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scytale ,

What I do is go on the wiki page of the movie and check the Reception section. It will have a summary of ratings from various sources, then I can sort of infer if it’s something worth watching by “averaging” the ratings.

dessalines ,

Rottentomatoes and imdb, but only if you sort by user rating (not critic), and only if you ignore the scores from every movie after like 2015.

Vanth ,
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I started with Letterboxd. Then I found half a dozen movie reviewers I like and generally agree with and follow them on Letterboxd. Then when I look for a movie’s ratings, I look at what the general average is and what each of the reviewers I follow have rated it.

When I like, say, comedy horror, I know the average reviews are going to be low. But the 3-4 individuals I follow who also like comedy-horror, they will rate a movie in that genre higher and I am generally going to rate the movie similarly. They are also more likely to leave an informative review.

Any other system that is solely aggregation is going to be useless for less mainstream movies. Like the comedy-horror, lots of people simply don’t like the genre. Foreign language movies will get a ratings hit from people who don’t like subs, totally unrelated to the actual quality of the movie.

Cowbee ,
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Movies are taste-based and mood-based. Find an individual reviewer you agree with and follow them.

As for platforms? Rotten Tomatoes is like a probability scanner for whether or not I will enjoy a movie, not how much I enjoy it. After that? Nothing really gets close.

memfree ,
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Find an individual reviewer you agree with and follow them.

Exactly! You can also find more than one to follow, and take note of which never match your tastes. For me, I will avoid any movie recommended by PBS’s Patrick Stoner until/unless someone I trust tells me otherwise. I used to have two critics I particularly followed. One had the same taste in foreign film as I, and the other was ready to enjoy a stupid Hollywood rollick. Alas, I’ve lost track of the former and the latter is now at Slate doing a variety of stuff. The result is I pretty much stopped going to the theater.

original_reader ,

www.rottentomatoes.com anyone?

blackboxwarrior ,

I find that rogerebert.com ’s reviews are pretty solid. I use that for a quick tool to decide if I want to watch something - I don’t think i’ve ever been disappointed by a film they rated 3.5-4 stars.

Wistful ,
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What does reliable mean? You want the crowd’s rating of the movie to align with yours, which is pretty much impossible. I find Letterboxd ratings to be more sensible than IMDB’s, so that is what I use. But I also read a few positive and a few negative reviews to get a better idea.

There is a site called Flicmetrix which has advanced filters and also an average ratings (critics, metacritic, IMDB, Letterboxd). Maybe that would be helpful to you…

Blizzard ,

I’m using IMDB because it’s the biggest so it’s got the most ratings, hance should be the most reliable. But then I only treat it as a general indicator, not source of truth.

You might wanna find a reviewer that shares your preferences and follow them.

Extrasvhx9he ,

That’s some solid advice

bionicjoey ,

Unfortunately it’s owned by Amazon now so it inflates the ratings of their shows. But other than that it’s still quite good like you said for getting an overview

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