Movie Ratings Debate

The cluster focuses on comparisons between movie rating systems like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic, debating the reliability of critic versus audience scores and their usefulness for recommendations.

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IfOnlyYouKnew Jun 4, 2019 View on HN

IMDB is viewer ratings, not critics.

chrischen Sep 8, 2017 View on HN

Netflix personalizes rating scores (based on your ratings). Rotten tomatoes should implement that instead.

zoklet-enjoyer Jan 16, 2024 View on HN

Maybe they go by rotten tomatoes or imdb scores or it's just whoever runs the site's opinion and that's ok too

athriren Nov 1, 2019 View on HN

Does metacritic not work for this purpose for movies for you? It is what I use to do the things you list.

bufferoverflow Aug 21, 2025 View on HN

RottenTomatoes has been rotten for over a decade. IMDB user ratings are much more useful, but still far from perfect.

imbnwa Apr 12, 2022 View on HN

Are film critics losing sync with the average person who actually goes outta their way to rate movies on IMDB?

waxman Mar 5, 2010 View on HN

What does this do that Rotten Tomatoes doesn't do better?

omega3 Jun 2, 2021 View on HN

I find IMDB ratings are often over inflated, rotten tomatoes ratings are much better but not perfect.

forgot-my-pw Jan 5, 2018 View on HN

Rotten tomatoes just aggregates how likeable a movie is. A more accurate aggregate scoring system will be like metacritic.

gtirloni May 27, 2020 View on HN

If they could show the IMDB rating, it would be enough for me.