As far as I can tell, the only platform that I found with medium level of reliability is metacritic.
I tried Letterboxd, Serializd, IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, all of them tend to be very unreliable.
Is there is any other platform that has reliable ratings/reviews?
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.
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.
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.
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 Flickmetrix which has advanced filters and also an average ratings (critics, metacritic, IMDB, Letterboxd). Maybe that would be helpful to you…
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.
