Thanks to online ratings, it's easier than ever to know whether or not a movie is worth watching. A quick Google search brings up plenty of websites offering their opinions on the latest films. But how do these sites differ, and which should you trust for information on movies?
Here's everything you need to know. Its primary use is to find detailed information about any actor, producer, or piece of media content. When you pull up a movie, you'll see a synopsis, trailers, photos, a cast list, trivia, and much more. What makes IMDb so useful is its cross-referencing.
Upon opening the page for an actor, you'll see their best-known roles. Thus, IMDb is great for those "what else have I seen her in? The IMDb mobile app takes this a step further. If you create an account and give ratings to movies and other media, you'll see a You may know them from field on an actor's page if you've rated something they appeared in.
With a free IMDb account, you can also create a Watchlist of movies you want to see. Along with contributing to the point rating scale with other users, IMDb has many other useful features to offer if you're interested. Unlike the other two sites, IMDb's reviews come solely from users.
It only takes a minute to sign up for IMDb and leave a review, so there's little barrier to entry. Thus, IMDb's biggest strength is that its scores gives you a good idea of what normal consumers think of it.
Professional critics have no influence on IMDb scores. IMDb has a weighted average system to prevent users from rigging the score, but the service doesn't make it clear exactly how this works.
Click the review count next to the star icon on any movie's page to see a breakdown of how people rated it. Below the overall star average, you can see how the ratings break down by a few demographics, including age and gender.
IMDb's biggest problem is that like other platforms, most people only leave reviews if they love or hate a film. Thus, this skews the scores in favor of either fanboys or haters. People who want to boost a movie's perception will likely rate the movie a 10, while those who didn't like it will give a rating of one. This means you should read a handful of reviews to get a full picture of the movie's quality.
Rotten Tomatoes is a trusted source for movie reviews sourced from critics. Every movie uses the "Tomatometer" to score the quality of a film. If the critic liked the movie, a red tomato appears by their review. When they don't like it, you'll see a green splat instead. As long as 60 percent or more of critics like the movie, it earns an overall Fresh score with a red tomato. If under 60 percent of critics rate the movie favorably, it earns a Rotten score with a green splat. Meanwhile, a Certified Fresh badge appears next to titles that are of particularly high quality.
They must hold at least a 75 percent favorable score after 80 reviews, including at least five from top critics. The site converts letter or number scores from reviews into a score out of and then weights those scores so that some reviews influence the score a little more than others do.
Read more: 40 of the best documentaries you need to watch. Its top-ranking film — Citizen Kane — is based on reviews from only two women and ten men, though. All three of the above sites are skewed pretty heavily towards the opinions of men. Its score of 9. IMDb does tweak its rankings to lessen the influence of particular demographics, but men often make up over 70 per cent of the voters for any film.
And it turns out that men tend to look much more favourably on films with more masculine themes, or male leading actors. Over 29, men gave the film an average rating of 5. A straight-up averaging of the scores gives it a ranking of 7. IMDb breaks down the voting demographics for all of its films.
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