in the early 19th Century, the most recent being Pierre Kœnig , elevated posthumously to the Marshalcy in 1984. In

1890-565: The Mead division of ACCO Brands Places [ edit ] Five Star Island, Bermuda Five Star Trail , a trail alongside the Southwestern Pennsylvania Railroad, U.S. Sport [ edit ] 5 Star Wrestling , a Scottish professional wrestling company Cinco Estrellas , a former Nicaraguan baseball team Other uses [ edit ] Five-star rank , a very senior military rank 5 Star (chocolate) ,

1953-627: The Navy and Army specified that these officers were considered senior to any officers promoted to the five-star ranks within their services (but it was not clear if they were senior by rank or by seniority due to an earlier date of rank). Five-star ranks were created in the U.S. military during World War II because of the awkward situation created when some American senior commanders were placed in positions commanding allied officers of higher rank. U.S. officers holding five-star rank draw full active duty pay for life, both before and after retiring from active duty. The five-star ranks were retired in 1981 on

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2016-570: The additional title Supreme Allied Commander , given operational control over all air, land, and sea units led by the four-star commanders of multi-national forces. Before the five-star ranks were established in 1944, two officers had previously been promoted from their four-star ranks to the superior and unique ranks of Admiral of the Navy and General of the Armies : Admiral George Dewey (appointment 1903 retroactive to 1899, died 1917) and General John J. Pershing (appointed 1919, died 1948). In 1944

2079-510: The armed forces of Portugal, at different times in the past, for the officers exercising the several government posts related with defense (minister of national defense, minister for the army, secretary of state for the army, etc.). Mareșal al Armatei Române (marshal of the Romanian Army) is the highest military rank in the Romanian military forces. This rank can be bestowed to persons from

2142-444: The cutoff is for a recommendation, even when they use the same scale. Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert "both consider[ed] a three-star rating to be the cutoff for a "thumbs up" on their scales of zero to four stars. Film critic Dave Kehr —who also uses a 0–4 star scale—believes "two stars is a borderline recommendation". On a five-star scale, regardless of the bottom rating, 3 stars is often the lowest positive rating, though judging on

2205-508: The death of General of the Army Omar Bradley . Nine Americans have been promoted to five-star rank, one of them, Henry H. Arnold , in two services (U.S. Army then later in the U.S. Air Force). As part of the bicentennial celebration, George Washington was, 177 years after his death, permanently made senior to all other U.S. generals and admirals with the title General of the Armies effective on 4 July 1976. The appointment stated he

2268-450: The facilities provided. Some consider this disadvantageous to smaller hotels whose quality of accommodation could fall into one class but the lack of an item such as an elevator would prevent it from reaching a higher categorization. In recent years hotel rating systems have also been criticized by some who argue that the rating criteria for such systems are overly complex and difficult for laymen to understand. It has been suggested that

2331-421: The film has redeeming facets, and instead uses zero stars as his lowest rating. Examples of rating scales: Critics have different ways of denoting the lowest rating when this is a "zero". Some such as Peter Travers display empty stars. Jonathan Rosenbaum and Dave Kehr use a round black dot. Leslie Halliwell uses a blank space. The Globe and Mail uses a "0", or as their former film critic dubbed it,

2394-501: The half star is positioned to the left of one or more whole stars. Five-star rank A five-star rank is the highest military rank in many countries. The rank is that of the most senior operational military commanders, and within NATO 's standard rank scale it is designated by the code OF-10 . Not all armed forces have such a rank, and in those that do the actual insignia of the five-star ranks may not contain five stars. For example:

2457-555: The insignia for the French OF-10 rank maréchal de France contains seven stars; the insignia for the Portuguese marechal contains four gold stars. The stars used on the various Commonwealth of Nations rank insignias are sometimes colloquially referred to as pips, but in fact either are stars of the orders of the Garter , Thistle or Bath or are Eversleigh stars, depending on

2520-496: The lack of a unified global system for rating hotels may also undermine the usability of such schemes. In the UK, providers and comparison websites often use stars to indicate how feature-rich financial products are. The most senior military ranks in all services are classified by a star system in many countries, ranging from one-star rank which typically corresponds to brigadier , brigadier general , Commodore or air commodore , to

2583-516: The latest regulation does not mention a five-star rank. Therefore, it is unlikely that there will be any Indonesian military personnel awarded five-star rank in the future. These ranks are used by the Italian chief of the general staff only. Senior general ( Burmese : ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး ) is the highest rank in Myanmar Armed Forces . It is the single rank for all three branches, and held by

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2646-443: The lowest rating. The stars are sometimes replaced by symbols such as a fork or spoon. Some guides use separate scales for food, service, ambiance, and even noise level. The Michelin system remains the best known star system. A single star denotes "a very good restaurant in its category", two stars "excellent cooking, worth a detour", and three stars, "exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey". Michelin stars are awarded only for

2709-470: The most senior five-star ranks , which include Admiral of the Fleet , Grand Admiral , Field Marshal , General of the Army and Marshal of the Air Force —some five-star ranks only exist during large-scale conflicts. Recruits entering American college football are commonly ranked on a five-star scale, with five representing what scouts think will be the best college players. International organisations use

2772-619: The number of predicted stars. The Unicode Standard encodes several characters used for star ratings in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block: The STAR WITH LEFT HALF BLACK and LEFT HALF BLACK STAR are intended for use in left-to-right contexts where the half star is positioned to the right of one or more whole stars, whereas the STAR WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK and RIGHT HALF BLACK STAR are intended for use in right-to-left contexts (such as Arabic or Hebrew ) where

2835-485: The objects best worth notice...; at the same time marking, with one or more exclamation points (according to their merit), those works which are deemed peculiarly excellent. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers and then the Baedeker Guides (starting in 1844) borrowed this system, using stars instead of exclamation points, first for points of interest and later for hotels. The Michelin restaurant guide introduced

2898-846: The only holders of the Australian ranks of admiral of the fleet and marshal of the RAAF. Five-star ranks in Brazil are only used in wartime. In France, the term "five-star general/admiral" refers commonly to the highest full general or admiral rank, equivalent to other armed forces' four-star OF-9 rank, as, due to historical complications and the former existence of a rank of brigadier distinct from that of brigade general , French general officers have one more star than their equivalent-rank counterparts in most countries. The ranks of equivalent stature and precedence to other countries' 5-star ranks are known in France as

2961-729: The performance of vehicles in crash tests, including front, side and pole impacts, and impacts with pedestrians. The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) also uses a star ranking to rank the safety of vehicles in crash tests, including front, side, pole impacts, and rollovers, with 5 stars being the most secure. Some web content voting systems use five-star grades. This allows users to distinguish content more precisely than with binary " like buttons ". Many recommender systems , such as MovieLens or Amazon.com , ask people to express preferences using star ratings, then predict what other items those people are likely to enjoy. Predictions are often expressed in terms of

3024-508: The player to repeat and fully master previously beaten levels in order to receive a perfect 3-star rating, which may confer other benefits or bonus content. Another use of star ratings is to denote the rarity of characters in video games where players are tasked in collecting numerous characters, such as Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes and Marvel: Contest of Champions , in which stronger and rarer characters are marked with more stars to make them appear more valuable. Stars are also used to rank

3087-634: The promotions in 2012 of the Prince of Wales to honorary five-star rank in all three services, and of former Chief of the Defence Staff Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank to the honorary rank of field marshal. In 2014 the former Chief of the Defence Staff Lord Stirrup was promoted to the honorary rank of marshal of the Royal Air Force. During World War II and after, serving NATO , a small number of British five-star commanders have held

3150-433: The public may ignore the reviews and concentrate more the star ratings alone. Star ratings are not often used to rate the quality of a video game but are rather used within certain games for varying purposes. One notable use of the star system is to grade a player's performance in completing a level with up to three stars, used in many modern multi-level games like Angry Birds . This three-star rating system challenges

3213-500: The quality of food and wine; the luxury level of the restaurant is rated separately, using a scale of one ("quite comfortable") to five ("luxury in the traditional style") crossed fork and spoon symbols. Hotel luxury is often denoted by stars. Other classifiers, such as the AAA Five Diamond Award , use diamonds instead of stars to express hotel rating levels. Hotels are assessed in traditional systems and rest heavily on

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3276-473: The rarity and seniority of five-star officers, an even more-senior rank of general of the armies was adopted in the United States. Other names for highly senior ranks from the twentieth century include généralissime (France), reichsmarschall (Nazi Germany), generalísimo (Spain) and generalissimus (USSR). Only one Australian-born officer, Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey , has held

3339-459: The ratings but publishers don't. In the 31 July 1928 issue of the New York Daily News , the newspaper's film critic Irene Thirer began grading movies on a scale of zero to three stars. Three stars meant 'excellent,' two 'good,' and one star meant 'mediocre.' And no stars at all 'means the picture's right bad,'" wrote Thirer. Carl Bialik speculates that this may have been the first time

3402-602: The same period, there have been 14 Admirals of France, the last being appointed in 1869. Of the 78 Marshals, 77 Marshals have been drawn from the ranks of the Army , and one from the Gendarmerie , Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey , who also had a significant service history as an army officer during foreign campaigns . No officer from the French Air Force has been elevated to the Marshalcy to date. Moreover, one French officer, Darlan ,

3465-414: The wearer's original regiment or corps, and are used in combination with other heraldic items, such as batons, crowns, swords or maple leaves. Typically, five-star officers hold the rank of general of the army , admiral of the fleet , field marshal , marshal or general of the air force , and several other similarly named ranks. As an active rank, the position exists only in a minority of countries and

3528-456: Was an opponent of using symbols to summarize a review and wrote in 1992 that "When Globe editors first proposed the four-star system of rating movies about a year ago, the response from Globe critics was, to put it mildly, underwhelming." More recently, Mark Kermode has expressed a dislike of star ratings (assigned to his online reviews but not his print or radio reviews) on the grounds that his verdicts are sometimes too complex to be expressed as

3591-406: Was appointed to the sui generis rank of " Admiral of the Fleet ", outranking ordinary full admirals, in order to grant him equal rank and status to his then-British counterpart , who held the higher rank. Darlan does not appear to have received any particular insignia at home in France. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] It is also worth noting that this

3654-555: Was never held by any person, however (it was probably intended for wartime). General Sam Manekshaw was the first officer to be promoted to five-star rank. He was promoted to the rank of field marshal on 1 January 1973 after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 . General K. M. Cariappa , the first Indian commander-in-chief of the Indian Army was promoted to the rank of field marshal in 1986. In 2001, Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh

3717-653: Was not the apex and there was a six-star rank also present in the Wehrmacht known as Reichsmarschall , however it was only ever present in the Luftwaffe and only ever held by one man: Hermann Göring , arguably the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany . In 1982, the five-star rank Marshal of the German Democratic Republic was introduced (although the insignia did not display five actual stars). The rank

3780-694: Was promoted to the rank of marshal of the Indian Air Force (MIAF). Around 1998, the Indian Air Force introduced gorget patches (or collar tabs) for its air officers . The MIAF's patches display five stars. According to Government Regulation No. 32/1997, the Indonesian five-star ranks are: The five-star ranks above are honorary rank and does not provide additional authority or responsibility. However, Government Regulation No. 32/1997 has been revoked and replaced by Government Regulation No. 39/2010, and

3843-490: Was the first and only field marshal in the history of the Philippine Army, a position he held while also acting as the military advisor to the commonwealth government of the Philippines with a rank of major general. President Quezon conferred the rank of field marshal on 24 August 1936 and MacArthur's duty included the supervision of the creation of the Philippines nation-state. Marshal of Poland ( Marszałek Polski )

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3906-474: Was to Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, April 2011. The monarch of Thailand is appointed to the three ranks automatically upon accession as he is the constitutional head of the Royal Thai Armed Forces . Since 1973 the three ranks have been reserved for members of the royal family . The worn insignia of British five-star commanders do not contain stars; the vehicle star plate, mounted on the front of

3969-420: Was to have "rank and precedence over all other grades of the Army, past or present". During World War II and (later) serving NATO , a small number of American five-star commanders have also held the additional title of Supreme Allied Commander , given operational control over all air, land, and sea units led by the four-star commanders of multi-national forces. In various law enforcement agencies, such as

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